This course aims to prepare the students for their careers, by developing the skills and strategies that will enhance competence, self confidence as well as the requisite adaptability to succeed in the diverse professional environments within which they are expected to operate. The course includes portfolio making and presentation of ideas, projects and concepts as well as enhancing writing skills, which will help the preparation of professional as well as creative briefs, and reports, which are all part of the requirements of large-scale design projects. The approach is practice-based. It sets up a system that encourages students to put into practice various subjects through hands-on assignments. Furthermore guest lecturers and field trips will provide students with the opportunity of learning from advanced professionals in the design fields.
Professional Practice as a Designer (VA 490)
| Programs\Type | Required | Core Elective | Area Elective |
| Entrepreneurship Minor | * | ||
| Visual Arts and Visual Communications Design | * | ||
| Visual Arts and Visual Communications Design | * |
CONTENT
OBJECTIVE
The course will touch upon different subjects including portfolio making, as well as presentation skills, which will enable the presentation of ideas, projects and concepts. A further focus of the course will be on enhancing writing skills, which will help the preparation of professional as well as creative briefs, and reports, which are all part of the requirements of large-scale design projects.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- This course aims to prepare the students for their careers after the university, by teaching skills and strategies, which will enhance competence, self confidence as well as the requisite adaptability which young designers will need to succeed in the diverse professional environments within which they are expected to operate.
PROGRAMME OUTCOMES
1. Understand the world, their country, their society, as well as themselves and have awareness of ethical problems, social rights, values and responsibility to the self and to others. 4
2. Understand different disciplines from natural and social sciences to mathematics and art, and develop interdisciplinary approaches in thinking and practice. 2
3. Think critically, follow innovations and developments in science and technology, demonstrate personal and organizational entrepreneurship and engage in life-long learning in various subjects; have the ability to continue to educate him/herself. 4
4. Communicate effectively in Turkish and English by oral, written, graphical and technological means. 4
5. Take individual and team responsibility, function effectively and respectively as an individual and a member or a leader of a team; and have the skills to work effectively in multi-disciplinary teams. 4
1. Demonstrate safe working habits and a general understanding of materials and processes in the visual arts. 3
2. Demonstrate knowledge of representational processes using visual as well as audial material as mediums of representation. 5
3. Show working knowledge of the process of transforming abstract/textual concepts into concrete, audio/visual forms. 4
4. Appreciate and express the cultural significance of art and understand its evolution and purposes. 3
5. Develop an awareness of compositional and organizational strategies for the effective deployment of formal elements of visual art. 2
6. Read visual texts with a deep knowledge of art history and theory and the ability of situating the content and form of the visual representation both in a historical and thematic context. 2
7. Employ necessary background knowledge regarding art administration in the body of museums and galleries. 2
8. Show a practical and technical command of materials and methods in one or more media of the visual arts. 3
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ASSESSMENT METHODS and CRITERIA
| Percentage (%) | |
| Assignment | 30 |
| Participation | 10 |
| Individual Project | 50 |
| Other | 10 |
RECOMENDED or REQUIRED READINGS
| Readings |
In Class Presentations & Articles on related subjects |