COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE ON MUSIC RESEARCH

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MBA 1001 SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE ON MUSIC RESEARCH COMPULSORY 3 0 0 3

Offered By

Music Sciences

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR AYHAN EROL

Offered to

Music Sciences
Musicology

Course Objective

Aim of the course is inform the students about historical developing of musicology and methods of generation of scientific information.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Describe the historical development of musicology,
2   Define the working areas in musicology,
3   Describe the theoric, scientific and operative concepts and terminology about musicology ,
4   Describe the basic methods and approaches to generate of scientific information,
5   Define the disciplines as part of musicology and describe to theoric and operative differences between them.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction and inform about musicology.
2 "Scince" and generating of scientific information.
3 Concept of "knowledge" and discussion of knowledge: humanistic perspective and scientific perspective.
4 The standarts of science: generate information of objective, logical, dependable and based upon methodology.
5 What is the scientific music research History of scientific music research. Emergence of musicology and embodiment of musicology.
6 Classification of Adler.
7 The other disciplines as part of Musicology: Historical musicology, ethnomusicology and systematic musicology.
8 Concept, model, theory and paradigm.
9 Midterm exam.
10 Subjectiveness, integrated approach, qualitative analyse and quantitative analyse.
11 Colonialism and effects on social sciences.
12 Historicism and evolutionism on the music research.
13 Functionalism and structuralism
14 Working areas of musicology.

Recomended or Required Reading

Text Book(s)/Required Readings:
Özer, Yetkin (1997). Bilim Perspektifinde Müzik, Izmir: Dokuz Eylül Yayınları.
Additional Sources:
Acot, Pascal. (2005). Bilim Tarihi, (çev: Nermin Acar), Ankara: Dost Kitabevi.
Darwin, Charles. (2010). Türlerin Kökeni Üzerine, (çev: Hasan Ilhan), Ankara: Alter Yayıncılık.
Erol, Ayhan. (2009). Müzik Üzerine Düşünmek, Istanbul: Bağlam Yayınları.
Kaplan, Ayten (2005). Kültürel Müzikoloji, Istanbul: Bağlam Yayınları.
Tuna, Korkut. (2011). Batılı Bilginin Eleştirisi Üzerine, Istanbul: Iz Yayıncılık.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Instructor tells the subject and students pose questions.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. Students must be attend the lessons seventy percent.
2. Every kind of attend of copy to be puneshed.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Phone: 232 412 92 04
E-mail: levent.ergun@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday: 13.30-16.00
Wednesday: 13.30-16.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 2 2
Preparation for final exam 1 2 2
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 71

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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