COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HISTORY AND GENOCIDE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TAR 3058 HISTORY AND GENOCIDE ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

History

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

DOCTOR SERKAN KEÇECI

Offered to

History (Evening)
History

Course Objective

The purpose of this course is to examine historical and forensic characteristics of genocide and the differentiation of the events which can be considered as a genocide or not.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   define the concept of genocide and its place in the international law
2   compare the obligatory immigration and genocide
3   relate the genocide and ideology
4   analyze the examples of genocide in different historical periods and regions
5   evaluate the examples of historywriting on genocide

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The concept of genocide and its historical and forensic characteristics
2 The Armenian problem
3 The Event of 1915
4 The Armenian arguments
5 Racism
6 Anti-Semitism
7 The Jewish Genocide
8 Term examination
9 The Nuremberg and Eichmann cases
10 The Cambodia Genocide
11 The Ruanda Genocide
12 The Sudan Genocide
13 The Bosnia Genocide
14 Genocide and historiography
15 General Evaluation
16 Final Examination

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Justin McCharty, Ölüm ve Sürgün, Inkılap yay., Istanbul, 1998.
2. Ermeni Sorunu El Kitabı, Ermeni Araştırmaları Enstitüsü, Ankara, 2003.
3. William A. Schabas, Genocide in International Law, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
4. Leo Kuper, Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century, Yale University Press, New Haven. 1983
5. David Rieff, Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West, Touchstone Books, New York, 1996.
6. Ben Kiernan, The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1998.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lecture
2. Presentation

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

None

Assessment Criteria

1. LO 1-5: This will be evaluated through the performance in the term and final examinations.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. 70% attendance is obligatory.
2. Student are not allowed to bring any course material (books, lecture notes, etc) to the examinations.
3. Cheating in any examination is considered an extremely serious offence.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

serkan.kececi@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday 13:00-14:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Tutorials 0 0 0
Preparation before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Preparation for Mid-term Exam 1 12 12
Preparation for Final Exam 1 14 14
Preparation for Quiz etc. 0 0 0
Preparing Individual Assignments 0 0 0
Preparing Group Assignments 0 0 0
Preparing Presentations 1 7 7
Other (please indicate) 0
Final 1 1,5 2
Mid-term 1 1,5 2
Quiz etc. 0 0 0
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 76

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.1455
LO.2454
LO.3455
LO.4454
LO.5455