AMERICAN CULTURE AND LITERATURE | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
DES3921 | History of Design and Technology I | Fall | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
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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 : | Assoc. Prof. MEHMET ASATEKİN |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Assoc. Prof. MEHMET ASATEKİN |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | The course aims to provide the student with information that will make him/her equipped on the development of basic technologies and visual arts on chronological basis. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; - define the development processes of basic technologies, - define the development processes of visual arts, - dicuss the outcomes of artistic movements and works, - discuss the interrelationships between technology-production-crafts-arts, - analyze the effects of industrial revolution on arts and crafts. |
This first part of the two-semester course dicusses, as the forerunning references of industrial design, the development of basic technologies from prehistoric times to the industrial revolution. It also shows the process of evolution in visual arts during the same period. It gives information on how these two development/evolution processes interacted with the industrial revolution and prepared the grounds for a new discipline as industrial design. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Continuity between technology-art-design. Basic definitions of technology and arts. | |
2) | Primitive technologies. | |
3) | From primitive technologies to medieval times. | |
4) | Medieval technologies. | |
5) | Beginnings of visual arts. Primitive, Egyptian, Greek, Roman arts. | |
6) | Medieval arts. | |
7) | Gothic arts. | |
8) | Visual elaboration on medieval living and arts. | |
9) | Renaissance arts. | |
10) | Renaisance arts. | |
11) | Visual elaboration on renaissance living and painting. | |
12) | Industrial Revolution and new technologies. | |
13) | Industrial revolution and new technologies. | |
14) | Symbolizm in painting and the emergence of the artist as an individual. |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | non |
References: | non |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 12 | % 5 |
Homework Assignments | 1 | % 15 |
Midterms | 2 | % 40 |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 28 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 56 |
Midterms | 1 | 2 |
Paper Submission | 1 | 4 |
Final | 1 | 2 |
Total Workload | 92 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Upon graduation, students will acquire key skills and attributes to conduct research to use research tools, to solve problems, to communicate effectively and to transfer skills to the workplace. | |
2) | Upon graduation, students will have developed the ability to discuss key issues in fluent English. | |
3) | Upon graduation, students will have developed the ability to compose written documents in English with a mature prose style. | 4 |
4) | Upon graduation, students will have gained broad knowledge of the American and English literary canons. | 4 |
5) | Upon graduation, students will have developed the ability to analyze, synthesize and criticize sophisticated works of American and English literature. | 4 |
6) | Upon graduation, students will have achieved in depth the understanding of contemporary American culture. | 3 |
7) | Upon graduation, students will have developed the ability to draw links among diverse literary texts and documents and establish critical connections and adopt an interdisciplinary attitude. | 3 |
8) | Upon graduation, students will be able to develop new projects individually or in teams. | 3 |
9) | Upon graduation, students will be able to apply their knowledge into their lives for interdisciplinary problem-solving and solutions. | 4 |