COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Art and Design

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR HACI YAKUP ÖZTUNA

Offered to

Art and Design

Course Objective

This course aims to examine the varying forms of agitation in art and design from political propaganda to design activism since the 1960s, to question how art and design affect social change, to analyze both alternative and socially responsible designs, to focus on art s and design s role in society, to give seminars about these problems, to write research papers, to make literature reviews, discussions, readings and to offer suggestions related to chosen subjects in advanced level. In addition to these aims, this course aims to evaluate and analyze about how social and aesthetics aspects of art and design are interpreted and represented in different ways at advanced level

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Heller, S.; Vienne, V. (2003). Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility. New York: Allworth Press.
Luke, F. A. Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World.
Bruckner, D.J.R., Seymour Chwast, and Steven Heller. Art Against War: 400 Years of Protest Art. New York: Abbeville Press, 1984.
Lupton, Ellen and Abbott Miller. (1996). Design, Writing, Research. New York: Phaidon.
Faster, Hall. (1984). Re:Post, Art After Modernism. Cambridge: MIT. S. 189-201.
Poynor, R. (2003). No More Rules: Graphic Design and Post Modernism. New Haven: Yale University Press.
McQuiston, L. (1993). Graphic Agitation: Social and Political Graphics Since the Sixties. London/New York: Phaidon Press.
McQuiston, L. (2004). Graphic Agitation 2: Social and Political Graphics in the Digital Age. London: Phaidon Press.
Jacobs, Karrie and Steven Heller. (1994). Angry Graphics: Protest Posters of the Reagan/Bush Era. Layton, UT: Gibbs-Smith.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

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, PhD.
Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Fine Arts. Head of the Graphic Department
E-mail: yakup.oztuna@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes