AÄ°T623 - METHODOLOGY of HISTORY
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| METHODOLOGY of HISTORY | AÄ°T623 | 1st Semester | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| Prequisites | None | |||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion Other: prepairing essay | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Prof. Dr. Fatma ACUN | |||||
| Course objective | Gaining ability and sense to analyse the past events in order to beter understand and evaluate current events. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | Subject and coverage of history. Historian, historical events and historical facts. Philosophy of history and historical ecoles. Sources for history and technics to use them. History and future | |||||
| References | E. H. CARR, Tarih Nedir, Çev. Misket Gizem Gürtürk, İletişim Yayınları, 2012. Zeki Velidi TOGAN, Tarihte Usul, Enderun Kitabevi; İstanbul, 1981. Richard J. EVANS, Tarihin Savunusu, Çev. Uygur Kocabaşoğlu, İmge Kitabevi, Ankara, 1999. John TOSH, Tarihin Peşinde, Tarih Vakfı,Yurt Yayınları, İstanbul, 1997. March BLOCH, The Historian?s Craft, Manchester University Press, 1992. Fatma ACUN, ?Yakın Dönem Tarihi Metodolojisi?, Atatürk Araştırma Merkezi Dergisi, 42 (Kasım 1998), s. 717-756. Geofrey BARRACLOUGH, An Introduction to Contemporary History, Penguin Books, Third edition, 1990. Burke, Bloch, Febvre, Tarih ve Tarihçi, Derleyen: Ali Boratav, Alan Yayıncılık, İstanbul, 1985. Tarih ve Tarihçi İlişkileri, Ankara, 1998. | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | What is history? Varying descriptions of history and their critical evaluation |
| Week 2 | Is history a science or an art? |
| Week 3 | Who is a historian and what qualities should he/she have? |
| Week 4 | What is the historical event and the historical factt? Interaction between historian and his/her facts |
| Week 5 | Ecoles in history |
| Week 6 | Relationship of history with social sciences; common subjects and distinguishing lines. |
| Week 7 | History and the associated sciences |
| Week 8 | Sources for history: Written sources |
| Week 9 | Sources for history: Visual and verbal sources |
| Week 10 | Methods for written sources: text analysis, comparative method, sysytem approach, numerical analysis |
| Week 11 | Methods for visual and verbal analysis: reportage, survey, commending on visual material |
| Week 12 | Mid-term |
| Week 13 | Objectivity in history |
| Week 14 | History and progress |
| Week 15 | Preperation for the final exam |
| Week 16 | Final exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 10 | 10 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 1 | 0 |
| Presentation | 1 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 1 | 40 |
| Final exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 0 | 50 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 0 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 12 | 10 | 120 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 1 | 15 | 15 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 13 | 13 |
| Total Workload | 30 | 61 | 210 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. Analyzes the events of Turkish National Struggle, history of Turkish Republic and the process of Modernisation of Turkey in connection with past and today's events and makes projections for the future. | X | ||||
| 2. Knows the sources for Turkish Republican History and for Modernisation of Turkey and analyzes their language and features in expert-level. Analyzes historical events with the datas extracted from sources by scientific tecniques and methods. | X | ||||
| 3. Comprehends and explains the basic concepts and techniques of history, the relation of history with other social sciences, and its similarities and differences in expert-level. | X | ||||
| 4. Gains knowledge about European and world histography, stages of Turkish histography and its place in world histography, ecoles of history and modern histography. Analyzes content and method of historical knowledge which is produced by general and national history ecoles in a critical way. | X | ||||
| 5. Observes political, social, economical, academical and technical devolopments on global, regional and local scale, analyzes and explains them in expert level. | X | ||||
| 6. Comments and compares the knowledges of different societies, cultures and civilizations which emerged in the historical process within the scope of individual and society. | X | ||||
| 7. Makes collobotative studies with the other fields of social sciences aiming at the solution of complicated problems. | X | ||||
| 8. Prepares projects with the purpose of understanding of any political, social and economical problem. Participates in project teams as a leader or team member, and prepares project reports by commenting and anlayzing the findings. | X | ||||
| 9. Follows the academic studies published in Turkish and in foreign languages concerning history and other humaniterian sciences and prepares articles and papers. | X | ||||
| 10. Obtains interrogatiove and critical perspective, tries to understand others thoughts and acts of others , makes self-critique, interacts with others for academic purposes ises, presents findings and ideas in scientific and ethical way and makes and commends on them. | X | ||||
| 11. Gains the ability of approaching to the history of modernisation and the progress in democratisation from Ottomans to Republic and other problems concerning Turkish history from multi disciplinary perspective. | X | ||||
| 12. Knows the phases of progress in Turkish history, understands the effect of war on art and reconstructs the war scenes by using art material. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest