Arts and Cultural Management in Turkey

Course Code:

ART 102

Course Period:

Spring

Course Type:

Core

P:

3

Lab:

0

Credits:

3

ECTS:

8

Course Language:

İngilizce

Course Assistants :

Öykü Demirci

Course Objectives:

This course aims to provide students with thorough information about their role in the future as art and cultural managers in cultural institutions and various scales of art and cultural events. To teach students main features of art and cultural fields in Turkey and the way they operate; cultural policies implemented through decades; the role and responsibilities of art and cultural managers under these circumstances. To train students capable of evaluating existing conditions, developing fresh solutions, having vision to the predicaments they face.

Course Content:

In this course history of cultural institutions in Turkey and the way they operate are taught starting its late Ottoman past, with strong emphasises on foundation years of the Republic and the recent decades. Underlying principles of today’s cultural policies, responsibilities of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, functions and activities of local authoritie

Course Methodology:

1: Lecture, 2: Discussion, 3: Case Study

Course Evaluation Methods:

A: Testing, B: Research, C: Presentation.

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Course Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes	Program Learning Outcomes	Teaching Methods	Assessment Methods
1) Knows Turkey’s culture policy and its background.	1,3,4	1,2,3	A,C
2) Has knowledge about culture industries, it’s dynamics, general view of culture in economy in Turkey.	3,4,5	1,2,3	A,C
3) Knows duties, organisation of Ministry of Culture and also legislation in general.	5,7,9	1,2,3	A,C
4) Knows responsibilities of municipalities.	5,7,9,11		A,C
5) Has knowledge about the activities of private sector and NGO’s in culture sector.	5,7,9,11	1,2,3	A,C
6) Has an idea about his/her role as a culture manager in state or private institutions.	3,5,7,9		A,C

Course Flow

COURSE CONTENT
Week	Topics	Study Materials
1	Introduction
2	Concepts of art and cultural policy and management.
3	Westernisation/Europeanisation in late-Ottoman era and the role of the cultural institutions.
4	Modernisation project of the early Republic, cultural transformation and the role of the arts. Impact of the initiatives artists took in art and cultural management.
5	Rise of the concepts of “creative city” and “creative class” and art and cultural management.
6	Local authorities and art and cultural management.
7	Laws and legislations that regulate national heritages, culture and arts assets.
8	Midterm
9	Private sector and its place in art and cultural worlds. Its impact on cultural management.
10	NGOs and art and cultural management. Guest speaker.
11	Presentation
12	Presentation
13	Presentation
14	Presentation

Recommended Sources

RECOMMENDED SOURCES

Textbook

Ada S. İnce, A; Türkiye’de Kültür Politikalarına Giriş, Bilgi Üni. Yayınları, 2009
Çelik, Abdurrahman, Kültür Endüstrisi, Literatür Yayınları, 2011
Bozdoğan, Sibel, Modernizm ve Ulusun İnşası, Metis Yayınları, 2002.
Sanat Dünyamız Dergisi, Sayı 89.
www.kultur.gov.tr
http://ec.europa.eu/culture/index_en.htm
http://www.culturalpolicies.net/web/index.php

Additional Resources

1. Baynes, Ken, Toplumda Sanat, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2004.

2. Bozdoğan S., Kasaba R.,: Türkiye’de Modernleşme ve Ulusal Kimlik, Tarih Vakfı Y., 2005.

3. Eagleton Terry, The Idea of Culture, Blackwell Publishers, 2000.

4. Kongar, Emre, Kültür Üzerine, Remzi Kitabevi, 2008.

5. Kültür Girişimi, Türkiye’de Kültür Politikaları, İKSV Y., 2006.

6. Topuz, Hıfzı, Dünyada ve Türkiye’de Kültür Politikaları, Adam Yayınları 1998.

7. Ünsal Deniz, İstanbul Kültür ve Sanat Sektörü, Bilgi Üni. Yayınları, 2011.

8. Williams, Raymond, “The Analysis of Culture”, Cultural Theory and Popular Culture A Reader, ed. Storey, John, Prentice Hall, 1998.

9. Yardımcı, Sibel, Kentsel Değişim ve Festivalizm: Küreselleşen İstanbul’da Bienal, İletişim Yayınları

10. Kültür Politikaları ve Yönetimi Yıllık 2009, Bilgi Üniversitesi Yay.

11. Kültür Politikaları ve Yönetimi Yıllık 2011, Bilgi Üniversitesi Yay.

Material Sharing

MATERIAL SHARING
Documents
Assignments	Presentation
Exams	Midterm, final

Assessment

ASSESSMENT
IN-TERM STUDIES	NUMBER	PERCENTAGE
Mid-terms	1	30
Final Presentation	2	20
Assignment	1	30
Total		100
CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL GRADE		40
CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL GRADE		60
Total		100

Course’s Contribution to Program

COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
No	Program Learning Outcomes	Contribution
No	Program Learning Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5
1	To educate students as an Arts and Cultural Manager with an interdiciplinary outlook.					x
2	To gain expertise in Visiual and Performance Arts in detail.
3	To teach students the main actors in art and cultural sector.					x
4	To educate students in order to make them aware of the close relationship between artist, art work, critic and art collector.					x
5	To teach students basics of business administration in relation to the cultural sector.					x
6	To instruct students to evaluate the importance of team work and co-operation.			X
7	To give them essential knowledge about the work of cultural professionals (those who work for museums, art institutions, festivals, and so on) and possible pitfalls they can face.					x
8	To make students followers of international art.				x
9	To enable them to pinpoint the issues in their area of expertise and give them essential tools to solve problems.					x
10	To make them able to plan and put in practice their projects collectively.				x
11	To give students professional tools to evaluate all the facts in art and culture area.					x
12	To teach them how to use PR and publicity tools in their job.				X
13	To teach students methodology, documentation and archiving.				x
14	To make students aware of necessary level of legal knowledge in order to make contracts.			X
15	To equip students with the basic knowledge of accounting.			x

ECTS

ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION
Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours)	14	3	42
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)	14	8	112
Mid-terms	2	9	18
Assignment	1	6	6
Final examination	1	12	12
Total Work Load			190
Total Work Load / 25 (h)			7,6
ECTS Credit of the Course			8

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