COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CONSERVATION OF MANUSCRIPTS I

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GES 5145 CONSERVATION OF MANUSCRIPTS I ELECTIVE 2 2 0 8

Offered By

Traditional Turkish Arts

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR FILIZ ADIGÜZEL TOPRAK

Offered to

Traditional Turkish Arts

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to teach, both theoretically and practically, the students the ways to conserve and preserve our written works, documents, paper books, rescripts, maps, printed documents, and the factors destroying written works; to find out these factors in the works to be restored; to organize a work badge; studies before restoration and conservation principles.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   After the education given with this course, the students are supposed to gain the knowledge about the introduction of the written work, materials making up the written work, the types of the paper used in the written work,
2   have the skill to follow the principles of written works conservation, paper and its structural features, paper types, materials for paper restoration, the centres that make conservation actively in Turkey and the world, the researches and new methods,
3   have the conservation principles for written works, professional responsibility and ethical conscious; make the knowledge, skills and specialty subjects gained about conservation into a skill,
4   use and develop professional skills in worm-holed paper, smoothing wrinkled documents, restoration of torn papers,
5   present effectively the applied studies done suitably for conservation and preservation principles by making use of different disciplines of the conservation and preservation of written works.

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 Informing definitions and terminology ( preservation conservation restoration )
4 Recording basic restoration and repair principles
5 International standards
6 Destroying elements, oxidation, oxidation acidification fading colours chemical instability electromagnetic deformations
7 Environmental elements heat light moist pollution human
8 Equipment and materials for classical paper conservation
9 Plans related to the preservation and conservation of written works, researches on preservation and conservation, parts of a building
10 Storage in preservation, situation of buildings, storage equipment, archive boxes, preserving against dust and dirt, preserving against natural disasters, such as fire, floods, preserving against biological effects, such as fungi, microorganism, pests and rodents
11 A general maintenance of written works, applications ( terminating harmful substances flatting packing ), use of the valuable works, providing supervision, fighting against harmful factors, construction operations and written work operations
12 Documenting the detections about the damaged written work applications
13 General assessment

Recomended or Required Reading

KATHPALIA, Yash Pal; Arşiv Malzemesinin Korunması ve Restorasyonu,Çev:Nihal SOMER,T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü,Cumhuriyet Arşivi Daire Başkanlığı,Yayın No:6, Başbakanlık Basımevi, Ankara 1990 XLVII
Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi ndeki Belgelerin Restorasyon Bakımından Genel Durumu;
Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi ndeki Belge Türleri, Padişah El Yazmaları Ve Belge Restorasyonu, T.C.Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, Osmanlı Arşivi Daire Başkanlığı, Istanbul 1997,s.147-195
HUBBE Martin A., BROWDEN Cindy: Handmade Paper: A Review of Its History,Craft,And Science, BioResources 4(4), 2009 ,1736-1792 pages
ROPER,MICHAEL, Koruma ve Konservasyon Servisinin Planlanmasi,Techizatlandirilmasi ve Personel Istihdami,Ankara 1994,89.S.
DAHL, Svend; Kitabın Tarihi, Antik Çağdan Günümüze Kadar her Yönüyle, Çev: Mehmet DÜNDAR, T.C Kültür Bakanlığı Milli Kütüphaneler Başkanlığı, Çeviri Eserler Dizisi, Milli Kütüphane Basımevi
Ankara 1999, XII+335.S.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

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


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

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

Not avaliable.

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 3 39
Preparation for Final Exam 1 3 3
Preparation for Report 1 3 3
Preparation for Projects, working at the atelier etc. 13 8 104
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.45
LO.555

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