COURSE UNIT TITLE

: THEORIES OF MUSEUM STUDIES AND CULTURAL HERITAGE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MZC 5024 THEORIES OF MUSEUM STUDIES AND CULTURAL HERITAGE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Museology

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ELIF KESER KAYAALP

Offered to

Museology

Course Objective

This course will discuss the influential philosphers on theories in museum and cultural heritage studies and the concepts and theories that they formulated. Concepts like globalisation, locality, colonialisation, memory, experience and performance will be examined within the context of museum studies with relevant theories.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To understand the interdisciplinary interaction between the field of Museology and other fields.
2   To establish relations between museology and cultural processes.
3   To develop a critical view towards Museology and Cultural Heritage Studies.
4   Familiarity with theories of art and culture.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Foucault and Heterotopia
2 Benjamin and the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction
3 Baudrillard and Simulation
4 Bourdieu and the Concepts of Culture and Capital,
5 The Concepts of Habitus and Location
6 Cultural Heritage in the Colonial and Postcolonial Times
7 Globalisation and Locality
8 Mid-term exam
9 Malraux and Museum without walls
10 Public Space
11 Collective Memory
12 Adorno, Proust and Valery
13 Discussion of cultural heritage as an "experience"
14 Heritage as "Cultural Performance"
15 Assessment
16 Final

Recomended or Required Reading

Artun, Ali, Baudelaire de Sanatın Özerkleşmesi ve Modernizm , Charles Baudelaire, Modern Hayatın Ressamı kitabı sunuş metni (Istanbul: Iletişim, 2004) s.7-87.

Artun, Ali, Sanat Müzeleri 2, Müze ve Eleştirel Düşünce. Iletişim:2006.

Atagök, Tomur (der.) (1999) Yeniden Müzeciliği Düşünmek. Yıldız Teknik Basım-Yayın Merkezi: Istanbul.

Benjamin, Walter, Pasajlar.YKY yayınları.

Dağ, Ahmet, Jean Baudrillard da Simulasyon kavramını temellendirme çabası, Yüksek lisans Tezi, Marmara Üniversitesi, 2009.

Foucault, M. Kelimeler ve Şeyler, Imge Yayınları.

Özsöz Cihad, Pratik, Kültür, Sermaye, Habitus ve Alan Teorileriyle Pierre Bourdieu Sosyolojisi, Sosyolojide Yakın Dönem Gelişmeler, Ünite: 1, AÜ AÖF Yayınları,

Müzecilikte Yeni Yaklaşımlar Küreselleşme ve Yerelleşme. (2000) Tarih Vakfı: Istanbul.

Smith, L., Theorising museum and heritage visiting, forthcoming 2014, In K. Message and A. Witcomb (eds) Museum Theory: An Expanded Field, Oxford: Blackwell Wiley.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1.Lecture
2.Presentation
3. Discussion
4.Research

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.20 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.20 + RST* 0.50


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Learning outcomes will be evaluated via the question asked in the mid-term and final exams and the presentation and the homework that the student will prepare.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

70% class attendance is obligatory

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

elif.kayaalp@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 4 56
Preparation for midterm exam 5 5 25
Preparation for final exam 5 5 25
Preparing assignments 1 21 21
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 175

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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