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Course Name	Turkish	Tasarım Tarihi ve Eleştirisi
	English	Design History & Criticism
Course Code	EUT 614E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	2	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Gülname Turan
Course Objectives		1. Understanding the role of design and designed objects within social and cultural history, 2. Explore different aspects and methodology of writing about design and its history, 3. to develop specialist knowledge of design historiography.
Course Description		Historiography: Subject matter of Design History, the relationship with Art History, Industrial Design History, the objects and subjects of Design History, Material Culture Studies and Design History, Design History and gender, relevant periodization of time and chronology, synchronic and diachronic time conception, reception theory and connoisseurship, History of Technology, SCOT (Social Construction of Technology), STS (Science and Technology Studies), introduction to actor-network theory, script analysis, domestication, modern, modernity, Modernism, -isms as discourses, discussion and evaluation on the state of Design History.
Course Outcomes		Students 1. re-think on contemporary design, 2. develop the literary and intellectual skills required for design criticism, 3. strengthen and enlarge their understanding of Design History, 4. can explore and handle research original design history subjects. 5. express the whole research and analysis that is conveyed throughout the term as an academic article.
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Textbook		Fallan, K. 2010. Design History: Understanding Theory and Method, NY: Berg. Walker, J. 1989. Design History and the History of Design, Pluto Press, London. Lees-Maffei, G., Houze, R. 2010. The Design History Reader, Sage Publishers.
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