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As the Department of Handicrafts, our mission is to develop the quality assurance system in the field of fine arts and to determine its basic principles, especially due to the pioneering role it has gained in the field of fine arts. When this long-term study is completed, it is certain that it will shed light on national and international quality studies carried out in the field of fine arts and that these studies will undoubtedly enable the department of handicrafts to undertake a duty operating in the fields of fine arts and design. In return, the department of handicrafts, which constitutes a part of fine arts, aims to provide its students with the competencies related to knowledge, skills, comprehension, application, analysis, comparison, synthesis, interpretation, creativity and evaluation in the field of traditional handicrafts.

In addition, with education and training programs that support creativity and provide contemporary professional knowledge, it has undertaken to raise individuals who are Atatürkist, secular, innovative, competitive, free-thinking and creative, with developed cultural, artistic, aesthetic, environmental and social awareness; to encourage and support research and development studies in art, design and science; and to share the produced knowledge with academic circles and society in national and international areas.

To contribute to developments in contemporary science and technologies; to reflect these developments to the country's higher education, social life, management, development-development dynamics, service and product production processes by following them up-to-date; to strengthen the country's rapid and sustainable development efforts with full sensitivity to human welfare and happiness, nature and the environment; to teach our people of all ages, especially the young generations, to work as professionals and to provide scientific and professional development opportunities in the most effective way possible in order to increase efficiency in their work.

For this reason, students of the Handicrafts Department receive education in branches that constitute the sub-branches of Fine Arts such as Pattern Design, Marbling, Illumination, Tile, Ceramics, Jewelry Design, Engraving, Wood, Sculpture, Calligraphy, Basic Art Education and Computer Drawing Techniques and Relief. All of these courses are carried out in their own workshops as one-on-one practical sessions.