Course Description - Bachelor of Design & Applied Arts

  • 15080101: Academic Drawing (1) [3 Credit Hours]

    This is a practical course aimed at developing the students’ visual ability and basic drawing skills through a set of exercises in the drawing of still life nature using pencils to represent light and dark values in the correct proportions and perspective.


  • 15080213: History of Modern Art [3 Credit Hours]

    This course examines contemporary arts movements that emerged in the nineteenth century in the West. The course primarily tackles the reasons behind their emergence, development, and integration with other cultures, especially within the Arab world. This course also addresses the changes and stages that these arts movements have been through, and sheds light on their important implications in the formation of more liberal art mainstreams that played a role in the creation of the modern stylistic concepts in the twentieth century.


  • 15080105: Basics of Sculpture,Ceramics [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims at introducing students to color theories and the correct mechanisms used in the creation of color harmony and contrast, with a focus on the effect of color on the design of art in terms of achieving unity, balance, movement and other design foundations. This course also outlines color ordering system, its historical development, and the physical and psychological impact of colors on the viewer.


  • 15080103: Perspective [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to develop the students’ abilities in three-dimensional interior and architectural designs using engineering tools. It also aims to increase the students’ sense of light, shadow, size and the nature of materials. Throughout this course, students draw models of interior furniture and spaces, and use the principles of engineering perspectives based on horizontal and side planes.


  • 15080333: Computer Design 3 [3 Credit Hours]

    In this course, students move to new stage of designing webpages and animations through learning to use a designated group of designing programs


  • 15080218: Ceramics 1 [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to enhance the students’ technical skills in using clay to form three-dimensional models that simulate realistic models such as geometric pieces and silent nature elements.


  • 15080221: Computer Drawing /Auto cad [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to develop the students' abilities in computer programs used in drawing, interior, architectural and engineering designs. Throughout this course, students learn to use the various software tools in two- and three-dimensional drawings.


  • 15080322: Computer Design 2 [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims at providing students with advanced designing and image processing skills using Adobe Photoshop software.


  • 15200102: Arabic Language [3 Credit Hours]

    The course aims to develop the students’ cognitive abilities and communication skills in Arabic language by introducing Arabic dictionaries, spelling and grammatical errors, and familiarizing them with ancient and modern Arabic literary models including models from the Holy Qur’an.


  • 15200107: Islamic Studies [3 Credit Hours]


  • 15080110: Intro.to art education [2 Credit Hours]

    The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to a set of technical terms and art schools related to design and plastic art by giving an overview of all the arts in general to prepare the student for the practical courses.


  • 15080217: Computer Design 1 [3 Credit Hours]

    In this course, students will learn how to use Graphic Design software like Adobe Illustrator and the tools that could be used in the designing process.


  • 15080219: Intrior Design 1 [3 Credit Hours]

    In this course, the student is introduced to the concepts, conventions and basic symbols used in interior furnishing. The students also study the elements that that determine interior design the likes of the location, space and function.


  • 15080220: Art teaching Methods [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to equip the students with the teaching methods used in communicating information to the students in a manner that would encourage creativity away from monotony.


  • 15080577: Internship 2 [1 Credit Hours]

    This course aims at exposing the students to the labor market while studying and linking theory with practice. Students are monitored by an experienced supervisor from the department to ensure authentic engagement in the labor market.


  • 15080576: Internship 1 [1 Credit Hours]

    This course aims at exposing the students to the labor market while studying and linking theory with practice. Students are monitored by an experienced supervisor from the department to ensure authentic engagement in the labor market.


  • 15080331: Psychology & Sociology of Design [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce students to the psychological and social needs of humans and how to use design to meet these needs so that creative work is more able to influence the society in general and the recipient in particular.


  • 15080453: Aesthetics Science [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce the most important aesthetic theories developed by ancient philosophers and modernists such as Rasto, Plato and Hegel in order to enable the students to read the artwork consciously according to academic principles.


  • 15080449: Artistic Cultural Heritage [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to study Palestinian art and its evolvement since ancient Canaanite arts through folk art to the pioneering contemporary art movement.


  • 15080448: Ceramics (3) [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to enhance the student's skill in using clay to form three-dimensional large sized models that are characterized by a philosophical nature that combines abstract and realistic elements in addition to coloring these works using oxides.


  • 15080456: Design and Animation [3 Credit Hours]

    This course deals with two topics in two parts : the first part focuses on the skills of how to draw elements, drawings, and characters- either manually or by using design software such as (Adobe Illustrator), or even other available design programs; this course equips the student with comprehensive knowledge of how to design elements and products without depending on ready-made molds and other tailored designs ; the second part focuses on how to activate movement within those drawings and designs using software like Adobe Animate which can enables students to be in parallel with the skills needed within job market and eventually opening up a wider specialized horizon after graduation.


  • 15080442: Art criticisms [3 Credit Hours]

    This course deals with the basic entries at theoretical, philosophical, and aesthetic levels in addition to the history of arts criticism, its methodologies, tools, and some of its Arabs and international pioneers who came up with the foundations of artwork and conscious mechanisms in analyzing it according to aesthetic theories. This course also examines an overview of aesthetic theories, starting with the classical Greek aesthetic theories down to the aesthetic ideas in the middle ages and aesthetic concepts in the renaissance and what followed it of modern romance aesthetics in addition to the postmodern era


  • 15080226: Typography and Arabic Calligraphy [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to gain the student with the knowledge in the Arabic fonts and its styles and how to apply this knowledge in different designs. It also aims to gain the students the experience in making and designing different fonts.


  • 15080444: Computer Design 4 [3 Credit Hours]

    In this course, the student moves to a new stage in design, especially in the field of visual effects used in cinematic films.


  • 15080326: Sculpture 2 [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims at enhancing the student's ability to represent three-dimensional objects using clay and then works on designing artworks inspired by abstract geometric shapes in addition to elements inspired from nature.


  • 15200104: Social Services [1 Credit Hours]

    Students perform voluntary work such as donating blood, repairing homes, tourist trails, or holding educational workshops at the university, and the student is committed to training or working for 40 hours.


  • 15200106: ُEnglish (1) [3 Credit Hours]

    English 1 is a theoretical, 3-credit hour university requisite, and a general English Course which is designed to serve all BA and BSc Students of (PTUK) in all faculties. This course aims at developing students’ repertoire of the English language main skills as well as sub-skills through providing them with broad varieties of language patterns, grammatical and structural rules, and vocabulary items that can enable them to communicate meaningfully within ordinary and real-life contexts and situations. This course is also oriented towards equipping students with the skills they need to comprehend texts, contexts, and situations that are related to ordinary and real-life topics. Throughout this course, students will be exposed to a wide and various aural inputs in order to broaden and deepen their skills in listening, judgment, and critical thinking. Students of this course are expected to acquire and practice the skills they need to maximize their capabilities to express opinions about ordinary and real life topics both orally and in a written format, which will help in widening the students’ academic horizon.


  • 15080212: Academic Drawing 2 [3 Credit Hours]

    This is a practical course which serves as an extension to academic drawing 1 with a focus on more advanced skills and the use of different drawing tools such as pencils and charcoal pens in addition to Chinese ink to draw realistic reflections of still life nature and later more advanced drawings.


  • 15080238: 3DMAX [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to develop the students’ abilities in using computer design programs. The course starts with teaching simple design ideas leading to complex engineering projects by converting schematics into three-dimensional graphics.


  • 15080324: Erconomy [3 Credit Hours]

    This is a practical course that aims at providing students with the knowledge of human anatomy together with the structure of human body starting with the skeleton and the posturing of muscles around it down to the external features of the body. It also aims at reviewing all of the human body's constituents and their various movements.


  • 15080325: Mold making [2 Credit Hours]

    This course is an extension of "The Basics of Carving and Ceramics" course and it aims at training students in the molding of three-dimensional shapes, gypsum, and sculpting in addition to acquainting the students with the tools used in the process.


  • 15080447: Interior Design 2 [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce the students to an advanced level of interior design and furniture arrangement especially in commercial and service constructions such as theaters, cinemas, shops, hotels, libraries, nurseries, exhibitions, etc.


  • 15080445: Graphic Design 2 [3 Credit Hours]

    This course is an extension to the course "Computer-Aided Design 1". Students learn in this course how to formulate and plan advertising campaigns, design posters, and design fixed and static commercial signs.


  • 15080451: Scintific Research Methods [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to provide students with the knowledge, concepts and tools in addition to educational research writing skills. The course includes the fundamentals and steps of the research starting from choosing the topic to documenting the references. This course emphasizes on the correct scientific methodology in the historical, descriptive, experimental research methodology, study communities, research samples, research tools, problems, questions and objectives. It also explains to the student the way to get the results and recommendations in writing the scientific research and how to apply them all in writing the thesis and master thesis.


  • 15080443: Graduation Project [3 Credit Hours]

    In this course, students will come up with a complete graduation project that brings together interior design, and full design for a commercial or service project. This project is accompanied by a complete advertisement campaign and logo design.


  • 15080438: Multimedia [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims at training students to be able to establish top-notch multimedia projects and develop their skills in using various multimedia programs in addition it also equips the students with programming skills that would enable them to make creative models in this domain.


  • 15080328: Ceramics 2 [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to enhance the students’ technical skills in using clay to form three-dimensional medium sized designs which are characterized by an abstract geometrical nature.


  • 15200101: Palestinian Issue [3 Credit Hours]

    The course deals with the events of the Palestinian issue through the most important ages from the Canaanites until the year 2021. It focuses on the Islamic conquest of Palestine in the year 15 AH 636 AD, the Crusader torch from 1099 to the liberation of Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi of Palestine in 1187, and it talks about the Ottomans in Palestine from 1516 to 1917. The course is concerned with the Palestinian issue during the British occupation in 1917, until the Nakba in 1948, and the establishment of the occupation state .It deals with the Palestinian resistance and revolutions during 100 years, and Arab-Israeli wars from 1948 to 2021.The course talks about Palestinian Liberation Organization, Palestinian resistance movements and parties, Palestinian Authority and the peace negotiations projects since the 1978 Camp David Accords until 2021.The course talks about attempts to Judaism Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque since the Palestinian setback in 1967 until 2021, and the issue of Palestinian refugees since 1948. It also anticipates the future of the Palestinian issue.


  • 13010006: Computer Skills and Applications [1 Credit Hours]


  • 15080102: History of Art (1) [3 Credit Hours]

    This course outlines the periods of human artistic creativity in the fields of painting, photography, sculpting and ceramic in different historical epochs starting from the primitive caveman through the ancient civilizations of Iraq, Egypt, Greece and Byzantium till the Renaissance.


  • 15080106: Painting 1 [3 Credit Hours]

    This is a practical course tailored to develop the students’ capabilities in the field of oil painting photography and to develop their techniques in dealing with the problems that they might surface while using oil paint. This course also aims to introduce the various techniques used in coloring and the use of colors as means in the development of the student’s artistic expression.


  • 15080332: Intro. Graduation Project [1 Credit Hours]

    This course aims at producing a scientific research in which students are trained on research methodology, and writing essays and specialized research papers. This research includes theoretical and analytical studies for the topic of the graduation project. This course also includes the methods of applying these studies down to the design decisions.


  • 15080107: Art Design [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce the students to the basics of design and to develop their ability to identify elements of design, and the uses of different design materials. The course also aims to promote the student’s creativity in designing and rendering graphics.


  • 15080323: Etching and printing [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims at introducing students to the process of engraving, the inks used in this process, and the various printing materials that can be used. The course also aims at introducing students to the silkscreen printing


  • 15080452: Special Topics [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to equip the students with knowledge on the Palestinian cultural heritage including customs, art and architecture.


  • 15080450: Materials Science [3 Credit Hours]

    This course addresses the group of materials used in the field of interior design and interior finishing for buildings and the fields of applied arts. This course also addresses how to use these materials in the creation of new materials.


  • 15080446: Art ٍStudies in English [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce students to design and technology jargonic expressions in English language, by reviewing critical and historical articles written in English.


  • 15080455: Interior Design (3) [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to study the interior design and the interior spaces of social and tourism centers, especially hotels, restaurants, rest houses, information centers and open spaces that have services to the public, by studying the design idea and applying it to the actual reality and expressing it in the interior space and its complements and annexes, in which the student is trained on how to put Interior designs, horizontal projections, sections, facades, executive drawings, perspectives and models, in addition to a theoretical research in the material with the idea of the project and the style and design pattern followed in this way.


  • 15080558: Computer Rendering [3 Credit Hours]

    This is a complementary course for computer designer 3ds Max course and is a high level course which aims to gain the student the skills in using the computer programs and utilize it in realistic architectural rendering.


  • 15080435: Web Design [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims at providing students with the skills needed in creating and designing webpages. It also aims at introducing students to the criteria used in designing webpages and the integration of webpages in multimedia courses, linking them with programming languages, and training on new applications intended for designing webpages.


  • 15080108: Architectural Drawing [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims at introducing students to the manual skills in drawing projects using different drawing scales. The student is also introduced to the tools and symbols used in engineering and architectural drawing in order to be able to draw horizontal planes, detailed sketches, internal and external architectural facades and to be able to read engineering blueprints.


  • 15080214: Graphic Design 1 [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims at introducing students to all logo types. Students will recreate logos for real companies and try to develop them professionally through applying the fundamental principles


  • 15080440: Project Managment [2 Credit Hours]

    This course aims at providing students with the skills associated with the concepts of projects, project management, project life cycle, and their role in achieving the course of core value of institutions and companies that are concerned with the domains of designs and arts in particular. This course also aims at providing students with the skills needed for writing a particular project proposal and understanding the project's cycle and how to market it.


  • 15080215: Intro.To 2- D Design [2 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to employ design elements in the creation of art formations in which the student relies on imagination and vision to create a relationship between form and content.


  • 15080437: Crafts and industrial arts(2) [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to develop students’ cognitive and professional capabilities in the field of craft industries by working on projects implemented in professional and engineering workshops


  • 15080454: Graphic Design (3) [3 Credit Hours]

    This course studies the accredited principles of the campaigns related to commercial advertisement and marketing as well as the stickers and posters related to the marketing campaigns; it also focuses on how to analyze and how create such commercial adverts and marketing techniques that go with the reality of the product and the entity of those potential customers. This course also focuses on how to design applicable packaging


  • 15080579: History and Theories of Design [3 Credit Hours]

    This course emphasizes the study of the history of design and its theories and the most important theories; old and modern schools, as design cannot be understood outside its social, political, economic, cultural and technological surroundings. The understanding of complexity of the history of design and its different philosophies require understanding of its applications where the emphasis is on the style and its role in different movements and its role in function, aesthetics and symbolism in the product intended for use, and the design fields affecting the history of design may include: textile and clothing, ceramics, furniture design, interior design, graphic design, and many more.


  • 15200099: Pre-English [3 Credit Hours]

    Remedial English: The course is a compulsory service course offered for first year students. It is a prerequisite for E1 and it focuses mainly on the language learning skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. The course is intended to equip the students with basic skills necessary for successful communication in both oral and written forms of the language. In addition to grammar and how to use vocabulary in a meaningful context.


  • 15200112: English 2 [3 Credit Hours]

    This course is designed to serve PTUK students in the faculties of Science and Engineering as well as the students of Educational Technology (ET); it offers a broad overview of the English language learning skills in reading, writing, speaking that will enable them to communicate meaningfully in scientific contexts and situations. It also offers a broad variety of scientific language grammatical patterns and vocabulary items that are needed to comprehend scientific contexts and trends. Throughout this course, students will be exposed to a variety of scientific topics, aural input in order to broaden and deepen their critical thinking skills and to help them express opinions about modern scientific topics and problems.


  • 13010007: Communication Skills [1 Credit Hours]


  • 15080104: Colors Theory [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims at introducing students to color theories and the correct mechanisms used in the creation of color harmony and contrast, with a focus on the effect of color on the design of art in terms of achieving unity, balance, movement and other design foundations. This course also outlines color ordering system, its historical development, and the physical and psychological impact of colors on the viewer.


  • 15080216: Sculpture 1 [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to acquaint the students with three-dimensional models of the human body and its movement in a vacuum in order to learn to translate these models into sculptural works using various materials such as cement, ion stones, and others.


  • 15080327: Pills of quantities& specifications [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce the students to the estimation of quantities needed for internal works and finishes. It also examines the types of tenders, their calls and submission to the contractors as well as addressing the roles of the engineer, the owner and the contractor.


  • 15080329: Art education 1 [2 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to acquaint the students with the methods used in the upbringing of children and in refining their behavior through art by acquainting them with educational science theories that help the students identify the basic features that characterize each art stage, and the appropriate method of dealing with the child during his/her development.


  • 15080330: Traditional Crafts 1 [3 Credit Hours]

    The aim of this course is to acquaint the students with the tools used in art crafts such as carpentry and metal works.


  • 15080341: Photography [3 Credit Hours]

    This is a practical course tailored to develop the students’ capabilities in the field of oil painting photography and to develop their techniques in dealing with the problems that they might surface while using oil paint. This course also aims to introduce the various techniques used in coloring and the use of colors as means in the development of the student’s artistic expression


  • 15080109: Islamic Art [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce the roots of Islamic art, factors of maturity of Islamic art, its relationship with other arts and the areas in which Muslims have produced profusely such as Arabic Photography, Islamic Architecture, Mosaic Art, Murals, Wood Carving, Metal Ornament, Glass and Crystal Industry, Textile, Ceramics and Manuscripts.