History of Civilization (HIST221) Course Detail

Course Name	Course Code	Season	Lecture Hours	Application Hours	Lab Hours	Credit	ECTS
History of Civilization	HIST221	2. Semester	3	0	0	3	3

Pre-requisite Course(s)
N/A

Course Language	English
Course Type	Compulsory Departmental Courses
Course Level	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery	Distance
Learning and Teaching Strategies	Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)	Asst. Prof. Dr. Gül Kania
Course Assistants
Course Objectives	Through out this course from the treatment of the earliest culturesand civilizations to the discussion of the later ones we pursue certain key elements, such as social and political structures, science, technology, religion, cultural expressions, trade, philosophies, ideologies.
Course Learning Outcomes	The students who succeeded in this course; To learn different cultures, civilizations, throughout the world with their contributions To learn and understand ancient beliefs, ideas and philosophies To illustrate the developments and improvements of ancient cultures and civilizations Analyzing and understanding the social, political structures of various civilizations
Course Content	A chronological order of the rise of civilizations from Sumer until the Scientific Revolution.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week	Subjects	Preparation
1	Definitions about culture and civilization, Anatolian chronology.	Related chapters
2	The origins of humankind and ice ages, Art of communication; Early Nearthastern cultures; prehistorical periods of Anatolia.	Related chapters
3	Early Historical periods, Iron Ages cultures of Anatolia	Related chapters
4	The first civilizations in Mezopotamia and the River Valley Civilizations of the world.	Related chapters
5	Egyptian, Phoenician, Westernization civilizations; science and technologies in Ancient Near East.	Related chapters
6	The forming of Greek civilizations; Crete, Early Greece	Related chapters
7	The Roman civilization	Related chapters
8	The projects	Related chapters
9	The Middle Ages	Related chapters
10	The Byzantines; Islamic and Early Medival Woel	Related chapters
11	The expansion of Europe, economy, society and politics in the High Middle Ages	Related chapters
12	Religious and intellectual developments, The Later Middle Ages	Related Chapters
13	The civilization of Renaissance and Reformation	Related chapters
14	The Age of Enlightment, The French Revolution	Related chapters
15	General Conclusion, inheritances of early civilizations	Related chapters
16	Final exam

Sources

Course Book	1. Tanilli, S. (2004), Uygarlık Tarihi, İstanbul / Tanilli, S. (2002), Yüzyılların Gerçeği ve Mirası, Cilt 1, İstanbul
Other Sources	2. Özçelik, N. (2002), İlkçağ Tarihi ve Uygarlığı, Ankara/ Memiş, E. (2006), Eskiçağ Medeniyetleri Tarihi, Bursa /Yavuz, H. (2008), Batı Uygarlığı Tarihine Teorik Bir Giriş, Ankara.

Evaluation System

Requirements	Number	Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation	-	-
Laboratory	-	-
Application	-	-
Field Work	-	-
Special Course Internship	-	-
Quizzes/Studio Critics	-	-
Homework Assignments	-	-
Presentation	-	-
Project	-	-
Report	-	-
Seminar	-	-
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury	1	30
Final Exam/Final Jury	1	70
Toplam	2	100

Percentage of Semester Work	30
Percentage of Final Work	70
Total	100

Course Category

Core Courses	X
Major Area Courses
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications

#	Program Qualifications / Competencies	Level of Contribution
#	Program Qualifications / Competencies	1	2	3	4	5
1	Have a basic knowledge of theories, facts and principles related to tourism and tourism management.
2	To have information about the economic, cultural, social and environmental dimensions of tourism.
3	Have knowledge of general business and economics and understand the strategies of human resources management, food and beverage applications, accounting and finance, management and marketing and service marketing in tourism enterprises.
4	Knows the national and international legal regulations, social, environmental and professional ethical values related to the field of tourism and develops appropriate behaviors to ethics.
5	Demonstrates reading, comprehension, speaking and writing skills in English at least at the B2 level of European Language Portfolio
6	Demonstrates reading, comprehension, speaking and writing skills at a general level of European Language Portfolio A2 in Russian, French, German or Spanish.
7	Uses the information about Tourism and Hotel Management in the business settings and profession; use information and communication technologies and software related to the field.
8	Carries out the service processes related to Tourism and Hotel Management in line with the needs and demands of the consumers and proposes solutions to the problems that will affect the service processes.
9	Generates professional knowledge from the data and synthesizes, analyzes, interprets and evaluates the produced knowledge; gain the ability of doing research project preparation and using the information in solving the problems; makes personal and professional development permanent
10	He / she takes care of personal care, hygiene, clothing and appearance as required by the tourism sector.
11	Communicates effectively with written, oral, non-verbal and visual ways and demonstrates presentation skills, works effectively as a team and independently.				X
12	Recognize and understand different cultures and interact with guests from different cultures.			X

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities	Number	Duration (Hours)	Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours)	16	3	48
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class	16	3	48
Presentation/Seminar Prepration
Project
Report
Homework Assignments
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury	1	3	3
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury	1	6	6
Total Workload			105