COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

History

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

DOCTOR MEHMET ŞERIF ERKEK

Offered to

History (Evening)
History

Course Objective

This course is a survey of Japanese history from the Tokugawa period to the end of the World War II. The course will attempt to analyze the background of which modern Japan emerged, to identify the principal developments in her transition from geopolitically isolated, "feudal" society to first non-European capitlist-industrial society in a few decades, and to explain the rise and fall of Japanese empire and her emergence as a major world power.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Andrew Gordon, A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, Oxford University Press, 2019.
William Theodore de Bary, Carol Gluck, and Arthur E. Tiedemann, (eds.), Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume 2, (Part 1: 1600 to 2000: Part 2: 1868 to 2000), Columbia University Press, 2006.
Elise K.Tipton, Modern Japan A social and political history, Routledge, 2003.
Katsu Kokichi, Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai, The University of Arizona Press, 1988.
Nancy K. Stalker, Japan: History and Culture from Classical to Cool, University of California Press, 2018.
Shigeru Mizuki, Showa 1944-1953: A History of Japan, Drawn and Quarterly, 2022.
Selçuk Esenbel, Japon Modernleşmesi ve Osmanlı, Iletişim Yayınları, 2021.
Mikiso Hanse, Kısa Japonya Tarihi, Say Yayınları, 2021.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The class will be structured around lectures. In preparing for class, students should complete all the required readings and be ready to answer questions regarding the readings.

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-3: Your grade will be evaluated through the performance in the midterm and final exams and a paper you present at the end of semester.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

-Attendance is mandatory. Students will be allowed five unexcused absences during the semester without impact to their final grade.
-Use of cell phones, laptops and tablets is allowed, but only to take notes. If students use this for other means (surfing the internet, playing games, etc.), they will loose the privilige.
-Be in time for class.
-Refrain from talking during class or disturbing your lecturer and classmates' attention in other ways
-Drinking is OK, but clean up afterwards.
-Recording of the lectures is not allowed.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

E-mail: serif.erkek@deu.edu.tr
Phone: +90 (232) 301 87 34

Office Hours

TBA

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes