FOREIGN TRADE (TURKISH)
Associate	TR-NQF-HE: Level 5	QF-EHEA: Short Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 5

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
DES3921	History of Design and Technology I	Spring 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:	Associate (Short 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)	He/she comprehends the main theories and terminology of International Trade.
2)	He/she comprehends the custom operations.
3)	He/she applies international finance and accounting knowledge to business life.
4)	He/she has skills of using computer and software.
5)	He/she analyses Turkey and EU foreign trade structure.
6)	He/she brings in the basic reason of international marketing.
7)	He/she consults basic law rules and legislation which built the legal frame of foreign trade.
8)	He/she evaluates and analyses risks which foreign trade companies may meet.
9)	He/she comprehends the international logistics and transportation.
10)	He/she has the qualification and eligibility to work on international platform.
11)	He/she uses efficient oral and written communication skills.
12)	He/she follows and applies the national and international actual and the economic developments about foreign trade.
13)	He/she has vocational ethical value that market needs in qualified staff, can use Turkish effectively in writing and speaking communication; have proficiency in foreign language knowledge to making international correspond.