COURSE UNIT TITLE

: THE DEVELOPMENT OF FIRING AND CERAMIC KILNS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
SRS 3016 THE DEVELOPMENT OF FIRING AND CERAMIC KILNS ELECTIVE 1 0 0 2

Offered By

Ceramic and Glass Design

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR HALIL YOLERI

Offered to

Ceramics
Ceramic and Glass Design
Ceramic and Glass

Course Objective

This course aims to teach development of firing, depending on the technical process in the development of ceramic kilns and its form, functional differences to students with the examples.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To know about historical information of firing in ceramic production
2   To know about historical development of kilns that firing made
3   To know about differences between formal an functional of kilns
4   To know about kiln shape and firing method is effecting on the ceramic
5   To know information about special and experimental kilns

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Meeting and information about development of firing and ceramic kilns
2 Primitive firing techniques; open air firing, pit firing
3 Kilns
4 Kilns
5 Development of kilns
6 Development of kilns
7 Development of kilns
8 Mid-term exam
9 High firing Far East Kilns
10 High firing Far East Kilns
11 Special kilns and special firing methods
12 Special kilns and special firing methods
13 Special kilns and special firing methods
14 Special kilns and special firing methods

Recomended or Required Reading

Text Book(s)/Required Readings: The Kiln Book - Frederick OLSEN
Additional Sources: Alternative Kilns and Firing Techniques - James C. Watkins, Paul Andrew Wandless
Complementary Materials: Lecturer s articles, international trip travel notes and visual archive.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1- Course
Teaching course to student with chronological with the visuals

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

1. Making mid-term exam and final exam to measure how much grasped basic concepts and issues in the course requires

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1-Attendence has to be %80 along the term.
2-All kinds of pilagiarism will result in disciplinary action.
3-Delivery of the projects on time and attandence of final presentation are obligatory.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

halil.yoleri@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Will be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 1 13
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 1 12
Preparation for midterm exam 1 4 4
Preparation for final exam 1 8 8
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 39

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO
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CONTACT INFORMATION
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