DEPARTMENT of APPLÄ°ED ARTS, GRAPHÄ°C ARTS
Second Cycle Programmes
(Master's Degree)

D.1. General Information about Program

Graphic Department was established on 03.28.1983 and 1983/84 academic year has started education by the entry in the force the law No: 41 dated 20.07.1982. The purpose of the department is to educate designer and artist candidate as researcher, creative, cultured and to improve the aesthetic values ??of the community through art and graphic design within the field of their study during the academic year.

Students become experienced in the field of visualization and design with innovative approaches and conceptualized methods. The department educates multidisciplinary work oriented designers in order to the ever-changing demands of the practice areas of graphic design and to meet the expectations of their career.

In our department there are interactive design, motion graphics and new media lectures and studios

D.2 Qualification Awarded

Master's Degree

D.3. Level of Qualification

QF-EHEA: 2
EQF-LLL: 7

D.4. Provisions for Registration

Master of Fine Arts student should completed 4-year Bachelor's degree program approved by the board and passed graduate program entrance exam; as well as it may required to take courses in Undergraduate program in preparation for the courses with the recommendation of a consultant and  decision of the board and when its necessary (http://www.gse.hacettepe.edu.tr/).

In order to apply for the Program; In addition to the conditions required by the current legislation; - Having a minimum of 4 (four) years of undergraduate or graduate diploma, primarily in the fields of Graphic Design, Visual Communication Design, Communication Design, Graphic Design Education, Multimedia Design,- YDS, e-YDS and at least 50 points from YÖKDİL or the score accepted by ÖSYM and to have passed the Postgraduate Entrance Exam in accordance with the provisions of the Hacettepe University Graduate Education and Examination Regulations.

When deemed necessary, he/she should take courses from the undergraduate program for artistic preparation with the recommendation of the advisor, the decision of the Department of Art and the approval of the Fine Arts Institute Board of Directors.

Entrance Examination: The Entrance Examination is carried out on the documents that the candidates have uploaded to the system.

Applying in accordance with the rules set by the University and meeting all application requirements.

Candidates who do so are taken to the Entrance Examination.

Entrance Exam, graphic area exam evaluated out of 35 (thirty-five) points, 35 (thirty-five) points

pattern exam, which is evaluated on the basis of 30 (thirty) points.

It consists of three parts, including the exam, and is out of 100 (one hundred) full points.

At the beginning of the Entrance Examination, a CV containing the candidate's curriculum vitae and artistic/scientific studies

The introduction file is presented to the Entrance Exam jury.

The graphic area made to determine the design and interpretation competence required by the area. graphic design on a subject determined by the Entrance Exam jury.

In the drawing exam, the candidates are asked to make pencil drawings from the live model.

Graphic field exam and pattern exam papers are kept for two years.

In the oral exam, candidates are asked questions from the following topics:

- Evaluation of the graphic field exam and the candidate's introduction file

- Applied, theoretical and current developments and new technologies in the field

The general success grade of the candidates is 40% of the undergraduate grade point average and the score obtained from the Entrance Exam.

It is the sum of 60% and is evaluated over 100 (one hundred) full points.

Candidates who score at least 50 (fifty) points in the Entrance Exam and have a general success grade of at least 60 (sixty) are considered successful. In case of equality of general success grade, the Entrance Exam score is taken into account is taken.

 

D.5. Qualification Requirements and Regulations

To get a Masters Degree in Graphic Design 120 ECTS (24 national credits) must be successfully completed. 60 of 120 credits needed to be obtained on Masters Degree in course, the other 60 will be received in the thesis. These conditions are determined within the framework of Hacettepe University, Graduate Education and Examination Regulations (http://www.gse.hacettepe.edu.tr/mevzuat.html).

 

D.6. Specific Arrangements for Recognition of Prior Learning

 Conditions and rules of credit transfer of eligible students enrolment in the program they are registered including transfer of credit of graduate and  post-graduate courses from domestic / international higher education institutions in the last five years, published in the Official Newspaper No. 28 476 on Friday November 23, 2012 on HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE STUDIES AND EXAMINATION REGULATIONS numbered as Articles 18 and 22. 

D.7. Goals and Objectives

 Train qualified graphic designers who are researcher within their field of study, problem-solving, creative, designs graphics that revealed information, routing styles and cultural values ??of the society, thereby improving the level of  potential  appreciation.

Train talented graphic designers; who transfers graphic findings in the area of ??application, aware of the level of social environment both materially and spiritually, successful in converting graphical language according to the information requirements and have qualifications to equip a new synthesis of contemporary interpretations of the cultural values ??of the society in which he lived for.

D.12. Occupational Profiles of Graduates with Examples

 Department of Graphic Design Master's Degree graduates may be employed primarily in the academic field; can work and pursue a career as an academician in the field of private, foundation, or government in Graphic and Visual Communication Departments of Faculties of Fine Arts.

They can work as a graphic designer, art director, advertising photographer, professional illustrator and web designer in Private companies and advertising agencies; and create motion graphics, generic designs and animations in television and broadcast industry .

They can work as a concept designer, character designer and illustrator in game industry. They can make interface designs for applications in the field of touch-sensitive media devices.

D.13. Access to Further Studies

QF-EHEA: 3
EQF-LLL: 8

D.14. Profile of the Programme

 In the Department of Graphics Master Degree Program, the Graphic Studio and Seminar courses are compulsory, all the other courses are opened as elective. Students can take other art or science department  courses which will provide benefits to their own fields outside of their own art department courses. All the courses in the program are for one term. There are no pre-conditional courses. Besides of the courses which are positioned in the both Spring and Fall terms, there are courses which can be opened in the both terms with the same code. The program is application oriented and has theoretical courses. Some courses are both theoretical and application oriented. In every term there are compulsory and elective courses.

D.15. Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading

 All the evaluations and assessment methods for each course defined in the ?Course teaching plan? inside of Information Package which is prepared by related academic member/s. Exams and course notes are applied by relevant articles of ?Hacettepe University Regulations On Graduate Education and Examination? (http://www.gse.hacettepe.edu.tr/mevzuat.html).

D.16. Graduation Requirements

 In order to graduate from master degree program students must take 120 ECTS course and make an exhibition, project, design, implementation, presentation, etc. And hand in a written report related with that activity and must succeed examination of thesis defense.

These conditions, which was published in the Official Newspaper in November 23 2012, is determined within the framework of Hacettepe University Regulations On Graduate Education and Examination (http://www.gse.hacettepe.edu.tr/mevzuat.html).

D.17. Education Type

1. Full Time Education

D.18. Programme Director

 Prof. Nadire Şule Atılgan