| Course Name | Economic History |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| GEEC 207 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Service Course | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
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| Course Objectives | The aim of this course is to give students a background on economic developments and origins of contemporary society. The main focus of the course will be the emergence and the development of social and economic systems, and how these systems have come to shape our contemporary world, by giving emphasis on the European context. Keeping this aim in mind, we will first consider what economic history is (what kind of a discipline it is, how is different from economics, etc.), and then consider what in human history had paved the way to capitalism. The course will be ended with a brief discussion of the contemporary era, in which the process of globalization is said to be prevalent. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | The aim of this course is to inform students about the historical development of economic processes and institutions and the evolution of production, distribution, consumption patterns, and the factors of production in the world and particularly in Western Europe. Some of the topics on this course include: economic processes in the ancient world and middle ages, geographical expansion of the Western world, industrial revolution, developments in agriculture, finance, banking sectors during the expansion process of the main European countries, application of technology, developments in telecommunication and transportation, the role of the state, the growth of the world economy and impact of the European industrialized countries on the rest of the world, and the economic developments of the post World War I and II. |
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| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction & terminology | Chapter I (1) |
| 2 | Economic question(s) & documentary part I | Chapter I (2) |
| 3 | Economic development in ancient times & the premarket society (part I) | Chapter II (1) & Chapter II (2); pp. 18 29 |
| 4 | Medieval Europe & the premarket society (part II) | Chapter III (1) & Chapter II (2); pp. 29 44 |
| 5 | Nonwestern economies on the eve of western expansion & documentary part II | Chapter IV (1) |
| 6 | Europe’s overseas expansion and transformation in Europe | Chapters V VI (1) |
| 7 | The emergence of market society & the age of revolution | Chapter III (2), Chapter VII (1) & Chapter IV (2) |
| 8 | Paths of economic development | Chapter III (2), Chapter VII (1) & Chapter IV (2) |
| 9 | The age of high imperialism & documentary part III | Chapters XI XII (1) |
| 10 | The world economy in the twentieth century | Chapter XIII (1) & Chapter VI (2) |
| 11 | The drift of modern economic history | Chapter VII (2) & Chapter XIV (1) |
| 12 | Rebuilding of world economy | Chapter XV (1) |
| 13 | World economy at the beginning of the twentieth century | Chapter XV (1) |
| 14 | Review of the semester | |
| 15 | Review of the semester | |
| 16 | Review of the semester |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Rondo Cameron and Larry Neal (2003) A Concise Economic History of the World, 4th Edition, Oxford University Press; and Robert L. Heilbroner (1989) The Making of Economic Society, PrenticeHall, Inc. |
| Suggested Readings/Materials | Dennis Sherman (eds.) (2006) Western Civilization, Images and Interpretations, Vol. I, McGrawHill; and Gerald Diamond (1999) Guns, Germs and Steel, W. W. Norton & Co. (also available in documentary format from National Geographic Society); and Gordon Child (1960) What Happenened in History, Pelican.; and Eric Hobsbawm, (1990) Industry and Empire, Penguin. |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | ||
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 10 |
| Presentation / Jury | ||
| Project | 1 | 20 |
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | 1 | 30 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 40 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 60 | |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 40 | |
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 14 | |
| Presentation / Jury | |||
| Project | 1 | 25 | |
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 25 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 30 | |
| Total | 190 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To be able to use advanced, field-specific conceptual, theoretical, and practical knowledge acquired, | |||||
| 2 | To be able to analyze and research field-specific concepts and ideas and to interpret data individually or as a team using scientific methods, | |||||
| 3 | To be able to understand and use grammatical and semantic structures of the source and target languages, | |||||
| 4 | To be able to obtain information about social, cultural, and historical approaches within the source and target languages and to use this information for textual analysis and production, | |||||
| 5 | To be able to understand and interpret written and oral texts in the source language and to transfer these texts into the target language using a semantically and functionally appropriate language, | |||||
| 6 | To be able to produce creative translations and assess the translation products critically by defining the steps, strategies and problems in the translation process in the light of field-specific theoretical knowledge and skills acquired, | |||||
| 7 | To be able to transfer the theoretical knowledge and research skills within different areas of expertise to translational act, | |||||
| 8 | To be able to use computer-assisted translation tools and machine translation effectively at each step of the translation process, and to follow the theoretical and practical developments in these fields, | |||||
| 9 | To be able to gain awareness of the translator’s social role, job profile, and professional ethical values and to acquire workload management skills for individual or team work, | |||||
| 10 | To be able to access necessary sources to improve quality at each step of the translation process and to assess the target text in accordance with the quality objectives by using these sources, | |||||
| 11 | To be able to establish effective oral and written communication skills both in English and Turkish, to be able to speak a second foreign language at a good level, to be able to use a third foreign language at intermediate level, | |||||
| 12 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. | |||||
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