Bahçeşehir Communicators Are Always One Step Ahead

Following the ever-evolving communication sector with state-of-the-art technology, the Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Communication continues to train the communication leaders of the future. Bahçeşehir University's young communicators have the opportunity to gain a remarkable professional and academic experience through a summer program held in New York.

Opening up to the world with the slogan "My Campus Is the World" and providing education not confined to campuses but through visiting and seeing on site, Bahçeşehir University sent students of its Faculty of Communication to New York for a remarkable summer program. The 14 students who attended the "Media, Culture and Communication Summer Program"in New York between 25 June and 9 July 2012 visited world-leading media organizations at the very heart of communication and took communication lessons from the most influential people in their fields. In the program prepared by New York University Research Assistant and Bahçeşehir University New York Director Yael Habif , students visited Create Lab,, Flicker Lab,, International Photography Center,, Paley Center for Media, Grey NY,, Concept Farm, Method,, Fractured Atlas,, MoMA, WPIX News Center,, Tumblr,, NBC, Entrepreneurs Roundtable and many other media giants, attended seminars on advertising, cinema, photography and new media, and met and exchanged ideas with world-renowned communicators.

Saying that they met leading figures of the media sector in New York and learned many new things professionally, Bahçeşehir University third-year Advertising student Cansu Yılmaz described her New York experience: "We visited boutique and many large agencies. For example, we took a class from a New York University professor on 'Advertising in NY and the "I Love NY" campaign' . We also saw on site the technologies used by large agencies and were amazed at what they do to make life easier. We had the chance to visit many art galleries. When you visit art galleries, you don't just look at the objects there. These objects are works we have always known from textbooks, and they evoke various emotions in you. That way you come up with new ideas. I think these ideas will be very useful in my courses this semester. Inspired by the work there, I have started to form ideas about what new things I can do in Bursa, where I live."

Bahçeşehir University Marketing Communication and Public Relations master's student Gizem Akyol described the impact of the New York summer program on her career plans: "I am actually a graduate of translation and interpreting. It was a very eye-opening program both for my master's studies and for the department I graduated from. After this program, I started planning what I can do in Türkiye. After what I saw there, I realized that thanks to the department I graduated from, I can work in many different fields."

Ece Çiftçi, a student in the Bahçeşehir University Department of Sociology who is interested in the communication sector, was also among the summer program participants... Saying that although the communication sector may seem far from sociology, the two are intertwined, Çiftçi said, "New York is the home of the communication sector... Being there was a great opportunity for me. We met many important figures at the companies we visited. They told us we could always write to them so that we could get back in touch with them in the coming days and take advantage of internship opportunities there. So, professionally, taking this further is now in the hands of us students," emphasizing that the New York trip is open to students of all faculties and what a valuable career opportunity it is.

Bahçeşehir University Public Relations student Necati Topay, who said that in the Media, Culture and Communication Summer Program they had the chance to examine the economic aspects of the communication sector and to see what kind of work companies carry out through communication, said, "In New York, the heart of the communication sector, we had the chance to get in touch with and communicate with many important companies. We had the opportunity to meet the creators of the work we see today in our courses, on television, on the radio, or in magazines and newspapers.. It was truly impressive."