SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
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
ADV3621	Ad Design I	Fall	2	2	3	11

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.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) Students will be able to sense basic principles of design concept and design theories.
2) Students will be able to comprehend differences between Visual Communication Design, Graphic Design and Advertising Design.
3) Students will be able to interprets concepts about perception and persuasion in Visual Communication Design.
4) Students will be able to comprehend color concept in Design.
5) Students will be able to comprehend basic approaches of Graphic Design and Advertising Design.
6) Students will be able to use Adobe Illustrator vectorel drawing software.
7) Students will be able to use Adobe Photoshop image processing software.

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)	Visual Communication and Design, Design elements and design principles. Practice: Using Adobe Illustrator Menus & Toolbox: Drawing tools, objects and object attributes (Drawing basic geometric shapes with Illustrator)
2)	Visual Communication and writing. Comprehension, measures of perception, relations of recalling in visual communication. Practice: Adobe Illustrator for freeform drawing: (Creating a composition with geometric objects and a silhouette)
3)	Visual Communication Design and Colour Practice: Drawing and coloring with Illustrator: (Drawing a character from TV Show Southpark) Deadline for 1st Homework (Basic design elements on Streets)
4)	Visual perception and principles of Gestalt Theory: Figure-Background, balance, relations between structure features of image and their symbolising forms and the principle of appropriateness of the meanings. Practice: Drawing and coloring with Adoe Illustrator: (Drawing a character from TV Show Southpark)
5)	Gestalt Theory and composition: Perceptional groupings, identical images different images and symbolising. Practice: Using text and graphics to design a poster composition:
6)	Writing and graphic design. Graphic Design principles. Practice: Using text and image and masking function on Illustrator
7)	Writing and graphic design. Graphic Design principles. Deadline for 2nd Homework: (Compositions from geometric objects on Streets)
8)	Using Adobe Photoshop: Interface and tools: Cropping tools, text tool and Layer Concept on Photoshop (Image Manipulation)
9)	Colour models: HSL Model, additive and subtractive colour models, digitalizing colours Practice: Using Adobe Photoshop: Tools and commands Layer Style and Layer Mode functions
10)	Practice: Using Adobe Photoshop: Tools and commands Layer Style and Layer Mode functions Deadline for 3rd Homework. (Different Layout formats)
11)	Using Adobe Photoshop: Commands and effects Color Correction on Photoshop Practice: Advertising product sample: Poster Design
12)	Using Adobe Photoshop: Layer Masking and color blending (Recoloring a black and white photo) Practice: Advertising product sample: Poster Design
13)	What is 3D? 3D applications on Computer graphics. Using Adobe Photoshop: 3D Typography, Smart Object and Action Functions. Practice: Advertising product sample: Brochure Design
14)	Practice: Print Advertisement sample. Deadline for 4th Homework. (Print Advertisement Sample)

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	• Advertising Design and Typography, Alex White (Allworth Press-2006) • Cutting Edge Advertising, Jim Aitchison (Practice Hall-2004) • Advertising Principles and Practice, Sandra E. Moriarty (Pearson Education-2009)
References:	• Communication Arts Magazine • Novum Magazine • Gallery Magazine

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Attendance	14	% 10
Homework Assignments	2	% 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	15	210
Homework Assignments	2	6	12
Midterms	2	6	12
Final	1	4	4
Total Workload			280

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)	Be able to specify functional and non-functional attributes of software projects, processes and products.
2)	Be able to design software architecture, components, interfaces and subcomponents of a system for complex engineering problems.
3)	Be able to develop a complex software system with in terms of code development, verification, testing and debugging.
4)	Be able to verify software by testing its program behavior through expected results for a complex engineering problem.
5)	Be able to maintain a complex software system due to working environment changes, new user demands and software errors that occur during operation.
6)	Be able to monitor and control changes in the complex software system, to integrate the software with other systems, and to plan and manage new releases systematically.
7)	Be able to identify, evaluate, measure, manage and apply complex software system life cycle processes in software development by working within and interdisciplinary teams.
8)	Be able to use various tools and methods to collect software requirements, design, develop, test and maintain software under realistic constraints and conditions in complex engineering problems.
9)	Be able to define basic quality metrics, apply software life cycle processes, measure software quality, identify quality model characteristics, apply standards and be able to use them to analyze, design, develop, verify and test complex software system.
10)	Be able to gain technical information about other disciplines such as sustainable development that have common boundaries with software engineering such as mathematics, science, computer engineering, industrial engineering, systems engineering, economics, management and be able to create innovative ideas in entrepreneurship activities.
11)	Be able to grasp software engineering culture and concept of ethics and have the basic information of applying them in the software engineering and learn and successfully apply necessary technical skills through professional life.
12)	Be able to write active reports using foreign languages and Turkish, understand written reports, prepare design and production reports, make effective presentations, give clear and understandable instructions.
13)	Be able to have knowledge about the effects of engineering applications on health, environment and security in universal and societal dimensions and the problems of engineering in the era and the legal consequences of engineering solutions.