ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
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
VCD4138	Portfolio Design	Fall	2	2	3	5

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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 İPEK TORUN
Course Lecturer(s):	Instructor DİDEM WONG
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	This course focuses on each student’s self unique design vision and the many ways students can promote their design abilities by producing a creative selection of their existing communication design projects. Highlighting the individual design approach is an emphasis on self-promotion in its most suitable form. Students learn the details of the job-seeking portfolio since creative success is determined as much by how well they promote their work as by the quality of their work.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) Visualize concepts.
2) Demonstrate knowledge of the essential business practices used in the communication design industry.
3) Produce the basic business forms needed in communication design business.
4) Recognize the laws pertaining to the Visual Artist in business.
5) Promote themselves and their design work.
6) Demonstrate a marketable and uniquely original portfolio and produce a "creative" resume.

Course Content

Types of portfolios, portfolio research, developing a communication network are discussed.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction Expectations Time management Daily Planner Goals
2)	Assignment 1 in progress. Mood Boards In-house vs. Agency/Design Firm vs. Freelance vs. Self-employed Types of Portfolios
3)	Assignment 1 in progress.	Portfolio review
4)	Résumé writing Employment Application
5)	Interviews
6)	Self-promotion Digitizing your portfolio Networking
7)	Cost-effective Design Due Group Presentations Assignment 2: High budget Promotion
8)	Expectations Time management Daily Planner Goals Assignment 2 in progress. Researching outstanding promos
9)	Assignment 2 in progress. Researching outstanding promos
10)	Assignment 2 in progress.
11)	Group Discussion
12)	Practice presentations
13)	Retouching week
14)	High budget Promotion Portfolio show

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:
References:	How, Print Dergileri.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Application	2	% 30
Midterms	1	% 35
Final	1	% 35
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 65
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 35
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Workload
Course Hours	14	42
Application	14	28
Study Hours Out of Class	14	14
Project	14	14
Midterms	14	14
Final	14	14
Total Workload		126

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)	Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works.	3
2)	Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies.	2
3)	Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events.	1
4)	Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa.	3
5)	Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches.	2
6)	Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating.	2
7)	Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form.	3
8)	Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence.	2
9)	Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments.	2
10)	Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues.	3