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Course Unit Title Course Unit Code Type of Course Unit Level of Course Unit Year of Study Semester ECTS Credits
Desktop Publishing ILT417 Elective Bachelor's degree 4 Fall 4

Name of Lecturer(s)

Associate Prof. Dr. Gürsoy DEĞİRMENCİOĞLU
Assistant Prof. Dr. Yusuf BUDAK
Lecturer Fehmi KETENCİ

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1) Apply the applications of the graphic design for the desktop publishing system.
2) Evaluate the page designing applications in the electronic medium.
3) Demonstrate how the two-dimensional graphical design programmes applied for the desktop publishing.
4) Organize the works that was produced with the desktop publishing programmes for the printing process.
5) Comment how are reflected the colors used in a printed medium.

Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

  Program Competencies
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Learning Outcomes
1 High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High
2 High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High
3 High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High
4 Middle Middle Middle Middle Middle Middle Middle Middle Middle Middle Middle Middle Middle Middle Middle Middle Middle Middle Middle Middle Middle Middle
5 High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High High

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Layout/Page Design

Course Contents

Adopting graphical practices to desktop publishing system; Photoshop-Freehand and Ouark X’press practices; page and advertisement graphic arrangement with computers

Weekly Schedule

1) Essential concepts and theories about the desktop publishing
2) The colour usage in the system of desktop publishing
3) Layer applications in the graphics programmes
4) The effect applications in the graphic programmes
5) Introduction to the page designing programmes
6) Introduction to the page designing programmes
7) The essential principles in page designing
8) Midterm Examination/Assessment
9) Project application of the newspaper page design
10) Project application of the newspaper page design
11) Project application of the newspaper page design
12) Project application of the magazine cover
13) Project application of the magazine cover
14) Design Applications of the inner page
15) Design Applications of the inner page
16) Final Examination

Recommended or Required Reading

1- H.Fehmi Ketenci ve Can Bilgili, Görsel İletişim ve Grafik Tasarımı/Yongaların 10000 Yıllık Gizemli Dansı, Beta Yayınları, İstanbul, 2006.
2- Emre Becer, İletişim ve Grafik Tasarım, Dost Kitabevi Yayınları, Ankara, 2011.
3- Tevfik Fikret Uçar, Görsel İletişim ve Grafik Tasarım, İnkilap Kitabevi Yayınları, İstanbul, 2004.
4- Mustafa Şeker, Sayfa Düzeni, Çizgi Kitabevi, Konya, 2004.
5- Brian P.Lawler, Masaüstü Yayıncılık ve Basım Kılavuzu, Alfa Yayınları, İstanbul, 2006.
6- Ders Kitabı ve Ders Notları.
7- Textbooks and Lecture Notes.
8- Ara Sınav ve Final Sınavları.
9- Midterm Exam and Final Exams.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Discussion
4) Drill and Practice
5) Lab / Workshop
6) Project Based Learning


Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Midterm Examination to Course Grade

40%

Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade

60%

Total

100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required