Department of Visual Communication Design

Language of Education: Turkish
Teaching Period: 4 years formal training
Chairperson of Department: Assist. Prof. Dr. Savaş Güngör

About Our Department
Today, effective communication is closely associated with technology. Within this context, visual communication design continues to flourish as the cohesion of communication, design and technology has become an inevitable requirement for effective visual communication. NEU Faculty of Communication Department of Visual Communication and Design has set it as its fundamental objective to provide the students with all opportunities required for a quality education and pave the way for them towards becoming creative, competent, critical thinking, multifaceted, socially conscious, self-confident and constantly renewing individuals that equipped with contemporary professional ethics, knowledge and skills required to address the needs of society and the sector involved in arts and culture, web and graphic design, cinema-TV, stage and visual design, and multimedia branches. The Department attaches a special emphasis on the conception, creation, planning, and encourages innovative ideas to realize creative design solutions for effective visual communication.

Job Opportunities
Visual communication designers can be employed by many sectors involved in web design, art directing, television news reporting, desktop publishing and public relations, actual reporting, media using advanced technological printing techniques and satellite communications, and organizations that provide data communication through information technologies.

Labs and Equipments
The Department of Visual Communication and Design with its contemporary lecture halls, high-tech equipped labs and studios is a vibrant intellectual community that takes a prominent place in Near East University Faculty of Communication. Our media centers including the office of Near East Newspaper, fully equipped studios of Near East FM and Near East TV provide our students with vast opportunities to put their theoretical knowledge into practice.

There are 4 classrooms for 80 and 3 classrooms for 50 people, one computer lab with 45 computers, graphics laboratory with20 computer, Accessible Cinema and Activity Center for 20 people, 1 photographic laboratory, 200-person multi-purpose planned, main registers TV studio and is a complex equipped with 2 full-capacity registers and a broadcast studio with professional lighting system, equipped with all the modern facilities of the age.