Dokuz Eylül University Information Package / Courses Catalog

General Description

History

Founded in 1992, the Department of Painting at Dokuz Eylul University is one of the top five institutions in Turkey that offers undergraduate (BA) and graduate (MA, Profeciency in Art) degrees in Painting. The department has approximately 120 undergraduate students in the first, second, third and fourth year of their study, and around 25 students graduate from the department each year. Department of Painting has an elite staff of veteran artists and exclusive scholars. The department has been carrying on its innovative education for almost 12 years.

Qualification Awarded

Doctorate Degree in Painting

Level of Qualification

Third Cycle (Doctorate Degree)

Specific Admission Requirements

First or Second Cycle Degree. Acceptable verbal score on ALES (Academic Personnel and Graduate Education Entrance Exam) or Equivalent GRE, GMAT score. Acceptable score on Language Proficiency Tests. Acceptable weighted score based on the first or second cycle (with thesis) cumulative grade point average (GPA) and ALES score. However, ALES requirement is waived for the admissions to the graduate programs offered by the Conservatory and the departments of Fine Arts Faculty, where students are admitted only by the Artistic Aptitude Test. Final admission is based on the evaluation of the related academic unit committee. International student admission requirements are decided by the Graduate School Executive Committee.

Specific Arrangements for Recognition of Prior Learning (Formal, Non-Formal and Informal)

The Acknowledgement of Prior Education
Transfer Students
The transfer student candidates from Turkish or foreign universities are subject to the YOK Legislation The transfer, double degree, minor degree and inter-institutional credit transfer and to the evaluation conditions determined by Dokuz Eylul University Senate.
The transfer quotas are determined and announced by Turkish Higher Education Council (YOK). The evaluation of the candidates are done by the school evaluation commmisin and approved by the management
The Graduate Transfers
The short cycle graduates are given the right to be admitted to the first cycle programs if they comply with the conditions set by the The transfer of Short Cycle Program Graduates to First Cycle Programs Legşilation of Turkish Higher Education Council (YOK)
The universities inform YOK regarding the quotas and YOK announces the quotas and conditions in Graduate Transfer Guide and the placements are managed by YOK due to the results of nationwide graduate transfer exam

Qualification Requirements and Regulations

4 years, 2 semesters per year, 15 weeks per semester, 240 ECTS in total.

Profile of the Programme

The Department of Painting at Dokuz Eylul University reflects an alternative approach to art education in Turkey. Painting department offers courses on art history, art theory and art criticism, one of which is thought in English (Critics on Concepts and terms of art). Also this programme includes 1 professor, 1 associate professor, 4 assistant associate professors, 2 lecturers and 6 research assistants. The department has 1 painting studio and computer facility with internet access. Seminars and exhibitions are held at the end of every semester.
The department has 1 painting studio and a computer facility with internet access.
There is an exchange student in Erasmus Proggramme in Accademia Di Belle Arti Di Macerata-İtaly.

Key Learning Outcomes

1	Students will be able to use and have the knowledge of theoretical and practical informations in an advanced that are used in plastic arts education.
2	Students will have the knowledge, capability and creativity as an advanced-level on contemporary art practices.
3	Students will have the practical capability of visualizing his/her observations and thoughts.
4	Students will have the knowledge of choosing the right techniques and methods as an advanced-level in their own fields and will be able to work on them systematically.
5	In the process of individuality, students will be able to adopt and improve their visual language and their narrative process as an advanced-level.
6	Students will learn as experts in their field that a distinctive art approach is a process and it can be improved by original thoughts abided by observing.
7	Students will have the historical and theoretical knowledge of art and will be able to criticize it as experts in their field. Students will be able to utilize disciplines such as; traditional art, history of art, viusal culture, art philosophy and art sociology, in the process of improving their works and career.
8	Students will be able to categorize and give the right value to their esthetic proposals and applications with considering the state of national and international scale.
9	Students will be able to show and display their works on an aesthetic level with using and keeping up with the contemporary technologies and new developments.
10	Students will have the knowledge that the creation of art is based on observing and researching and formed by the willpower of synthesizing. It is also being able to take the responsibility an ethical and aesthetic knowledge.
11	Students will be able to find and utilize different kinds of information sources on a variety of mediums in the process of their work process in an advanced level.
12	Students will be able use the world we live in; its socio-cultural structure and its inner/outer dynamics in their works and critiques.
13	Students will be able to approach and comment on the state of today's art world, new trends with a judgmental attitude, if necessary.
14	Students will have the knowledge and capability as an advanced-level to provide the harmony between quality of art and its environment, when forming the public art creation process

Occupational Profiles of Graduates with Examples

Our postgraduates complete a program comprised of intense practical (studio), theoretical and internship studies which provide them traditional as well as contemporary knowledge of the arts. Our postgraduates work as professional artists in their studios, as advisors, coordinators and managers in various art institutions, and as writers and editors in art publications. Some of our postgraduates are represented by national and international galleries, are invited to participate in activities as curators, advisors and judges. In addition, our postgraduates work as faculty members in national and international art schools.

Access to Further Studies

Graduates may apply to post doctorate studies.

Course Structure Diagram with Credits

Semester	No	Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Course Unit Type	T	P	L	ECTS

T: Theoretical P: Practice L: Laboratory B: Spring Semester G: Fall Semester H: Full Year
ALL COURSES
G	1	RSA 6900	THESIS	THESIS	0	0	0	162
G	2	RSA 6043	EXPRESSION I	ELECTIVE	2	2	0	9
G	3	RSA 6041	FORMING I	ELECTIVE	2	2	0	9
G	4	RSA 6039	AESTHETIC PROSES IN PAINTING	ELECTIVE	2	2	0	9
G	5	GSE 6011	PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCI AND ETHICS	REQUIRED	3	0	0	6
G	6	RSA 6200	FIELD OF STUDY	EXPERTNESS	3	0	0	18
B	7	RSA 6044	EXPRESSION II	ELECTIVE	2	2	0	9
B	8	RSA 6042	FORMING II	ELECTIVE	2	2	0	9
B	9	RSA 6098	FIELD OF STUDY	EXPERTNESS	3	0	0	6
B	10	RSA 6040	PROBLEMS OF ART	ELECTIVE	2	2	0	9

Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading

The regulations for examination and grading are arranged in the fourth part of DEU Graduate School of Fine Arts Educational and Examinational Regulations. The lowest grade to be successful in a credit course is 75. Detailed assessment methods and criteria for courses are explained in syllabi.

Graduation Requirements

Third Cycle (Doctorate Degree) program is comprised of at least 7 courses, not being less than 21 national credits, pasing a gualifiying examination, preparing and defending a doctoral dissertation, in total 240 ECTS credits.

Mode of Study (Full-Time, Part-Time, E-Learning )

Full-time

Programme Director or Equivalent

Prof.Dr. A. Feyzi Korur
Phone:
E-mail: feyzi.korur@deu.edu.tr

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