NEW MEDIA
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
DES3921	History of Design and Technology I	Fall	2	0	2	4

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 :	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.

Learning Outcomes

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.

Course Content

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.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

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.

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	non
References:	non

Evaluation System

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

ECTS / Workload Table

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

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 be able to critically interpret and discuss the theories, the concepts, the traditions, and the developments in the history of thought which are fundamental for the field of new media, journalism and communication.
2)	To be able to attain written, oral and visual knowledge about technical equipment and software used in the process of news and the content production in new media, and to be able to acquire effective abilities to use them on a professional level.
3)	To be able to get information about the institutional agents and generally about the sector operating in the field of new media, journalism and communication, and to be able to critically evaluate them.
4)	To be able to comprehend the reactions of the readers, the listeners, the audiences and the users to the changing roles of media environments, and to be able to provide and circulate an original contents for them and to predict future trends.
5)	To be able to apprehend the basic theories, the concepts and the thoughts related to neighbouring fields of new media and journalism in a critical manner.
6)	To be able to grasp global and technological changes in the field of communication, and the relations due to with their effects on the local agents.
7)	To be able to develop skills on gathering necessary data by using scientific methods, analyzing and circulating them in order to produce content.
8)	To be able to develop acquired knowledge, skills and competence upon social aims by being legally and ethically responsible for a lifetime, and to be able to use them in order to provide social benefit.
9)	To be able to operate collaborative projects with national/international colleagues in the field of new media, journalism and communication.
10)	To be able to improve skills on creating works in various formats and which are qualified to be published on the prestigious national and international channels.