Qualification Awarded

Art Historian

Specific Admission Requirements

The Department of Art History accepts undergraduate students with the results of OSYM (TYT and AYT) DIL-1 exam. See for details, www.osym.gov.tr

Qualification Requirements

Students must obtain a grade average of at least 2.00 out of 4.00 and successfully pass all courses on the program (equivalent to a total of 240 ECTS).

Recognition of Prior Learning

The rules and regulations for recognition of formal prior learning are defined. Transfer can be made among the institutions of which equivalency is recognized by Higher Education Council. Also successful vocational school graduates can apply to continue their education to obtain Bachelor's degrees if they are successful in selection and the placement examination (DGS, i.e. vertical transfer examination). Students need to take the courses determined by the relevant department, based on the completed courses in the programs they have graduated. Recognition of prior non-formal and informal learning is at the beginning stage in Turkish Higher Education Institutions. Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University and hence of the Department is not an exception to this. However, exams of exemption are organised at the start of each year for the English Language and Computer Skills courses. The students who have completed the proficiencies for these courses on his/her own or through other means, and believe that they have achieved the learning outcomes specified are given the right to take the exemption exam. The students who achieve a passing grade from those exams are held exempt from the related course in the curriculum.

History

The Department of Art History was founded in 1993 along with Archeology Department. The program has been active since 2012 and has started to take students in 2013-2014 academic year.

Profile of the Programme

The BA program consists of 8 semesters in 4 years with a schedule to provide its students with core knowledge in art history, arts and cultures of different periods and regions in the country and in the world.

Program Outcomes

1-	Gains the core knowledge of art history and learns how to use this knowledge.

2-	Recognizes the period, style and chronology of an art work

3-	Analyzes art works using an inter-disciplinary perspective

4-	Evaluates art works based on geography, period, and ideology.

5-	Knows the changes the civilizations went through history and interprets the impact of such changes on the art works.

6-	Documets, interprets, and analyzes the art works sistematically.

7-	Interprets the culture, the ideology and the political events based on the art works of the period and the region.

8-	Transfers her/his knowledge of art history to the practical context and plays a vital role in recognition and evaluation of the art works excavated.

9-	Protects the historical and cultural heritage of the Anatolia.

10-	Follows and uses modern methods and techniques in art history.

11-	Has the skills to provide consultion and to research with ethical values and the knowledge of art history.

12-	Utilizes her/his knowledge gained in the protection of cultural heritage with a scientific approach.

13-	Gains a councious senstive to social justice, the univarsality of the social and cultural rights.

14-	Applies her/his knowledge in education, research and social work.

15-	Adopts ethical values in the protection and exhibition of the art works.

Exam Regulations & Assesment & Grading

Grading and assessment methods for courses are provided in detail in each "Course Syllabus".

Graduation Requirements

Students must obtain a grade point average of at least 2.00 out of 4.00 and successfully pass all courses on the program (equivalent to a total of 240 ECTS).

Occupational Profiles of Graduates

The graduates of the program can apply for positions at the Culture and Tourism Ministry, the General Directorate of Monuments and Museums, the General Directorate of Foundations, Archeology and Etnography Museums, public works projects, the private museums, and various local goverment units. They can also work in the private sector and as academics at a university.

Access to Further Studies

The graduates holding Bachelor's Degree are eligible to apply to Master's Degree programs at national level and/or international level both in the same and in related disciplines.

Mode of Study

Bachelor

Programme Director

Prof.Dr. Ayşe AYDIN

ECTS Coordinator

Research Assist. Çağla ÇAYLI

Course Structure Diagram with Credits

Evaluation Questionnaires

Course & Program Outcomes Matrix