 Faculty of Communications
Istanbul University College of Press and Distribution was affiliated as the Institute of Journalism to the Faculty of Economics in 1950, and in 1993, it became the Faculty of Communications. The faculty consists of three departments, Journalism, Publicity and Public Relations, and Radio-Television and Cinema, offering eight term (four year) undergraduate programmes. There are also a number of courses taken jointly by all three departments to promote the general knowledge of the students. Students are further offered the chance of attending voluntary foreign languages courses, for the duration of one year, in English, German or French. As the alumni constitute the core cadre much needed in contemporary society, students are entering a profession with rich business opportunities, and select in actuality. |
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Alongside academics, a number of specialized and renowned professionals also take part in the training, and thus a cooperation between the university and the sector is achieved and theory and practice are intermingled. Faculty of Communications, which fulfills the role of training specialized staff that the mass media needs, is continually developing its structure. Students have the opportunity to train at the I.U News Agency, Academedia, and the Public Relations Group and they can also be active at the Iletim newspaper and the Istanbul University Radio and Television Network. Iletim newspaper and the 4th Dimension Culture and Art Magazine are being published through the Istanbul University website on the internet.
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| Department of Journalism conducts an education aimed at teaching the process, from the source of the news story to its printing, of the publication of the press. A number of famous journalists supplement the courses taught by academics, and thus students get to experience application as well. Department of Radio-Television and Cinema aims to train qualified staff for the mass media, especially radio and television, and is a department that teaches subjects in communications that provide specialization in the understanding of social, political, and economic events. Department of Publicity and Public Relations trains students in the fields of publicity, public relations, and advertisement. It trains staff, for the private and public sectors, that will publicize the institution, produce and develop its image in society, and conduct relations that will be beneficial for the firm. |
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