COURSE UNIT TITLE

: THE TURKS IN THE WESTERN LITERATURE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
SAT 5021 THE TURKS IN THE WESTERN LITERATURE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

History Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ERKAN SERCE

Offered to

History Teacher Education

Course Objective

The main aim of this course is to reveal how to the Turks have been perceived in the Western literature, to what extent Western public opinion has been affected by texts produced as a result of this perception and the impacts of them to modern day.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to enumerate the main resources of the Western literature
2   To be able to state the place and importance of the Turks in the Western literature
3   To be able to understand the impacts of perception of the Turks in the Western literature on modern day
4   To be able to evaluate perception of the Turks in the Western public opinion

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Point of contact: the Crusades, and the Turks
2 Sources of the West: Prisoners, spies and soldiers
3 The Turks from prism of the Renaissance
4 Piracy in the Mediterranean and its literary influence
5 Cervantes, Shakespeare and Racine
6 The Turks from Embassy reports (16th century)
7 Writings of traders (17th and 18th centuries)
8 Mid-term Exam
9 The Turks through the eyes of a woman: Lady Montagu
10 Turkish fashion in the 18th century
11 Enlightenment and the Turks
12 Technical Committee and the Turks
13 The Turks in the Romantic Era
14 Modernity and Turks
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1-Özlem Kumrular (Ed.), Dünyada Türk Imgesi, Istanbul, 2005.
2-GiovanniRicci, Türk Saplantısı. Yeniçağ Avrupa`sında Korku, Nefret ve Sevgi, Istanbul, 2005.
3-Gülgün ÜçelAybet, Osmanlı Dünyası ve Insanları: Avrupalı Seyyahların Gözünden 1530-1699, Istanbul, 2003.
4-EstherCafe, Rönesans Dönemi Avrupa Gezi Yazılarında Türk Miti ve Bunun Çöküşü , Çev. Zeki Arıkan, TID, (1984)
5-Zeki Arıkan, "XVII. Yüzyılda Fransa'da Türk Görüntüsü Racine ve Bajazet", XI. Türk Tarih Kongresi, Ankara, 1994, 2735-2750.
6-Zeki Arıkan, "GuilluamePostel ve De la RepubliquedesTurcs", TID, II, 1984.
7-HeleneDesmet-Gregoire, Büyülü Divan: XVIII. Yüzyıl Fransa sında Türkler ve Türk Dünyası, Eren Yayıncılık, Istanbul, 1991.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.30 +ASG* 0.10 + FCG* 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.30 + ASG * 0.10 + RST * 0.60


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)

erkan.serce@gmail.com

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 6 78
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 25 25
Preparing assignments 1 30 30
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 189

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.155
LO.255
LO.355
LO.455

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