Course Information

Course Title	Code	Semester	L+U Hour	Credits	ECTS
POLITICAL HISTORY	UİLE136	2. Semester	2 + 0	2.0	4.0

Prerequisites

None

Language of Instruction	English
Course Level	Bachelor's Degree
Course Type	Compulsory
Mode of delivery
Course Coordinator
Instructors	Pınar SARIGÖL GÜRKAN
Assistants
Goals	This course aims at providing the students with a formation about the world political history, pointing out the causes and the consequences of the political transformations in a historical context.
Course Content	Renaissance
Learning Outcomes	1) Distinguish the difference in the political history of the chronology. 2) Recognize the different approaches to history 3) List the differences between the different approaches to history

Week	Topics	Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques	Study Materials
1. Week	Introduction	Lecture	Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
2. Week	Renaissance and Reform	Lecture	Homework
3. Week	Enlightenment	Lecture	Homework
4. Week	Slavery, wage slavery and racism	Lecture	Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
5. Week	The American Revolution	Lecture	Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
6. Week	Midterm Exams	Lecture	Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
7. Week	French Revolution	Lecture	Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
8. Week	Industrial Revolution	Lecture	Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
9. Week	The Emergence of Marxism, and the 1848 Revolution, the Paris Commune	Lecture	Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
10. Week	The Emergence of Marxism, and the 1848 Revolution, the Paris Commune	Lecture	Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
11. Week	East conquest and invasion of Japan	Lecture	Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
12. Week	World War I and the October Revolution	Lecture	Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
13. Week	Developments in Europe between the two world wars	Lecture	Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
14. Week	rebellions in the colonial world	Lecture	Presentation (Including Preparation Time)

Recommended Sources

Harman, Chris (2010) Halkların Dünya Tarihi: Taş Çağından Yeni Binyıla, çev. Uygur Kocabaşoğlu, İstanbul, YordamKitap.

Hobsbawm, Eric (1996) Kısa Yirminci Yüzyıl 1914-1991: Aşırılıklar Çağı, çev. Yavuz Alogan, İstanbul, Sarmal

Huberman, Leo (2005) Feodal Toplumdan Yirminci Yüzyıla, çev. Murat Belge, İstanbul, İletişim.

Event	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week)	14	2	28
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening)	14	1	14
Midterm Exam	1	1	1
Time to prepare for Midterm Exam	1	20	20
Final Exam	1	1	1
Time to prepare for Final Exam	1	30	30
Total Workload
Total Workload / 30 (s)
ECTS Credit of the Course			30