COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Art of Illumination

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR GÜL GÜNEY ZINCIR

Offered to

Art of Illumination
Ancient Turkish Calligraphy

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to teach the students the illuminated parts of handwritten books, their features and historical improvements, and classical illumination features; And also, to teach how to apply them on a project.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Ayla Ersoy ; Türk Tezhip Sanatı, Istanbul 1988
Gülnur Duran ; Ali Üsküdari Istanbul 2008 190s
A.Maktal;Tezyinat-ı Kur aniye, Uluslararası Türk Dünyası Kültür K. C: 4 Izmir 2006 1461-1471s.
Zeren Tanındı; Kitap ve Tezhibi Ankara 2004 865-891s.
Ilhan Özkeçeci;Türk Sanatı nda Kompozisyon Istanbul 2008
Colın F.Baker : Qur an Manuscripts, The British Library ,london 2007
Diğer ders materyalleri:
M.Uğur Derman : Doksan Dokuz Istanbul Mushaf-ı , Mas matbaacılık, Istanbul 2010
Türk Hat Sanatının Şaheserleri,(Hz. M. Uğur Derman), Ankara 1990 67s.
Hat Sanatı, (Edit: E. Ihsanoğlu ) Istanbul 1992, 244s.
Basılı ve görüntülü yazma eser tezhip örnekleri.
2002 Ilkbahar Müzayedesi, Portakal Sanat ve Kültür evi, Istanbul 2002 256s.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

In this course, the students are going to gradually learn how to draw and analyze the functions of the figurative and anatomical constitution of the ornaments in a composition by being told the connection in illustration, its terminology, its features and its historical improvement. The kinds, styles and techniques of pattern drawing will be taught by analyzing method. Students will perform applications by using pencils in areas of free, fractional, additional, compositional drawing patterns, symmetric, asymmetric and the other free forms.

Assessment Methods

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)

gul.guney@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

There isn't any time

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes