COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PERSONAL STYLES IN GRAPHIC DESIGN

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GRA 6107 PERSONAL STYLES IN GRAPHIC DESIGN ELECTIVE 2 2 0 9

Offered By

Graphic

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR HACI YAKUP ÖZTUNA

Offered to

Graphic

Course Objective

Going beyond the learned design and design history knowledge, purpose of this course is to make student be able to look to the problems of our age with an intellectual eye which had been developed during the undergrad and graduation process. Student will gain an ability to shock and make the audience think with his/her conceptual and solid works. By considering the internal, external and the socio cultural dynamics of the living environment, he/she will be able to create new, critical, multidiscipliner and transdiscipliner application methods for his/her design projects. Also to bring the student in a capacity of teaching his/her acquired knowledge effectively.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to be aware of pozitive contrubutions of critical thinking to graphic design.
2   to be able to use new media.
3   to be able to have a unic expression or be able to explore suitible sollutions for the problemetic.
4   to be able to think to push the limits of design with multidiscipliner and transdiscipliner methods.
5   to be able to create new methods with extraordinary applications.
6   to be able to have a limitless thinking for diffent trends.
7   to be able to act like a designer as author

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction. Analyses of personal expressions belongs to distinct designers at the past decade. Interviews with students about their research and seminar subjects and even the probable application projects that could be discussed conceptually.
2 The project concepts which had been discussed at the interviews will be determind.
3 Critics for researh paper and elemination of the ideas for the Project.
4 Discussions on project idea and Critics on the research paper.
5 Discussions on project idea and Critics on the research paper.
6 Discussions on project idea and Critics on the research paper.
7 Deadline for the research paper.
8 Seminar
9 Ripening studies on project idea.
10 Mock-up work for the ripened project. Discussions for right media and the material.
11 Alternatives for design mock-up.
12 Representing the final design.
13 Critics on final design.
14 Critics on final design.

Recomended or Required Reading

MIDDENDORP, J., Dutch Type, oıo Publishers, Rotterdam, 2004
SAGMEISTER, S., NETTLE, D., HELLER, S., SPECTOR, N., Things I have learned in my life so far, Abrams Book, 2008
CROW, D., Visible Signs: An introduction to semiotics in the visual arts, AVA Publishing, Switzerland, United Kingdom, 2010

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 STA TERM WORK (ANNUAL)
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE STA * 0.70 +ASG* 0.30


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)

Prof. H. Yakup Öztuna
Dokuz Eylül University
Faculty of Fine Arts
Head, Department of Graphic
Balcova/Izmir/TURKEY
yakup.oztuna@deu.edu.tr
+905327397863

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 1 14
Tutorials 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Design Project 13 6 78
Preparing presentations 1 20 20
Project Assignment 2 40 80
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 233

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.15455555
LO.244455
LO.35435
LO.45453
LO.5555
LO.645344
LO.74

CONTACT INFORMATION
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Cumhuriyet Bulvarı No: 144 35210 Alsancak / İZMİR
Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

Copyright 2015 DEÜ. BİD

HOME / ABOUT US / DEGREE PROGRAMMES / GENERAL INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS / INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS