ID495 PORTFOLIO PRESENTATION
| Course Code: | 1250495 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (2.00 - 2.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 4.0 |
| Department: | Industrial Design |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Lecturer Dr. DALSU ÖZGEN KOÇYILDIRIM |
| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The course aims to get students prepared to enter professional life through visual self-branding and self-expression, by providing the necessary visual communication skills needed for the creation of business cards and personal portfolios. In the fourth year of undergraduate education, students need to start shaping a portfolio that will present their design works, approaches and processes in an effective, appealing and easy to understand manner. This design portfolio will be necessary after graduation to get employement or to be accepted in a graduate design program. Furthermore, the porftolio will also help students obtain sponsorships from industry for their graduation projects.
Course Content
Collection, documentation and presentation of physical reference materials of design students in relation to their design works. Students prepare and present their works, called a portfolio, either in the form of print, or in the form of electronic media.
Course Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course, students will have a personal business card, a designer CV and design portfolio ready for future job interviews or school appplications. They will gain the basic graphic design skills needed to convey an identity through a brand design. They will know how to make use of materials, publishing formats, bindings, page layout and visual narrative to showcase their design works and processes in a printed book .
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Creative problem defining and solving. | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Planning and managing the design process. | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Presenting and conveying design solutions orally, in written and visually (2D and 3D). | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Planning, managing and evaluating the results of design-focused research. | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Contributing to the design of products in order to raise the life quality of the society. | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Generating and applying knowledge to serve sustainable production and life. | ✔ | |||
| 7 | Competency in intellectual and industrial property rights. | ✔ | |||
| 8 | Awareness of and sensitivity towards societal, institutional, individual and contextual differences. | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Awarenes of social and cultural facts and continuous change. | ✔ | |||
| 10 | Competency in economic, industrial and technological developments. | ✔ | |||
| 11 | Continuous development of professional knowledge, skills and approaches. | ✔ | |||
| 12 | Competency in the processes and actions in professional life. | ✔ | |||
| 13 | Adaptation to the different working environments and processes that the profession necessitates, and contributing to the development and improvement of these environments. | ✔ | |||
| 14 | Ability in working within teams. | ✔ | |||
| 15 | Giving importance to interdisciplinary interactions. | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution