| Week  - 1 | Course description, programme and expectations. | 
                                                        
                                | Week  - 2 | Design and communication concepts, definition of culture, early ages, the Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, ındustrial design discipline. | 
                                                        
                                | Week  - 3 | Communication process, quantitative and qualitative studies, Main Stream Media and Frankfurt Ecole, Semiotics; Physical and nonphysical functions in design. | 
                                                        
                                | Week  - 4 | Physical functions, signs and control enstruments in human-product interaction. | 
                                                        
                                | Week  - 5 | The typology of graphich symbols; logotype, logo, emblem, logogram, pictogram, diagram, phonogram etc. | 
                                                        
                                | Week  - 6 | Concept of identity, corporate identity, capitalism and consumption society; communication and ideology. | 
                                                        
                                | Week  - 7 | Movie presentation and discussions. | 
                                                        
                                | Week  - 8 | Semiolgic analysis, examples related to design processes. | 
                                                        
                                | Week  - 9 | Form, context and meaning; musical composition examples. | 
                                                        
                                | Week  - 10 | Denotation and connotation in design, transformations of physical and nonphisical functions. | 
                                                        
                                | Week  - 11 | Discussions related to the transformations of physical and nonphysical functions on designed objects. | 
                                                        
                                | Week  - 12 | Movie presentation and discussion. | 
                                                        
                                | Week  - 13 | Sample project; critique and evaluations. | 
                                                        
                                | Week  - 14 | Sample project; critique and evaluations. |