COURSE UNIT TITLE

: AMERICAN HISTORY II

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ELECTIVE

Offered By

History

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR FÜSUN ÇOBAN DÖŞKAYA

Offered to

History

Course Objective

This course aims to examine the social, political, diplomatic and economic events that took place starting from the Civil War and tries to bring it up to the present. In this respect, the students are exposed all the concepts and terms that are necessary to evaluate this period.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be acquainted with the political, social, economic, and historical events staring from the Civil War
2   To know the basic terms, dates, concepts, and principals in order to understand the events since the Civil War
3   To understand the facts and principals concerning the period
4   To be able to find the reason and result relationship of the main events concerning the period.
5   To able to apply these facts and situations to new and currents situations.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The Development of the West: 1877-1900
2 The Machine Age: 1870-1920
3 The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: 1977-1920
4 The Quest for Empire: 1865-1914
5 Americans in the Great War: 1914-1920
6 Great Depression and The New Deal: 1929-1941
7 Peaceseekers and Warmakers: Americans in the World: 1920-1941
8 Mid-Term Exam
9 World War II: 1941-1945
10 Cold War Era: 1945-1961
11 A Turbulent Era in America: 1961-1973
12 Continuing Divisions and New Limits: 1980s
13 Global World and the 1990s
14 New Millennium
15 General Evaluation
16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Bailyn, Bernard, et al. The Great Republic: A History of American People. 13th ed. Lexington: D.C. Heath and Company, 1985. Print.
Brinkley, Alan. American History: A Survey. 13th ed. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2009. Print.
Norton, Mary Beth, et al. A People and a Nation: History of the United States .7th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. Print.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Explaining the topic to students through interactive presentations and supporting it with visual materials, followed by in-depth analysis of the topic through student 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

To be announced

Assessment Criteria

1. Ability to understand and define basic concepts correctly
2. Relating related concepts to each other and using them in context.
3. Analyzing a given text or discourse and using the terminology in the course content effectively.
4. Using language correctly and effectively.
5. Relating and applying the knowledge learned to real in real world examples.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

According to the university policy the students are required to attend 70% of all scheduled class.
The students are required to come to the classes having read the assigned text.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

fusun.doskaya@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 08:30-09:30
Tuesday 08.30-09:30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 1 30 30
Preparation for midterm exam 1 30 30
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparing assignments 13 10 130
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 265

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.153
LO.25
LO.34
LO.43
LO.54

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