COURSE UNIT TITLE

: AESTHETICS IN DESIGN

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
URD 5026 AESTHETICS IN DESIGN ELECTIVE 2 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR HAYAT ZENGIN ÇELIK

Offered to

Urban Design
M.Sc. Urban Design

Course Objective

The course will be taught in the form of live lectures over the Sakai system in the distance education process, and the students will learn by listening to the presentations. Students will be given homework subjects in the 4th week and they will be asked to prepare a homework on the given subject. Students will present and discuss their homework in an online classroom.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Will be able to define the relationship between human and object
2   Will be able to explain psychological perception and aesthetic attitute of the individual
3   Will be able to clarify the human approaches on phisical and natural environment with aesthetic perception.
4   Will be able to exemplifies the relationship between design and aesthetic value
5   Will be able to discuss nature as its aesthetic contents and directional design univerce

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Evaluating of design and aesthetics concepts
2 Aesthetics attitude, sensation and perception
3 Analysis of the aesthetic object, process which shapes aesthetic
4 Aesthetic of Meta estetiği, aesthetic value
5 Structuralism, fonction- object relationships
6 Sence - meaning
7 Beauty and external formal qualifications
8 contemporary thought and aesthetic norms
9 the mysterious language of nature and the universe,aesthetic of nature
10 Urban aesthetics
11 Homework/Submission/Presentation
12 Homework/Submission/Presentation
13 Homework/Submission/Presentation
14 Homework/Submission/Presentation

Recomended or Required Reading


Tunalı Ismail, Estetik (Remzi Kitapevi, 2001)
Erzen J., 2006, Çevre Estetiği, ODTÜ Yayıncılık, Ankara.
Cimcoz A., Mimaride Estetik (DEÜ,Mühendislik Mimarlık Fakültesi 1991)
Cooper D., A Companion to Asthetics, Blakwell, 1992
Hostadter,A.,Kuhns R., Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger, Univercity of Chicago Press, 1976

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course will be taught in the form of live lectures over the Sakai system in the distance education process, and the students will learn by listening to the presentations. Students will be given homework subjects in the 4th week and they will be asked to prepare a homework on the given subject. Students will present and discuss their homework in an online classroom.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRJ PROJECT
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRJ * 0.70 + FIN * 0.30
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) PRJ * 0.70 + RST * 0.30


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Defining, explaining, clarifying, questioning can be measured with homework and sampling and discussing can be measured with the Final exam (to be submitted as homework).

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

This course will be given through lectures and discussions over reading list.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

hayat.zengin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Thursday 13.30-15.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 10 2 20
Practice 4 2 8
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 8 4 32
Preparation for final exam 1 6 6
preparing homework 1 96 96
Preparing presentations 1 12 12
Final 1 4 4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 178

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51