AH521 THEMES ON ANCIENT DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE
| Course Code: | 8010521 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | History of Architecture |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. AYŞEM BERRİN ÇAKMAKLI |
| Offered Semester: | Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
Providing students an in-depth knowledge and necessary methodological and theoretical background of research and literature to undertake studies on ancient Greek and Roman domestic architecture and daily life, and to develop their skills of critical reading, discussion, writing and interdisciplinary research.
Course Content
This seminar course is a critical survey of domestic architecture and daily life in ancient Greek and Roman periods in an interdisciplinary framework through thematic readings. Weekly readings and discussions focus on themes and concepts like house, home, space, privacy, luxury, leisure, gender, art and consumption to highlight how private space was designed, decorated, populated and used in antiquity.
Course Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student will be able to:
Knowledge
- demonstrate knowledge of relevant literature, theories and methodologies in the historiography of ancient domestic achitecture
- demonstrate knowledge of interdisciplinary approaches on studying ancient domestic architecture
- apply in-depth knowledge and skills acquired in the course in their individual research projects
Skills
- develop an advanced level of critical thinking and writing on architectural history topics
- develop archival research skills for a critical understanding and evaluation of sources
- develop critical skills that allow for an increasing degree of autonomy in individual research
- display advanced skills in discursive communication and academic writing.
Attitudes
- develop awareness of the multi-disciplinary/multi-cultural nature of architectural history studies
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | acquire basic and up-to-date information in the field of architectural history, both in local and global levels (knowledge) | ✔ | |||
| 2 | have profound knowledge of research methods and literature in the field (knowledge) | ✔ | |||
| 3 | conduct independent research and study (skills) | ✔ | |||
| 4 | collect and use information from diverse and reliable sources and archival research (skills ) | ✔ | |||
| 5 | relate architectural history to other fields and benefit from the knowledge obtained from them (skills ) | ✔ | |||
| 6 | transmit architectural history knowledge textually and verbally by various communication and presentation tools in an effective way (in Turkish and English) (skills) | ✔ | |||
| 7 | create architectural history products such as publications, exhibitions, restitution reports, and others in using knowledge acquired in the field and its subjects (in Turkish and English) (skills) | ✔ | |||
| 8 | use the knowledge and experience gained to contribute to the discipline of architectural history and cultural environments (attitudes) | ✔ | |||
| 9 | observe up-to-date knowledge and research in the field and be open to lifelong learning (attitudes) | ✔ | |||
| 10 | be open to imparting knowledge in different milieus (attitudes) | ✔ | |||
| 11 | work within the framework of disciplinary procedures and code of ethics (attitudes) | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution