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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
FTZ 3033	TYPOGRAPHY AND PHOTOGRAPHY I	COMPULSORY	2	2	0	4

Offered By

Photography

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PINAR BOZTEPE MUTLU

Offered to

Photography

Course Objective

It is aimed to investigate the interaction between typography and photography, to realize typographic designs with different multimedia tools, to learn typography, narrative and textual processes in the historical process of photography and to make applications on the subject.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	Establishing textual interaction in photographic narrative
2	Learning typography, fonts and related graphic terms
3	Examining historical representations of typography and photography
4	Developing photography and typography focused projects with different methods
5	Learning text and narrative vision in conceptual photography content

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	Meeting with students. To share the purpose, content and procedure of the lesson with students. Talking about the projects and determining the necessary materials for the lesson.
2	Lecture Working on determining the concept
3	Lecture Working on determining the concept
4	Lecture Working on determining the concept
5	Pre-shooting knowledge (Research, Observation and Creating a Shooting Tree)
6	Selection criteria, selection stage and sorting of photographs taken
7	Making the selected photographs suitable for the digital media
8	Concept Layout work sketch phase
9	Concept Layout work sketch phase Discussion and lecturing through sketches
10	Concept Layout work sketch phase Discussion and lecturing through sketches
11	Concept Layout work sketch phase Discussion and lecturing through sketches
12	Concept Layout work sketch phase Discussion and lecturing through sketches
13	Concept Layout work discussion on original draft
14	Evaluation of the project as a whole

Recomended or Required Reading

- Tipografinini Temelleri, Namık Kemal Sarıkavak
- Görsel Tipografi Sözlüğü, Gavin Ambrose & Paul Harris
- Designing with Type-The essential guide to typography, James Craig & Irene Korol Scala,
- Thinking with Type, Ellen Lupton
- Typo: The fundamentals of typography, Gavin Ambrose & Paul Harris
- The History and Technique of Lettering, Alexander Nesbitt
- Why Fonts Matter, Sarah Hyndman, Gingko Press
- Erik Spiekermann & E. M. Ginger, "stop stealing sheep and find out how type works", Adobe Press,
- Typography Referenced, A Comprehensive Visual Guide to the Language, Hist ory, and Pract ice of Typography, Allan Haley, Richard Poulin, Jason Tselentis, Tony Seddon, Gerry Leonidas, Ina Saltz, Kathryn Henderson with Tyler Alterman. Rockport Publishers

- Designed Collaborative Photo Presentations (Photo Associations, Photo Groups, etc.)
- Personal Photo Presentations (personal presentations by local and foreign photographers)

https://www.typotheque.com
http://typefoundry.blogspot.com

Auxiliary resources: Web sites, photo presentation samples, portfolios
Other course materials: Slides and case studies on the topic

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

To be able to create analog and digital photographic presentations by selecting topics within the framework of project design methods and methods and applying various techniques and methods on selected topics.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER	SHORT CODE	LONG CODE	FORMULA
1	PRJ	PROJECT
2	ATT	ATTENDANCE
3	ASG	ASSIGNMENT
4	FCG	FINAL COURSE GRADE	PRJ * 0.30 + ATT * 0.10 + ASG * 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Creating a concept based on an original idea
To be able to project the concept
Selection or creation of suitable media and visuals
Choosing the appropriate font for the concept
Sketching before original draft
Setting the timing well, finishing the project on time

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Betül USLU ÖZKAN
betulusluozkan@gmail.com
0505 525 14 12

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures	14	2	28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures	14	1	14
Preparing presentations	5	14	70
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			112

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO	PO.1	PO.2	PO.3	PO.4	PO.5	PO.6	PO.7	PO.8	PO.9	PO.10	PO.11	PO.12	PO.13	PO.14	PO.15	PO.16	PO.17	PO.18	PO.19	PO.20
LO.1	3	4	4	4	4	5	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	4
LO.2	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	4	3	4	3	4	3	4	3	4	3
LO.3	4	4	4	4	5	4	5	3	4	3	4	3	4	3	4	3	4	4	3	4
LO.4	4	3	4	3	4	5	4	4	3	4	4	4	3	3	4	3	4	4	3	4
LO.5	2	3	4	4	3	4	3	4	3	3	4	3	4	3	4	3	4	4	4	3

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Description of Individual Course Units

Offered By

Level of Course Unit

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Course Objective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

Recomended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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