Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi/ Vocational School of Technical Sciences

Traditional Craft Program

HANDICRAFT DEPARTMENT

Traditional Craft Program

 

General Information

The traditional crafts program,under the crafts department, which is a 2-year program aims to train intermediates workers (staff) who are innovative and productive, and compatible with the developments in line with the needs of the sector, can recognize and apply materials and equipment.  The program has 30 quotas for normal education. Courses taught are in two groups, compulsory and elective. Architectural Decorative Arts Program is a 2-year associate degree program consisting of 120 ECTS credits for 4 semesters, 30 ECTS each semester.For the practical development of students, workshops are prepared and updated for each course available in the department.In addition to the courses, each student must complete an internship with an industry-based education covering at least 30 working days.

 

Mission

The mission of the program is to train workers (staff) who research and protect Turkish Traditional values and try to keep them alive with contemporary approaches, who can produce and design their designs with an artistic perspective and evaluate all these activities with a continuous and disciplined approach.

 

Vision

The vision of the program is to become a nationally and internationally respected and preferred educational and research institution with a strong professional and technical education infrastructure in traditional art and design education.

 

Purposes and Goals

Handicrafts Department; It is to educate graduates who have the ability to design and draw, can perceive the details between the shapes and use the eyes and hands in coordination and use the hands and fingers skillfully, have visual acuity.

 

Employment Opportunities

Our students who graduated from the Traditional Handicraft Program as technicians are proficient in subjects such as design, marbling art, ornamentation, weaving, felt decoration, stained glass.

 

Higher Education Opportunities

Students who graduate from the program have the opportunity to continue to higher education.Graduates who enter DGS (Vertical Transfer Exam) can complete a higher education by registering to the departments listed below if they get enough points.

- HANDICRAFTS

- TRADITIONAL TURKISH HANDICRAFT

- TRADITIONAL TURKISH ARTS

- CARPET-RUGS AND OLD FABRIC PATTERNS

- TEZHIP

 

Academic personal

 

      Lecturer. Mustafa KONUK

      Lecturer. Tevhide AYDIN

      Lecturer. Ceyda GÜLSEVER

      Lecturer. Necmettin ERTUNC