COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DESIGN CRITICS II

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
STA 6028 DESIGN CRITICS II ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6

Offered By

Art and Design

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR SADIK TUMAY

Offered to

Art and Design

Course Objective

Shows critical methods in this course. Like sociological, psychological, structuralist and semiotical. Students chosens examples of design that they make criticisms about it and then writing text..

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to analyze with methods of scientific information on designs.
2   To be used as a comparative different reading methods on art designs.
3   To be able to convert design process and outcome to text .
4   To be able to ideas and suggestions for solutions problems as the reasons.
5   To be able to follows and understand contemprorary design criticis.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Sociological critisicism
2 Sociological critisicism
3 Psychoanalytic approaches to design
4 Psychoanalytic approaches to design
5 Structuralist criticism and design
6 Structuralist criticism and design
7 Semiotic reading and design
8 Semiotic reading and design
9 Semiotic reading and design
10 Midterm exam
11 Design and interactive criticism
12 Design criticism and writing
13 Design and interactive criticism
14 Design criticism and writing

Recomended or Required Reading

- Ash, Jared; Gough, Maria; Toman, Jindrich and Witkovsky, Matthew S. (2011). Avant- Garde Art in Everyday Life: Early Twentieth-Century European Modernism. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago
- Art In Amerıca
- Art Pres
-Raby, Fiona (2001). Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects. Basel: Birkhäuser.
- Brandes, Uta (2009). Designtheorie und Designforschung (in German). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink.
- Crazy ideas or creative probes : presenting critical artefacts to stakeholders to develop innovative product ideas". Proceedings of EAD07: Dancing with Disorder: Design, Discourse and Disaster. April 2007.
-Danto, Arthur C. . (2010). Sanatın Sonundan Sonra: Çağdaş Sanat ve Tarihin Sınır Çizgisi. Çev. Demirsü, Zeynep, Istanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları
-Berger John, Görme Biçimleri,Çev:Y. Salman,Metis Yay.,Ist,1995
-Peter Burke, Tarihin Görgü Tanıkları, Çev:Zeynep Yelçe, Kitap Yayınevi,Istanbul,2003
-Barthes Roland,Yazı ve Yorum,Ç:T.Yücel,Metis Yay.Ist,1999

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1-Gives a literatüre for students to increasing efficiency in course.
2-Course topics is supported with the images.
3-Creates interactive discussion, makes brainstorming in content.
4-Photographic images discusses. At the and of the this period it convert to text.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 +ASG * 0.40 + FCG * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 RST RESIT MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.40 + RST * 0.40

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Yrd.Doç.Dr.Sadık Tumay
sadik.tumay@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 6 84
Preparing presentations 1 40 40
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 156

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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