COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HISTORY OF ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IKT 5083 HISTORY OF ECONOMIC SYSTEMS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Economics

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MEHMET ÇETIN

Offered to

Economics

Course Objective

- To provide the students to comprehend the economic facts with their historical dimensions,
- To provide the students to do totalitarian analysis,
- To provide students to able to analyze social, political and economic processes in a critical perspective.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to comprehend economic facts and events in an historical perspective
2   To be able to understand pre-capitalist economic systems with their gheographic differences.
3   To be able to analyze capitalism in a totalitarian and systematical manner.
4   To be able to analyze alternative systems to capitalism.
5   To be able to do a seminar on a subject in the course content, to be able to write an essay which is consistent and totalitarian, suitable to academical writing and citation rules.
6   To be able to establish ethic and cognitive communication, to be able to do evidence based argumentation, to be able to defend self-ideas effectively through participation in class arguments
7   To be able to establish and solve problems which is based on the theoretical foundations .

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 What is hisory, and historical perspective
2 System analysis and historical materializm
3 Primitive Societies / State and property
4 Slaver Societies / Middle Ages in the Europe
5 Feodalism
6 The origins of the capitalizm
7 Industrial Revolution
8 The spread of capitalism
9 Mid Exam
10 Theory of Imperalism
11 Socialist Systems: USSR and Eastern Bloc
12 Socialist Systems: China, Yugoslavia, Albania
13 Capitalism ve Socialism Today
14 Anti-Capitalist Alternatives ve Ottoman Production Type

Recomended or Required Reading

E. Hobsbawm
The Age of Revolution
The Age of Capital
The Age of Empire
Short 20th Century
F. Braudel
Material Civilization I
Material Civilization II
Material Civilization III
I. Wallerstein
Modern World System I
Modern World System II
Modern World System III
I. M. Diakonoff, Tarihin Yörüngeleri
E. H. Carr, Tarih Nedir
F. Mehring, On Historical Materialism
J. Larrain, Tarihsel Materyalizmi Yeniden Yapılandırmak
F. Engels, Ailenin, Özel Mülkiyetin ve Devletin Kökeni
M. Bloch, Feodal Toplum
K. Marx ve F. Engels, Kapitalizm Öncesi Ekonomi Biçimleri

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course will go on for 14 weeks and in every week the half of the course will be splitted to course lecture. The second half of the course will pass with the argumentation of texts related with the subject. The reading tasks given every week will be argued after a short presentation of a student. It is expected that every student will prepare a short summary about the subject he or she read every week, to do an end of term study in a subject chosen by him or her which is consistent, totalitarian and suitable with academical writing and citation rules and to present this study in a department seminar or to send to an academical congress as a notification summary at the end of the term.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + STT* 0.40 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.40 + RST* 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Giving the Lecture 13 3 39
Before/After Lecture Preperation Process 13 3 39
Preperation for the mid exam 1 15 15
Preperation for the final exam 1 20 20
Preperation of essay 1 25 25
Final Exam 1 3 3
Mid Exam 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 144

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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