When the educational programme is successfully completed and the necessities of programme are satisfied, the tittle of “Art Historian” is assigned to the graduates of the department with Bachelor’s degree in Art History discipline.
First Cycle
The candidates are centrally defined and assigned to start their Bachelor’s degree education in the department with respect to their grading points of Central University Entrance Exam (ÖSS, in Turkish).
Admission can be made from the institutions of which equivalency is recognized by Higher Education Council. Successful vocational school graduates to continue their educaiton to obtain Bachelor’s degrees if they are successful in vertical transfer examination are also admitted. The courses to be taken by these students are determined by the relevant department, on the basis of courses they have completed in the programs in vocational school from which they have graduated. Recognition of prior non-formal and in-formal learning is at the beginning stage in Turkish Higher Education Institutions. Ataturk University and thus the department is not an exception to this. However, exams of exemption are organised at the start of each year at the University for the courses of English Language. The students who achieve a passing grade from the exam are held exempt from the related course in the curriculum.
Students must be successfull and/or pass all courses on the programme including graduation thesis and internship that are explained education and exam regulation of Ataturk University.
Art history is the social-scientific discipline that investigates the civilastion products which date even back the start of the human civilisations in general meaning by means of era, religion, history, sociological and mythologic facts, in particular with respect to the historical eras, systematically. Our department has a mission to investigate these cultural data within three main socio-scientific divisions. By this way, our deartment has a further mission as to transfer the facts of these civilation products to our students using educational tools. Moreover, briefing our public who are interested in our area of concern is also among the missions of our department. In addition, investigating, learning and teaching the unknown topics and cultures is not only a academical study but also an educational activity of our department. Our department makes the point of organising many exhibtions, panels, conferences, seminars, congresses and symposiums as important missions to approach the visual audial views of aspects from a positive route and to transfer this knowledge to the next generations.
Art History graduates in all units of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, private museums, governorships and municipalities can serve as an Art Historian.
The graduates holding Bachelor’s Degree are eligible to apply to Master’s Degree programmes at national level and /or international level both in the same and in related disciplines. Students who are high honor students are also eligible to apply to doctorate degree at Ataturk University.
One mid-term examsand one final exam are required for every class offered at the department. 40% of the final exam and 60% of the other exam grades define the final grade of the class. Student has to meet the requirements defined by the guidelines to be eligible to take the final exam. All exams are graded out of 100 points, and relative grading system is used to determine the student’s success grade. For this purpose, course lecturer converts the mid-term, final exam and other grades to the letter grades by means of a statistical evaluation of these based on the rules defined by the guidelines. Students who can not meet the 2.00 GPA minimum for two consequent semesters are not allowed to enroll the following semester’s classes. Any student who gets AA, BA, BB, CB and CC grades from a course is considered to be successful. On the other hand, DC and DD grades are evaluated based on the student’s cumulative GPA. If student’s cumulative GPA is above the minimum GPA, then student is considered to be successful in all courses with DC and DD grades. FF grade is assigned to a student who is assumed to be unsuccessful in a course. A student with a FF grade in a particular course is supposed to re-register for that course first time it is offered with the same attendance and exam requirements. M and G grades are not accounted through the GPA calculation.
The student must be successful for all given courses of the programme in order to graduate. The courses that satisfy the assigned amount of credits should be taken and minimım CGPA must be 2.00 over 4.00.
Full time