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FACULTY OF FINE ARTS / GİT417 - VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN

Code: GİT417 Course Title: CRITICAL THOUGHT AND MEDIA READINGS Theoretical+Practice: 2+0 ECTS: 4
Year/Semester of Study 4 / Fall Semester
Level of Course 1st Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Compulsory
Department VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer PINAR GÜNER KOÇAK (guner@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
Analyzing selected texts from the areas of science, philosophy, art, language, epistemology, culture, humanism, logic in order to compare ways of knowing and thinking peculiar to these areas

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Students will be able to explain the similarities and differences between critical thinking and basic concepts. PO-2 Students will be able to describe the concepts, thoughts, cases and problems related to the field and perceive them as multi-dimensional.
PO-3 Students will be able to use terminology, problem solving skills, technical and method knowledge to evaluate art and design on a common basis.
PO-4 Students has the technological and theoretical knowledge, equipment and aesthetic awareness about the field.
Examination
LO-2 Students can reflect critical thinking to individual and professional life. PO-9 Students will be able to apply their practices scientifically and philosophically.
PO-11 Students will have the ability to comprehend the visual language and differences of art and design and aesthetic sensitivity and to reflect on their designs.
PO-24 Visual Communication Design adapts to what they have learned and gained in the department education process.
Examination
LO-3 Can explain the problems of art field. PO-4 Students has the technological and theoretical knowledge, equipment and aesthetic awareness about the field.
PO-10 Students gain practical and communicative skills to present their designs effectively.
PO-12 Ability to utilize various artistic and industrial production techniques.
Examination
Term Paper
Practice Exam
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Ways of thinking, elements of critical thinking and ordinary thinking, argument mapping, standards for thinking, analyzing a scientific question, egocentrism and sociocentrism, classifying arguments
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Introduction of resources related to acquaintance and course content 1. Lecture, 2. Question-Answer, 3. Discussion,
2 Critical Reading, qualities of critical reader and types of critical reading 1. Lecture, 2. Question-Answer, 3. Discussion,
3 Critical Reading, qualities of critical reader and types of critical reading 1. Lecture, 2. Question-Answer, 3. Discussion,
4 Political economy of the media: Herman and Comsky's Propaganda model 1. Lecture, 2. Question-Answer, 3. Discussion,
5 Manipulation: H. Schiller Mind Guides 1. Lecture, 2. Question-Answer, 3. Discussion,
6 Manipulation: H. Schiller Mind Guides 1. Lecture, 2. Question-Answer, 3. Discussion,
7 Althusser and the ideological tools of the State 1. Lecture, 2. Question-Answer, 3. Discussion,
8 mid-term exam
9 Structures of questions: Problems in the field of art 1. Lecture, 2. Question-Answer, 3. Discussion,
10 Research Methods: Analyzing a scientific question/ Argument mapping 1- case study 1/ Argument mapping 2- case study 2 1. Lecture, 2. Question-Answer, 3. Discussion,
11 Research Methods: Analyzing a question of philosophy 1. Lecture, 2. Question-Answer, 3. Discussion,
12 Research Methods: Analyzing a religious question 1. Lecture, 2. Question-Answer, 3. Discussion,
13 Egocentrism and sociocentrism as results of ‘ordinary’ thinking 1. Lecture, 2. Question-Answer, 3. Discussion,
14 Classifying arguments: repairing arguments, case studies 1. Lecture, 2. Question-Answer, 3. Discussion,
15 Evaluation. 1. Lecture, 2. Question-Answer, 3. Discussion, 4. Exercise
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Orhan Özdemir , Eleştirel Düşünme
Required Course instruments and materials
Course note, course book.

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 1 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 1 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 2 14 28
Outside Class
       a) Reading 2 14 28
       b) Search in internet/Library 2 14 28
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 0
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 2 8 16
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 2 8 16
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 118