Graduate School of Sciences | Department of Advanced Technologies | (Non-Thesis) Master of Science (MS) Degree | Program in Documenting Cultural Heritage

Profile of the Programme

Turkey is one of the most important country in the world with its cultural properties and wealth. However, still in our country, the most important problem is that cultural properties have not been taken out, documentation and restitution studies are both not enough and destroyed because of wrong applications. In short, whereas Turkey is a very important country in terms of archeological and cultural heritage, this heritage is in the danger of not handing down the next generations for some reasons such as havin a limited number of sufficient workers in the field studies, not accurate studies all the time and insufficient documentation. Within the studies and education programmes in this unit, this program aims to perform interdisciplinary research and development studies and determining appropriate methods in culture property documentation and supply staff for the post graduate programme. As a part of preparing the preservation and restoration projects in the architectural scale, this documentation study describes the process of producing the basic data with the help of advanced technology.

This programme aims at providing candidates to specialise academically and practical in an interdisciplinary environment, in the general sense, in the documentation of cultural properties. In this way, students gain skills of utilising advanced technology in protection and are given information in basic protection theory-material and stucture, art-architecture history and archeology.

Programme Director & ECTS Coord.

General admission requirements stated under Info on the Institution on this website are being applied to start this programme.

Recognition of Prior Learning

Depending on the degrees awarded, theoretical or practical courses taken as part of a degree (completed or not completed) may lead to recognition of these as prior learning by the programme administration. The students who have taken courses in another institution in Turkey or abroad can ask for credit and grade transfer. The executive boards of relevant programme will decide on the courses to be transferred covering students' entire academic program once and for all with the condition that the request for transfer be made within the first week of the academic year, the requests cannot be repeated.

Qualification Requirements and Regulations

A student is required to successfully complete a minimum of 10 courses, not less than 75 ECTS credits and complete a term project, have a minimum GPA of 2.50/4.00 and no letter grades lower than CC and YT.

Access to Further Studies

May apply to doctorate programmes in any field or proficiency in fine arts programmes.

Graduation Requirements

Occupational Profiles of Graduates

Graduates may work in fields such as providing fast and precise data to archeologists, architects and architecture-art historians with the help of the technological opportunities they benefit; therefore, they can provide accurate data and improve the accuracy of the researches. This programme will create employment and specialization for the young people such as architects, archeologists etc.

Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading

Grade	Coefficient
AA	4,0
AB	3,7
BA	3,3
BB	3,0
BC	2,7
CB	2,3
CC	2,0
CD	1,7
DC	1,3
DD	1,0
FF	0,0