COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PUBLIC ARCHITECTTURE IN ANTIQUITY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AKI 5080 PUBLIC ARCHITECTTURE IN ANTIQUITY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

ARCHAEOLOGY

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BURAK YOLAÇAN

Offered to

ARCHAEOLOGY

Course Objective

Aims to teach about public architecture in antiquity

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   General info on the architecture in the Mediterranean
2   Info on the public buildings in Ancient Greece
3   Info on the public buildings in Ancient Rome
4   relation between politics, social life and architecture

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 introduction to the class
2 city and city planning in antiquity
3 ancient perspetives on public buildings
4 modern perspectives on public buildings
5 history and development of public architecture
6 types of public buildings and general characteristics
7 meeting places and general characteristics
8 midterm exam
9 politics and architecture
10 politics and architecture
11 agora
12 bouleterion
13 forum
14 odeon
15 term paper presentation and discussion
16 final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Favro, D.C. (1996) The Urban Image of Augustan Rome, New York: Cambridge University Press

Doxiadis, C.A. (1972) Architectural Space in Ancient Greece (translated by Jaqueline Tyrwhitt), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press


Fox, R.G. (1977) Urban Anthropology: Cities in Their Cultural Settings, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hal

Streets: Critical Perspectives on Public Space, ed. Zeynep Celik et al., Berkeley: University of California Press, 151-¬ 64

Harmanşah, Ö. (2013) Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East, Cambridge University Press

Smith, M.E. (2007) Form and Meaning in the Earliest Cities: A New Approach to Ancient Urban Planning , Journal of Planning History 6/1: 3-¬ 47

Owens, E.J. (1991) The City in the Greek and Roman World, New York: Routledge

Smith, A.T. (2003) The Political Landscape: Constellations of Authority in Early Complex Polities, Berkeley: University of California Press

Smith, M.L. (2003) (ed.) The Social Construction of Ancient Cities, Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institute

Trigger, B.G. (2003) Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study, New York: Cambridge University Press

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

presentation and midterm papers

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 * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-4 will be tested with midterm and final exams and term papers.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

attendance of at least %70 is mandatory.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Burak Yolaçan
0232 301 87 31
burak.yolacan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday 14:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 3 3
Preparation for final exam 1 3 3
Reading 13 2 26
Preparing presentations 13 2 26
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 143

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.1555555
LO.2555555
LO.3555555
LO.4555555

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