GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
CRAFTS AND INDUSTRIAL DESIGN PRACTICE/5171343
Course Title: CRAFTS AND INDUSTRIAL DESIGN PRACTICE
Credits 3 ECTS 7.5
Course Semester 1 Type of The Course Elective
COURSE INFORMATION
 -- (CATALOG CONTENT)
 -- (TEXTBOOK)
 -- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)
 -- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- COURSE OBJECTIVES
 -- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
To associate the modern design and craft practices within the context of interdisciplinary interaction.
To evaluate tradional crafts within modern design practice.
To exemine the differences between traditional and modern modes of production.
To position art both within traditional crafts and modern design culture.
To know the reflections of the transition from traditional to modern on design education.
To know the contribution of craft to diverse modernist practices.
 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  Introduction
2. Week  Industrial Revolution, the transformation from traditional production to mass production, and its consequences
3. Week  The concept of modernism, the relationship between tradition and modernism, the position of tradition in modernist practice.
4. Week  Technology, industry, craft production. The elaboration of craft tradition within modern production practice.
5. Week  Mass production, its outcomes such as standardisation, patent, quality control, and their relationship with craft.
6. Week  The reflections of the relationship between technology and craft on modern design education,
7. Week  mid-term
8. Week  Design and culture
9. Week  Design and craft, certain styles associated with craft beginning from arts and crafts movement
10. Week  Art, the elaboration of industry within art
11. Week  Design practice and art
12. Week  Presentation; educational perspectives on craft and design
13. Week  Presentation; local – global reflections on craft and commoditization
14. Week  Presentation; commodification, art and craft
15. Week  Presentation; ideology and socio-technology of small-scale production
16. Week  Final
 -- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS
 -- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Total Weighting (%)
 Midterm Exams
1
30
 Assignment
2
70
 Application
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Percent of In-term Studies  
50
 Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score  
50
 -- WORKLOAD
 Activity  Total Number of Weeks  Duration (weekly hour)  Total Period Work Load
 Weekly Theoretical Course Hours
16
3
48
 Weekly Tutorial Hours
0
 Reading Tasks
15
5
75
 Searching in Internet and Library
3
5
15
 Material Design and Implementation
0
 Report Preparing
3
10
30
 Preparing a Presentation
1
10
10
 Presentation
0
 Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam
1
10
10
 Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam
0
 Other (should be emphasized)
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
188
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
7.52
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
7.5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1Ability to have advanced knowledge and understanding for original work in Industrial Design on the basis of competences acquired at the undergraduate level.X
2Ability to have critical awareness between Industrial Design and other fields about the problems concerning with the nature and resources of knowledge, generating knowledge generation and testing of knowledge.X
3Ability of specialized problem solving to develop new methods and knowledge and to integrate/combine the knowledge from other fields.X
4Ability to conduct an academic research and academic dialogue on the basis of critical and categorical results.X
5Ability to apply/implement acquired knowledge, conception and problem solving skills with new and non-conventional environments.X
6Ability to behave independently and take responsibility in Industrial Design education fields and to join in a work or design project as a team member or to manage it independently.X
7Ability to direct or last field related study on his/her own.X
8Ability to interactively use computer software and information and communication technologies at an advanced level.
9Ablility to use one foreign language at least a level of European Language Portfolio B1 General Level for both written and verbal communication.X
10Ability to produce comprehensive projects in Industrial Design field by using acquired knowledge, conception and skills with interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary approachesX
11Ability to improve strategies, policies and application plans related to the field of Industrial Design and to evaluate obtained results within the framework of quality processes.X
12Ability to conduct an academic research in a systematic and critical way. Ability to present conference paper and to make publications in national and international environments.X
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   (Doç. Dr. Dilek Akbulut)
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/dilekakbulut)
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (dilekakbulut@gazi.edu.tr)