DEGREE PROGRAMMES

: Graphic Proficiency in Art

General Description

History

Graphic Proficiency on arts first established at 1995 within the scope of DEÜ Institue of Social Sciences. In the year 2002, programme transferred to Fine Arts Institue at İnciraltı campus and renovate its education and training relatedly the changes and evolutions all around the world eloquently.

Qualification Awarded

Doctorate Degree in Graphic

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

To educate and to prepare proficient scholars, artists and designers whose can develop unique design theories, explore brand new design channels by researching on the socioeconomic effects, consumer and development theories of graphic design and visual communication design disciplines and share his/her fresh findings about design with the public.

Key Learning Outcomes

1   The student shall be able to use and teach the practical and theoretical knowledge about graphic design and art education on proficiency level.
2   The student shall have proficient knowledge and adequacy to teach the methods of graphic design management, visual communication medias and technologies.
3   The student shall have the power and proficiency to guide and lead on the methods of bending and manipulating the visual communication materials to express impressions, thoughts and messages.
4   The student shall have proficiency on teaching and managing the methods to select suitable technology and the correct approach to accomplish unique problem solving graphic design projects.
5   The student shall have the proficiency level competency of communicating the message by using graphic design products.
6   The student shall have the proficiency level awareness that Effective design approach is the result of the coexistence of life long hard working with research, experiments and imagination.
7   The student shall have proficient knowledge on graphic design history, design theory and perception psychology. The student can build theoretical cross connections betwixt art history, art sociology and art philosophy during the process of understanding graphic design and visual communication history.
8   The student shall be proficient to identify, investigate and explore national and universal value and status of graphic design.
9   The student shall have proficiency to fallow contemporary developments of inclinations and up to date technologies on graphic design and visual communication design.
10   The student shall have proficient conscience and responsibility to produce in ethically and esthetically manner with a strong belief in design is a life long learning process.
11   The student shall be proficient to teach and guide on fallowing different kind of recourses while designing on a high precision level.
12   The student shall have the proficiency to explore and express by using design the sociocultural infrastructure with interior and exterior dynamics of our environment.
13   The student shall have the proficiency to critique sympathetically demands and tendencies of masses whose are the consumers of graphic advertisement market.
14   The student shall have proficient knowledge and skills to develop environment friendly design products, which can improve public space.

Occupational Profiles of Graduates with Examples

The people, who executed Department of Graphic Proficiency on Art program, can attain academic positions as well as any commercially adequate position in any field, which is directly related with the education and training they developed during Graphic Proficiency on Art program.

Access to Further Studies

Graduates may apply to post doctorate studies.

Course Structure Diagram with Credits


T: Theoretical P: Practice L: Laboratory
B: Spring Semester G: Fall Semester H: Full Year
ALL COURSES
Semester No Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Course Unit Type T P L ECTS
G 1 GRA 6093 PHOTOGRAPHIC AND AESTHETICS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6
G 2 GRA 6119 EDITORIAL PRINTMAKING ELECTIVE 2 2 0 9
G 3 GRA 6117 ENVIRONMENTAL GRAPHIC DESIGN ELECTIVE 2 2 0 9
G 4 GRA 6113 PERSONAL EXPERESSIONS IN PRINTMAKING ELECTIVE 2 2 0 9
G 5 GRA 6111 EXPRESSION STYLES FOR INDIVIDUALS IN GRAPHIC STORYTELLING ELECTIVE 2 2 0 9
G 6 GRA 6109 NEW INCLINATIONS IN TYPOGRAPHIC DESIGN ELECTIVE 2 2 0 9
G 7 GRA 6107 PERSONAL STYLES IN GRAPHIC DESIGN ELECTIVE 2 2 0 9
G 8 GRA 6103 TURKISH GRAPHIC HUMOR ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6
G 9 GRA 6101 STRUCTURING IN MODERN GRAPHIC DESIGN AND AESTHETIC PROBLEMS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6
G 10 GRA 6097 MEDIA AND CULTURAL FORMS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6
G 11 GRA 6900 THESIS THESIS 0 0 0 162
G 12 GRA 6200 FIELD OF STUDY EXPERTNESS 3 0 0 18
G 13 GSE 6011 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCI AND ETHICS REQUIRED 3 0 0 6
G 14 GRA 6095 HISTORY OF TURKISH GRAPHIC DESIGN STUDIES I ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6
B 15 GRA 6110 GRAPHIC STORYTELLING AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES ELECTIVE 2 2 0 9
B 16 GRA 6108 CREATIVE STATEMENTS IN TYPOGRAPHIC DESIGN ELECTIVE 2 2 0 9
B 17 GRA 6106 SOCIO-CULTURAL DYNAMICS IN GRAPHIC DESIGN AND DESIGNER ELECTIVE 2 2 0 9
B 18 GRA 6104 CONTEMPORARY GRAPHIC HUMOR ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6
B 19 GRA 6102 STRUCTURING IN POSTMODERN GRAPHIC DESIGN AND AESTHETIC PROBLEMS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6
B 20 GRA 6098 FIELD OF STUDY EXPERTNESS 3 0 0 6
B 21 GRA 6116 PERCEPTION AND ANALYSIS IN GRAPHIC DESIGN ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6
B 22 GRA 6092 HISTORY OF TURKISH GRAPHIC DESIGN STUDIES II ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6
B 23 GRA 6090 ANALYTICAL PHOTO-GRAPH ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6
B 24 GRA 6114 EXHIBITION DESIGN ELECTIVE 2 2 0 9
B 25 GRA 6112 INNOVATIVE APPROACHES IN PRINTMAKING ELECTIVE 2 2 0 9
B 26 GRA 6100 STUDIES ON PRINTMAKING HISTORY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

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

Head of Department
Prof. Fuat AKDENİZLİ, PhD.
Phone: (90-232) 412 91 60 E-mail: fuat.akdenizli@deu.edu.tr
ECTS/DS/Erasmus Coordinator
Asst. Prof. Ceren BULUT YUMRUKAYA
Phone: (90-232) 412 91 69 E-mail: ceren.bulut@deu.edu.tr