COURSE UNIT TITLE

: COLLECTING AND MUSEUMS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MZC 6001 COLLECTING AND MUSEUMS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 10

Offered By

Doctorate Degree in Museum Studies

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR REMZI YAĞCI

Offered to

Doctorate Degree in Museum Studies

Course Objective

Collecting is considered as the basis of Museology with the accumulation of objects in a broad sense. The first collector is considered to be Noah, as he gathered every living species as females and males so that they could survive by flooding after flooding in the religious mythological and Biologically natural disaster ship. However, despite completing each other, in the process of transforming the collection into a museum, they should be examined in different categories, for example personally and institutionally. On the other hand, the establishment of the museum for the benefit of the society is a sociological phenomenon. Even though the history of collecting can be taken back to ancient times, collections of rare, different, extraordinary, strange and wonderfull rarities lived in a truly traceable continuity in Europe, starting from the late Middle Ages (1550s); it lasted until the 1750s especially in Germany, Austria, Switzerland France and Italy.
Initially, the creation of plant (herbarium) and insect (entomology) collections in ancient artifacts (archaeological) natural history and university museums, or personally "wunderkammers" is the result of a cultural accumulation. There are various comments and theories on curiosity. The reason why the collection was created by individuals is a separate study subject with psychological reasons. In this sense, the curiosity of collecting systematically started personally and it can be said that later it became institutionalized and turned into museums. The 19th century "Imperial Museums" are a mature result of the collection culture.
"Collecting and Museums" courses in the collection and exhibition systems, major European Türkiye will be discussed formation of European and US collections.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students are expected to understand what is history of collection
2   Students are expected to e able to take responsibility for a collection with confidence
3   Students are expected to be able to research an object
4   Students are expected to be able to facilitate and promote the use of collections as a resource by everyone in the museum through working productively with other specialist colleagues
5   Students are expected to be able to articulate objects and develop exhibition concepts using collections

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 What is the concept of collection
2 Collections and Museums
3 Collection curiosity and culture
4 Types of collections
5 Collection places from ancient times to today
6 Collecting in Türkiye
7 Renaissance Collections and New World Collecting in Europa
8 Midterm
9 Italy, Vatican Collections
10 British and German collections
11 USA Collections
12 Freud and Collecting
13 From Collection to Museum Austrian Habsburgs Collections
14 Collection law
15 General evaluation and Seminars
16 Final

Recomended or Required Reading

Elsner, J. 1994, "The House and Museum of Sir John Soane" The Cultures of Collecting,155-176, Reaktion Books, London
Forrester, J, 1994, " 'Mille e tre': Freud and Collecting" The Cultures of Collecting, 224-251, Reaktion Books, London
Shelton, A, A. 1994, "Renaissance Collections and the New World" The Cultures of Collecting,177-203, Reaktion Books, London
Pomian, K. 1990, Collectors and Curiosities: Paris and Venice, 1500-1800, Cambridge

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures and student presentations

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Presentations, midterm and final examinations

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance (70%) is obligatory.
Students are expected to prepare presentations and homeworks on the assigned subjects.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

remzi.yagci@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday: 11.00-12.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Student Presentations 1 6 6
Group session 2 10 20
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparing presentations 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 2 30 60
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
Project Assignment 1 10 10
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 242

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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