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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
ESH 0043	AEGEAN CULTURES	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	4

Offered By

Faculty Of Letters

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

American Culture and Literature
Archeology
.
Translation and Interpreting
.
Turkish Language and Literature
Translation and Interpreting(Turkish-German-English)
Psychology
Archeology
Comparative Literature
Sociology
Sociology
Philosophy
Linguistics
History
Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies (English)
History
Comparative Literature

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to introduce the history of the Aegean world, Western Anatolia, The Cyclades and mainland Greece. The cultural history of the region focusing on material findings will be a real asset for understanding today.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	Learn the background of Aegean geography and the geographical data that does not change despite changing cultures, natural environment and possibilities.
2	Learn the earliest phases of human history by focusing on cultural lives developed by Aegean people
3	Acquire knowledge about material culture of the Aegean culture.
4	Analyze literary and musical components of the Aegean culture
5	Explore the human dimension of the Aegean culture

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	Aegean cultural geography, natural environment
2	Prehistorical Aegean and Cycladic art
3	Seafarer civilisations:Troia
4	Cultural controversy of Homeric epics
5	The West andThe East, the birth of science
6	Classical art and today s thought
7	Rome and Anatolia, Aphrodisias
8	Midterm
9	Turkish invasion
10	An Ottoman island:Mithylene
11	Westernisation in the Aegean
12	Human scenery from the Aegean
13	Gastronomical life
14	Human interaction and rembetiko music
15	Izmir: A Republican City
16	Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean, Eric H.Cline, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012
-Tunç Çağı'nı Sona Erdiren Halklar- Deniz Kavimleri, Barış Gür, Arkeoloji ve sanat yayınları, Istanbul 2012
-Antik Anadolu Coğrafyası/Geographika, Strabon, çeviren:Adnan Pekman, Arkeoloji ve sanat yayınları, Istanbul 2012
-Antik Çağda Anadolu, Elmar Schwertheim, Çeviri: Nuran Batu, 2009
-Ege ve Yunan Tarihi, Arif Müfid MANSEL, Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, Ankara 2011
-Bizans Devleti Tarihi, Gergy OSTROGORSKY, Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, Ankara 2011
-Büyük Selçuklu Imparatorluğu Tarihi - I. Cilt: KURULUŞ DEVRI, Mehmet Altay KÖYMEN, Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, Ankara 2011
-Büyük Selçuklu Imparatorluğu Tarihi - II. Cilt: IKINCI IMPARATORLUK DEVRI, Mehmet Altay KÖYMEN, Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, Ankara 2011

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, presentations and assignments

Assessment Methods

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

*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Multiple choice and essay type questions

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance (70%) is obligatory.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

sukru.tul@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures	14	2	28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures	14	3	42
Preparation for midterm exam	1	12	12
Preparation for final exam	1	14	14
Final	1	2	2
Midterm	1	2	2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			100

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO	PO.1	PO.2	PO.3	PO.4	PO.5	PO.6	PO.7	PO.8	PO.9	PO.10	PO.11	PO.12	PO.13	PO.14
LO.1									5
LO.2									5
LO.3									5
LO.4									5
LO.5									5

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Description of Individual Course Units

Offered By

Level of Course Unit

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Course Objective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

Recomended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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