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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
STA 6048	DESIGN CRITICS II	ELECTIVE	3	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
15	Design and interactive criticism

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

This course is based on seminars. Each time there will be discussions to be held on the seminar topic. The students are also expected the realize academic papers.

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

The participation in the class and research potential is highly important. Besides the written presentation of the ideas, oral presentations are considered as well. The quality of the research made, must be on a level of published academic paper.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Any plagiarism detected will be punished by the rule of the dicipline regulations.

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)
Seminar	14	1	14
Discussion	14	1	14
Preparations before/after weekly lectures	13	4	52
Preparing presentations	1	25	25
Preparing research report	1	50	50
Final	1	2	2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			157

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO	PO.1	PO.2	PO.3	PO.4	PO.5	PO.6	PO.7	PO.8	PO.9	PO.10	PO.11	PO.12	PO.13	PO.14
LO.1	4	5	4				3	5				4	5
LO.2			4	5	3	5			5					5
LO.3			5				4				5	4	5	3
LO.4	5	4							5		4
LO.5			4	5	3	5		5		5	4	5		5

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Description of Individual Course Units

Offered By

Level of Course Unit

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Course Objective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

Recomended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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