COURSE UNIT TITLE

: GUIDED WRITING ON MUSIC

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MBA 3013 GUIDED WRITING ON MUSIC COMPULSORY 2 2 0 6

Offered By

Music Sciences

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR MEHMET FIRAT KUTLUK

Offered to

Music Sciences
Musicology

Course Objective

The objective of this course for students to be able to learn basic rules on writing, practising writing about music, solving the problems of defining and description with different types of music text.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Defining the technical properties of music in written forms.
2   Learning how to explain an idea, editing, division, spelling mistake and quotation rules.
3   Identify the literature during researching.
4   be succesfull in the homeworks of the other courses.
5   Reporting the research projects.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Writing about music: introduction The literary language
2 Writing about music in Turkey
3 Bad writing Homework1: checking the bad writing examples (published or internet)
4 Criticism of bad writing examples Homework2: designing a paper in 500 words
5 Criticism of homework2, word, sentence, paragraph Homework3: defining a term or writing a short biography for dictionary of music
6 Criticism of homework3.
7 Defining a sentence and sentence clarity.
8 Editing paragraph.
9 Footnote and quotation rules. Homework4: checking the different types of footnote and quotation.
10 Criticism of homework4.
11 Music criticism Homework5: Checking concert criticism and album reviews.
12 Criticism of homework5
13 Criticism of homework
14 midterm exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Özön, N., 1995 Büyük Dil Klavuzu,Yapı Kredi Yayınları, Istanbul.
Aksoy, Ö.A.,2001, Ana Yazım Klavuzu, Adam Yayınları, Istanbul.
Barzun-Graf, 1997, Modern Araştırmacı, (çev: Fatoş Dilber), Tübitak, Ankara

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE 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

Lectures, homeworks.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Student should attend %70 of the course

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Fırat Kutluk
firat.kutluk@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Tutorials 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Preparing presentations 5 5 25
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 5 5
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 149

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.15555
LO.25
LO.35
LO.45
LO.5