| Teaching Staff
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Doç. Dr. Rahşan Balamir Bektaş |
| Language of Instruction |
Türkçe (Turkish) |
| Type Of Course |
Elective |
| Prerequisites |
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| Recommended Optional Programme Component |
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| Course Objectives |
The aim of this course is to be able to evaluate the civilizations that existed during the historical process and the contributions of these civilizations to the field of science and to understand the transformation of scientific activity. |
| Course Content |
Provides background to the origins of modern Western civilization: deals with the development of European society from around AD 1500 until the present, concerning the political, social economic and religious life of the West during that period |
| Learning Outcomes (LO) |
The students who attended the course and were successful at the end of semester will acquire the followings;
1. Explain the development of scientific knowledge in the historical process.
2. Explain the relationship between social and natural science.
3. Comments the relationship between science and social life in the historical periods.
4. Comments the methodological and theoretical differences between social and natural science |
| Mode of Delivery |
Face to face |
| Course Outline |
| Week |
Topics |
| 1. Week |
What is scientific knowledge? Who makes science? Nature and culture, science and technology, scientific developments and positivism |
| 2. Week |
The beginnings of civilization: the emerge of villages, the birth of cities in Western Asia, Mesopotamian, Egyptian |
| 3. Week |
The Hebrew |
| 4. Week |
Greek Civilization and The Hellenistic Civilization |
| 5. Week |
Greek philosophy and Hellenistic culture: philosophy and culture |
| 6. Week |
Rome; From Republic to Empire |
| 7. Week |
Christianity |
| 8. Week |
The Byzantine Empire and its culture |
| 9. Week |
Islamic Civilization |
| 10. Week |
The Overseas Discoveries |
| 11. Week |
The civilization of the Renaissance and Protestant Reform |
| 12. Week |
Renaissance thought and the emergence of modern science |
| 13. Week |
Enlightenment and science |
| 14. Week |
Theory of evolution and evolutionary approach |
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| Assessment |
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Percentage(%) |
| Mid-term (%) |
30 |
| Quizes (%) |
10 |
| Homeworks/Term papers (%) |
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| Practice (%) |
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| Labs (%) |
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| Projects/Field Work (%) |
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| Seminars/Workshops (%) |
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| Final (%) |
60 |
| Other (%) |
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| Total(%) |
100 |
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| Course Book (s) and/or References |
Agibalova, Y. ve Donskoy, G. (2017). Ortaçağ Tarihi. (Çev. Çağdaş Sümer) İstanbul: Yordam Kitapçılık
Alatlı, ,A. (2010). Batı’ya Yön Veren Metinler. Kapodokya: Melisa Matbacılık
Burns, E. McNall, R. & Meacham, S. (1998). Western Civilizations: Their History and Their Culture, 2 vols., 13th Edition, New York, Norton.
Çotuksöken, B. ve Babür, S .(2000). Ortaçağda Felsefe, İstanbul: Kabalcı.
Davies, N.(2006). Avrupa Tarihi. Ankara:İmge Kitabevi
Diamond, J.(2004). Tüfek Mikrop ve Çelik. Ankara:Tübitak Yayınları
Freeman, C. (2005). Mısır Yunan ve Roma, (Çev. Suat Kemal Angı). Ankara: Dost Kitabevi.
Herrin , J. (2010). Bizans (Çev. Uygır Kocabaşoğlu). İstanbul:İletişim
Koyre, A. (2000). Bilim Tarihi Yazıları, (Çev. K. Dinçer). Ankara: Tübitak .
Koyre, A. (2006). Bilim, Devrim ve Newton, (Çev. N. Küçük). İstanbul: Salyangoz Yayınları.
Lapidus,I.(2002). İslam Toplumları Tarihi. İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları
Lindberg, D. (1992). The Beginnings of Western Science, Chicago: Chicago Univ. Press .
Özlem, D. ( (2003). Felsefe ve Doğa Bilimleri, İstanbul: İnkılâpYayınları.
Özlem, D. (2003). Bilim Felsefesi ( Ders Notları ), İstanbul: İnkılâp Yayınları.
Tekin, O. 2003). Eski Yunan Tarihi .İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları
Maalouf, A. (1998). Arapların Gözüyle Haçlı Seferleri. (Çev. Mehmet Ali Kılıçbay). İstanbul:Telos |
| Work Placement(s) |
There is no internship application within the scope of the course. |
| The Relationship between Program Qualifications (PQ) and Course Learning Outcomes (LO) |
| PQ1 | PQ2 | PQ3 | PQ4 | PQ5 | PQ6 | PQ7 | PQ8 | PQ9 | PQ10 | PQ11 | PQ12 | PQ13 | LO1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | LO2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | LO3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | LO4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High |