Düzce University Kaynaşlı Vocational School Traditional Handicrafts Program was established with the aim of preserving and sustaining traditional Turkish handicrafts and passing them on to the future by combining them with modern production techniques. The program consists of practical and theoretical courses focused on applications such as illumination, miniature painting, ebru art, and traditional motif design.
The program duration is 2 years (4 semesters) and consists of a total of 120 ECTS credits.
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1. To train graduates who are proficient in the historical, cultural, and aesthetic foundations of traditional handicrafts.
2. To equip technical personnel with the ability to effectively use production techniques, tools, and materials.
3. To develop product design, model development, and application skills.
4. To impart competencies focused on sustainability, design, and entrepreneurship.
5. To train graduates who can work in public institutions and the private sector or establish their own businesses.
To provide comprehensive information about the historical development, cultural dimension, and technical characteristics of traditional handicrafts.
To enhance students' skills in design development, model creation, and original product development.
Ensure that traditional art products are developed in harmony with modern production techniques.
Raise awareness about the preservation, restoration, and sustainability of cultural heritage.
Provide knowledge about entrepreneurship, small-scale business management, and marketing in the field of handicrafts.
Train qualified handicraft technicians who can work in public institutions, the private sector, and the tourism industry.
Kaynaşlı Vocational School Traditional Handicrafts Program is an associate degree program that aims to preserve, sustain, and pass on traditional handicrafts, an important part of Turkish culture, to future generations and reinterpret them with modern design approaches. The program is structured to provide the theoretical knowledge, practical skills, and artistic competencies required in the field.
| No | Program Requirements |
|---|---|
| 1 | To be able to benefit from the communication and technical possibilities of his/her age. |
| 2 | To have knowledge of concepts and terms related to the field of art. |
| 3 | To have general knowledge of art history, aesthetics, sociology, psychology and philosophy in order to understand the relations between art and philosophy. |
| 4 | Discovering the possibilities of the environment in which they live, evaluating, criticizing and redesigning it within their own artistic sensitivity and aesthetic concerns. |
| 5 | To have the necessary material knowledge and technical equipment in art and design and to be able to apply this knowledge. |
| 6 | To be able to see, perceive, realize, express and bring these differences together for a new fiction and thought in the formation of creative thinking. |
| 7 | Participating in artistic formations and activities individually or as a group |
| 8 | To be able to produce new, original works of art that can go beyond the molds. |
| 9 | To be able to plan the process from the creation of a work to its presentation. |
| 10 | To educate individuals who are committed to the universal values in the contemporary world and the principles and reforms of the Republic of Turkey Atatürk, who have personal, artistic and professional values and act in line with these values |
| 11 | To gain the ability to be individuals who can express their ideas verbally and to be able to discuss and criticize their own work. |
| 12 | To be able to recognize styles related to art |
| 13 | To be able to apply basic techniques in traditional arts |
| 14 | To be able to create compositions related to traditional arts |
• Traditional handicraft workshops
• Museums, cultural centers, municipal art workshops
• Community education centers
• Custom design and production workshops
• Wood carving, weaving, ceramics, felting, and jewelry production businesses
• Entrepreneurship by establishing one's own workshop
• Total ECTS: 120 ECTS
• Course types: Applied workshop studies + theoretical courses
• Compulsory course ratio: 75%
• Elective course ratio: 25%
• Course plans and contents are published via EBS
• Total ECTS: 120 ECTS
• Course types: Applied workshop studies + theoretical courses
• Compulsory course ratio: 75%
• Elective course ratio: 25%