Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Course Catalogue

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INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES / GİT 522 - VISUAL COMMUNICATION AND DESIGN (MASTER)

Code: GİT 522 Course Title: EXPERIMENTAL TYPOGRAPHY Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 6
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Spring Semester
Level of Course 2nd Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department VISUAL COMMUNICATION AND DESIGN (MASTER)
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer FATİH ÖZDEMİR (fatihozdemir@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
Trying to break the basic typographic rules and develop alternative approaches. trying to find alternative writing forms.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Basic writing forms, alternative font design experiments, alternative text editing experiments, new typographic searches.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 mid-term exam
2 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 EXPERIMENTAL TYPOGRAPHY (Working With Computer Type , No 4) - Rob Carter
2 Experimental Typography - Francisco Umana
3 The Anatomy of Type STEPHEN COLES
4 Design: Type PAUL BURGESS
5 Dimensional Typography J. ABBOTT MILLER
6 New Modernist Type STEVEN HELLER GAIL ANDERSON
7 Thinking with Type ELLEN LUPTON
8 Type, Form & Function JASON TSELENTIS
9 Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles 1628-1900 CEES DE JONG ALSTON PURVIS
Required Course instruments and materials

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project 1 1 50
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 1 1 50

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 14 42
Outside Class
       a) Reading 6 14 84
       b) Search in internet/Library 4 10 40
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 5 2 10
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 0
mid-term exam 0
Own study for final exam 0
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 177