COURSE UNIT TITLE

: RISK MANAGAMENT IN THE MUSEUMS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MZC 4020 RISK MANAGAMENT IN THE MUSEUMS COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Museology

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BARIŞ GÜR

Offered to

Museology

Course Objective

Aim of this course is to define the risks that may be encountered in the museums, to take the necessary care to minimize these risks and to find urgent solutions to the problems.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students will be able to do risk analysis in the museums
2   Students will have information about museum security
3   Students will have information about emergency procedures
4   Students will be able to define problems in the museums and offer solution proposals

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction
2 Security of Museums
3 Museum building and it s risks
4 Risk analysis and planning in the museums
5 Vandalism in museums
6 Vandalism in museums
7 Midterm
8 Robbery
9 Robbery
10 Flood
11 Earthquake
12 Attacks and War threat
13 Protection and care of collections
14 Protection and care of collections
15 General evaluation
16 Final

Recomended or Required Reading

Michael Greenhalgh, Vandalism, Ignorance, Scholarship, Museums, Destruction of Cultural Heritage in 19th-century France
Old Stones versus Modern Identities, Heritage and Identity, Volume: 4, Brill, 2015.
Müzeler için acil durum prosedürleri el kitabı, Ed. Willem Hekman, Çev. Bingül Gündaş, Istanbul, 2015
Kültür Mirasını Koruma El Kitabı 4: Müzeler için Afet Risk Yönetimi, Çev. M. Aydın, Istanbul, 2016
Thomas D. Bazley, Crimes of the Art World, Greenwood Publishing, California, 2010.
Neil Brodie, Kathryn Walker Tubb, (eds.), Illicit Antiquities: The Theft of Culture and the Extinction of Archaeology, Routledge, London-New York, 2003.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1.Lecture
2.Presentation
3. Question and answer

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) 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

Learning outcomes 1-4 will be evaluated via the question asked in the mid-term and final exams.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

70% class attendance is obligatory

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

baris.gur@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday 12.00

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 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 124

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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CONTACT INFORMATION
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Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

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