Özyeğin University, Çekmeköy Campus Nişantepe District, Orman Street, 34794 Çekmeköy - İSTANBUL

Phone : +90 (216) 564 90 00

Fax : +90 (216) 564 99 99

E-mail: info@ozyegin.edu.tr

Design: History, Theory Criticism Track

Design: History, Theory Criticism Track

Design: History, Theory, Criticism track addresses the researchers who aim to explore issues about design as a social concept from a critical, conceptual, and historical perspective and to specialize in a specific context.

The track focuses on different fields such as design, technology, society, aesthetics, art, and visual culture from a holistic perspective, with a multidisciplinary and innovative approach.

It offers researchers from different disciplines the opportunity to specialize in a historical, critical and theoretical context and produce original studies on issues related to area of interest.

Design: History, Theory, and Criticism, students will take at least four (4) of the courses listed in the elective course list and one (1) field elective course in addition to the two (2) compulsory courses of the Design, Technology and Society Master's Program (with thesis):

DIS 505 Academic Research Techniques and Publication Ethics

DIS 502 Social Theory of Science and Technology and complete the program with one (1) conference paper, Seminar, and Master's Thesis.

For further academic information about the Design: History, Theory, Criticism Track:

Associate Prof. Dr. Alpay ER

0216-564 9340, 0216 564 9802

alpay.er@ozyegin.edu.tr

 

Course Code

Course Name

DIS 501

Design in Social Context

DIS 516

Ways of Seeing

DIS 518

Design Anthrolology

DIS 522

Political Economy of Design in Turkey

DIS 551

The Exhibitionary Complex

DIS 552

Cultural Heritage and Material Culture

DIS 558

Film Theory

DIS 559

Critical Reading of History of Design

DIS 560

Independent Studies

DIS 561

Special Topics in Design

DIS 565

Crafts in History

DIS 567

Food Culture and History

DIS 570

Political Ecology

DIS 571

Qualitative Research in Cultural Context

DIS 574

Spatial Imagination of Cities in Films

DIS 578

Design Culture

DIS 579

Modernity and Spatial Design

DIS 580

Crafts and Artisanship from a Historical Perspective

DIS 581

Technology in the Early Modern Period

DIS 582

Designing Criticism

DIS 583

Effects of Multiculturalism in Urban Culture

DIS 584

Formation of Modern Visuality in Turkey

 

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