Program
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE GRADUATE PROGRAM
It aims to relate contemporary theory and criticism to mass mediated communications and culture and focuses on issues such as mass culture, popular culture, visual culture, commodification of culture, globalization, gender and subculture, media economics, media power, influence and effects, new communication technologies, normative, legal and ethical issues in media, visual representation.
The MCS graduate program draws its main disciplinary resources and academic strengths from METU's departments of History, Political science and Public Administration, Philosophy and Sociology. Students benefit from METU's tradition of academic Excellency through shared teaching across a number of optional courses alongside MCS courses. The courses offered by METU's Graduate School of Informatics and METU's Audiovisual Systems Research and Production Center (GISAM) and its technical facilities at broadcast level are additional assets for MCS.
The interdisciplinary approach enables students to choose courses both from the participating and other departments and structure their studies and specialize according to a wide range of interests.