COMMUNICATION AND DESIGN | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
GEP0802 | Aesthetic and Philosophy | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
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Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | GE-Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Dr. BURCU ALARSLAN ULUDAŞ |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | The aim of this course is to study the field of aesthetics and give an overview of general art concepts from a historical point of view. Themes include the beautiful and the sublime, objective existence of the art work and subjective taste, disinterest and aesthetic pleasure, form and decoration, art and ideals, branches of art and their ranking, art and nature will examine and discuss with Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Derrida texts. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; After successfully completing this course the student will be able •Acquisition of a philosophical view on the matters of beauty and art •Learning the basic philosophical concepts which elucidate the phenomen of beauty and art •to restate the main views in the history of philosophy on art •to see the possibilities of looking at the art thorough philosophy, •to cope with diversities of the theories of art. •to participate in the discussions about the art and works of art |
•the concept of aesthetics •what is art?- •art concepts through history •Art and its relation to values •Art and the human being; Art and philosophical anthropology |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction | |
2) | Defining Aesthetics | Course notes |
3) | Schools of Aesthetics | Course notes |
4) | What is Art? | Course notes |
5) | The concepts of Idea and the Ideal | Course notes |
6) | Beauty as sensuous appearance of the Idea | Course notes |
7) | The Symbolic Type of Art | Course notes |
8) | The Classical Type of Art | Course notes |
9) | The Classical Type of Art | Course notes |
10) | The Work and Truth | Course notes |
11) | Truht and Art | Course notes |
12) | The Romantic type of Art | Course notes |
13) | The Romantic type of Art | Course notes |
14) | Kurs konuları üzerinde tartışma | Course notes |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Martin Heidegger, “The Origin of the Work of Art”, Basic Writings, ed. D. F. Krell, Harper Perennial, 2008. Afşar Timuçin, Estetik, Bulut Yayınları, 2008. İoanna Kuçuradi, Sanata Felsefeyle Bakmak, Şiir-Tiyatro Yayınları, Ankara, 1979. Hegel, Estetik. Güzel Sanat Üzerine Dersler. Cilt:1 Çev: Taylan Altuğ |
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Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 14 | % 10 |
Homework Assignments | 2 | % 20 |
Midterms | 1 | % 20 |
Final | 1 | % 50 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 50 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 50 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
Homework Assignments | 2 | 10 | 20 |
Midterms | 1 | 15 | 15 |
Final | 1 | 20 | 20 |
Total Workload | 97 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Create design oriented application for the visual communication design field. | |
2) | Resolve visual communication problems via concept based designs and an integrated perspective in the visual communication design field. | |
3) | Qualify in design directing through analysis and design processes. | |
4) | Display creative thinking, approach and production process skills. | |
5) | Integrate basic fields of visual communication; print, time-based and interactive media, through mastering each one of these fields individually. | |
6) | Identify complementary design solutions in the visual field in order to solve communication problems. | |
7) | Perform necessary operational skills in order to finalize products in the visual communication design field. | |
8) | Evaluate recent design trends and the evolving aesthetic perspectives. | |
9) | Use recent design softwares that coincide with the developing information technologies and communication channels. | |
10) | Interpret theoretical, historical and intellectual roots of the visual communication design field. | |
11) | Perform necessary time management in order to complete a visual communication design project. | |
12) | Demonstrate leadership qualities in a design team as well as individual skills during the progress of a visual communication design project. | |
13) | Display compositional solutions and aesthetic skills to fulfill design needs in a visual communication design work. | |
14) | Develop academical, intellectual and critical point of view for global, local and individual visual communication design works. | 3 |