COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MODERNISM AND TURKISH MODERNIZATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TCT 5031 MODERNISM AND TURKISH MODERNIZATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

History of The Turkish Republic

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR HAKKI UYAR

Offered to

History of The Turkish Republic

Course Objective

The aim of this course is a comparative study of stages of Turkey s almost 200 years old of modernization with other modernization efforts.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   know about scope, content and sources of modernization theory and the Turkish Modernization
2   learn the terms traditional society and modern society , and modernization/democratizations schools
3   explain that Ottoman modernization prepared the basis of the republican modernization project
4   review modernization of Turkey comparing with western modernization
5   analyze breaking points of the Ottoman and Republican modernizations
6   analyze causes of the problems which Turkey lived in modernization process
7   review process of modernization of Turkey comparing with those in Europe and throughout the World

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 From Traditional Society to Social Society
2 Modern Society: Industry Revolution-French Revolution
3 Modernity and its Properties
4 Traditional Structure of Ottoman Empire and its Collapse
5 Late Modernization
6 Ottoman Modernization
7 Kemalist Modernization
8 Total Modernization and Nation-building
9 Ottoman-Republican modernization: a confontation
10 Populist Character of Modernization (after 1950)
11 Erosion of Modernity Project and Modernization non-competable
12 Problems Modernization caused, problems modern society created
13 Student Presentations
14 Student Presentation

Recomended or Required Reading

Feroz Ahmad, Modern Türkiye nin Oluşumu, Doruk yay., Istanbul, 2002.
Fahrettin Altun, Modernleşme Kuramı: Eleştirel Bir Giriş, Yöneliş yay., Istanbul, 2002.
Kemal H. Karpat, Osmanlı Modernleşmesi, Imge yay.,Istanbul, 2002.
Jacob M. Landau, Atatürk ve Türkiye nin Modernleşmesi, Sarmal yay., Istanbul, 1999.
Şerif Mardin, Türkiye de Toplum ve Siyaset, Iletişim yay., Istanbul, 1991.
Şerif Mardin, Türk Modernleşmesi, Iletişim yay., Istanbul, 1995.
Modern Türkiye de Siyasi Düşünce, Modernleşme ve Batıcılık, c. 3, Iletişim yay., Istanbul, 2002.
Süleyman Seyfi Öğün, Modernleşme, Milliyetçilik ve Türkiye, Bağlam yay., Istanbul, 1995.
Grigoriy Petrov, Beyaz Zambaklar Ülkesinde (Bir Milletin Uyanışı), Hayat yay., Istanbul, 2000.
Charles Taylor, Modernliğin Sıkıntıları, Ayrıntı yay., Istanbul, 1995.
Alvin Toffler, Üçüncü Dalga, Altın Kitaplar yay., Istanbul, 1981.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Presentation
2. Seminar Homework

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 * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1. LO 1-3 will be asked in mid-term exam
2. LO 4-5 will be assigned by the seminar homework
3. LO 1-5 will be asked in final exam

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. 70 % of attendance in a subject for appearing in the examination is compulsory
2. Failure to attend a class will not be excused for overdue delivery of homework
3. Attendance, mid-term exam, homeworks and final exam will be taken into account in scoring

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Phone: 301 87 43
hakki.uyar@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Thursdays Hours: 15:00 -

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 0 0 0
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparation for quiz etc. 2 20 40
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 2 2
Quiz etc. 2 3 6
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 153

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8
LO.14545
LO.24545
LO.34545
LO.44435
LO.54435
LO.64435
LO.74445

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