COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CONCEPTS AND METHODOLOGIES IN CONSERVATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CON 5087 CONCEPTS AND METHODOLOGIES IN CONSERVATION ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AYŞEGÜL ALTINÖRS ÇIRAK

Offered to

M.Sc. Urban Conservation Planning
M.Sc. Urban Conservation Planning (Non-Thesis)

Course Objective

This course aims to provide the students to learn the special terminology and
methodologies of the urban conservation processes, to gain ability to choose the most
convenient methodologies for the historical environments and to gain ability to
evaluate and criticize the implementations of conservation by teaching and discussing
the basic concepts and analyzing and intervention methods which takes place in
international and national literature of conservation.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Will be able to define the specialized terminology of the conservation process (knowledge).
2   Will be able to define the analyze and intervention stages of conservation process (knowledge).
3   Will be able to distinguish the variations between different forms of (comprehension).
4   Will be able to choose appropriate methodologies for conservation sites (application).
5   Will be able to implement appropriate form of interventions and methodologies for (application).
6   Will be able to compare the implementations and interventions in conservation sites (analysis).
7   Will be able to discuss the concepts and form of interventions of conservation process (analysis).

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The concepts of cultural asset, value of being, layer of culture, cultural heritage and tangible and intangible heritage
2 The concepts of protected monument, civil architecture examples, historical environment conservation, conservation site
3 The process of wear in the historical urban sites and emerge of conservation interventions
4 Registration, inventorying and documenting in historical sites
5 The concepts of survey, restitution, maintenance, preservation, restoration, reconstruction
6 Conservation plan and its analytical process
7 In-situ conservation and the contextual approach in conservation.
8 The integrated conservation approach
9 The approaches on the management of the cultural heritage I
10 Preventive conservation approaches
11 Risk reducing approaches in conservation studies
12 The collaborative and maintenance of social structure based approaches in conservation sites
13 The collaborative and maintenance of social structure based approaches in conservation sites
14 Presentations of assignments and discussions

Recomended or Required Reading

Erder, C. (2007), Tarihi çevre bilinci. Istanbul, Yem Yayınevi.
Kuban, D. (2001), Türkiye'de kentsel koruma, kent tarihleri ve koruma yöntemleri.
Istanbul,
Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları.
Supplemantary Book:
Tekeli, I. (2003), Modernite projesi içinde yapıların ve kentsel dokuların korunması
sorunsalı, Her dem yeşil yapraklı bir ağaç, Cevat Erder'e armağan içinde (71-81) (N. Ş.
Güçhan, Der.), Ankara, ODTÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Yayınları.
Ashworth, G.J. ve Tunbridge J.E. (1999). Old Cities, New Pasts: Heritage Planning in
Selected Cities of Central Europe, V:49 N:1 Geo Journal içinde (105-116)
Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publisher.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

This course will be given through lectures. Students will learn topics by attending
and listening to the lectures and also by prepearing and presenting the assignments
that will be given to them on the 5 th. week of the term.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 PRS PRESENTATION
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50 + PRS * 0.50


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Defining (Knowledge), Distinguishing (Comprehension), Implicating (Application),
Discussing (Analysis) and Choosing (Analysis) will be measured by Homework.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

This course will be given through lectures and discussions over reading list.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

aysegul.altinors@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 10.30-12.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparing assignments 1 55 55
Preparing presentations 1 15 15
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 140

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.11
LO.211
LO.31
LO.41
LO.511
LO.61
LO.71

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