COURSE UNIT TITLE

: WESTERN CIVILIZATION I

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AKE 1007 WESTERN CIVILIZATION I COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5

Offered By

American Culture and Literature

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

HAKAN DIBEL

Offered to

American Culture and Literature

Course Objective

In the course of Western Civilization, each period from the creation of human beings up to the contemporary
days are analyzed and compared with each others to find the answer of how Western Europe became superior.
In the Fall semester the period from the creation of the human beings up to the French Revolution will be
analyzed.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to distinguish the historical periods in t different periods.
2   To understand differences at the different periods of history.
3   Beginning with Sumer, to see the corner stones at the whole historical process.
4   To understand culture of each period in the history, this will be analyzed in details.
5   To understand how each civilization affected the culture and literature.
6   To see the importance of each period in the civilization period by comparing with the other periods

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Antique Near East
2 Empires in the Near East
3 The birth of Greek Civilization
4 Roman Civilization
5 Transformation Roman Empire and Christianity
6 Residuals from Roman Empire: Western Europe, Byzantine, Islam
7 Expansion of Islam
8 Midterm
9 Late Middle Age
10 Middle Age and the Following Age
11 Commerce, Conquest, Colonization
12 Renaissance and its Culture
13 Protestant Reform
14 General Review

Recomended or Required Reading

Judith Coffin, Robert C. Stacey, Robert E. Lerner, Standish Meacham. Western Civilization: Their History & Their Culture, New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2002.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. To take active participation in the classroom.
2. To prepare a homework

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 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

1. Midterm
2. Homework
3. Participation
4. Final

Assessment Criteria

1. How Western civilization became superior to others
2. To understand the differences of each civilizations
3. to understand how Western civilization s tradition culture were developed in the history.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

1. How Western civilization became superior to others
2. To understand the differences of each civilizations
3. to understand how Western civilization s tradition culture were developed in the history.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

DEU Faculty of Letters, room A/111 tel.4128652

Office Hours

Tuesday 9.30-11.30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Tutorials 0 0 0
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 125

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.1332
LO.2332
LO.33
LO.43
LO.53
LO.63

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