COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE IN DESIGN

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
STA 5049 INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE IN DESIGN ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Art and Design

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR TUĞCAN GÜLER

Offered to

Art and Design

Course Objective

In this course, the steps to be carried out when creating a design product, content, process and methods on inclusion design work will be carried on. Understanding the methods to be followed in order to convert to a correctly formulated design request into a product is aimed.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Stundents are expected to have knowledge about dynamics that launched design process.
2   To be able to construct steps of design process
3   To be able to make planning on design and take initiative on critical points.
4   To be able to approach design on universal point of view
5   To be able to carry the Project until the final product step.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Design case and and areas that influces
2 Steps from design to product
3 Fundamental dynamics in design process
4 Planning a design product from very beginning to the end
5 Planning a design product within intensive look
6 Contrubuting a team in design process and its benefits
7 Reviewing and criticizing a sample job.
8 Design case and its importance in information architecture
9 The use of information architects
10 The relationship between design ad content.
11 Conceptual design and objectivity
12 Reviewing and criticizing a sample job.
13 Workshop based on research paper and presentation
14 Final paper review and similar cases

Recomended or Required Reading

Yorum ve Anlam, Kaya Özsezgin
Işitsel ve Görsel Anlam Üretimi, Oğuz Adanır
Görsel Sanatlarda Alımlama ve Sanatlararası Etkileşim , Nazan Ipşiroğlu
Görme Biçimleri, John Berger
Sinema Göstergebilimi, Yuriy M. Lotman
Göstergebilime Giriş, Fatma Erkman Akerson
Görsel Grafik Tasarım Sözlüğü, Gavin Ambrose-Paul Harris
Grafik Tasarım ve Reklam, Ulufer Teker
Iletişim ve Grafik Tasarım, Emre Becer
Sırdaş Görüntüler, Mehmet Ergüven
Görsel Iletişim ve Grafik Tasarım, Tevfik Fikret Uçar

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presence in classes well prepared, give comments and critics about ongoing projects, writing well planned papers and giving clear presentations will be considered and evaluated.

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

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Plagiarism and fabrication of information is not tolerated and will result in an F grade for the work.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

tugcan.guler@deu.edu.tr, tugcan.guler@gmail.com, 02324129168

Office Hours

Within class hours and with e-mails.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 5 65
Preparing presentations 4 10 40
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 147

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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