COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HISTORY OF SCIENCE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KMY 2021 HISTORY OF SCIENCE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Public Administration

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR ALI FARUK MUTLUSU

Offered to

Public Administration
Public Administration

Course Objective

It is aimed to examine the production process of scientific knowledge and the transformation in this process in terms of historical and institutional dimensions but also explaining the basic material production of scientific development

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to indicate differences between scientific knowledge and other knowledge resources
2   Being able to explain historical development of scientific development
3   Being able to interpret the relationship between the social sciences and natural sciences
4   Being able to describe the historical development and emergence of universities
5   Being able to explain institutional university and scientific tradition in Turkey

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The history of science and science historians; history of science writers, the reconstruction of the past
2 The resources of science
3 The distinction between social science and physical science, and scientific and non-scientific information
4 The scientific and technical development in ancient Greece, China and India
5 the scientific carriage of Islam and the Roman period
6 Scientific understanding of the Middle Ages and the Renaissan
7 The scientific developments in the 17th and 18th century
8 mid-term
9 mid-term
10 The distinction between Scientific and technical: Scientific development in the 19th Century
11 The Rapid development: in the 20th Century
12 The development of university in Europe
13 The institutional development of information production in the world
14 The institutional development of Turkish universities

Recomended or Required Reading

Colin A. Ronan, Bilim Tarihi, Çev. E. Ihsanoğlu, F. Günergun, TÜBITAK Yayınları, Ankara, 2003.
Peter Burke, Bilginin Toplumsal Tarihi, Çev: M. Tunçay, Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, Istanbul, 2001.
Kostas Gavroğlu, Bilimlerin Geçmişinden Tarih Üretmek, Iletişim Yayınları, Istanbul 2006.
Namık Kemal Aras, Emre Dölen ve Osman Bahadır (Der.), Türkiye'de Üniversite Anlayışının Gelişimi (1861-1961), TÜBA Yayınları, Ankara, 2007
Ertan Eğribel ve Ufuk Özcan (Der.), Bilim Sosyolojisi - Bilim Tarihi ve Yöntem, Sosyoloji Yıllığı 16, Istanbul, 2007.
Peter Whitfield, Batı Biliminde Dönüm Noktaları, Küre Yayınları, Istanbul, 2008,
Adnan Adıvar, Osmanlı Türklerinde Ilim, Remzi Kitabevi, Istanbul 1991.
Daniel Kehlmann, Dünyanın Ölçümü, Çev. A. Sabuncuoğlu, Can Yayınları, Istanbul, 2009.
Türkiye Araştırmaları Literatür Dergisi, Türk Bilim Tarihi sayısı, Cilt 2, Sayı 4, 2004
Altay Gündüz, Mezopotamya ve Eski Mısır Bilim, Teknoloji, Toplumsal Yapı ve Kültür, Büke, Istanbul 2002

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Theoritical Explanation
In-class discussion in accordance with the readings on the subjects in the content of weekly course
Paper related with the course subjects

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE MTEG * 1
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 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)

faruk.mutlusu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 2 24
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 1 4 4
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 106

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.11111
LO.211111
LO.3111
LO.411
LO.511

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