ARHA 610
Prepares Ph.D. students for researching and writing their doctoral dissertation and for their future careers. Topics include: managing a large research project, research methods, academic publishing, research and publication ethics, interviewing, presentation and teaching skills, preparing images for publications, and preparing materials for job and grant applications.
ARHA 573
Explores the role and responsibilities of the curator in contemporary art. Recently this has expanded beyond galleries and museums to include an array of agencies in the creative, cultural, educational and industrial sectors and a diverse range of artistic and media forms. The course will review the methods and theories of curatorial practice and provide a critical framework for understanding and appreciating contemporary curatorial practice, its current issues and debates. Readings from architecture, art history, cultural criticism, heritage studies and critical theory will be discussed. Local, national and international case studies will be considered.
ARHA 566
This course familiarizes students with a variety of sources used in the historical study of different regions and periods: Calligraphy and epigraphy, numismatics, literary works, archival documents, and visual sources from paintings and photographs to monograms and coats of arms.
ARHA 561
A survey of European art, architecture and visual culture from the early modern era to World War One. Various aspects of the visual culture of Europe will be examined within its cultural, social, and political contexts.
ARHA 557
ARHA 590
Advanced language training related to the study of Anatolian Civilizations. Topics chosen by the faculty.
ARHA 571
Current exhibition design and interpretation practices. Students work both independently and collaboratively in creating exhibition designs and interpretive plans for galleries and museums. Questions of material and form; text and narrative; display and presentation; models of attention and perception, the relationship between language and vision; the role of description in interpretation; and what constitutes learning and meaning through visual and spatial experience. Students develop a design and interpretive practice through a series of workshops, exercises, site visits and critical discussions.
ARHA 563
This course provides an intensive study of the application of management theory and practice in cultural organizations and their governance and leadership in Türkiye. Topics covered include: how to establish missions and objectives; policy development and implementation; project management; financial management; legal framework; and so on.
ARHA 558
ARHA 555
ARHA 595
Students decide with their advisor about the topic of their thesis. In addition to researching and writing a thesis, graduate students in the program may continue to work as museum interns, or in archaeological excavations.
ARHA 572
This course takes as its starting assumption that the past is something we create today ? its structure and mediation impacting how we live in our shared world. This course will explore the intellectual history of archaeological thought and the development of heritage theory. While simultaneously exploring practical design skills, it will address inter-disciplinary practices between art, archaeology and heritage and contextualize these practices with readings from the disciplines of architecture, art history, critical theory, heritage studies.
ARHA 564
Bridging the scholarly knowledge of archaeology with the public; exploring diverse methods of interpretation, conservation and diverse ways to communicate archaeological information and data. Examples of public archaeology from Türkiye and abroad. Social, political and ethical issues that are surrounding archaeological investigation, interpretation and the production of knowledge.
