COURSE UNIT TITLE

: OTTOMAN ARCHIVES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TCT 5034 OTTOMAN ARCHIVES ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

History of The Turkish Republic

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR NESLIHAN ALFISTIK

Offered to

History of The Turkish Republic

Course Objective

The aim of the course is to teach kind of documents from the Ottoman Archive like fermans, berats, mühimmes, hatt-ı hümayun etc. with paleography and calligraphy, and to interprete their contents.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to know about Ottoman archives
2   to know about paleography and calligraphy of Ottoman documents
3   to learn Ottoman institutions
4   to analyze Ottoman archive documents by reading
5   to evaluate differenciation between Ottoman documents

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Bibliography Information
2 Ottoman Archives: Some Basic Concepts
3 Archival terms
4 Archival terms
5 Types of Articles
6 Types of Articles
7 Rika examples
8 Midterm exam
9 Rika examples
10 Read a document
11 Read a document
12 Read a document
13 Read a document
14 Read a document
15 Read a document
16 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Mehmet Eminoğlu Osmanlı Vesikalarını Okumaya Giriş, T. Diyanet Vakfı Yayını, ankara, 1995.
Şemseddin Sami, Kâmûs-ı Türkî, Çağrı Yayınları Istanbul, 2003.
Belgelerle Arşivcilik Tarihimiz (Osmanlı Dönemi), I, Osmanlı Arşivi Daire Başkanlığı Yay.,Istanbul, 2000.
Osmanlı Devlet Teşkilatına Dâir Kaynaklar, Kitabu Mesalihi l-Müslimin Haz. Yaşar Yücel, TTK, Ankara, 1988.
Arşiv Terimleri, Istanbul, T.C. Cumhurbaşkanlığı Devlet Arşivleri Başkanlığı Yay., 2023.
Ferit Develioğlu, Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lügat, Aydın Kitabevi, Ankara, 2009.
Tayyip Gökbilgin, Osmanlı Paleografya ve Diplomatik Ilmi, Istanbul.
Muhtelif Arşiv Belgeleri.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Presentation
2. Document reading

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1. LO 1-3 will be tested with mid-term exam
2. LO 1-5 will be tested with 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)

neslihan.unal@deu.edu.tr
Office phone number: 0232 301 87 34

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparation for quiz etc. 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 1 20 20
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 2 2
Quiz etc. 2 3 6
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 143

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8
LO.1352
LO.23432
LO.3333
LO.4343
LO.53