B.U.U. State Conservatory was founded in 1998. Students were registered to the Music and Ballet Elemantary School and first given full time education in 1999. The High School opened in 2001 and undergraduate and graduate programs started in 2003 for the Music Department.
The Music Department of the state Conservatory has been continuing providing education at elemantary and secondary preparatory levels and with the academic programs of undergraduate, graduate and post graduate levels for Strings, Wind and Percussions, Piano and Composition majors.

The program for Turkish Music in Music Department undergraduate level is under the system of first cycle with its 240 ECTS. When the program qualifications are attained for the whole program an undergraduate degree is gained -for the Turkish Music- in music department.

First Cycle

The candidates must have a high school diploma and be successful at the two step entrance examinations. İn the first step of the examination the candidate is tested to determine his/her musical hearing, perception and memory. The students who are graduates of a Conservatory high school do not have to take the first examination. In the second step of the examination the student is examined to see if he/she has the necessary background and ability to study at the Turkish Music program he/she has applied for. The students who are succesful at the entrance exams are accepted to the preporatory class. (The proficiency exam is given one week after the entrance exams.)

The provisions in “Regulation on Transfer among Associate and Undergraduate Degree Programs, Double Major, and Subspecialty and the Principals of Credit Transfer among Institutions in Higher Education Institutions” are applied.

To get an undergraduate degree for Turkish Music Major, at the Music Department, the student has to complete all the obligatory and elective courses successfully (with a total of 240 ECTS) and must have at least 2.00 over 4.00 GPA.

The aim of State Conservatory Music Department Turkish Music program is to provide artists with creative qualities accepted at national and international level and having acquired the necessary knowledge and abilities of his/her own major.

1. To attain a basic cumulative knowledge related to the culture and aesthetic of music
2. To acquire knowledge about the interrelation among the art of music and other disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, psychology
3. To gain the ability of analysing and understanding traditional music repertoire depending on the knowledge attained at one’s own majör.
4. To gain the ability of transforming the attained knowledge of field into musical compositions.
5. To use the methods and techniques at the activities requiring musical performance.
6. To be proficient technically and aesthetically in performing musical pieces.
7. To work productively and in association during musical performances either in a group or alone.
8. To use the skills having gained throughout his/her major training in professional life.
9. To develop the skills of questioning and solution providing about the musical activities being realized.
10. To transfer subjects specific to one’s department, using the Turkish language in an effective way in both verbal and written communication.
11. To be aware of national, cultural and aesthetic values in the art of music.
12. To use a foreign language in order to follow the international literature and facilities or participate in such facilities related to music.

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Occupational Profiles of Graduates With Examples

The graduates can work as a performer at home or abroad (resmi ya da özel …………. depending on the performance level of his/her major as well as being able to work as a teaching staff at various universities providing music or performing arts education.

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Access to Further Studies

The students who have completed the undergraduate level at the required level and have the necessary skills and background in his/her major as well as being proficient at a foreign language can continue their education at master programs.

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Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading

Every student has to register for the courses at the begining of each semester and has to attend at least %70 of the theoretical lessons and %80 of the practice lessons in order to be able to take the final examinations of the term. They have to take at least one midterm and a final examination. The midterm ( project work, quiz or others) is worth %40 and the final examination is worth %60. The examinations are graded over 100 points. The final examination at the courses of the semester where the student has to performance and creativity in major is held by a comittee of at least 3 academicians and he/she has to get minumum 70 point and CC letter grade so as to be successful. AA, BA, BB, CB and CC letter grades are considered as successful for the other courses. DC and DD are conditional. The student has to have a GPA of 2.00 at least to be able to pass a course with a DC or DD grade.

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Graduation Requirements

To complete the program succesfully the student has to succeed at all of the courses (corresponding to 240 ECTS) with a GPA of 2.00 over 4.00 at last.

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Mode of Study

Full-Time

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Address and Contact Details

Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Görükle Yerleşkesi Nilüfer BURSA
Tel: (224)294 27 00 – (0530) 827 82 07
e-mail: konsogis@uludag.edu.tr
ozlemvarli@uludag.edu.tr (ASD Başkanı)

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Facilities

At the music department, the students are trained mostly by experienced artists (tutors) and the students are provided with the opportunity to make use of their experiences and archives at the workshops. Conservatory has quite a big library enough to supply students with documents to make research and scores of the pieces to be analyzed, as well.
The Conservatory building provides various opportunities to progress in the quality of education. The financial support of our university for this building and the interior design is a significant advantage of this program.

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Curriculum