COURSE UNIT TITLE

: COMICS & ANIMATION

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GRA 5137 COMICS & ANIMATION ELECTIVE 2 2 0 8

Offered By

Graphic

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MEHMET KORKUT ÖZTEKIN

Offered to

Graphic

Course Objective

To produce an experimental work and prepare an exhibition according to the theoretical knowledge derived from original research on fore most samples of sequential art and animation cinema.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To reach expert level on design productivity and experimental approach
2   To reach expert level on mixing and applying different illustration medias and design techniques
3   To gain mastery over creative thinking and idea development
4   To become a self imposing, self-reliant, self promoting master creator and entrepreneur
5   To gain knowledge about several illustration techniques on master level
6   To gain expertise on graphic storytelling techniques
7   To focus on a specific illustration technique and gain mastery over it
8   To receive help and advise for career planning for illustrators

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Presentation of the course, introduction of the schedule
2 What is a comic What is animation What are their common features
3 Differences and commons of technical appliances
4 Project development
5 Seminar
6 Project milestone
7 Free Seminar Day
8 Project milestone
9 Seminar
10 Project milestone
11 Seminar
12 Project milestone
13 Free Seminar Day
14 Free Seminar Day
15 Mini exhibition opening

Recomended or Required Reading

Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels: A History Of Comic Art
Roger Sabin, Phaidon press, ISBN-10: 0714839930, ISBN-13: 978-0714839936
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Scott McCloud, William Morrow Paperbacks, ISBN-10: 006097625X, ISBN-13: 978-0060976255
Reinventing Comics: How Imagination And Technology Revolutionizing an art form
Scott McCloud, Scott McCloud, William Morrow Paperbacks, ISBN-10: 0060953500, ISBN-13: 978-0060953508
Graphic Storytelling & Visual Narrative
Will Eisner, W.W. Norton & Company, ISBN- 10: 039333127X, ISBN-13: 978-0393331271
Comics and Sequential Art: Principles & Practices from The Legendary Cartoonist
Will Eisner, W.W. Norton & Company, ISBN- 10: 0393331261, ISBN-13: 978-0393331264
The Animation Bible: A Practicle Guide to the Art of Animating from Flipbooks to Flash
Maureen Furniss, Abrams, Nisan 2008, ISBN- 10: 081099545X, ISBN-13: 978-0810995451

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Informative seminars and audio-visual presentations on animation and graphic storytelling with art projects development, research papers and a final master class exhibition.

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Each mid-term and final work shall be taken under assessment separately and an average grade is designated according to the outcomes. Uniqueness, hardworking and participation shall be awarded. To cheat, plagiarism and mockery are absolutely forbidden and shall be heavily punishable by any academic means.

Assessment Criteria

In this course, the participant shall work on only one single art project and a research report , which will be academic and ideological foundation that his/her art piece will depend on. At the end of the term this art project will be presented to undergraduate students. The participant has to share every development step of the project with the instructor. Hence the participant has to find, get, watch and read any given audio-visual and written resources related with the context of the course. Also participant is responsible to attend the seminars. Participant hast to exhibit professionally his/her own art works, which are created in the context of this course. To cheat, plagiarism and mockery are absolutely forbidden and shall be heavily punishable by any academic means.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To cheat, plagiarism and mockery are absolutely forbidden and shall be heavily punishable by any academic means.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

korkut.oztekin@deu.edu.tr / korkut.oztekin @gmail.com

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Instruction 15 1 15
Practice 1 3 3
Paper presentation 1 2 2
Presentation preperation 1 90 90
Paper preperation 1 90 90
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 200

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.14
LO.2335
LO.353
LO.45
LO.54
LO.6
LO.7
LO.8