[] About Program

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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[] Goals

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.



[] Objectives

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.

[] Education Language
Turkish
[] Degree to Be Won
Students who successfully complete the programme will be awarded an Associate Degree in Traditional Crafts.
[] Earned Level of Qualification
 Handicraftsrogram that provides associate 
[] Admission Requirements
The admissions of students to the programs are made according to the Student Selection and Placement Center (OSYM – University entrance exam) within the framework set by the regulations of Higher Education Council (HEC). After students inform the Student Selection and Placement Center about what programs they want to study at, students are placed in the related programs according to their scores they got from the exam. Graduates of related vocational high schools can enroll in the department within the framework set by the regulations of Higher Education Council (HEC).

Foreign students are admitted to the related programs with the scores of internationally acceptable exams such as SAT, ACT or are admitted to the related programs with their high school graduation grades (Undergraduate and Graduate Programs for Foreign Students Admission Guidelines).

The admission of students of General Academic Exchange Protocol to the related programs are done within the framework of the bilateral agreements (ERASMUS, FARABI, etc) signed between Duzce University and the partner universities. Guest students may enroll into the courses in this program, if the related academic unit approves. Sufficient language knowledge is required to monitor the program.
[] Course's Contrubution To Program
To complete the available courses in the program (a total of 120 ECTS) successfully, the students have to get at least 50 points out of 100 and required to achieve 2.00 on a 4.00 weighted grade point average. To graduate from the programs students should get at least DD in all of the courses provided.Students are also required to complete the compulsory practice in the specified time.
[] Recognition of Prior Learning
Students enrolled in DU might be exempted from certain courses within the framework of certain regulations. A student can be exempted from a certain course provided related course content previously received from another institution complies with that of DU, which is subject to approval and verification by the Board of faculty/graduate school/school.

Recognition of Education Abroad

DU recognises academic terms and courses studied by a student that has been involved in an exchange programme for one or two terms at the universities with which a partnership was established.

Students that are selected to avail themselves of Student Mobility for Studies under ERASMUS are obliged to draw up an education agreement with relevant ERASMUS Unit Coordination prior to the mobility term. The education agreement demonstrates the courses to be studied at the partner university the student intends to go, as well as appropriate ECTS credits.

In addition to this, students shall be asked to issue a Recognition Sheet, which refers to the equivalent of foreign courses in DU, so that the credit transfer is planned and approved.

At the end of the exchange term, the courses studied abroad are recorded and demonstrated in the transcript, together with the original course codes and names and ECTS credits. Pursuant to ERASMUS Programme and Collaboration Agreements concluded thereunto, official transcripts will quote, an abbreviation signal of ET, European Transfer, for the courses studied abroad.
[] Description of Program

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.

[] Program Requirements
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
[] TYYÇ - Based on the Adequacy-Relationship Adequacy of Program
[] Professional Profile of Graduates

• 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

[] The Upper Stage of a Transition
Students who graduate from this program, in accordance with the rules established, can continue their degree program.
[] Program Structure
• Program duration: 2 years / 4 semesters

• 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

[] Examinations, Assessment and Grading
For each course, the method of assessment and grading is defined "Course Information Form" in details. Click for more information about regulations.
[] Graduation Requirements
That are available in our university program (120 ECTS) and successfully complete all the courses in order to graduate all of the courses prescribed in the curriculum by taking at least DD is required to be successful.
Register their undergraduate programs, lesson plans contained in sections by writing to the course of this lesson has succeeded, TC Duzce University Undergraduate and Graduate Education and the Education and Examination Regulations internships and graduation projects as shown in the studies of students who have successfully graduated from the University of completed education are considered.
[] Type of Training
Full-Tim• Program duration: 2 years / 4 semesters

• 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.e
[] Director and Deputy Directors
Director
Lect. Hüseyin AYDIN
E-Mail:huseyinaydin@duzce.edu.tr


Lect. Ali KURU
E-Mail:alikuru@duzce.edu.tr


Lect. Mehmet Şirin YILDIZ
E-Mail:mehmetsirinyildiz@duzce.edu.tr

[] Programme Director
Lect. İpek SOLAK

[] Academic Staff
  • Head of Department
       Lect. İpek SOLAK
       

  • Faculty Member
       Specialist Sedat KAYA
       sedatkaya@duzce.edu.tr

  • Lecturer
       Assist. Prof. Dr. Ebubekir ALTIOK
       ebubekiraltiok@duzce.edu.tr

  • Lecturer
       Lect. İpek SOLAK