COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ANCIENT SEAMANSHIP I

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AKI 5017 ANCIENT SEAMANSHIP I ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

ARCHAEOLOGY

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ABDURRAHMAN HARUN ÖZDAŞ

Offered to

ARCHAEOLOGY

Course Objective

Encountered in maritime history first floating vehicles and vessels, to process up to that will be examined in the light of archaeological data. During the course the ship in the Mediterranean Sea belonging to different tribes comparative examples will be discussed. In addition to the sea peoples and the colonization movement will be discussed from a historical perspective.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To understand the ancient maritime
2   Identify archaeological data related to shipping
3   Mediterranean trade to assess

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The emergence of the first means floating in the water
2 depictions and models dating to the 4th millenium BC
3 Indus maritime and ports in the 3rd millenium BC
4 Aegean Maritime in the 3rd millenium BC
5 Boat and MarineOf Middle Bronze Age
6 Late Minoanand Hellas Boats and Maritime
7 Boats and Marine of the New Kingdom of Egypt
8 Midterm
9 Kenan, Cyprus and other Near Eastern Cultures of Marine
10 Kaş Uluburun Shipwreck
11 Neo-Sumerian and Old Babylonian Seamanship
12 Proto Geometric and Geometric Boats
13 Assyrian and Phoenician Boats and Maritime
14 Seamanship in the 7th century BC , Etruscan, Italian and Sardinian Boats

Recomended or Required Reading

1- A.Amstead, A Dictionary of Sea Terms (Glasgow 1956)
2-G.F.BASS, ed. A History of Seafaring Based on Underwater Archaeology, (New York and London 1972)
3-L.Casson, The Ancient Mariners (New York 1959)
4-L.Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Princeton 1971)
5-C.M.Graeve, The Ships of the Ancient Near East (c.2000-500 BC) (Leuven 1981)
6-D.Jones, A Glassary of Ancient Egyptian Nautical Titles and Terms (London and New York 1988)
7-J.S. Morrison and R.T.Williams, Greek Oared Ships 900-322 BC. (Cambridge 1968)
8-P.Throckmorton, The Sea Remembers:Shipwrecks and Archaeology (New York 1987)
9-S. Vinson, Egyptian Boats and Ships (Shire Egyptology 1994)
10-S.Washman, Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Late Bronze Age Levant (Texas A&M University 1977)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation and discussion.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1 and LO 2 midterm exam will be evaluated in
LO 3 will be assessed on the final exam

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

70% attendance is mandatory

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

harun.ozdas@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 7 98
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 146

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.1555555
LO.2555555
LO.3555555