TAR758 - EUROPEAN REGIMES

Course Name Code Semester Theory
(hours/week)
Application
(hours/week)
Credit ECTS
EUROPEAN REGIMES TAR758 2nd Semester 3 0 3 10
PrequisitesNone
Course languageTurkish
Course typeElective 
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-Face 
Learning and teaching strategiesLecture
Discussion
 
Instructor (s)Lecture and discussion 
Course objectiveDr. Gümeç Karamuk 
Learning outcomes
  1. To provide the students to a good ground for searching into the regimes, established in Europe from the Germanic Invasions to the 20th century, with the aid of exemplifying texts of political thought
  2. By the end of this course the student, evaluatesthe dynamics of the power relations in European history.
  3. formulates the state on the basis of past, present and future.
  4. coprehends the different theoretical approaches on rulers and the ruled.
  5. understands and synthesizes the primary sources on the subject.
  6. evaluates the changing nature of the state in the European history.
Course ContentThis course will discuss the changing position of the central authority and the subjects due to the economic conditions until the French Revolution, the effects of Industrialization on this transformation, authoritarian and totalitarian regimes of the 20th century; interwar period in which communist and fascist state formations and governments, and the scene of the European regimes after World War II. 
ReferencesCassirer, E. (1984). Devlet Efsanesi, çev. N. Arat, İstanbul.
Keane, J. (1994) Demokrasi ve Sivil Toplum, çev. N. Erdoğan, İstanbul.
Sabine, G. (1969) Siyasal Düşünceler Tarihi, c:I, çev. H. Rızatepe, Ankara
Sabine, G. (1969) Siyasal Düşünceler Tarihi, c:II, çev. A. Öktem, Ankara
Sabine, G. (1991) Yakınçağ Siyasal Düşünceler Tarihi, III: çev. Ö. Ozankaya, Ankara
 

Course outline weekly

WeeksTopics
Week 1The crown-authority in the Germanic states
Week 2The feudal suzerain
Week 3The ruler of the Renaissance
Week 4The absolutist monarch
Week 5The enlightened ruler
Week 6Midterm
Week 7From law-state to constitutional state
Week 8The power of Bourgeoisie state
Week 9The constitutional regime
Week 10The communist and fascist state
Week 11Midterm
Week 12The roots democracy
Week 13Democracy sovereignity
Week 14Anti-democratic sovereignity
Week 15The comparison between democratic and ant-democratic sovereignity
Week 16Final exam

Assesment methods

Course activitiesNumberPercentage
Attendance00
Laboratory00
Application00
Field activities00
Specific practical training00
Assignments00
Presentation115
Project115
Seminar00
Midterms220
Final exam150
Total100
Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes450
Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes150
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)14684
Presentation / Seminar Preparation16060
Project000
Homework assignment13030
Midterms (Study duration)22040
Final Exam (Study duration) 14444
Total Workload33163300

Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes

D.9. Key Learning OutcomesContrubition level*
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1. Advances historical knowledge with research and creative thinking.    X
2. Reaches novel results in understanding the interactions between history and other social science disciplines in analyzing and evaluating new and complex ideas, arguments and developments using expert knowledge.     X
3. Describes and critically evaluates the essential historical sources, their language and properties and analyse the data contatined in them using various scientific methods and techniques including computer programs at the level of expertise; for this purpose develops new models, methods and applications.    X
4. Explains the reasons for the emergence of different schools of history and compares the historical knowledge produced by them in terms of method and content using a critical perspective.    X
5. Develops advanced historical projects and for that pupose forms and manages interdisciplinary teams of researchers.  X  
6. Examines, using a critical perspective, and improves the norms and rules governing the relationships in the humanities in gerenal and in history in particular; and when necessary directs actions to replace them.   X 
7. Supports the decision making processes of organizations working on preservation of the historical and cultural heritage and participates awareness-raising activities of these organizations.X    

*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest