Görsel İletişim Tasarımı Lisans Diploması

ISCO 08

ISCO 08

The Visual Communication Design Undergraduate Program, since its establishment in 2018, has had objectives aligned with the core missions of its affiliated university and faculty. These objectives are: to cultivate individuals who follow ever-developing and changing science and technology, are entrepreneurial, innovative, and at the same time have internalized traditional values; to cultivate individuals with the skills to meet the art, design, and aesthetic needs of the industrializing world on the basis of visual communication design; and to cultivate individuals who will contribute to society, the environment, and nature.

• Education and instruction are carried out through formal, open, or distance learning methods. Additionally, practical training is conducted in laboratories and workshops within higher education institutions.
• This program offers "First Education" (daytime education).

Undergraduate Program:

The learning outcomes of the Visual Communication Design Undergraduate Program are to cultivate visual communication designers who:

1. Possess the ability to use advanced theoretical and practical knowledge acquired in the fields of Multimedia, Photography, Graphic Design, and Typography in visual communication projects.
2. Have the competence to work in industries requiring visual communication design, utilizing their skills based on text, layout, photography, graphics, design, and interactive media.
3. Can conduct research to enhance the quality and effectiveness of their own creative works by building upon a solid foundation of visual communication methods.
4. Can keep themselves continuously updated by adopting lifelong learning as a principle and by following developments in scientific, technological, and contemporary issues in the field of visual communication.
5. Can evaluate the contributions of visual communication solutions within a global and societal framework, especially concerning health, safety, and environmental issues.
6. Are aware of the personal rights, responsibilities, and ethical obligations that come with the profession in creating images and publishing communication works.
7. Can perceptually analyze visual communication designs and critically evaluate them in the context of functionality and aesthetic criteria.
8. Can understand and define common concepts and terms used in the field of art and design.
9. Can adapt to teamwork, value collaboration, and integrate personal ideas and goals into group projects.
10. As visual communication designers, can manage projects in the sub-disciplines of the design field or in interdisciplinary studies.
11. Can effectively exhibit and present the projects they have designed.

Possesses the following key competencies at an advanced level:

1. Literacy competence
2. Multilingual competence
3. Mathematical competence and competence in science, technology, and engineering
4. Digital competence
5. Personal, social, and learning to learn competence
6. Civic competence
7. Entrepreneurship competence
8. Cultural awareness and expression competence

(1) The success grade is determined as follows.Relative evaluation method is used to determine this.a) The meanings of the success grades are defined as follows.Success GradeCoefficientExplanationAA 4.00 PerfectBA 3.50 Very goodBB 3.00 GoodCB 2.50 MediumCC 2.00 EnoughDC 1.50 Conditionally successfulDD 1.00 FailedFD 0.50 FailedFF 0.00 FailedF0 0.00 AttendanceG: PassK: Remainsİ: AllowedM: ExemptE: Missing2) Students who take the letter grade from a course (DC) are considered conditionally successful. For this reason, the student who gets the letter grade from a course (DC) must have a minimum of 2.00 AGNO to be considered successful in this course. In order to graduate the student who has a conditionally successful course (s) in the instructional plan he / she is responsible for, he / she must have at least 2.00 AGNO of all courses and participate in the AGNO account.3) The G (Pass) grade indicates the condition of being successful / satisfactory from the course or education activities and does not participate in the AGNO account.4) The grade K (Remaining) indicates that the course is unsuccessful / unsatisfactory from the course or education activities and does not participate in the AGNO account.5) The grade (Permitted) indicates the status of failing to fulfill the requirements for the course in accordance with the relevant article of this Regulation and therefore does not participate in the AGNO account until it returns to a grade. For the courses that are not completed until the end of the semester, the grade I will be automatically converted to FF.6) M (Exempt) grade, the students previously taken and / or equivalents are accepted by the relevant board decisions and exempt courses are not included in the account and AGNO account.Excuse, Completion and Graduation Examinations(1) Make-up exam is for the mid-term exam. In the case of two exams during the semester, the student can only take a make-up exam for one of them. Whether the student is taken for a make-up exam and how to make excuses are conducted according to the principles set by the Senate. There is no excuse for a final exam.(2) The principles of the make-up exam are as follows:a) To take the make-up exam; It is compulsory to have registered for the related courses in the academic year of the exam and to fulfill the requirements for the entrance to the final exam. Students who cannot take the make-up exams are not allowed to make excuses for this exam.b) Students may take the make-up exam from the courses with conditional success and failure (except F0). The grade taken in the make-up exam replaces the final exam grade of the course. At the end of the make-up exam, letter grade, mid-term work and make-up exam grade are taken into consideration and the letter grade is determined.c) The students who do not take the make-up exam of a course are given the grade E (Incomplete) and the letter grade of this course remains as the letter grade. Supplementary letter grades are added to the semester average.(3) The principles related to the graduation exam are as follows:a) In order to be able to take the graduation exam, it is compulsory to fulfill the requirements for the final exam. Students who cannot attend the graduation exams are not given an excuse for an examination.b) Students who have at most two courses in their graduation; After the make-up exam and in the period specified in the academic calendar, the graduation exam is carried out for the failed courses. Students whose graduates cannot graduate due to lack of a grade point average of 2.00 can take a maximum of two courses with a conditional success.c) In order to be successful in the graduation exam, it is obligatory to take at least a CC grade. The grade taken in the exam replaces the success grade of the course. Mid-term and semester studies are not included in the evaluationThe student is required to have completed 240 ECTS credits and the Weighted GPA must be at least 2.00 out of 4.00, provided that they do not lose any course.

To ensure the quality of higher education programs:

• YÖK (Council of Higher Education) is responsible for the planning, regulation, management, and supervision of education, training, and other activities carried out in higher education institutions.
• "University Monitoring and Evaluation Reports" for higher education institutions, prepared annually within the framework of criteria determined by YÖK, are published. Reports containing quantitative and qualitative evaluations of higher education institutions, prepared according to these reports, are shared with the public by YÖK.
• YÖK annually publishes the "Foundation Higher Education Institutions Report," which includes academic, administrative, and financial data of foundation higher education institutions. These reports, containing quantitative and qualitative evaluations of foundation higher education institutions, are shared with the public by YÖK.

The quality assurance of undergraduate programs in higher education is provided according to the "Procedures and Principles for Ensuring the Quality Assurance of Higher Education Diploma Programs":

1. Creation and Approval of Curricula:
   1. YÖK determines the minimum standards and criteria necessary for opening undergraduate departments and programs in higher education institutions.
   2. The curriculum of undergraduate programs in higher education institutions and the learning outcomes that each program will provide to the student are determined by the senates of higher education institutions in accordance with the basic principles set by YÖK on these matters.
   3. The curricula of National Core Education Programs are implemented by higher education institutions with the approval of YÖK after being accepted by the relevant Deans' Council.
2. Measurement and Evaluation: How the learning outcomes to be acquired by the student in each undergraduate program will be measured and evaluated is carried out according to the education, training, and examination regulations prepared by higher education institutions in accordance with the basic principles determined by YÖK on these matters.
3. Certification: Students enrolled in undergraduate programs receive a bachelor's degree if they successfully complete the course credits and other obligations determined by higher education institutions.
4. Self-Assessment - External Assessment: Higher education institutions, in the context of continuous monitoring, enter their "Institutional Internal Evaluation Reports" for the previous year into the Information System prepared by the Higher Education Quality Council (YÖKAK) at the beginning of each year. YÖKAK shares the "Institutional Feedback Report" it prepares regarding the external evaluation of higher education institutions with the public. Furthermore, accreditation decisions given by accreditation bodies authorized or recognized by YÖKAK also indicate that the quality assurance of the programs' competencies is ensured. YÖKAK conducts regular review activities regarding the competencies determined as per its legislation.

This program has been accredited by the Communication Research Association (İLEDAK).
Accreditation Body Name: Communication Research Association (Communication Education Evaluation Accreditation Board) (İLAD)
Start / End Date: 12.03.2025 / 12.03.2030

In order to be able to study in the undergraduate programs of MAKU, it is required to have passed the examination, selection and placement center (ÖSYM) and not be registered in another formal higher education program.

At the end of at least 8 semesters, our graduates have 2 and 3 dimensional perceptions in interdisciplinary art and design environment, they can produce multimedia objects, know the technologies underlying these media, develop design management skills and have the ability to think extraordinary. It is aimed. Our graduates, who are able to work as a designer in advertising and marketing in various digital media fields ranging from printing to broadcasting, packaging, cinema-tv sector production stages, web design to interactive environment design, as well as executive and creative director in new generation agencies, academicians in related units of universities and also, TC Depending on the Coordination and Cooperation Protocol on Teaching Practice signed between the Ministry of National Education and the Council of Higher Education on 28/7/1998, students can participate in the Pedagogical Formation Education Certificate Program after graduation or after graduation, the right to apply for teaching profession. To learn more about the Principles and Procedures for Pedagogical Formation Training Certificate Program, please visit "https://egitim.mehmetakif.edu.tr/pf/?page=mev" appointed.

·  Higher Education Law No. 2547
1.1. Regulation on the Principles of Transfer Between Associate Degree and Bachelor's Degree Programs, Double Major, Minor, and Inter-Institutional Credit Transfer in Higher Education Institutions
1.2. Regulation on the Continuation of Graduates of Vocational Schools and Open Education Associate Degree Programs to Bachelor's Degree Education

·  Higher Education Law No. 2547 (Additional Article-35)
2.1. Regulation on Higher Education Quality Assurance and the Higher Education Quality Council

Qualification is continuous.