AÄ°T626 - CONTEMPORAY WORLD HISTORY II

Course Name Code Semester Theory
(hours/week)		 Application
(hours/week)		 Credit ECTS
CONTEMPORAY WORLD HISTORY II AÄ°T626 2nd Semester 3 0 3 7
PrequisitesNone
Course languageTurkish
Course typeElective 
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-Face 
Learning and teaching strategiesLecture
Other: Presentation and Essay  
Instructor (s)Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yonca ANZERLÄ°OÄžLU 
Course objective1. the political and military developments in the 20th Century. 2. the economic developments in the 20th Century. 3. the social developments of the 20th Century. 4. the recent developments post-1990s in the light of globalisation  
Learning outcomes
  1. 1.the political and military developments in the 20th Century
  2. 2.the economic developments in the 20th Century
  3. 3.the social developments of the 20th Century4.the recent developments post-1990s by taking globalisation into account.
Course ContentThis lecture helds the 20th Century in which, the 19th-Century evolved term ?modern? swirled within ideological struggles, with its vairous political, military, economic and social aspects. Within this framework, by taking the term ?globalisation? into account, it is given place to the developments happened beginning from 1914 to the early 1990?s as the political end of the 20th Century and its aftermath. Thus, it is aimed to comparative perspective between the ?modern times? the globalisation concept. 
ReferencesArmaoğlu, Fahir, 20.Yüzyıl Siyasi Tarihi, Ankara, 1979.
ArmaoÄŸlu, Fahir, Siyasi Tarih, Ankara, 1975.
Hobsbawm, Eric, Kısa 20. Yüzyıl, 1914-1991, çev. Yavuz Alogan, İstanbul, 1996.
Kennedy, Paul, Büyük Güçlerin Yükseliş ve Çöküşleri, çev. Birtane Karanakçı, Ankara, 1990.
Kissinger, Henry, Diplomasi, çev. İbrahim H. Kurt, Ankara, 2000.
Lee, Stephan J., Avrupa Tarihinden Kesitler, C.1-2, 1779-1970, Ankara, 2002.
Sander, Oral, Siyasi Tarih, C. I-II, Ankara, 1997.
 

Course outline weekly

WeeksTopics
Week 1Inrtoduction to the course and definition of the main concepts
Week 2Europe between 1917-1939
Week 3Turkey between 1917-1939
Week 4The World War II
Week 5The Cold War: the USA
Week 6The Cold War: the USSR
Week 7Mid-Term exam
Week 8The Cold War: Europe
Week 9The Middle East and Turkey
Week 10Developments in the 70s and its Aftermath
Week 11The Middle East
Week 12Turkey
Week 13Eastern Europe and the Balkans
Week 14The Collapse of the Soviet Union and its aftermath
Week 15Preparation for the final exam
Week 16Final Exam

Assesment methods

Course activitiesNumberPercentage
Attendance110
Laboratory00
Application00
Field activities00
Specific practical training00
Assignments00
Presentation120
Project00
Seminar00
Midterms130
Final exam140
Total100
Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes060
Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes040
Total100

WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION

Activities Number Duration (hour) Total Work Load
Course Duration (x14) 14 3 42
Laboratory 0 0 0
Application000
Specific practical training000
Field activities000
Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect)1210120
Presentation / Seminar Preparation11515
Project000
Homework assignment11010
Midterms (Study duration)11010
Final Exam (Study duration) 11313
Total Workload3061210

Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes

D.9. Key Learning OutcomesContrubition level*
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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  

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