COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MEDDITERRANEAN IN THE LATE ANCIENT ERA

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TAR 6101 MEDDITERRANEAN IN THE LATE ANCIENT ERA ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

History

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR BINNUR GÜRLER

Offered to

History

Course Objective

Course Objective: The aim of this course is to teach eastern Mediterranean region as an important and determinant area for culture, economy and policy throughout ages and evaluate it particularly in Late Antiquity when it became a resource of structural changes

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   understand historical events in the eastern Mediterranean region in Late Antiquity
2   define material culture which sustained historical societies in the eastern Mediterranean region in Late Antiquity
3   understand social structure and beliefs in the eastern Mediterranean region in Late Antiquity
4   know about cities, trade and interrelationships in the eastern Mediteranean region in Late Antiquity

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Eastern Rome and Constantinoples after the fifth century
2 Barbarians and Roman Military
3 Church and Society
4 Cultural atmosphere
5 Changing of the polis and the end of Antic Times
6 Eastern Med. and Change
7 Procopius
8 Midterm
9 Distinction between East and West
10 Visual Arts
11 Literature
12 Socail and Cultual Change
13 Encounters with Europe
14 General Evaluations

Recomended or Required Reading

Peter Brown, The World of late Antiquity, London 1971.
W.T. Treadgold, A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford 1997.
A.H.M.Jones, The Later Roman empire: A Social, Economic and Administrative Survey, 3 cilt, Oxford 1964.
M.F.Hendy, Studies in the Byzantine Monetary Economy c.300-1450, Cambridge 1985.
R.Cormark, Writing in Gold: Byzantine Society and its Icons, Oxford 1985.
Averil Cameron, The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, AD 395-600, 1993
Hugh Kennnedy, "From Polis to Madina: urban change in late Antique and early Islamic Syria", Past and Present 106 (1985:3-27).

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, presentations, topic 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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

tba

Assessment Criteria

1) LO 1-2 will be asked in mid-term exam
2) LO 1-4 will be asked in final exam

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

tba

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

binnur.gurler@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Fridays Hours 10:00-11:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparing presentations 2 4 8
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 5 65
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 148

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.144
LO.251
LO.33
LO.452