COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CREATIVE THINKING IN GRAPHIC DESIGN

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GRA 5133 CREATIVE THINKING IN GRAPHIC DESIGN ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

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Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR TUĞCAN GÜLER

Offered to

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Course Objective

In this course, giving theoretical knowledge to develop students' skills, discussions the basic concepts of visual communication, analyzing projects, bringing objective approaches towards communication design, having live debates questioning the role of the designers and to collect them into research reports are aimed.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students are expected to able to have knowledge about the basic concepts of visual communication,
2   To be able to have knowledge about the domain and scope of visual communications,
3   To be able to analyze design works in terms of visual with deep research,
4   To be able to detect distinctive elements of images,
5   To be able to analyze images via semiological approach.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Discussions about visual communication design.
2 The illusion and reflection of reality.
3 A news flow upon media
4 Analyzing an past news and its further reactions.
5 Analyzing an past news and its further reactions.
6 Research paper and the necessary theoretical background.
7 Reading current news and determine the research area's title.
8 Reading notes for each students to focus individual studies.
9 Match areas of individual studies aiming communication design.
10 Critics on papers.
11 Capturing common points in news that appears unreleated to each other.
12 Critics and discussions on findings.
13 Critics and discussions on findings.
14 Ending critics, thougts and final preparation.

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

General discussions and sharing opinions about culturel environments is held in the first half hour. Individual meetings focusing weekly contents start immediately.

Assessment Methods

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


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Determining the proper problem is the key and has a significant role in research papers. Please read carefully to specify your subjects.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

E-Mail: tugcan.guler@deu.edu.tr
Office Phone: (90-232) 4129168

Office Hours

Tue: 09.00 - 12.00 AM
Fri: 09.00 - 10.30 AM
Reservations are required.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 2 10 20
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Preparation for final exam 1 24 24
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 155

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.13353
LO.24543
LO.3355455
LO.45344
LO.5435

CONTACT INFORMATION
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Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

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