GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
History of Visual Design II/GİT 315
Course Title: History of Visual Design II
Credits 2 ECTS 3
Semester 5 Compulsory/Elective Compulsory
COURSE INFO
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
  Lecturer Dilek EVİRGEN
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  dilekevirgen@gazi.edu.tr
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  dilek.evirgen@gazi.edu.tr
 -- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT
To learning the History of Visual Communication Design.
To grasp the development and evolution of Visual Communication Design until the present day.
To grasp the aims and philosophies in the art&design movements.
To understand the interaction and connection between social, political and communal incidents and art&design movements in the history of vcd.
To recognize the important artist & designers and to understand the consept and philosophy of their works.
To learn the concepts of graphic arts, graphic design and vcd in the history of the visual communication with its begining periods and purposes.
Learning the areas of those concepts defining and varying the context in the historical.
To have much conscious against practical excercises after this lesson and also to perform much qualified practical excercises with this knowledge.
 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is 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  Course contents are described, objectives and working system
2. Week  International Typographic Style
3. Week  New Advertisement – American Expressionism
4. Week  Poland Poster Art
5. Week  Grapus and graphic design in Japan
6. Week  Graphic Design in England
7. Week  History of corporate identity Masterpieces of corporate identity
8. Week  Wayfinding and Signage Systems
9. Week  Midterm Exam
10. Week  Postmodernism
11. Week  The contradictory design to International Graphic Style
12. Week  The Duffy Design Grup
13. Week  Turkish design and Turkish Graphic Designers
14. Week  Turkish design and Turkish Graphic Designers
15. Week  Turkish design and Turkish Graphic Designers
16. Week  Final Exam
 -- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
  Dilek Bektaş, Çağdaş Grafik Tasarımın Gelişimi, İstanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 1992 Alan Weill, Grafik Tasarım, İstanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2012 Helen Armstrong, Grafik Tasarım Kuramı, İstanbul: Espas Yayınları, 2012
 -- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
  Lecture, presentations
 -- WORK PLACEMENT(S)
  Not Applicable
 -- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Percentage
 Mid-terms
1
30
 Assignment
1
10
 Exercises
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade  
40
 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade  
60
 -- WORKLOAD
 Efficiency  Total Week Count  Weekly Duration (in hour)  Total Workload in Semester
 Theoretical Study Hours of Course Per Week
14
2
28
 Practising Hours of Course Per Week
0
 Reading
10
3
30
 Searching in Internet and Library
1
2
2
 Designing and Applying Materials
3
2
6
 Preparing Reports
1
2
2
 Preparing Presentation
0
 Presentation
0
 Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term
1
2
2
 Final and Studying for Final
1
4
4
 Other
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
74
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
2.96
 ECTS: 
3
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1By learning the necessary information in terms of historical, theoretical and practical in the field of visual communication design, and using this information in integrate of each other, consideration and positioning own works in the sight of these information in a critical way.X
2By following the national and international developments, implementing own practices in a contemporary level in accordance with these developments.X
3To be able to learn technical information and artifice those are used necessarily parallel in technological developments and use them in own works.X
4To have the necessary information and experience in two-dimensional and motion image production, processing and consideration.X
5To create appropriate color, value and composition containing stain functional, aesthetic and design elements for unique visual communication.X
6To produce creative concepts and turn those concepts to graphic, photographic, illustrative, three-dimensional, motion or interactive visual expressions.X
7To produce original visual solution by considering different projects in terms of visual communication design.X
8To be able to design the steps of practical projects in relation with the field, to provide process management and to earn the discipline to complete the projects successfully in the given time.X
9To attain the sources for field works and to plan owns development process.X
10To use in a respective and sensitive way to social values and personal benefits, the theoretical, technical and technological information that is gained in practical works which is relative to the field, in accordance with ethical and legal regulations.X