Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Course Catalogue

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FACULTY OF LETTERS & SCIENCE / ARK476 - ARCHAEOLOGY

Code: ARK476 Course Title: MEDIEVAL CAPPADOCIA (BYZANTINE CULTURE AND ART ) Theoretical+Practice: 2+0 ECTS: 6
Year/Semester of Study 4 / Spring Semester
Level of Course 1st Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department ARCHAEOLOGY
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer NİLÜFER PEKER (npeker@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s) NİLÜFER PEKER,
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 PO-1 Know the basic terms related to Archaeology programme
PO-2 Collect necessary data to solve problems faced
PO-3 Analyse the data, observe, interpret the results of collected data
PO-4 Apply archaeology principles to today’s problems of the world
Examination
LO-2 PO-1 Know the basic terms related to Archaeology programme
PO-2 Collect necessary data to solve problems faced
PO-3 Analyse the data, observe, interpret the results of collected data
PO-4 Apply archaeology principles to today’s problems of the world
PO-6 Use available computer technologies to solve problems in interested fields
PO-7 Establish analytical and critical communication with the other parts of the society in a professional way using oral and written means
PO-8 Use at least one foreign language to follow new information in their field and to communicate with their colleagues
Examination
LO-3 PO-1 Know the basic terms related to Archaeology programme
PO-2 Collect necessary data to solve problems faced
PO-3 Analyse the data, observe, interpret the results of collected data
PO-4 Apply archaeology principles to today’s problems of the world
PO-6 Use available computer technologies to solve problems in interested fields
PO-7 Establish analytical and critical communication with the other parts of the society in a professional way using oral and written means
PO-8 Use at least one foreign language to follow new information in their field and to communicate with their colleagues
PO-9 Make inner and interdisciplinary team works happen
PO-18 Act considering the fact that archaeological cultural heritage is the common heritage of mankind.
Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
the chronology of Byzantine rock-cut architecture and wall paintings, social, cultural and historical changing, local workshops.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 How Cappadocia was formed: An introduction geological and historical geography slide presentation, brain storm, question and answer teaching metod.
2 Transformation of Cappadocia in the late antiquity slide presentation, brain storm, question and answer teaching metod.
3 The early Byzantine cut-stone buildings slide presentation, brain storm, question and answer teaching metod.
4 The early Byzantine rock-cut architecture slide presentation, brain storm, question and answer teaching metod.
5 The wall painting art before Iconoclasm slide presentation, brain storm, question and answer teaching metod.
6 The wall painting art in ninth and tenth centuries: Archaic style slide presentation, brain storm, question and answer teaching metod.
7 Macedonian art in Cappadocia slide presentation, brain storm, question and answer teaching metod.
8 mid-term exam
9 Transformations in the eleventh century: Social elites slide presentation, brain storm, question and answer teaching metod.
10 the wall painting art: Donors, Styles slide presentation, brain storm, question and answer teaching metod.
11 the society and art of the thirteenth century in Cappadocia slide presentation, brain storm, question and answer teaching metod.
12 the society and art of the thirteenth century in Cappadocia slide presentation, brain storm, question and answer teaching metod.
13 The Rural Settlements in Cappadocia slide presentation, brain storm, question and answer teaching metod.
14 The agricultural installations in Cappadocia slide presentation, brain storm, question and answer teaching metod.
15 discussion slide presentation, brain storm, question and answer teaching metod.
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 HILD, F. Kappadokien : (Kappadokia, Charsianon, Sebasteia und Lykandos), Verlag der Österreichischen, Wien, 1981.
2 Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity.
3 OUSTERHOUT, R. G. A Byzantine settlement in Cappadocia, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington, D.C, 2005.
4 RODLEY, L., Cave monasteries of Byzantine Cappadocia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, 1985.
Required Course instruments and materials
projector

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 1 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 1 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 2 14 28
Outside Class
       a) Reading 4 14 56
       b) Search in internet/Library 4 14 56
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 0
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 4 6 24
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 4 6 24
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 190