OUR HISTORY
Malatya Turgut Özal University; With the power of researching and producing academic staff, it is a university that is committed to producing science for the stability and stability of our country in higher education, recognizes the developments in the world, analyzes the problems and demands for the future, uses technology and can produce new technologies.
The vision of our university, which is aware of its social responsibility, is to become one of the leading universities of our country with scientific and academic studies in line with the expectations and goals of our country, our nation and our geography.
Our Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture was established on April 18, 2019, in accordance with the additional 30th and additional 158th articles of the Law No. 2809 dated 28/3/1983 and numbered 2809, and its establishment was announced in the official gazette with Issue: 30749, Decision No. 968: 968 in the official gazette.
Our faculty; In the 2020-2021 academic year, in the fall semester, the Performing Arts department started education at the undergraduate level and the Visual Communication Design department at the undergraduate level, and in the 2021-2022 academic year, the Music department started education at the undergraduate level. In 2023, the Department of Painting and the Department of Radio- Television and Cinema admitted students. In addition, the Department of Communication and the Department of Music have also started to offer graduate education.
VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN MISSION AND VISION
Our Mission
To be an outstanding education, research and application institution recognized nationally and internationally. In this sense, it is to prepare students who prefer the field for professional life as individuals who are creative, entrepreneurial, assimilate lifelong learning, have the ability to use sectoral practices at an advanced level, and serve their country. The main missions of our department are to carry out institutional and applied research, to prepare a scientific environment suitable for the training of future communicators, to raise individuals who are qualified and committed to social values, who have global competitive qualities, who can easily access, produce and share information, and who have the ability to make appropriate and correct decisions. Our department, which aims to produce ideas and solutions to the problems related to local, regional and national broadcasting, has also undertaken a mission to improve the quality of the local communication sector in the province where it is located.
T.C. Malatya Turgut Özal University, Faculty of Art Design and Architecture, Visual Communication Design Department's mission is framed according to the following points: To provide institutional and practical information covering all stakeholders of Visual Communication Design tools, to prepare students for professional life theoretically and professionally by providing them with the necessary equipment in the field of Visual Communication Design. To train democratic, contemporary and competitive communicators who read the world correctly, have a sense of social responsibility, stay away from marginalization, assimilate universal principles and professional ethical rules, adopt a scientific approach, and blend universal values with social values. To contribute to the science and practice of the field by motivating students to graduate education as well as undergraduate education in the Department of Visual Communication Design.
Our Vision
Our Department of Visual Communication Design, which prioritizes foreign language education as well as Turkish education, envisages and plans to cooperate with European Union countries (Erasmus) and Turkish Republics (Farabi) programs. Therefore, it has been determined as the vision of our department to gain the character of being a department that understands and explains its country and the world correctly, tries to integrate with the world, does not compromise deontological principles, aims to make epistemological researches in accordance with scientific ethics and to produce content in this direction, and to be a department that focuses on society and public interest. Our students who prefer to be the communicators of the future are expected to be knowledgeable, respectful to ethical values, comprehend the distinguished place of communication in social development and work in this direction, act with team spirit and be individuals who are at peace with developing technological tools.
VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN DEPARTMENT
From the paintings drawn on cave walls in the past to the audio-visual opportunities provided by digital media, visual communication has been at an important point in every period. In the 21st century, the change and transformation experienced with the rapid entry of virtual networks into our world has brought about a significant change in the visual and auditory arts.
In order to keep up with the age, the usage area of changes and transformations in communication technology is rapidly increasing and the importance of audiovisual areas is never forgotten. Thus, with the development of digital communication technologies, the importance of visual communication is increasing day by day. At the same time, the necessity of well-equipped personnel is also important in the future. This situation in question, future equipped personnel in the field of visual communication; It brings the importance of visual communication design to the peaks in accordance with professional principles and ethical rules.
Graduates of the Visual Communication and Design department have the chance to be employed in all areas of the media sector related to visual communication. In addition to this, both in the public and private sectors; advertising, poster design, the film industry, which includes an audiovisual area, and WEB design, all kinds of audiovisual areas within the internet media can obtain a wide range of employment opportunities.