Introduction

With the progression and the convergence of the communication discipline with computer sciences, multimedia has developed rapidly, and as a result multimedia studies has become a whole new area in Communication Studies. The aim of the Department is both to develop students’ knowledge of design and production with practical work built on an artistic background, and to motivate students to criticize messages, tools and media in an artistic, cultural and social context.

Departmental Facilities

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 communications.

Educational Objectives (Teaching/ Learning)

The Department aims 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, as well as ones who are able to cope with the intensity of the interdisciplinary field.

Achievements and Activities of the Department

The Department is proud to have some of the very talented and active faculty members, who have won numerous local and international awards and are well-respected in the field. Apart from their artistic sides, faculty members are also active researchers in their field of interest, who continuously participate conferences and publish in reputable journals.

 

Being part of a productive department, students are regularly representing our department in respected competitions, where they have become winners of three top prizes in the last two years. The Department also includes the “VACD Design Center,” which was formed to provide students with the opportunity to work on real-life projects.

Each year, the Department is also the host of two international events, “Grafica versus Grafica” and “Transmedia,” that gives the students the chance to meet and listen to the reputable personas in the field.

Career Opportunities and Graduates

The students who complete the Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design 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. The 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 creative and art directors at advertising agencies. Also, the students have the opportunity to take part in the academic field.

 

VACD Curriculum

VACD Old Curriculum

VACD New Curriculum

Degree Structure

Because the field of visual communication design is quite a broad one, the Department divided the program into three branches, namely graphic design, web design, and motion graphics. In this context, the first two years, students take common courses that are centered on introducing basic design skills, observations, and production. After the second year, students, based on their skills and interest, choose one of the three aforementioned branches to specialize in.  Thus, the courses they take in their third and fourth year are geared toward providing the students with the essential skills and techniques in the field of their interest.

Department ID

 

Faculty	Faculty of Communication and Media Studies
Department	Visual Arts and Visual Communications Design
Degree	Bachelor of Arts – BA
Duration	4 years
Language of instruction	English
Postgraduate opportunities	Master and PhD
Tel	+ 90 392 630 2006
Fax	+ 90 392 365 0743
E – mail	vacd@emu.edu.tr vacdinfo@emu.edu.tr
Web	http://vacd.emu.edu.tr
Application	Students are admitted through a special skills exam.
International Representatives of EMU You may contact our representatives from around the world either to get more information or to apply. Please visit our web site at http://www.emu.edu.tr to reach list of representatives.

• Visual Arts & Visual Communication Design MA Program

Department of Visual Arts & Visual Communication Design
Master of VACD

Program Name:
(MA) in Visual Arts & Visual Communication Design

Program Length & Degree requirements for this Master's without Thesis:
This graduate program is without thesis and consists of 10 credit-courses that totals to not less than 30 credits and a non-credit master project course. The normal duration of the program is 12 months.

Program Description:

The domain of Visual Communication encompasses graphic design, typography, advertising, packaging, illustration and design for analogue and digital media (Web Design, Motion Graphics etc.). Contemporary dialogues between traditional print-based practices and the new digital screen-based media, introduced in lectures and discussed in seminars, will allow the possibilities for visual communication to become more socially interactive and conceptually challenging. You will be encouraged to develop your potential based on your specific aims and interests. You will also have the opportunity to engage with the contemporary issues of visual semiotics.

Program Content and Structure:

The M.A.D. program in Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design offers a rigorous study within a wide spectrum comprising visual arts, visual communication design, plastic arts, mass communication and related disciplines. Students can be admitted from diverse disciplines, backgrounds and formations, however, these students should take two deficiency courses (VACD101-Perception & Design concepts (6 Credit) & VACD102-Human Centered Design (6 Credit)) in order to be able to continue their program successfully.