Graduate Diploma in Radio, Television and Cinema Department, Faculty of Communication
First Cycle
Atatürk University, Faculty of Communication accepts high school graduates who earn enough scores in Turkish and social tests in the Nationwide University Entrance Test organized by The Student Evaluation and Placement Center. Please visit www.osym.gov.tr for more information. Students from other communinacition, Journalism and Radio, Tv institutions and those graduated from related vocational schools are also accepted.
Admission can be made from the institutions of which equivalency is recognized by Higher Education Council. The courses to be taken by these students are determined by Faculty Board of Directors, on the basis of courses they have completed in the programs. However, exams of exemption are organised at the start of each year at the University for the courses of English Language. The students who achieve a passing grade from the exam are held exempt from the related course in the curriculum.
Students must be successfull and/or pass all courses on the programme including graduation thesis and internship that are explained education and exam regulation of Ataturk University.
The
main objective of the program is students
to gain abilities - to access information by making scientific research, to
asses, criticize and interpret the knowledge.
This program purposes that gain of students to assess and intrerpret abilities- development of press, cinema,
radio and television systems that take form on socio-economic conditions of our
age, by searching the effects on economic, social and cultural structure. This
program researches on, as well as efforts to define the basic concepts, mass
communication researchs, production systems, conditions
created by the mass media and investigations on the
audience.
Graduates take professional role in establishment of many public and private sector.
The graduates holding Bachelor’s Degree are eligible to apply to Master’s Degree programmes at national level and /or international level both in the same and in related disciplines. Students who are high honor students are also eligible to apply to doctorate degree at Ataturk University.
One mid-term examsand one final exam are required for every class offered at the department. 40% of the final exam and 60% of the other exam grades define the final grade of the class. Student has to meet the requirements defined by the guidelines to be eligible to take the final exam. All exams are graded out of 100 points, and relative grading system is used to determine the student’s success grade. For this purpose, course lecturer converts the mid-term, final exam and other grades to the letter grades by means of a statistical evaluation of these based on the rules defined by the guidelines. Students who can not meet the 2.00 GPA minimum for two consequent semesters are not allowed to enroll the following semester’s classes. Any student who gets AA, BA, BB, CB and CC grades from a course is considered to be successful. On the other hand, DC and DD grades are evaluated based on the student’s cumulative GPA. If student’s cumulative GPA is above the minimum GPA, then student is considered to be successful in all courses with DC and DD grades. FF grade is assigned to a student who is assumed to be unsuccessful in a course. A student with a FF grade in a particular course is supposed to re-register for that course first time it is offered with the same attendance and exam requirements. M and G grades are not accounted through the GPA calculation.
Normal duration is 4 years. Students must take and pass all necessary courses totaling 240 ECTS credits and reach a minimum (grade point average) of 2,0 before him/her can graduate. Students must prepare presentation and thesis, as attend practice, and do internship during education.
Full Time