COURSE UNIT TITLE

: AMERICAN HISTORY II

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TAR 6126 AMERICAN HISTORY II ELECTIVE 3 0 0 11

Offered By

History

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FÜSUN ÇOBAN DÖŞKAYA

Offered to

History

Course Objective

This course aims to examine the social, political, diplomatic and economic events that took place starting from the Civil War and tries to bring it up to the present. In this respect, the students are exposed all the concepts and terms that are necessary to evaluate this period.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be acquainted with the political, social, economic, and historical events staring from the Civil War
2   To know the basic terms, dates, concepts, and principals in order to understand the events since the Civil War
3   To understand the facts and principals concerning the period
4   To be able to find the reason and result relationship of the main events concerning the period.
5   To able to apply these facts and situations to new and currents situations.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The Development of the West: 1877-1900
2 The Machine Age:
3 The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: 1977-1920
4 The Quest for Empire: 1865-1914 Americans in the Great War: 1914-1920
5 Great Depression and The New Deal: 1929-1941
6 Peaceseekers and Warmakers: Americans in the World: 1920-1941
7 World War II: 1941-1945
8 Mid-Term Exam
9 Cold War Era: 1945-1961
10 Effects of Conquests
11 Continuing Divisions and New Limits: 1980s
12 Global World and the 1990s
13 New Millennium
14 General Evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

Bailyn, Bernard, et al. The Great Republic: A History of American People. 13th ed. Lexington: D.C. Heath and Company, 1985. Print.
Brinkley, Alan. American History: A Survey. 13th ed. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2009. Print.
Norton, Mary Beth, et al. A People and a Nation: History of the United States .7th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. Print.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation, research, Q&A, homework.

Assessment Methods

Successful / Unsuccessful


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

To be announced

Assessment Criteria

%40 midterm exam %60 final exam
The evaluation will be based upon a mid-term exam, a presentation and a final exam.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

According to the university policy the students are required to attend 70% of all scheduled class.
The students are required to come to the classes having read the assigned text.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

fusun.doskaya@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

By appointment

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 1 30 30
Preparation for midterm exam 1 30 30
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparing assignments 13 10 130
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 265

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.153
LO.25
LO.34
LO.43
LO.54

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