COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MODERN OTTOMAN DIPLOMACY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TAR 5053 MODERN OTTOMAN DIPLOMACY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

History

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BILGIN ÇELIK

Offered to

History

Course Objective

o understand the main characteristics of the Late Ottoman Empire; the transformation of the Ottoman Foreign Policy within the scope of theoretical conception; problems and their solution processes; and the Ottoman legacy Republican Türkiye have.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to know the context and sources of the Late Ottoman diplomacy.
2   to know the international problems Ottoman Empire faced.
3   to evaluate the main characteristics of the Ottoman diplomacy.
4   to evaluate the changes in European diplomacy.
5   to analyse the reflection of Ottoman modernization on diplomacy.
6   to present a paper dealing with the period by using historical sources.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Context of the Late Ottoman diplomacy
2 Ottoman diplomacy in the Classical Age
3 The birth of Ottoman modern diplomacy
4 Power of Balance
5 The Eastern Question
6 Europe and the Ottoman diplomacy
7 Ottoman foreign policy during Tanzimat Era
8 Mid-tern
9 Foreign policy during the reign of Sultan Abdulhamid II.
10 Foreign policy during the Second Constitutional Era
11 Foreign policy during the First World War
12 Presentations
13 Presentations
14 Conclusions

Recomended or Required Reading

F.Armaoğlu, 19.Yüzyıl Siyasi Tarihi (1789-1914), Alkım Yayınları, 4. baskı 2007
I.Ortaylı, Imparatorluğun En Uzun Yüzyılı, Iletişim Yayınları
I. Ortaylı, Osmanlı Imparatorluğu nda Alman Nüfuzu, Istanbul, Iletişim, 2001
M. S. Anderson, Doğu Sorunu 1774-1923, YKY, Istanbul 2001
L. Carl Brown, Imparatorluk Mirası, Iletişim Yayınları, Istanbul 2000
Richard C. Hall, Balkan Savaşları 1912-1913, Homer Kitabevi, Istanbul 2003
Hüner Tuncer, Osmanlı Devleti ve Büyük Güçler (1815-1878), Kaynak Yayınları, Istanbul 2009
Kemal Girgin, Osmanlı ve Cumhuriyet Dönemi Hariciye Tarihimiz, Ankara, TTK, 1994
Harold Nicholson, Diplomasi, Istanbul, Altın Yayınları, 1970
Temel Iskit, Diplomasi Tarihi, Teorisi, Kurumları ve Uygulaması, 2.b., Istanbul, Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2007

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, homeworks, seminars

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.20 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.20 + RST* 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

tba

Assessment Criteria

1) LO 1-3 will be asked in mid-term exam
2) LO 1-5 will be asked in final exam
3) LO 6 will be assessed with presentations

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

tba

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

bilgin.celik@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

By appointment

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 153

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8
LO.143
LO.244444443
LO.343
LO.443
LO.543
LO.643

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