COURSE UNIT TITLE

: THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TAR 3173 THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Sociology

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR YILDIZ AKPOLAT

Offered to

Sociology
Sociology (Evening)

Course Objective

To teach students progression of science and civilization, to enlighten the students that science and civilization is a kind of travel to infinity.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To understand that science and civilization are the common heritage of man's and all nations' struggle
2   To explain development process of science and civilization and to explain that these two things develops with research and experiments

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Science in Egypt, Mezopotamia and ancient Greece
2 Science in Helenistic period and Romans
3 Science in Middle age thought and Muslim World
4 Effect of Muslim science to the west and science in scolastic era
5 Rönesance and science; revolutionary steps in astronomy
6 Developments in Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Medicine
7 Consciousness of method in science; Galileo and Newton
8 Theory about light and science academia
9 Mid-term exam
10 Age of Enlightenment and science
11 Industrial revolution and science
12 Modern science

Recomended or Required Reading

To be announced.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

face to face

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 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

exams

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 5 70
Preparation for midterm exam 1 3 3
Preparation for final exam 1 8 8
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 119

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.155
LO.2555