Course Name | History of Revolutions |
Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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SOC 315 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
Prerequisites | None | |||||
Course Language | English | |||||
Course Type | Elective | |||||
Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
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Course Coordinator | - | |||||
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Assistant(s) | - |
Course Objectives | This course has two goals. One is to introduce the sociological literature on revolutions, and the other is to acquaint students with the main cases of revolutions. |
Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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Course Description | This course focuses on theories of revolutions along with the cases of main revolutions that emerged in the modern world. |
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Major Area Courses | X | |
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Transferable Skill Courses |
Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
1 | Introduction | Presentation and an overview of the course, course organization, requirements and methods of evaluation |
2 | What is a protest? What is a social movement? | Donatella Della Porta and Mario Diani. 2006. “Studying Social Movements”, chapter 1 In Social Movements: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell. 1- 29. Hank Johnston, 2014. “What is a Social Movement”? chapter 1 in What is a Social Movement. Polity Press. |
3 | What is a revolution? | Berch Berberoglu. 2019. “Introduction: Dynamics of Social Movements, Revolution, and Social Transformation” in The Palgrave Handbook of Social Movements, Revolution, and Social Transformation-Springer International Publishing. |
4 | Theoretical Approaches to Revolutions | John Foran.2015. “Theorizing revolutions” in Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions. Jack A Goldstone. 1982. The Comparative and Historical Study of Revolutions. Annual Review of Sociology 8:187-207. Berch Berberoglu. 2019. “The Marxist Theory of Social Movements, Revolution, and Social Transformation” in The Palgrave Handbook of Social Movements, Revolution, and Social Transformation-Springer International Publishing. |
5 | Theoretical Approaches to Revolutions | Ernesto Laclau. 1990. New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time. |
6 | MIDTERM EXAM | |
7 | The French Revolution | Documentary Screening |
8 | The French Revolution | Eric Hobsbawm. 1996. “The French Revolution” in The Age of Revolution: 789-1848. Jack Goldstone. 2016. “The Developing Crisis of French Absolutism, 1700–1789” in Revolution And Rebellion in the Early Modern World: Population Change and State Breakdown in England, France, Turkey, and China, 1600–1850. |
9 | The Russian Revolution | Documentary Screening |
10 | The Russian Revolution | James Defronzo. 2015.”The Russian Revolutions and Eastern Europe” in Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements, Westview Press. |
11 | The Chinese Revolution The Cuban Revolution | James F. Petras. 2019. “Twentieth-Century Socialist Revolutions and Their Class Components: Russia, China, Cuba, and Vietnam” in The Palgrave Handbook of Social Movements, Revolution, and Social Transformation-Springer International Publishing. James Defronzo. 2015. “Revolution in China” in Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements, Westview Press. James Defronzo. 2015. “The Cuban Revolution” in Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements, Westview Press. |
12 | The Iranian Revolution | Maryam Poya IRAN 1979: Long live Revolution! ... Long live Islam? |
13 | The Revolutions of 1989 | Adrian Pop. 2013. The 1989 Revolutions in Retrospect. Europe-Asia Studies, Volume 65, Issue 2 Michael Bernhard. 2010. The revolutions of 1989: twenty years later. Angelaki, Volume 15, 2010 - Issue 3 |
14 | Revolutions of Our Time? | Asef Bayat. 2017. “Half Revolution, No Revolution” in Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring. Stanford University Press. |
15 | Review of the semester | |
16 | Final exam |
Course Notes/Textbooks | the related chapters in the books mentioned |
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Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
Participation | ||
Laboratory / Application | ||
Field Work | ||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
Portfolio | ||
Homework / Assignments | 1 | 15 |
Presentation / Jury | ||
Project | ||
Seminar / Workshop | ||
Oral Exam | ||
Midterm | 2 | 50 |
Final Exam | 1 | 35 |
Total |
Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 2 | 50 |
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 50 |
Total |
Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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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 | 15 | 3 | 45 |
Field Work | |||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
Portfolio | |||
Homework / Assignments | 1 | 10 | |
Presentation / Jury | |||
Project | |||
Seminar / Workshop | |||
Oral Exam | |||
Midterms | 2 | 20 | |
Final Exams | 1 | 37 | |
Total | 180 |
# | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
1 | To have the knowledge of classical and contemporary theories in sociology, and be able to comparatively analyze these theories. | X | ||||
2 | To have the knowledge of main methodological approaches in sociology as well as social research and data analysis methods. | X | ||||
3 | To have knowledge in the fields of general sociology, sociology of institutions, social structure and change, and applied sociology. | X | ||||
4 | To be able to determine the appropriate methods in the design of the planning stage and conclusion of a sociological project, individually or as part of a team. | X | ||||
5 | To be able to diagnose the social dynamics behind personal problems by using sociological imagination. | X | ||||
6 | To be able to define social problems at local, national, and global level, and offer new policies for solutions. | X | ||||
7 | To be able to apply commonly-used computer programs for data collection and analysis in sociological research. | |||||
8 | To be able to develop a socially responsible, scientific and ethical perspective regarding the collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data. | X | ||||
9 | To be able to analyze different aspects of the social world by drawing on the knowledge produced by other disciplines of the social sciences. | X | ||||
10 | To be able to constantly renew herself/himself professionally by following scientific and technological developments in sociology and social research. | |||||
11 | To be able to collect sociological data and communicate with sociologists and other social scientists in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). | |||||
12 | To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently. | |||||
13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. | X |
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