Department of Art History

My name is Oğuzhan Arıkan. I am a 4th year student at Eskişehir Anadolu University, Department of Art History. The Art History Department operates within the Faculty of Humanities at Anadolu University's Yunus Emre Campus. The purpose of the establishment of the Art History Department is to make sense of the history arising from material culture, to interpret it and to explain it through artists. There are 3 programs in our department: Byzantine Art, Turkish-Islamic, and Western and Contemporary Art. There are study rooms of the excavations carried out by the Art History Department. There are excavation rooms of Byzantine art and Turkestan arts. We are in one of them right now. These workshops are laboratories established for students to get to know and explore the studies of the material culture obtained from the excavations more closely. Products and artifacts are studied here before they go to museums. The works are dated, tagged and delivered to the museums. Our department does not have a compulsory internship, but our university supports our students who want to work in museums, excavations and other fields and evaluates those studies within the scope of the internship program. Within the scope of graduation conditions, you fulfill the graduation requirements after completing 240 credits and successfully conducting and completing the thesis that you need to do in the last year. After graduating from the department, it is possible to work in libraries, archives, private or state museums, various institutions and organizations with the status of art historian. The reason why I chose my department is that art history is a scientific discipline that focuses on all traces of humanity from past to present, along with the changing dynamics. Art history explores all of these, so that we can see the adventure of humanity from past to present in this field in the most comprehensive way. That's why I chose this department. The reason why I chose Anadolu University is that it is a university with a young population and it has a lifelong education mission. This also has an impact on the academic staff. That's why I chose Anadolu University because I thought I could develop myself much better here. After graduation, I want to become an academic. My main goal is to work in the field of Western and Contemporary Art and to transfer my knowledge to our young generations. My advice to candidates who will prefer our school and department is to read a lot and discover new places. This will make this department much more enjoyable. In this way, they can graduate as competent art historians. Students who will prefer our university can participate in a wide range of student clubs. At the same time, they can voluntarily take part in the excavations carried out by our department. I wish good luck to those who will take the exam. If you like to travel and research, we welcome you to Anadolu University, Faculty of Humanity, Department of Art History. We would be very happy to see you among us.