Political History (KAM208) Course Detail

Course Name	Course Code	Season	Lecture Hours	Application Hours	Lab Hours	Credit	ECTS
Political History	KAM208	4. Semester	3	0	0	3	8

Pre-requisite Course(s)
N/A

Course Language	Turkish
Course Type	Compulsory Departmental Courses
Course Level	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery	Face To Face
Learning and Teaching Strategies	Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)	Dr. Aslı Yiğit
Course Assistants
Course Objectives	The aim of this course is to provide students with a basic understanding of the change, development, collapse of states and nations, interstate political and economic developments, and established new orders in the process starting from the nineteenth century to the present day.
Course Learning Outcomes	The students who succeeded in this course; Understands the effect of historical processes on the formation of today's political order beginning from the nineteenth century, learning the important events in world history and To possess the ability to analyze the historical bases of today's political and economic order and to verbalize the interstate relations by interpreting them from a historical perspective.
Course Content	World War I and II; Cold War; international relations; The Eastern Bloc`s collapse.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week	Subjects	Preparation
1	Course Description, Basic Concepts
2	Industrial Revolution and French Revolution	Relevant section in the source
3	Congress of Vienna and the New Order in Europe	Relevant section in the source
4	World War I	Relevant section in the source
5	The End of the First World War	Relevant section in the source
6	II. World War	Relevant section in the source
7	MIDTERM
8	The beginning and spread of the Cold War	Relevant section in the source
9	The beginning and spread of the Cold War	Relevant section in the source
10	Moderation Era in The Cold War Period	Relevant section in the source
11	QUIZ
12	Soğuk Savaşın Sona Ermesi	Relevant section in the source
13	The Post-Cold War World	Relevant section in resources
14	General Evaluation

Sources

Course Book	1. Sander, Oral. 1989. Siyasi Tarih. İlkçağlardan 1918’e. Ankara: İmge Kitabevi.
	2. Sander, Oral. 1989. Siyasi Tarih. 1918-1994. Ankara: İmge Kitabevi.

Evaluation System

Requirements	Number	Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation	-	-
Laboratory	-	-
Application	-	-
Field Work	-	-
Special Course Internship	-	-
Quizzes/Studio Critics	1	10
Homework Assignments	-	-
Presentation	-	-
Project	-	-
Report	-	-
Seminar	-	-
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury	1	45
Final Exam/Final Jury	1	45
Toplam	3	100

Percentage of Semester Work	50
Percentage of Final Work	50
Total	100

Course Category

Core Courses
Major Area Courses	X
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	Students can learn the basic concepts, theories and methods of political science and public administration and use them in the analysis of national and global political developments and cause-effect relationships.					X
2	It enables one to understand how policies are created and implemented in real life at the local, national, regional and/or global level, to recognize the important institutions and actors that play a role in these processes, and to know the functioning of public administration.
3	It provides a basic level of knowledge about other fields related to political science and public administration disciplines (such as international relations, sociology, psychology, cultural studies, economics, law, history, etc.) and thus provides an interdisciplinary understanding that takes into account the relationships between different areas of life and establishes connections.
4	Learning the use of quantitative and/or qualitative research techniques that can be used in the field of political science and public administration, software, hardware and/or technical tools that can be useful; gaining experience in designing and executing research projects to develop their application skills in this field.
5	By promoting critical analytical thinking, intellectual debate and lifelong learning, the development of the ability to act with an open mind, to avoid discrimination and to be sensitive and respectful of different points of view, thus developing skills for acting in partnership.
6	To develop decision-making and initiative taking, work completion and time management competencies by understanding business ethics in public administration, politics and all related fields.
7	Developing communication skills, oral and written expression, presentation techniques; learning the writing principles and procedures required to write an academic article on political science and public administration disciplines.					X
8	The aim of the course is to master the English terminology in the disciplines of political science and public administration and to gain foreign language knowledge at a level to follow the studies written in English, so that current political developments and events in various countries can be analysed comparatively.
9	To know the political history of both Turkey and the world in terms of periods, important turning points and actors, to comprehend the impact of the social-historical backgrounds of countries on current political and administrative issues.

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities	Number	Duration (Hours)	Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours)	14	3	42
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class	14	5	70
Presentation/Seminar Prepration
Project
Report
Homework Assignments
Quizzes/Studio Critics	1	8	8
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury	1	40	40
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury	1	40	40
Total Workload			200