History of Civilization (HIST221) Course Detail

Course Name	Course Code	Season	Lecture Hours	Application Hours	Lab Hours	Credit	ECTS
History of Civilization	HIST221		3	0	0	3	3

Pre-requisite Course(s)
N/A

Course Language	English
Course Type	N/A
Course Level	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery	Distance
Learning and Teaching Strategies	Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)	Asst. Prof. Dr. Gül Kania
Course Assistants
Course Objectives	Through out this course from the treatment of the earliest culturesand civilizations to the discussion of the later ones we pursue certain key elements, such as social and political structures, science, technology, religion, cultural expressions, trade, philosophies, ideologies.
Course Learning Outcomes	The students who succeeded in this course; To learn different cultures, civilizations, throughout the world with their contributions To learn and understand ancient beliefs, ideas and philosophies To illustrate the developments and improvements of ancient cultures and civilizations Analyzing and understanding the social, political structures of various civilizations
Course Content	A chronological order of the rise of civilizations from Sumer until the Scientific Revolution.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week	Subjects	Preparation
1	Definitions about culture and civilization, Anatolian chronology.	Related chapters
2	The origins of humankind and ice ages, Art of communication; Early Nearthastern cultures; prehistorical periods of Anatolia.	Related chapters
3	Early Historical periods, Iron Ages cultures of Anatolia	Related chapters
4	The first civilizations in Mezopotamia and the River Valley Civilizations of the world.	Related chapters
5	Egyptian, Phoenician, Westernization civilizations; science and technologies in Ancient Near East.	Related chapters
6	The forming of Greek civilizations; Crete, Early Greece	Related chapters
7	The Roman civilization	Related chapters
8	The projects	Related chapters
9	The Middle Ages	Related chapters
10	The Byzantines; Islamic and Early Medival Woel	Related chapters
11	The expansion of Europe, economy, society and politics in the High Middle Ages	Related chapters
12	Religious and intellectual developments, The Later Middle Ages	Related Chapters
13	The civilization of Renaissance and Reformation	Related chapters
14	The Age of Enlightment, The French Revolution	Related chapters
15	General Conclusion, inheritances of early civilizations	Related chapters
16	Final exam

Sources

Course Book	1. Tanilli, S. (2004), Uygarlık Tarihi, İstanbul / Tanilli, S. (2002), Yüzyılların Gerçeği ve Mirası, Cilt 1, İstanbul
Other Sources	2. Özçelik, N. (2002), İlkçağ Tarihi ve Uygarlığı, Ankara/ Memiş, E. (2006), Eskiçağ Medeniyetleri Tarihi, Bursa /Yavuz, H. (2008), Batı Uygarlığı Tarihine Teorik Bir Giriş, Ankara.

Evaluation System

Requirements	Number	Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation	-	-
Laboratory	-	-
Application	-	-
Field Work	-	-
Special Course Internship	-	-
Quizzes/Studio Critics	-	-
Homework Assignments	-	-
Presentation	-	-
Project	-	-
Report	-	-
Seminar	-	-
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury	1	30
Final Exam/Final Jury	1	70
Toplam	2	100

Percentage of Semester Work	30
Percentage of Final Work	70
Total	100

Course Category

Core Courses	X
Major Area Courses
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications

#	Program Qualifications / Competencies	Level of Contribution
#	Program Qualifications / Competencies	1	2	3	4	5
1	Has the ability to apply scientific knowledge gained in the undergraduate education and to expand and extend knowledge in the same or in a different area
2	Can apply gained knowledge and problem solving abilities in inter-disciplinary research
3	Has the ability to work independently within research area, to state the problem, to develop solution techniques, to solve the problem, to evaluate the obtained results and to apply them when necessary
4	Takes responsibility individually and as a team member to improve systematic approaches to produce solutions in unexpected complicated situations related to the area of study
5	Can develop strategies, implement plans and principles on the area of study and can evaluate obtained results within the framework
6	Can develop and extend the knowledge in the area and to use them with scientific, social and ethical responsibility
7	Has the ability to follow recent developments within the area of research, to support research with scientific arguments and data, to communicate the information on the area of expertise in a systematically by means of written report and oral/visual presentation
8	To have an oral and written communication ability in at least one of the common foreign languages ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B2)
9	Has software and hardware knowledge in the area of expertise, and has proficient information and communication technology knowledge
10	Follows scientific, cultural, and ethical criteria in collecting, interpreting and announcing data in the research area and has the ability to teach.
11	Has professional ethical consciousness and responsibility which takes into account the universal and social dimensions in the process of data collection, interpretation, implementation and declaration of results in mathematics and its applications.

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities	Number	Duration (Hours)	Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours)	16	3	48
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class	16	3	48
Presentation/Seminar Prepration
Project
Report
Homework Assignments
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury	1	3	3
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury	1	6	6
Total Workload			105