COURSE UNIT TITLE

: OTTOMAN SOCIAL HISTORY (FROM 15TH TO 19TH CENTURY)

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
EBE 6021 OTTOMAN SOCIAL HISTORY (FROM 15TH TO 19TH CENTURY) ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Institute Of Education Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR YAHYA ARAZ

Offered to

History Teacher Education
Educational Administration and Supervision
Geography Teacher Education
Teaching Turkish As A Foreign Language
FRENCH LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION
Chemistry Teacher Education
ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS TEACHER EDUCATION
Primary Teacher Education
PAINTING-CRAFTS TEACHER EDUCATION
Social Studies Teacher Education
Curriculum and Instruction
English Language Teacher Education
Music Teacher Education
Guidance and Psychological Counseling
Turkish Language and Literature Teacher Education
Mathematics Teacher Education
Science Teacher Education
Biology Teacher Education
Physics Teacher Education
TURKISH LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to introduce the students with the Ottoman social history, with an emphasis on the women, non-muslims, Ottoman city/rural life and relation between people from different community in pre-Tanzimat period.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to recognize fundamental features of Ottoman social life which dated back to fifteenth century
2   to explain essential features of Ottoman socio-political life
3   to discuss the place of women in the Ottoman society
4   to comment on relations of muslims and non-muslims in the Ottoman Empire
5   to consider relations between Ottoman urban and rural lifes

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction; what we must understand from the definition of "Ottoman social history"
2 Ottoman social history studies (in Turkey and abroad)
3 Sources of Ottoman social history I (archival materials)
4 Sources of Ottoman social history II (travels/journeys and first-person narratives)
5 State and society in the Ottoman Empire
6 "Classes" in the Ottoman society
7 Rural life (peasants and nomads)
8 Mid-Term Exam
9 Urban life (economic and social relations between people from different "strata")
10 Urban life (guilds and artisans)
11 Ottoman non-muslims (was there a "millet system" )
12 Ottoman non-muslims (their relations with the Muslims and the state)
13 Women in the Ottoman society
14 Social crisis (poverty, plague, fire, war, earthquake)
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1- Halil INALCIK, An Economic and Social History of Ottoman Empire, I-II, Cambridge University Press, 1997
2- Suraiya FAROQHI, Approaching Ottoman History: An Introduction to the Sources, Cambridge University Press, 1999

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, seminars, discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.30 +ASG* 0.10 + FCG* 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.30 + ASG * 0.10 + RST * 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

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 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 8 8
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 126

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4
LO.155
LO.255
LO.355
LO.455
LO.555

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