COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MUSEUM AND ART

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ESH 0041 MUSEUM AND ART ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Faculty Of Letters

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR REMZI YAĞCI

Offered to

American Culture and Literature
Archeology
.
Translation and Interpreting
.
Turkish Language and Literature
Translation and Interpreting(Turkish-German-English)
Psychology
Archeology
Comparative Literature
Sociology
Sociology
Philosophy
Linguistics
History
Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies (English)
History
Comparative Literature

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to introduce students to the institutional importance of museums and the role the works of art exhibited in the museums play in developing the cultural and aesthetic level of the society.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students define and explain the importance of museums in the social and cultural life.
2   Students acquire a general knowledge on the function and roles of the museums.
3   Students define and explain different artistic genres and movements
4   Students discuss works of art in a comparative way.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction: Objectives, methodology and sources
2 Theoretical Framework: Museology
3 Museum and Modern Art
4 History of Museum Studies
5 Turkish Musems
6 Architecture of Museums
7 Fieldwork
8 Midterm
9 Romanticism
10 Realism- Neo- Classicism
11 Impressionism
12 Cubism- Surrealism
13 Expressionism- Symbolism-Fauvism
14 Fururism-Constructivism
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Bennett, Tony, The Birth of the Museum, London and New York: Routledge, 1995
Bourdieu, Pierre and Alain Darbel, The Love of Art: European Art Museums and their Public, trans. C. Beattie and N. Merriman, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991.
Falk, John H. and Lynn D. Dierking, The Museum Experience, Washington, D.C.: Whalesback Books, 1992.
Prior, Nick, Museums and Modernity: Art Galleries and the Making of Modern Culture, Oxford: Berg, 2002.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Pesentations, assignments

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Multiple choice and essay type questions

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance (70%) is obligatory.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

remzi.yagci@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 7 7
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 103

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.1
LO.212
LO.333
LO.423

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