Program Mission
With the progression of communication and the convergence of the communication discipline with computer sciences, multimedia has developed rather fast, and as a result multimedia studies have become a whole new area in Communication Studies. The products of this new area, such as web pages, interactive CDs and DVDs, three-dimensional virtual worlds have become a part of everyday life. The Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design Department, in this context, aims to graduate students who are keen on arts disciplines as well as communications, and who use computer based communication technologies as a tool. Students will have knowledge of video, photography, sound, typography, graphics, two and three-dimensional design and animation, interaction design as well as the ability to melt these in a pot for creating effective messages. The aim of the Department is to develop, on the one hand, students' knowledge of design and production with practical work built on an artistic background, and on the other, tries to motivate students to criticize messages, tools and media in an artistic, cultural and social context.
Opportunities Offered
The Department mainly uses the basic design workshops and computer labs structured for multimedia and graphic design, and are supported by animation/video design labs and photography studios. The program offers opportunities to the other departments of the faculty and the university, while using the faculty's television studios, audio studios, editing suites and video equipment. The program also helps students interact with other disciplines, mostly radio, film, TV, advertising, PR and journalism to familiarize them with the multidisciplinary structure of communication.
Distinguishing Attributes
The Department will aim to bring artistic and technical education/creativity together with the advantages of the communication field's interdisciplinary qualities. With reference to the course program, the department aims at developing a student profile who can produce unique and high quality work/projects using digital media in special fields such as TV, video, cinema, animation by transforming new and recent communication technologies into a creative/artistic process; has an ethical responsibility; and is able to analyze any work mentioned above including the offered core theoretical courses. Therefore, the distinction of the Faculty of Communication's Department of VACD is to graduate students who have multidimensional and completing skills, and are able to cope with the intensity of the interdisciplinary field.
Quality of Graduates
The students who graduate from the Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design program are individuals who can produce unique and high quality work/projects using digital media in special fields such as TV, video, cinema, animation by transforming new and recent communication technologies into a creative/artistic process; have an ethical responsibility and are able to analyze any work mentioned above. These students have knowledge of both practice and theory, are creative, expert users, skilled in the usage of new communication technologies, and easily adapt themselves to any working condition in the field of communications. By the artistic perspective they gain, they will easily exhibit their skills with the works they produce.
Job Opportunities
The students who complete the Visual Arts and Visual Communication Program, with their multidisciplinary and creative background as well as their skills regarding recent communication technologies, may work in many areas related to the field of communications. Graduates may have opportunities to work as designers in multimedia, animation, graphic or sound design companies, develop web sites, work in camera or editing teams at production houses, design interactive CDs or DVDs, work as professional photographers, and as creative art directors at advertising agencies. Also, the students have the opportunity to take part in the academic field. |
