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 |
NMD2010 | Creative Writing for Digital Platforms | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
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 : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi SİNAN AŞÇI |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi TİRŞE ERBAYSAL FİLİBELİ |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | This course aims to provide students with opportunities to work intensively on their writing in a number o forms and genres. Also, its aim is to get the students writing, keep them writing, and enable them to enjoy their work to the full. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; The students who succeeded in this course, - will build specialist writing skills for profession applications such as corporate writing, persuasive writing, journalistic writing, editing. - will learn tostimulate and sustain creative flow of writing - will attain both practical and theoretical understanding of writing practice. -will learn physical and psychological conditions of writing and the effective writing. |
This course is designed to stimulate and sustain creative flow of writing. It aims to follow the idea which says “writing is a way of life”. Thus, the students will be introduced the main subjects about writings such as starting writing process, both physical and psychological conditions of writing and the effective writing. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction | None |
2) | What is creative writing? What is creative non-fiction writing? | |
3) | Starting the writing process | |
4) | Focus on the words and sounds | |
5) | Surprise yourself: Work in depth, play with words and images. | |
6) | Work with your dreams: Using dream experiences | |
7) | Introductions, body paragraphs, and conclusions: Work with Beginnings and Endings | |
8) | Prewriting(Invention), prewriting strategies | |
9) | How to write an effective essay | |
10) | Journalism and journalistic writing | |
11) | Invent yourself as a writer: Writer’s block/ Writer’s anxiety. | |
12) | Craft your work: Invent a purpose, focus on style and clarity | |
13) | Proofreading your writing | |
14) | Edit your work. Evaluation of the semester |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | |
References: |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 10 | % 10 |
Project | 1 | % 35 |
Midterms | 1 | % 25 |
Final | 1 | % 30 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 35 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 65 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 2 | 28 |
Application | 14 | 1 | 14 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 3 | 42 |
Project | 1 | 20 | 20 |
Midterms | 1 | 5 | 5 |
Final | 1 | 5 | 5 |
Total Workload | 114 |
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 |