COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
SAT 5003 PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

History Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR ERDAL ASLAN

Offered to

History Teacher Education

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to get students to comprehend emergence and development of historiography as a science, main ideologies in the world historiography, their representatives and contributions, position of historiography in Turkey with regard to modern advancements.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to summarize emergence and development of historiography as a science
2   to explain principal development stages of historiography
3   to list principal historian who contributed to development of historiography and their works
4   to explain emergence and development of modern historiography
5   to write principal approaches in the world historiography
6   to explain principal approaches in the Turkish historiography
7   to develop a historical viewpoint

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 To explain definition, aims, contents of the course and make suggestions about reading in the course
2 History and Historiography in the ancient civilizations prior to Herodotus.
3 History, Historiography and chief historians in the Ancient Greek.
4 History, Historiography and chief historians in the Roman Period.
5 Christianity and ıts impact on the historiography.
6 Impacts of the Renaissance and Reform on the historiography.
7 New approaches and advancements in the historiography in Enlightenment period: Industrial Revolution, Marxism and impacts of nationalism on the historiography and its results.
8 Mid-Term Exam
9 Emergence and development of Modern Historiography.
10 Position of historiography in Europe, Asia and America in the early twentieth century.
11 Entrance of Modern Historiography into the Ottoman Empire and its development.
12 Historiography in the world and Turkey in the inter-war period.
13 Developments in Historiography in the World and Turkey after World War II: "New History", "Annales", "Marxist Historical Perception"," Social History" and "Cultural Historiography".
14 Historiography in the world and Turkey after 1960.
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1- Iggers, George G. (2003). Yirminci Yüzyılda Tarihyazımı. Istanbul:Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları
2- Collingwood, R. George (1990). Tarih Tasarımı. Istanbul:Ara Yayınları
3- Breisach, Ernest (2010). Tarih Yazımı. Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları
4- Burke, Peter (1994). Tarih ve Toplumsal Kuram. Istanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları
5- Özbaran, Salih (2003). Osmanlı'yı Özlemek ya da Tarih Tasarlamak. Ankara: Imge Kitabevi Yayınları
6- Tosh, John (1997). Tarihin Peşinde. Istanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları
7- Collingwood, R. George (2001). Tarih Felsefesi Üzerine Denemeler. Istanbul: Ayışığı Kitapları

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FCG * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60

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)

erdal.aslan@deu.edu.tr

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 5 65
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 173

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.1525
LO.2525
LO.3545
LO.4225
LO.5335
LO.6535
LO.7455

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