COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TECHNIQUES OF ILLUMINATION I

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TEZ 2005 TECHNIQUES OF ILLUMINATION I COMPULSORY 2 2 0 5

Offered By

Ancient Turkish Calligraphy

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GÜL GÜNEY ZINCIR

Offered to

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to teach the students how to use the techniques such as, gold blanketing, gold application, writing bonding, zerefşan, halkar, painting, aher ve mühreleme, brush using, and how to use the materials such as, compasses, trilin, cellophane paper, miksiyon.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   know the materials used in Turkish Art of Illumination designing principles, and be efficient to use them,
2   apply the techniques gold application, zerafşan, halkar, painting etc.- on a piece of paper,
3   use the techniques of the Illumination designing in different disciplines,
4   use the Illumination designing disciplines in vocational education,
5   have the professional responsibility and ethical consciousness.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Resources related to the Turkish Art of Illumination
2 Introduction the materials used in Illumination Art
3 The brush using technique in Illumination Art
4 The Aher and Mühreleme techniques in Illumination Art
5 Using cellophane paper, miksiyon and gum Arabic in Illumination Art
6 Using ruler, compasses, rapito and trilin in Illumination Art
7 Writing bonding on murakka in Illumination Art
8 Gold blanketing, gold application and bonding techniques in Illumination Art
9 Mid term exam
10 Assignment / presentation
11 Painting techniques in Illumination Art, Applied samples in 5x5 or 10x10 areas where all techniques can be used
12 Painting techniques in illumination Art
13 Checking the applications and submitting the files
14 Checking the applications and submitting the files

Recomended or Required Reading

Onbin Yıllık Iran Medeniyeti IkibinYıllık Ortak Miras, T.SM.,Şubat 2010, 335s.
1400.Yılında Kur an-ı Kerîm, Istanbul 2010.
A.Maktal Ders Notları ve Desen Taslakları, basılı ve görüntülü yazma eser tezhip örnekleri.
Duncan Haldane : Islamıc Book Bindings, England 1983
I. Hakkı Uzunçarşılı: Osmanlı Saray Teşkilatı, Ankara 1988.
A.Maktal :Tezyinat-ı Kur aniye, Uluslararası Türk Dünyası Kültür Kurultayı, Cilt: 4 ,Izmir 2006 1461-1471s.
A.Maktal-S. Toprak, DEU.I.F.H. Hat Koleksiyonu , Izmir 2008, 59 s.
Zeren Tanındı: Kitap ve Tezhibi, Osmanlı Uygarlığı, Ankara 2004, s.865-891
Banu Mahir: II. B.Devri Saray Nakkaşhanesinin Osmanlı Tezhip Sanatına Katkıları, Türkiyemiz,S: 60,s.4-13.
F.Çağman: M. Sinan Döneminde Ehl-i Hiref Teşkilâtı ,T. Mimarlığı ve Sanatı, Istanbul1988,s.73-77; Saray Nakkaşhanesi ,Ist. 1989,s.35-46.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

In this course, the materials used in the Turkish Art of Illumination will be introduced and the methods for using these materials will be taught.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 STA TERM WORK (ANNUAL)
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE STA * 0.70 + ASG * 0.30


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

This course involves 2 theoretical course credits; and 2 practical course credits. In the educational year, both a mid-term exam and a final exam are given to the students so as to make them comprehend the course content during the lessons. By means of the exams, how much information given by the books and notes has been grasped, and at what degree the practices related to the designs have been turned into skills will be evaluated. The students will be supposed to prepare an assignment and present it in the course systematics they have grasped.
It is important for the students to attend classes because they can improve their drawing skills and because this applied course is the main course of the discipline the students related to. So, the attendance will be taken into consideration.
At the end of the term, by considering ethical, systematic, organizational and esthetical principles, each student will represent his project with a file including project stages.

Assessment Criteria

Exams will be evaluated out of 100. This grade will be determined according to the number of the questions to be asked in the exams. And also, the project, the assignment presentation and the attendance will be evaluated out of 100.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

The students coming to class late will be accepted into the class but are considered to attend half class period. All attendance will be scored as mentioned above. At the end of each course, the next lesson s subject is given to the students as study and research subject. Each lesson starts after discussing the study and research subject before teaching it.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Tezhip Anasanat dalı
e mail : gul.guney@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

There is'nt any time

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Tutorials 14 2 28
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparing assignments 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparing presentations 2 4 8
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 120

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17PO.18
LO.15
LO.25
LO.35
LO.445
LO.55