COURSE UNIT TITLE

: POLITICAL HISTORY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
HUK 1032 POLITICAL HISTORY ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Law

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR SERDAR NARIN

Offered to

Law

Course Objective

To lecture the 20th Century World and Turkey Political history within the context of nation states and international system as a consequence of 1789 French Revolution. In Political History class, the development and change of states from their establishment to collapse and the ideas and practices of people, groups and classes, the relation between these and the state, and the relations between sovereign states as actors of international system will be analyzed

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to explain 1789 French Revolution
2   To internalize the nation state concept
3   To be able to reflect nationalism, industrialization and modernization
4   To have a grasp of 19th and 20th Century Turkey' s recent political history
5   To be able to state 19th and 20th Century European history, world wars, cold war.
6   To explain the international relations in the context of new world order and globalization.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction, 1789 French Revolution
2 Industrial revolution and western modernism
3 The last century of Ottoman Empire
4 First World War and The October Revolution
5 Great depression and dictatorships, Second World War
6 The nation state of Turkish Republic: from empire to nation state
7 Bipolar world and the end of colonialism
8 Reasons for the foundation of European union, Schuman Declaration
9 The 1968 Movement
10 The gridlock of Turkish democracy
11 Economic crisis in 1970, conflicts in international order, failure of politics, Middle-East problem
12 Cyprus Peace Operation
13 The collapse of socialist system, new world order and USA, Turkey EU relations
14 Midterm Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Text book
Siyasi Tarih-Oral Sander.
Supplementary Book(s):
Fahir Armaoğlu-Dünya siyasi tarihi.
Referanslar: Siyasi Tarih-Türkiye Tarihi
Diğer ders materyalleri: Other monographies in political history.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE 1 MIDTERM EXAM 1
2 MTE 2 MIDTERM EXAM 2
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE+FIN
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE+RST

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 25 25
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 100

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