Usak Üniversitesi Ögrencilerinin Tarihi ve Kültürel Eserler Hakkindaki Ilgi ve F

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determine the interest and awareness level of undergraduate students towards the historical and cultural works in Usak, where they are living temporally at the time of the study. There were 560 students participated in the study who were registered to nine different departments attached to the faculties of Education, Science and Liberal Arts, Economics and Administrative Sciences and Engineering in Usak University. A revised version of the instrument developed by Kece and Dinc (2010) was used for data collection purposes. SPSS programme was used to descriptively analyse the collected data. The findings of the study reveal that the interest level of students towards the historical and cultural works in Usak is over the average, while their level of awareness towards them is less than average. The findings also indicated that the level of participants’ interest towards the historical and cultural works shows statistically significant differences between female and male students, while their level of knowledge and awareness about those works differs on the basis of departments students were registered to.