COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CONSERVATION OF MANUSCRIPTS II

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GES 5154 CONSERVATION OF MANUSCRIPTS II ELECTIVE 2 2 0 8

Offered By

Traditional Turkish Arts

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR FILIZ ADIGÜZEL TOPRAK

Offered to

Traditional Turkish Arts

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to teach the reasons that destruct written works, the determination of these reasons in the works to be restored, materials for paper restoration, documentation repair, conservation principles before and after the repair, restoration and restitution works, theoretically and practical.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   After the education given with this course, the students are supposed to have the theoretical and practical knowledge about examining the works made of paper, destruction reasons, organizing a badge for the work, documentation, keeping the documentation after the restoration,
2   prepare a report, apply the document made of paper manually in accordance with the destruction state together with restoration knowledge, present the restored documents effectively,
3   be professionally responsible and ethical while realizing applied studies on the repair of the pages having worm holes, torn and creased pages; correcting the false repairs; the features and use of Japanese papers; necessary equipment to make natural paper; making pulp from paper; filling up the holes; ironing out the folded and sticked pages by a steam engine.
4   use and develop their professional skills while keeping and repairing the written works just restored in accordance with the preserving principles.
5   participate in different interdisciplinary studies in written works restoration; follow the new techniques and equipment in restoration laboratories.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introducing a general information and resources about the course
2 Definition of written work, examining the materials of written work on examples, restoration materials
3 Giving Information about written work restoration
4 Fundamental restoration and repair principles; keeping registers
5 The elements damaging written works and samples of destroyed works
6 Recognizing the damaging factors such as biological factors, fungi, microorganisms and pests; applications on paper. Documentation, clearing the written work
7 Environmental factors such as heat-light-moist-pollution-harms human cause; determining repairs and correcting them
8 Japanese paper types, scratching, cleaning, sticking in repairing by paper
9 Repairing the creased, torn and broken off parts
10 Restoration of the works damaged by various reasons; ironing out sticked pages damaged by moist; making pulp for holes and restoring them
11 Removing damaged parts in illuminated areas of written works ( breaking off golden sheet ); repairing written works and processes to be applied illumination restitution
12 Representing the position of the damaged written work after the restoration and the studies as reports, photos and evaluation
13 General assessment

Recomended or Required Reading

ACAROĞLU, M.Türker; Kitabın Tarihçesi, Türk Kütüphaneciler Derneği Bülteni; XX. cilt, Sayı:2, 1971,s.73-81.
ADANIR,Tülin ; Izmir Milli Kütüphanesi ndeki Zarar Görmüş Bazı Tezhipli Yazmalar ve Zarar Görme Nedenleri ,8.El Sanatları Sempozyumu, 13-15 kasım 2002,Izmir Bildiriler Kitabı,D.E.Ü.G.S.F. Geleneksel Türk El Sanatları Bölümü,T.C.Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı Izmir Il Kültür Müdürlüğü,Dokuz Eylül Yayıncılık Ltd Şti.,Izmir, 2005 s.1-13.
ADANIR Tülin; Yazma Eser Restorasyonuna Ilişkin Bazı Uygulamalı Çalışmalar
I.Uluslararası Geleneksel Sanatlar Sempozyumu,16-18Kasım 2006 IZMIR TÜRKIYE,573.-580.S. Bildiriler Cilt:2 715.S.TÜBITAK
ADANIR, Tülin; "Istanbul Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi Örneğinde Bir Yazma Eserin Restorasyonu" Süleymaniye Ulusal Sempozyum/Şehir Medeniye2010 Avrupa Kültür Başkentine Doğru 23-25 Kasım 2007 Istanbul Bildiri Özeti Kitabı s. 11
Süleymaniye Ulusal Sempozyum Şehir ve Medeniyet KOCAV Yay.3 ağustos 2010.156-163 556.S.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The students will be informed about the written works, the equipment to make up a written work, preservation culture and preserving written works theoretically and applied in workshops, power point visual presentation, participating in group works, presenting all studies related to theoretical and applied works ( documentation by photographs, applied samples, resources etc.)

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 PRJ PROJECT
4 PAR PARTICIPATION
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 +ASG * 0.10 + PRJ * 0.30 + PAR * 0.20 +FCG * 0.20
7 RST RESIT
8 RST RESIT


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

The evaluation will be made by applied studies, such as recognizing the written works and their materials, conservation principles, the processes in conservation and in pre and post restoration as well as by an exam of theoretical knowledge. The grade obtained by the students participation will based on (1) the attendance, (2) the quality of the answers the student gives to the questions asked by the instructor and his practical studies in the lessons, (3) the student s contribution to a positive learning atmosphere by the practices and studies he has made.

Assessment Criteria

The exams will be evaluated out of 100 in accordance with the number of the questions. The students will be informed about the value of each question before the exam. The grade will be determined in accordance with the answers. Application file, presentation of the researches and attendance will also be evaluated out of 100.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

The students coming to class late will be admitted but accepted half-attended. All attendance will be evaluated by the rate mentioned above. At the end of each lesson, the students are informed about the following lesson s subject as a research subject. So, the lessons start with these researches and discussions. The student whose research subject has been determined presents his study on the day of the subject and so he insures the participation actively.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

filiz.adiguzel@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Theory 13 2 26
Practical 13 2 26
Preparation before/after weekly lectures (working out on course materials, reading essays etc.) 13 6 78
Preparation for Final Exam 1 3 3
Preparation for Report 1 3 3
Preparation for Projects and atelier works and etc. 13 5 65
Final 1 3 3
Mid-term 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 206

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16
LO.1555
LO.255
LO.355
LO.455
LO.555

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