COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DESIGN HISTORY AND CRITICS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
STA 5045 DESIGN HISTORY AND CRITICS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Art and Design

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CEREN BULUT YUMRUKAYA

Offered to

Art and Design

Course Objective

1To examine the modern and potsmodern design theories with different examples of many fields and to flourish contemporary arguments. To analyse the examples that shows the differenece between art and design in order to understand the interactions and effects more efficiently.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to have knowledge about history of modern design on an advanced level and to be able see the connection between movements and styles in different diciplines.
2   To be able to have knowledge about story of postmodern design on an advanced level and to be able to enhance dinterdiciplinary perpectives into contemporary approaches.
3   To be able to bring critical angles and form the connection between modern and postmodern design approaches on an advanced level.
4   To be able to transfer the knowledge of the research into his/her field of study and the others.
5   To be able to examine contemporary approaches of design on academic context and realize the reasons.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Seminar / Discussion
2 Seminar / Discussion
3 Seminar / Discussion
4 Seminar / Discussion
5 Seminar / Discussion
6 Seminar / Discussion
7 Seminar / Discussion
8 Seminar / Discussion
9 Seminar / Discussion
10 Seminar / Discussion
11 Seminar / Discussion
12 Seminar / Discussion
13 Seminar / Discussion
14 Seminar / Discussion
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Woodham, Jonathan M. (1997). Twentieth-Century Design. New York: Oxford University Press
Bogart, Michele H. (1997). Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press.
Goldstein, Darra; Lupton, Ellen and Rothschild, Deborah. (1998). Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age: Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collection. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
JOBLING, Paul; CROWLEY, David. (1996). Graphic design: reproduction and representation since 1800.
Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Eskilson, J. Spephen. (2007). Graphic design: A new history. New Haven: Yale University Press.
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
Bodenstedt, Lisa and Remington, R. Roger. (2003). American Modernism: Graphic Design, 1920 to 1960. New Haven: Yale University Press.

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 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.70 + FCG * 0.30
4 RST RESIT
5 RST RESIT ASG * 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

Research potential is highly important. Besides the written presentation of the ideas, oral presentations are considered as well.

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)

Ceren BULUT YUMRUKAYA, Assoc. Prof.
ceren.bulut@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

By appointment only

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Seminar 14 2 28
Discussion 14 1 14
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparing presentations 1 25 25
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 141

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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