| Course Name | Modern World History |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| GEHU 203 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Service Course | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
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| Course Objectives | To give an insight of mankind’s political, social and economic history in the last five hundred years. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | GEHU 203 Modern World History classes offers an overview of mankind’s political, social and economic history in the period between the 16th and 21st centuries. |
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| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction of the course and the course material | |
| 2 | The Military and Naval Rise of Europe Documentary | Paul Kennedy, “Strategy and Economics in the Pre-industrial World” in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000, pp. 3-30. Oral Sander, Siyasi Tarih, İlkçağlardan 1918’e, pp. 51-70. |
| 3 | The “Military and Financial Revolutions” in Europe and the Westphalian Order | Paul Kennedy, “Strategy and Economics in the Preindustrial World” in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000, pp. 31-100 Oral Sander, Siyasi Tarih, İlkçağlardan 1918’e, pp. 70-77 |
| 4 | The Rise of France and the Franco-British Global Struggle, American and French Revolutions, the “Napoleonic Wars” | Paul Kennedy, “Strategy and Economics in the Preindustrial World” in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000, pp. 100-142. Oral Sander, Siyasi Tarih, İlkçağlardan 1918’e, pp. 77-128. |
| 5 | The “Metternich Order” and the “Concert of Europe”, the “Industrial Revolution” | Paul Kennedy, “Strategy and Economics in the Industrial Era” in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000, pp. 143-169. Norman Rich, “Peacemaking 1814-1815” and “Peacekeeping 1815-1823: The Concert of Europe” in Great Power Diplomacy, 1814-1914, pp. 1-43. Oral Sander, Siyasi Tarih, İlkçağlardan 1918’e, pp. 128-143. |
| 6 | The American Civil War and “Re-unification”, Unifications of Italy and Germany | Mid-term Examination | Paul Kennedy, “Strategy and Economics in the Industrial Era” in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000, pp. 170-193. Norman Rich, “The Great Powers and the American Civil War” in Great Power Diplomacy, 1814-1914, pp. 147-164. Norman Rich, “The Unification of Italy” in Great Power Diplomacy, 1814-1914, pp. 123-144. Norman Rich, “The Unification of Germany” in Great Power Diplomacy, 1814-1914, pp. 184-215. Oral Sander, Siyasi Tarih, İlkçağlardan 1918’e, pp. 159-165. |
| 7 | System of Alliances, Clash of Imperialisms, “Triple Alliance” versus “Triple Entente”, the First World War | Paul Kennedy, “Strategy and Economics in the Industrial Era” in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000, pp. 194-274. Norman Rich, “The Breakdown of Bismarck’s Alliance System” in Great Power Diplomacy, 1814-1914, pp. 251-262. Norman Rich, “Confrontational Diplomacy” in Great Power Diplomacy, 1814-1914, pp. 408-420. Norman Rich, “The Coming of World War I” in Great Power Diplomacy, 1814-1914, pp. 440-461. Oral Sander, Siyasi Tarih, İlkçağlardan 1918’e, pp. 171-285. |
| 8 | Post-WW I Settlements and the Interwar Era, Rise of Revisionism and Totalitarianism, Failure of the League of Nations | Paul Kennedy, “Strategy and Economics in the Preindustrial World” in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000, pp. 275-343. Oral Sander, Siyasi Tarih, 1918-1994, pp. 13-65. |
| 9 | The Second World War, Post-WW II Settlements, Emergence of a Bipolar World; the Cold War Years | Paul Kennedy, “Strategy and Economics, Today and Tomorrow” in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000, pp. 333-373. Oral Sander, Siyasi Tarih, 1918-1994, pp. 101-201. |
| 10 | The Superpowers’ Global Competition; the Détente Era, the “Second Cold War” and the Collapse of the Eastern Bloc | Paul Kennedy, “Strategy and Economics, Today and Tomorrow” in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000, pp. 373-535. Oral Sander, Siyasi Tarih, 1918-1994, pp. 202-520. |
| 11 | Online Group Presentations | |
| 12 | Online Group Presentations | |
| 13 | Online Group Presentations | |
| 14 | Online Group Presentations | |
| 15 | Review of the Semester | |
| 16 | Final Exam |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000, Fontana Press (any edition). Oral Sander, Siyasi Tarih, İlkçağlardan 1918’e, İmge Kitabevi Yayınları (any edition). Oral Sander, Siyasi Tarih, 1918-1994, İmge Kitabevi Yayınları (any edition). |
| Suggested Readings/Materials | R.R. Palmer, Joel Colton, Lloyd Kramer, A History of the Modern World, McGraw Hill (any edition). Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991, Vintage, New York, 1995. Derek Urwin, A Political History of Western Europe Since 1945, Longman, London, 1997 (any edition). |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weighting |
| Participation | 2 | 15 |
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| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | ||
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 25 |
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | 1 | 20 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 40 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 4 | 60 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 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 | 10 | 3 | 30 |
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | |||
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 20 | |
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| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 15 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 30 | |
| Total | 143 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To be able master and use fundamental phenomenological and applied physical laws and applications, | |||||
| 2 | To be able to identify the problems, analyze them and produce solutions based on scientific method, | |||||
| 3 | To be able to collect necessary knowledge, able to model and self-improve in almost any area where physics is applicable and able to criticize and reestablish his/her developed models and solutions, | |||||
| 4 | To be able to communicate his/her theoretical and technical knowledge both in detail to the experts and in a simple and understandable manner to the non-experts comfortably, | |||||
| 5 | To be familiar with software used in area of physics extensively and able to actively use at least one of the advanced level programs in European Computer Usage License, | |||||
| 6 | To be able to develop and apply projects in accordance with sensitivities of society and behave according to societies, scientific and ethical values in every stage of the project that he/she is part in, | |||||
| 7 | To be able to evaluate every all stages effectively bestowed with universal knowledge and consciousness and has the necessary consciousness in the subject of quality governance, | |||||
| 8 | To be able to master abstract ideas, to be able to connect with concreate events and carry out solutions, devising experiments and collecting data, to be able to analyze and comment the results, | |||||
| 9 | To be able to refresh his/her gained knowledge and capabilities lifelong, have the consciousness to learn in his/her whole life, | |||||
| 10 | To be able to conduct a study both solo and in a group, to be effective actively in every all stages of independent study, join in decision making stage, able to plan and conduct using time effectively. | |||||
| 11 | To be able to collect data in the areas of Physics and communicate with colleagues 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. | |||||
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