Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Geleneksel El Sanatları
	English	Traditional Handcrafts
Course Code	ENT 454E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	-	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Gülname Turan
Course Objectives		To build knowledge and criticism capacity about handicrafts through concepts such as tradition, handmade, authenticity, material culture and tradition.
Course Description		Examination of different traditional handicrafts (textile / carpet / wood / metal / ceramic / calligraphy / marbling) within the framework of the triangle of production, consumption and circulation/consumption.
Course Outcomes		The student who successfully completes this course: - recognizes the ontological characteristics of traditional handicrafts, - can evaluate the relationships between material and form, form and function, function and decoration, and decoration and form in traditional products within production, aesthetic and technical frameworks.
Pre-requisite(s)		none
Required Facilities
Other
Textbook		Henry Glassie (2002), Turkish Traditional Art Today, Ministry of Culture of the Turkish Republic. Richard Sennett (2009), The Craftsman, Penguin Books Ltd.
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