GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
PRODUCT RESEARCH/TK 541
Course Title: PRODUCT RESEARCH
Credits 3 ECTS 7.5
Semester 1 Compulsory/Elective Elective
COURSE INFO
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  turkish
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
  Assoc. Prof. NADİRE ŞULE ATILGAN
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/natilgan
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  natilgan@gazi.edu.tr
 -- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT
Theories on product evaluation
product design on the development of critical approaches
research and theories on the product
product information that can be used in analysis and research to underpin
Industrial capitalism
material culture
consumer culture,
production and new product development
social life and product
Within the framework of consumer product design.
 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  Face to face
 -- PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES
  There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.
 -- RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTS
  There is no recommended optional programme component for this course
 --COURSE CONTENT
1. Week  The object of material culture
2. Week  The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self
3. Week  Applied art and industrial design
4. Week  Aesthetic preference in industrial design
5. Week  Myth of function
6. Week  Material culture and Mass consumption
7. Week  Fearing electricity: overhead wire panic in New York City
8. Week  Dynamics of industrial capitalism.
9. Week  semester exams
10. Week  The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America.
11. Week  Material culture & Consumer culture
12. Week  Stylization of consumption
13. Week  Back to the future
14. Week  Consumer culture and politics: samples
15. Week  product evaluation, articles
16. Week  final exams
 -- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
  Material Culture and Mass Consumption, Daniel Miller, B. Blackwell (1987). Fearing electricity: overhead wire panic in New York City , Sullivan, J.P. ; 244-25 88th drive, Bellerose, NY 11426, USA. Technology and Society Magazine, IEEE (Volume:14 , Issue: 3 ), Autumn/Fall 1995. Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism, Chandler A. , The Business History Review Vol. 64, No. 4 (Winter, 1990), pp. 690-735. ‪‪Just a housewife the rise and fall domesticity in America, Mathews G., Oxford University Press, 1987. "Modernization" and American Social History, Daniel Scott Smith, Social Science History Vol. 2, No. 3 (Spring, 1978), pp. 361-367, Duke University Press. The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self, Csikszentmihalyi M., Halton E., Cambridge University Press, 2002. Consumer Culture, Lury C., Polity Press, 1996. Modernism in Design, Greenhalgh P., Reaction Books Ltd. 1990.
 -- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
   Lecture, Question & Answer
 -- WORK PLACEMENT(S)
  -
 -- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Percentage
 Mid-terms
2
30
 Assignment
1
20
 Exercises
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade  
50
 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade  
50
 -- WORKLOAD
 Efficiency  Total Week Count  Weekly Duration (in hour)  Total Workload in Semester
 Theoretical Study Hours of Course Per Week
16
3
48
 Practising Hours of Course Per Week
3
3
9
 Reading
16
3
48
 Searching in Internet and Library
15
3
45
 Designing and Applying Materials
0
 Preparing Reports
8
2
16
 Preparing Presentation
5
1
5
 Presentation
3
1
3
 Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term
1
1
1
 Final and Studying for Final
1
1
1
 Other
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
176
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
7.04
 ECTS: 
7.5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1Develop and deepen knowledge in the same or in a different design field to the proficiency level based on Bachelor level qualifications.X
2Conceive the interdisciplinary interaction, which the design field is related with.X
3Use of theoretical and practical knowledge within the design field at a proficiency level.X
4Interpret the knowledge about the design field by integrating the information gathered from different disciplines and formulate new knowledge.X
5Take responsibility and develop new strategic solutions as a team member in order to solve unexpected complex problems faced within the applications in the design field.X
6Develop strategy, policy and implementation plans on the issues related to the design field and assess the findings within the frame of quality processes.X
7Audit the design field data gathering, interpretation, implementation and announcement stages by taking into consideration the cultural, scientific, and ethic values and teach these values.X
8Demonstrate leadership in contexts that require solving problems related to the design field.X
9Earn to polish to prepare thesis proposal and to write thesis in accordance with the accumulations regarding the field.X
10Ability to use of current information technology in the field of design, publishing, tools - supplies and other scientific resources acquired with the help of high-level information is used in future academic and professional life.X