museum education

ERCIYES ÜNİVERSİTESİ
FİNE ARTS FACULTY
VISUAL DESING EMPLOYMENT
I.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Course Code-Name GRF 316 MUSEUM TRAINING
3 / Spring
Year/ Term
VĠSUAL DESĠNG EMPLOYMENT
Department
Academician Eda OCAK KARAKUŞ
Lecturer
Contact:
CREDITS
3
ECTS CREDITS
3
Erciyes Üniversitesi, Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi, Resim Bölümü, Kayseri, 38039, TÜRKĠYE.
Tel: + 90 352 4374901(30 Line) / 34064
e-posta: [email protected]
II.
GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE COURSE
SYLLABUS:
A general overview of museology history, reviewing the first museum studies in our
country and around the world, informing about the types and functions of museums,
performing museum visits and training activities, preparing projects. Moreover, the course
aims to find answers to the following and similar questions:
- How can we benefit from museums in training activities?
- Who are the trained staff working in museums?
- How can a museum be effectively promoted?
- How should a museum guide be prepared?
- What should the training activities of virtual museums include?
TYPE : Obligatory: X
LEVEL: Elementary:
Elective:
Main:
Related:
Intermediate:
Advanced: X
Sub-branch:
Proficiency:
OBJECTIVES:
Informing students about the historical types, objectives and functions of museology, and also
about museum and art, museum and society. Encouraging them to recognize the properties
and importance of art works and historical works, raising their awareness about the need to
spread this understanding among the whole society.
METHODS:
This is a project course that covers learning through research, individual and group works,
monitoring of the process. The course also covers museum training activities developed
specifically for that course
REQUIRED MATERIALS:
Taking notes is essential in this course, so, students are highly recommended to bring
notebooks to the class. Internet and library studies; file, museum guide preparations, and
power-point presentations will be performed. Written and visual materials specific to each
subject will be used.
REQUIRED SOURCES:
KESER Nimet, 2005. “Sanat Sözlüğü”, Ütopya Yayınları, Ankara
BUYURGAN Serap, MERCĠN Levent, Görsel Sanatlar Eğitiminde Müze Eğitimi ve
Uygulamaları, Ankara
Ġġ BANKASI Kültür Yayınları Türkiye Müzeleri
Ġġ BANKASI KÜLTÜR YAYINLARI, Türkiye Müzeleri
KAHRAMAN H. Bülent, 2005. “Sanatsal Gerçeklikler, Olgular ve öteleri…” Agora
Kitaplığı, Ġstanbul
LYNTON Nobert, 2004. “Modern Sanatın Öyküsü”, Remzi Kitapevi, Ġstanbul
ÖZSOY Vedat, 2003. “Görsel Sanatlar Eğitimi”, Gündüz Eğitim ve Yayıncılık, Ankara
TÜRKDOĞAN Tansel, 2004. “ÇağdaĢ Sanat”, Piramit Yayıncılık, Ankara
FISHER Ernst, 1995. “Sanatın Gerekliliği”, Panel Yayınevi, Ġstanbul
BĠGALI ġeref, 1999. “Resim Sanatı”, Türkiye ĠĢ Bankası Kültür Yayınları, Ankara
EYÜBOĞLU B. Rahmi, 1986. “Resme BaĢlarken”, Bilgi yayınevi, Ankara
CRITERIA AND EVALUATION:
Criteria:
Attendance: Attendance is among the most significant criteria in the lessons 2 hours of which
are theoretical and 2 hours of which are applicational. Museum Training, which has a project
course form, needs serious monitoring.
Ways of participation to the lesson: Answering the questions in lessons, participating in
negotiations, taking notes, summarizing, making researches through web and in libraries are
important.
Interest: The course will be held in a way to increase curiosity in students, and it will cover
authentic artistiz events. Thus, the interests of students is quite important.
Evaluation For the mid-term exam
Written exam : 30 points
Cloze test: 10 points
Process files: 50 points
General condition ( Attendance, participation to the lesson and interest): 10 points
Evaluation for the final exam
Cloze test: 10 points
Process files : 80 points
General condition ( Attendance, participation to the lesson and interest): 10 points
PREREQUISITES: Being a 3rd grade student…
Expectations from the course and students: Elaborate and continuous
studies
GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE COURSE SUBJECTS
Subjects per week:
1st Week:
Meeting and explaining the sources. Introduction to the course, explaining its objectives,
explaining about the course schedule and the process file to be prepared. Applying a pre-test.
2nd Week:
Reading and evaluating essays. Discussing about museology, museums and museum training.
Reviewing the historical process of museology around the world.
3rd Week:
Power-point presentations, types and functions of museums, explanations. Reviewing the
historical process of museology in our country. Giving information on Osman Hamdi and
museum studies.
4th Week:
Giving information about the following issues: “What is museum training? , The necessity of
museum training, and concepts related to museum training. Visiting Istanbul Modern online,
distributing the museums within the borders of Kayseri among the students. Reviewing
Kadriye Tezcan Akahmet and Ayla Ödekan’s article titled as “The Historical Process of
Museum Training”, which was issued on ITU Journal.
5th Week:
Presenting the collected information on curatorship studies in our country and around the
world, evaluating the outcomes. Who is “David Eliot”? What are the properties of his work,
and what is their significance?
6th Week:
Visiting “Kayseri Archaeology Museum” and performing museum training activities.
MID-TERM EXAM
7th Week:
Explaining how can the collected documents be used in preparing a museum guide. Selecting
the students to make presentation the following week. (Report about the deficiencies you have
observed in your museum visit, state your detections about the materials needed to give
museum training in these places, and convey these in the form of a presentation.)
8th Week:
Students introduce the museums they have visited and and deliver the museum guides they
have prepared in the form of a presentation. Students apply the creative opinions they have
observed from these presentations to their own studies, and improve their projects.
9th Week:
Students introduce the museums they have visited and deliver the museum guides they have
prepared in the form of a presentation.
10th Week:
Reviewing “Victoria and Albert Museum” in U.K. through an online virtual tour.
( Report
your impressions about the web site of the museum.)
11th Week:
Selecting museums in our country to have a “virtual museum tour”. Electing the most
significant and popular museums around the world.
12th Week:
Making the presentations of these virtual tours. (Prepare a detailed presentation for a museum
you have selected.)
13th Week:
Delivering the presentations of the virtual tours. (Thoroughly visit a museum you have
selected in the virtual environment, and prepare a presentation of this visit.).
14th Week:
Write essays on: “What have I gained through this course?” and “ My suggestions on how to
improve this course” , fill in the “final test” forms and put these papers into your process
files.
FINAL EXAM