PSYCHOLOGY | |||||
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 | Spring | 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) | Develop close interest in human mind and behavior, and attain critical thinking skills (in particular the ability to evaluate psychological theories using empirical evidence), as well as appreciating psychology as an evidence based science. | |
2) | Gain a biopsychosocial understanding of human behavior, namely, the biological, psychological, social determinants of behavior. | |
3) | Acquire theoretical and applied knowledge and learn about basic psychological concepts and perspectives | |
4) | Familiarize with methodology and data evaluation techniques by being aware of scientific research methods (i.e. correlational, experimental, longitudinal, case study). | |
5) | Employ ethical sensitivity while doing assessment, research or working with groups. | |
6) | Familiarize with the essential perspectives of psychology (cognitive, developmental, clinical, social, behavioral, and biological). | |
7) | Get the opportunity and skills to evaluate qualitative and quantitative data, write reports, and present them. | |
8) | Attain preliminary knowledge for psychological measurement and evaluation. | |
9) | To have a basic knowledge of other disciplines (e.g. sociology, history, political science, communication studies, philosophy, anthropology, literature, law, art, etc) that can contribute to psychology and to be able to make use of this knowledge in understanding and interpreting of psychological process. | 3 |