COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL THEORY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MZC 7014 HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL THEORY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 10

Offered By

Non-Thesis Master of Museology (Non-Thesis-Evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR REMZI YAĞCI

Offered to

Non-Thesis Master of Museology (Non-Thesis-Evening)

Course Objective

This course will discuss the changing approaches and contemporary theories in museum and cultural heritage studies. First the internationally accepted constitutions, conventions and institutions related to museum studies and heritage studies will be introduced and then the latter concepts will be defined in the context of globalisation, locality and colonialisation. Visiting of museums and cultural heritage sites will be evaluated in relation to experience and cultural performance

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To understand the interdisciplinary interaction between the field of Museology and other fields
2   To establish relations between museology and cultural processes
3   To develop a critical view towards Museology and Cultural Heritage Studies

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Conservation and Venice Charter
2 Fora Convention
3 ICOM network
4 Globalisation and Locality
5 Cultural Heritage in the colonial and postcolonial times
6 Who owens the past
7 Theorisation of the visits to museums and cultural heritage sites_ Text Discussion
8 Mid-term exam
9 Theorisation of the visits to museums and cultural heritage sites_ Text Discussion
10 Approaches to cultural heritage in Türkiye
11 Approaches to museum studies in Türkiye
12 Discussion of cultural heritage as an experience and cultural performance .
13 Assessment
14 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Atagök, Tomur (der.) (1999) Yeniden Müzeciliği Düşünmek. Yıldız Teknik Basım-Yayın Merkezi: Istanbul.

Atakuman, Ç. (2010) "Value of Heritage in Türkiye: History and Politics of Türkiye's World Heritage Nominations", Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 23:1, pp. 107-131.

Avrupa Konseyi Toplum Için Kültürel Mirasın Değeri Çerçeve Sözleşmesi

http://archanth.anu.edu.au/heritage-museum-studies/association-critical-heritage-studies

Müzecilikte Yeni Yaklaşımlar Küreselleşme ve Yerelleşme. (2000) Tarih Vakfı: Istanbul.

Smith, L., Theorising museum and heritage visiting, forthcoming 2014, In K. Message and A. Witcomb (eds) Museum Theory: An Expanded Field, Oxford: Blackwell Wiley.

Winter, T. Heritage studies and the privileging of theory. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2013, 20: 1 17.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1.Lecture
2.Presentation
3. Discussion
4.Research

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + FIN* 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.50 + RST* 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Learning outcomes 1-5 will be evaluated via the question asked in the mid-term and final exams and the presentation and the homework that the student will prepare

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

70% class attendance is obligatory

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

elif_keser@yahoo.com

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Tutorials 0 0 0
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 10 2 20
Preparation for midterm exam 1 7 7
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparation for quiz etc. 0 0 0
Preparing assignments 3 40 120
Preparing presentations 3 20 60
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 255

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.153533
LO.24453
LO.34455