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The aim of the course
is to develop students’ listening, speaking, reading, writing and study skills.
In this course, students learn how to structure a paragraph by focusing on
unity and coherence. Moreover, they identify topic sentences, main ideas, supporting
details and irrelevant sentences in a paragraph. They will analyze a paragraph
and then move into the outlining of a three-paragraph descriptive essay which
includes an introductory, a body  and a concluding
paragraph. In addition, students will practice reading strategies i.e.
previewing, predicting, skimming, and scanning which will provide students the
opportunity to process new information and to learn how to apply the
information to a new situation and to pose questions which are catalysts in the
critical thinking process.

Need of energy in buildings. Role of building design and building services to evaluate the energy performance in buildings. Study of climate and its influence in building design for energy requirements. Heat gain and heal loss phenomenon of buildings. Role of building enclosures, openings and materials in thermal environment. Basic principles of light and daylight. Energy efficient light design of buildings. Daylight design of buildings. Design for visual environment.

Environmental geology and natural hazards is
designed to provide students with a basic understanding on surveying of
environmental processes with respect to the interactions between humans and the
Earth. During the course students will learn how to identify environmental
hazards, understand the challenges of predicting and preventing natural disasters,
and prevent pollution. Various catastrophic events such as earthquakes,
tsunamis, floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions will be clarified and
discussed on real case studies. In addition, the relationship of natural
resources to pollution distribution, resource usage and impacts, waste management,
hydrologic cycle,  water quality,
desalination, resource availability, toxic and radioactive waste disposal
problems and proposed solutions, landfill, global climate change, sea level
rise, greenhouse gases, extreme weather and so on will be mentioned.

Freehand Drawing I aims to teach students to improve their knowledge about the basic principles of drawing such as line, volume, composition and perspective with an emphasis on observational, descriptive and analytical drawing. Students also improve their freehand drawing techniques. Students in this course will have the opportunity to work experimentally with a variety of artistic materials and presentation techniques. Geometric figures, still-life studies of human anatomy and the basic drawing techniques, as well as fundamental concepts of drawing are introduced. The course will also focuses on the structural properties of objects of different sizes, progressively, with a special interest on strengthening the relationship between eye-brain-hand and their knowledge to use in visual communication design.

This course aims to provide students with general information about meeting tourism and the skills of congress and banquet organization techniques. In the course, banquet sections of hotels and management systems of congress centers are examined. The different marketing systems applied, the operation and marketing of these departments in coordination with the rooms and other departments of the hotel are discussed. At the same time, the establishment of the halls according to different seating arrangements and different types of services are shown in practice. Students who successfully complete this course; Explains fair, meeting, invitation and all related concepts. Express the importance of congress and banquet organizations with his own words. Students who have these skills will gain the ability to perform fully in all organizations to be held within the framework of large groups.

This course is of introductory nature and aims to provide students with an insight into the methods and techniques used both within animation and game design. The course examines core concepts and principles of design, focusing on subjects such as harmony, contrast, balance, unity, dilemma, dominance, repetition, rhythm, analogy, and metaphor. Other design-related subjects that will be covered in the course include the composition of shapes, forms, and spaces with an emphasis on their visual expression such as light, color, texture, shade, gestalt principles of perception, figure-ground relations, orientation and formal transformations. By the end of the course, the students will gain a basic understanding of the history, types, principles, and processes involved both in animation and game design.

This course of study in art and culture begins with the Stone Age (30,000 BCE to 2500 BCE) and continues from the early civilizations such as Mesopotamia (3500 BCE to 539 BCE) and Ancient Egypt (3100 BCE to 30 BCE) to Greek and Hellenistic art (850 BCE to 31 BCE). It then proceeds to the Persian Empire (550 BCE to 330 BCE) and ancient Iranian art. After that, it covers Roman art (500 BCE to 476 CE), art from India, China, and Japan (653 BCE to 1900 CE), Byzantine and Islamic art (476 CE to 1453 CE), and the Middle Ages (500 to 1400 CE). Following these, it explores the Early and High Renaissance periods (1400 to 1550 CE), Venetian and Northern Renaissance (1430 to 1550 CE), and Mannerism (1527 to 1580 CE). Moreover, it delves into the Baroque period (1600 to 1750 CE), Neoclassical art (1750 to 1850 CE), Romanticism (1780 to 1850 CE), Realism (1848 to 1900 CE), Impressionism (1865 to 1885 CE), Post-Impressionism (1885 to 1910 CE), Fauvism and Expressionism (1900 to 1935 CE). It further covers Cubism, Futurism, Suprematism, Constructivism, and De Stijl (1905 to 1920 CE), Dada and Surrealism (1917 to 1950 CE), Abstract Expressionism (1940s to 1950s CE) and Pop Art (1960s CE), and finally Postmodernism and Deconstructivism (1970 CE to present). These periods in art history represent significant milestones in human artistic and cultural development, shaping the trajectory of art and culture through the ages.