COURSE UNIT TITLE

: EAST AND WEST IN THE MIDDLE AGE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TAR 5033 EAST AND WEST IN THE MIDDLE AGE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

History

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

History

Course Objective

Our main objective in the course where political, religious and social structures of Europe and Islamic World in the middle age will be studied from comparative point of view is to introduce main literary sources and argumentations about Eastern and Western civilisations, and to give ability of evaluating their socio-cultural and economic progress as well as their political history, explaining and analyzing their transformative and formative changes.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   know literature about eastern and western civilizations in the middle age
2   define development of eastern and western civilizations in the middle age
3   learn main tittles of eastern and western civilizations in the middle age
4   interpret historical, social and economic development of eastern and western civilizations in the middle age
5   evaluate place and role of eastern and western civilizations in the world history

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Understanding East and West in the middle age
2 Political structures after the Roman Empire in Europe
3 Empires and Kingships in the medieval Europe I
4 Empires and Kingships in the medieval Europe II
5 States that marked in Islamic World I
6 States that marked in Islamic World II
7 Feodal system in Europe: similarities and differences between eastern and western feodalities
8 Mid-term exam
9 Causes, realization and results of the Crusades
10 Effects of the Crusades in Christian and Muslim Worlds
11 Trade between East and West in the middle age
12 Science in eastern and western civilizations in the middle age
13 Cultural contacts and interactions between the eastern and western civilizations in the middle age
14 Prejudices dated from Middle Ages between the eastern and western civilizations in the middle age

Recomended or Required Reading

Baltrusaitis, Jurgis, Düşsel Ortaçağ, Çev. M. A. Kılıçbay, Imge Kitabevi, Ank., 2001.
Bedirhan, Y., Ortaçağ Tarihi, Çizgi Yay.,Ist., 2004.
Bloch, M., Feodal Toplum, Çev. M. A. Kılıçbay, Opus Yay., 3.b., Ank., 1998.
Cahen, Claude, Islamiyet, çev. N. Erendor, Istanbul, 1990.
Çağatay, Neşet, Islam Tarihi, TTK, Ankara, 1993.
Çetin, Kenan, Selçuklu Medeniyeti Tarihi, Istanbul, 2011.
Daş, Mustafa, Bizans ın Düşüşü, Yeditepe Yay., Istanbul, 2006.
Duby, Georges, Ortaçağ Insanları ve Kültürü, Çev. M. A. Kılıçbay, Imge Kitabevi, 2.b., Ank., 1995.
Gimpel, J., Ortaçağda Endüstri Devrimi, TÜBITAK Yay., 1997.
Guryeviç, A., Ortaçağ Avrupası'nda Birey, Afa Yay., 1995.
Herrin, Judit, Bizans Bir Ortaçağ Imparatorluğunun Şaşırtıcı Yaşamı, Çev. U. Kocabaşoğlu, Iletişim Yay., Istanbul, 2010
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Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

iterature study and discussions

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 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

TBA

Assessment Criteria

1) LO 1-3 will be asked in mid-term exam
2) LO 1-5 will be asked in final exam

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

TBA

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

mustafa.das@deu.edu.tr, phone: 3018748

Office Hours

By appointment

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparing presentations 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 151

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8
LO.134
LO.234
LO.3334
LO.433
LO.533