PUBLIC RELATIONS AND PUBLICITY
Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
ADV3622	Ad Design II	Spring Fall	2	2	3	7

This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester.

Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi ŞAFAK ŞAHİN
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	This course aims at providing the students with an ability to use the required graphics design programs (Adobe Photoshop and Adobe lllustrator), and a skill to plan and implement all the creative process according to the brief in hand. Another goal of the course is the training of advertisers of the next and the new age, with a skill to use the media of the new age, creation of alternative channels and the necessary application techniques. Students will also learn design principles and try to design advertising banners, OOH and BTL metarials, graphic manipulations according to these principles.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) Students will be able to sense Typographic Communication concept.
2) Students will be able to define working process of Graphic Design and Page Layout.
3) Students will be able to recognize differences between graphic design and advertising design products.
4) Students will be able to recognize different layout formats.
5) Students will be able to use Adobe InDesign design software in upper intermediate level.
6) Students will be able to use Adobe Photoshop design software in upper intermediate level..
7) Students will be able to grabs the importance of sectoral sense of team work.

Course Content

Students will be able to realize unique design samples about classic, contemporary design within the framework basic design, visual communication design and advertising design principles.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Color on Graphic design and graphic design products Practice: Corporate Visual Identity Design products.
2)	Typography and Typographical Communication. Practice: Corporate Visual Identity Design products.
3)	Typography and Typographical Communication. Practice: Print Advertisement sample. Deadline for 1st Homework
4)	Layout elements and Layout principles. Practice: Print Adveretisiment sample in different layout formats.
5)	Relationship between graphic design principles and layout principles. Visual hierarchy. Practice: Print Advertisement sample in different layout formats.
6)	Layout and Grid system. Practice: Print Advertisement sample.
7)	Layout elements and layout principles. Grid system in the other fields of design. Turning grid into the layout. Practice: Print Advertisement sample. Deadline for 2nd Homework
8)	Layout elements and layout principles. Grid system in the other fields of design. Turning grid into the layout. Practice: Print Advertisement sample.
9)	Print advertisement samples Deadline for 3rd Homework:
10)	Different Media: Outdoor Advertising
11)	Different Media: Ambient Advertising
12)	Point of Purchase product design.
13)	Different Media: Visual design for on-line / off-line interactive diveces in advertising.
14)	Project process: Advertising campaign design.

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:

• Layout in Advertising, W.A.Dwiggins (Harper & Brothers-1948)
• How to Understand and Use Design and Layout, David Dabner (Pierce Spence-2006)
• Advertising Principles and Practice, Sandra E. Moriarty (Pearson Education-2009)

References:

• Communication Arts Magazine
• Novum Magazine
• Archive Magazine
• SARIKAVAK, N. (2004). Kemal. Çağdaş Tipografinin Temelleri (Görsel İletişim ve Grafik Tasarımda), Ankara: Seçkin Yayıncılık.
• AKSOY, A. (2007). Yeni Reklamcılık (2. Baskı). İstanbul: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları.
• AMBROSE, G., & AONO-BILLSON, N. (2013). Grafik Tasarımda Dil ve Yaklaşım, çev: M. Taşcıoğlu, Literatür Yayınları, İstanbul.
• AITCHISON, J. (2006) Cutting Edge Advertising. Basın İlanı Böyle Yapılır! İstanbul. Okuyan Us Yayın.
• Matthew Healey. (2008) What Is Branding?:Design brand discovery, ideas, typeface, logotype.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Attendance	14	% 10
Homework Assignments	1	% 20
Midterms	2	% 30
Final	1	% 40
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 40
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	14	3	42
Study Hours Out of Class	14	3	42
Homework Assignments	14	5	70
Midterms	3	4	12
Final	2	4	8
Total Workload			174

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	To prepare the students to become communication professionals by focusing on strategic thinking, professional writing, ethical practice and innovative use of traditional and new media
2)	To be able to create effective public relations plans using fundamental planning components that include situation analysis, public profile, objectives, strategies and tactics.
3)	To be able to apply theoretical concepts related to mass communication, consumer behavior, psychology, persuasion,sociology, marketing, and other related fields to understand how public realtions works.
4)	To be able to have the ability to explain and identify problems associated with the relationships between events and facts in the areas of public relations, persuasive communication, communication management, corporate communications.
5)	To be able to analyze primary and secondary research data in the fields of perception and reputation management and corporate communication practices.
6)	To be able to search, write, and design articles, newsletters, and fliers, brochures, and announcements, in styles and formats appropraite various audiences, mediums and settings.
7)	To be able to apply the underlying theories of communication and the necessities of work safety to different types of public relations processes and campaigns.
8)	To be able to develop creative and persuasive management skills in terms of reputation, employee relations, leadership and similar corporate practices.
9)	To be able to take responsibility in an individual capacity or as a team in generating solutions to given scenarios which can occur in public relations processes.
10)	To be able to understand how an organizational culture works and how employees and leaders create messages as a communication tool.
11)	To be able to critically discuss and interpret theories, concepts, methods, tools and ideas in the field of public relations.
12)	To be able to to use information, communication technologies and computer software with the required level of public relations, marketing communication, persuasive communication, communication management, corporate communications.
13)	To be able to explain and describe business marketing activities, economics, business law and global business practices.
14)	To be able to recognize national and international, social and cultural dimensions of public relations.