COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HISTORY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TAE 1001 SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HISTORY COMPULSORY 2 0 0 4

Offered By

History Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ERDAL ASLAN

Offered to

History Teacher Education

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to recognize students the history, provide them to think about the definitions, aims, importance for society and basic problems in connection with this importance of history and develop a historical perspective.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to write different definitions of history
2   To be able to array the aims of history
3   To be able to explain the benefits of history
4   To be able to analyze the effects of the relation between history, historian and society on historiography
5   To be able to discuss the quality of historical knewledge
6   To be able to gain the moral basis and "objectivity" of historiography as a value
7   To be able to interpret the developments in historiography in the World and Turkey

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Meeting with students, giving the description , aim, content, method and reading list fort he course
2 A short exam about how students describe history, why they choose this department, what they think about history curriculums and textbooks
3 Ideas of famous historians in the world about the definition and aim of history
4 Ideas of famous historians in Turkey about the definition and aim of history
5 Benefits and value of history for individuals and societies
6 The relation between history, historian and events
7 History, society, individual and historian
8 General Revision, Course Assessment, Midterm Exam
9 History and social sciences
10 Quality and effect of historical knowledge
11 History, science and morality
12 Causality in history
13 Objectivity in history and limits of it
14 Contemporary developments in historiography in the World and Turkey I-II
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1- Özbaran, Salih (2003). Güdümlü Tarih. Istanbul: Cem Yayınevi
2- Braudel, Fernand (1992). Tarih Üzerine Yazılar. Ankara: Imge Kitabevi Yayınları
3- Carr, Edward Hallet (1980). Tarih Nedir Istanbul: Birikim Yayınları
4- Carr, Edward Hallet; Fontana, J. (1992). Tarih Yazımında Nesnellik ve Yanlılık. Ankara: Imge Kitabevi Yayınları
5- Durant, Ariel; Durant, Will (1983). Tarih Üzerine. Istanbul: Hülbe Yayınları
6- Evans, Richard J. (1999). Tarihin Savunusu. Ankara: Imge Kitabevi
7- Hobsbawm, Eric J. (1999). Tarih Üzerine. Ankara: Bilim ve Sanat Yayınları
8- Özbaran, Salih (1992). Tarih ve Öğretimi. Istanbul: Cem Yayınevi
9- Özlem, Doğan (1984). Tarih Felsefesi. Izmir: E.Ü.E.F. Yayınları
10- Tekeli, Ilhan (1998). Tarihyazımı Üzerine Düşünmek. Ankara: Dost Kitabevi
11- Thomson, David (1983). Tarihin Amacı. Izmir: E.Ü.E.F. Yayınları
12- Tosh, John (1997). Tarihin Peşinde. Istanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Expression, question and answer,discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 VZ Midterm
2 FN Semester final exam
3 BNS BNS Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examFN * 0.60
4 BUT Make-up note
5 BBN End of make-up grade Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examBUT * 0.60


*** 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)

erdal.aslan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 89

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