Abstract:

This study examined course curricula of Radio, Television and Cinema (RTC) departments Communication Faculties and aims to assess applicability levels of vocational courses with the physical and technical infrastructure also means within the framework of the views of the academicians. The study was conducted using the tarama model to academicians working at the Radio, Television and Cinema departments of Communication faculties. 140 academicians participated to the study and 70% usable data was obtained. As a result of the examination, it was seen that applied courses are very few or do not exist in the course curricula of some universities. Furthermore, it was found out that great majority of the courses are taught compulsorily. It was seen that the academicians attributed the low number of applied courses in the relevant department to insufficient physical and technical infrastructures of Communication faculties. At the end of the study, it was concluded that contents and applicability levels of vocational courses as ‘Camera and Light, News Collection, Writing and Photography’ are very insufficient, but sufficient in terms of course hours only. Chi square (X2) results were used to identify the impact of academic career and service durations on the applicability levels of branch courses of academicians.

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