İletişim ve Tasarımı (İngilizce) Lisans Diploması

 ISCO 08

 ISCO 08

The objectives of the program are to educate students to become resourceful and innovative designers in the field of communication design who are theoretically and practically equipped in creating multimedia products for diverse technological platforms, as well as adept in design management and entrepreneurship and most importantly who have a vision for the future.

Education and instruction are carried out in the form of formal education. Laboratories and workshops are available within the university for practical courses.

• Have knowledge of the concepts related to the visual, spatial, sound and motion as well as interactive and temporal elements/features of digital technology and the principles for their use in the creation and application of digital media-based work.
• Understand of the narrative and other information/language structures for organizing content in time-based or interactive media; have ability to organize and represent content structures in ways that are responsive to technological, social, and cultural systems
• Understand the characteristics and capabilities of various technologies (hardware and software); their appropriateness for particular expressive, functional, and strategic applications; their positions within larger contexts and systems; and their influences on individuals and society.
• Be knowledgeble with the processes for the development and coordination of digitally-based art and design strategies (for example, storyboarding, concept mapping, and the use of scenarios and  personas.)
• Have ability to analyze and synthesize relevant aspects of human interaction in various contexts (physical, cognitive, cultural, social, political, and economic) and with respect to technologically mediated communication, objects, and environments.
• Understand what is useful, usable, effective, and desirable with respect to user/audience-centered digitally-based communication, objects, and environments
• Be knowledgeable with history, theory, and criticism with respect to such areas as film, video, technology  and digital art and design.
• Ability to work in teams and to organize collaborations among people from different disciplines.
• Use the communication design competencies in the creation and development of professional quality digital media productions.
• Gain a basic understanding of the nature of professional work in their major field.
• Acquire the skills necessary to assist in the development and advancement of their careers, normally including the development of competencies in communication, presentation, and business skills necessary to engage in professional practice in their major field
• Explore areas of individual interest related to art/design in general or to the major
• Explore multidisciplinary issues that include art and design.
• Practice synthesis of a broad range of art/design knowledge and skills, particularly through learning activities that involve a minimum of faculty guidance, where the emphasis is on evaluation at completion.
• Ability to think, speak, and write clearly and effectively, and to communicate with precision, cogency, and rhetorical force.
• Ability to address culture and history from a variety of perspectives.

The holder has the key competencies below at an advanced level:

• Communication competency
• Teamwork competency
• Awareness in Social Responsibility and Sustainability
• Lifelong learning competency
• Digital competency
• Awareness in various sectors
• Ethical behavior competency
• Entrepreneurship competency
• Data analysis competency
• Innovative and critical thinking competency

1. Different methods such as homework, project, practice, midterm exams, and final exams are used in measurement and evaluation.

2. Letter-based grading systems are used to evaluate student success. Courses are graded using a catalog or a bell curve, depending on the program's preference. The final grades that contribute to the Grade Point Average (GPA) and their corresponding coefficients are shown below. The minimum passing grade is “D”, while “F” is a fail grade.

The final grades that do not contribute to the Grade Point Average (GPA) are listed below. Among these grades, S is a passing grade, while U denotes that the course is failed.

In order to monitor the quality of higher education programs;

YÖK is responsible for the planning, organization, management and supervision of education, training and other activities carried out in higher education institutions.
"University Monitoring and Evaluation Reports" of higher education institutions, prepared every year within the framework of the criteria determined by YÖK, are published. Reports prepared according to these reports, containing quantitative and qualitative evaluations for higher education institutions, are shared with the public by YÖK.
Every year, YÖK publishes the "Foundation Higher Education Institutions Report", which includes academic, administrative and financial data of foundation higher education institutions. These reports, which include quantitative and qualitative evaluations of foundation higher education institutions, are shared with the public by YÖK. Quality assurance of undergraduate programs in higher education is provided according to the "Procedures and Principles for Providing Quality Assurance of Higher Education Diploma Programs":
1. Creation and Approval of Curriculum:

1.1. YÖK determines the minimum standards and criteria required for the opening of undergraduate departments and programs in higher education institutions.

1.2. The curriculum of undergraduate programs in higher education institutions and the learning outcomes that each program will bring to the student are determined by the senates of higher education institutions in accordance with the basic principles determined by YÖK on these issues.

1.3. The curriculum of National Core Education Programs is implemented by higher education institutions with the approval of YÖK after being accepted by the relevant Council of Deans.

2. Measurement-Evaluation: How to measure and evaluate the learning outcomes that each undergraduate program will provide to the student is carried out in accordance with the education, training and examination regulations prepared by higher education institutions in accordance with the basic principles determined by YÖK on these issues.

3. Certification: Students enrolled in undergraduate programs, if they successfully complete the course credits and other obligations determined by higher education institutions; receives a bachelor's degree.

4. Self-Evaluation-External Evaluation: In the context of continuous monitoring, higher education institutions enter the "Institution Internal Evaluation Reports" of the previous year into the Information System prepared by the Higher Education Quality Board (YÖKAK) at the beginning of each year. The "Institutional Feedback Report" prepared by YÖKAK regarding the external evaluation of higher education institutions is shared with the public. In addition, accreditation decisions made by accreditation bodies authorized or recognized by YÖKAK also show that the quality assurance of the qualifications of the programs is ensured. It carries out regular review activities regarding the qualifications determined in accordance with the YÖKAK legislation.

1. Having graduated from secondary education institutions or foreign secondary education institutions whose equivalence is approved by the Ministry of National Education and meeting the conditions of admission to the undergraduate programs of higher education institutions.
2. Having been placed in the relevant undergraduate program of the higher education institution as a result of the central examination held by the Student Selection and Placement Centre (ÖSYM), the procedures and principles of which are determined by YÖK.
3. Having obtained sufficient points as a result of the central examination held by ÖSYM for the programmes of higher education institutions that accept students through special talent exams, the procedures and principles of which are determined by YÖK, and having been successful in the special talent examination.
4. Having been placed in undergraduate programs that are the continuation of the fields they have completed in higher education institutions for associate degree graduates as a result of the Vertical Transfer Exam (DGS), the procedures and principles of which are determined by YÖK and conducted by ÖSYM.

1. Undergraduate degree holders can continue their graduate programmes and, if they meet the relevant requirements, the doctorate and proficiency in arts programmes that accept students with an undergraduate degree.
2. Undergraduate students have the right to participate in the double major programmes opened by the higher education institutions they are studying at. Students enrolled in double major programmes can take courses from two diploma programmes simultaneously and receive two separate undergraduate diplomas if they are successful.

1. Higher Education Law No. 2547

1.1. Regulation on the Principles of Transfer Between Associate and Undergraduate Programs in Higher Education Institutions, Double Major, Minor and Inter-Institutional Credit Transfer

1.2. Regulation on the Continuation of Undergraduate Education for Graduates of Vocational Schools and Open Education Associate Degree Programs

2. Higher Education Law No. 2547 (Additional Article-35)

2.1.Higher Education Quality Assurance and Higher Education Quality Board Regulation

Qualification is continuously valid.