ECTS - The History of Early Modern Mediterranean (1450-1789)

The History of Early Modern Mediterranean (1450-1789) (HUM108) Course Detail

Course Name	Course Code	Season	Lecture Hours	Application Hours	Lab Hours	Credit	ECTS
The History of Early Modern Mediterranean (1450-1789)	HUM108	General Elective	3	0	0	3	4

Pre-requisite Course(s)
N/A

Course Language	English
Course Type	Elective 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)	Staff
Course Assistants
Course Objectives	To gain a general information to students about the history of the Early Modern Mediterranean within the context of social, economic, political, military and cultural developments; to draw the general framework of the transformation in the Mediterranean World; and to examine the relationship and interaction among different societies, identities and cultures in the region comparatively.
Course Learning Outcomes	The students who succeeded in this course; The students who succeeded in this course; -Knows the geographical, historical, economic, social and cultural development of the Mediterranean in the early modern period, -Understands the contributions of interaction between different societies and cultures in the region to the Mediterranean world in a cause and effect relationship, -Analyze the political and social structures of the period.
Course Content	The description of the early modern Mediterranean in general terms from the geographical discoveries to the French Revolution; political, social, historical and economic developments and transformations in the early modern Mediterranean; wars and trade in the axis of Ottoman-Spanish hegemony struggle in the Mediterranean basin.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week	Subjects	Preparation
1	Where is the Mediterranean, What is its importance? History, space, men and heritage in the Mediterranean.	The Mediterranean in History, p. 11-32. History, Space, Men and Heritage Under the tutelage of Fernand Braudel.
2	Mediterranean World Until the mid-15th Century: Political, Economic, Military and Social Circumstances.	Barbaros Hayreddin Pasha in the Spanish and Ottoman Chronicals, p. 13-35.
3	The Impact of Geographical Discoveries on Mediterranean.	The Age of Discovery, 1400-1600, p. 11-64.
4	Developments in Maritime Technology.	Related readings
5	Economies: Precious Metals, Coins and Prices.	The Mediterranean and the Meditarranean World in the Age of Philip II (Volume II), p. 182-295.
6	Economies: Trade and Transportation	The Mediterranean and the Meditarranean World in the Age of Philip II (Volume II), p. 445-450.
7	Midterm
8	Transition from City-States to Nation-States in the Mediterranean.	The Mediterranean and the Meditarranean World in the Age of Philip II (Volume II), p. 445-450. The Vaning of the Mediterranean, 1550-1870), A Geohistorical Approach, p. 45-222.
9	Empires in the Mediterranean: Ottoman and Spanish Empires	The Mediterranean and the Meditarranean World in the Age of Philip II (Volume II), p. 451-478.
10	Ottoman- Spanish Relations in the Mediterranean.	Barbaros Hayreddin Pasha in the Spanish and Ottoman Chronicals, p. 37-69.
11	Ottoman- Spanish Hegemony Struggle, Naval Wars and Piracy in the Mediterranean.	Forgotten Frontiers: A History of the Sixteenth-Century Ibero-African Frontier.
12	War and Trade in the Mediterranean Under Ottoman Domination.	The Mediterranean in History, p. 219-250. Ottoman Mediterranean, p. 11-28.
13		Related readings
14	Global Mediterranean: Boundaries.	The Mediterranean and the Meditarranean World in the Age of Philip II (Volume I), p. 274-368.
15	General Overview
16	Final Exam	The questions prepared by the course instructor.

Sources

Course Book	1. Mediterranean in History, David Abulafia (ed.), Thames & Hudson Ltd., London 2003.
	2. A Companian to Mediterranean History (eds. Peregrine Horden and Sharon Kinoshita). Wiley Blackwell, Chichester 2014.
	3. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Volume I. Fernand Braudel, University of California Press, London 1995.
	4. The Turkish and Spanish Empires in The Sixteenth and Beginning Of The Seventeenth. Leopold Von Ranke, Translated by Walter K. Kelly, Whittaker and Co., London 1843.
	5. The Forgotten Frontiers: A History of the Sixteenth-Century Ibero- African Frontier. Andrew C. Hess, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 1978.
	6. Geography, Technology, and War: Studies in the Maritime History of the Mediterranean, 649-1571. John H. Pryor, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1994.
	7. Gunpowder and Galleys: Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare at Sea in the 16th Century. John Francis Guilmartin (Rev ed.), Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD 2003.
	8. The Captive Sea: Slavery, Communicaton and, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and Mediterranean. Daniel Hershenzen, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2018.
	9. The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History. Peregrine Horden annd Nicholas Purcell, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford 2000.
	10. The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean, David Abulafia. Oxford University Press, New York 2011.
	11. The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age, 1300-1600. Halil İnalcık, Translated by Norman Itzkowitz and Colin Imber, Praeger Publishers, New York and Washington 1973.
	12. The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe. Daniel Goffman, Cambridge University Press, New York 2002.
	13. Fernand Braudel Yönetiminde Akdeniz: Tarih, Mekân, İnsanlar ve Miras (History, Space, Men and Heritage Under the tutelage of Fernand Braudel), 2. Basım, Çevirenler Necati Erkurt ve Erkut Derman, Metis Yayıncılık, İstanbul 2008.
Other Sources	14. Solan Akdeniz: 1550-1870, Coğrafi-Tarihsel Bir Yaklaşım (The Vaning of the Mediterranean, 1550-1870), A Geohistorical Approach), Faruk Tabak, Çev. Nurettin Elhüseyni, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, İstanbul 2010.
	15. Rönesans Avrupası: Türkiye’nin Batı Medeniyetiyle Özdeşleşme Süreci (Renaissance Europe: Identification Process of Turkey with Western Civilization), Halil İnalcık, 5. Basım, Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, İstanbul 2014.
	16. Osmanlı Akdeniz’i (Ottoman Mediterranean), İdris Bostan, 1. Basım, Küre Yayınları, İstanbul 2017.
	17. Coğrafi Keşifler Tarihi (The Age of Discovery, 1400-1600), David Arnold, Çev. Osman Bahadır, Alan Yayıncılık, İstanbul 1995.
	18. İspanyol ve Osman¬lı Kroniklerinde Barbaros Hayreddin Paşa (Barbaros Hayreddin Pasha in the Spanish and Ottoman Chronicals, Hüseyin Güngör Şahin, Ankara Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Basılmamış Doktora Tezi. Ankara 2018.

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	35
Final Exam/Final Jury	1	65
Toplam	2	100

Percentage of Semester Work
Percentage of Final Work	100
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	To be able to use English language competently concerning four basic skills, namely listening, reading, speaking, and writing
2	To have extensive theoretical knowledge about English literature.
3	To gain knowledge about literary theories and to be able to apply these theories to various literary texts
4	To acquire detailed knowledge about British culture in all its aspects
5	To be able to compare and contrast English literature with other literatures through works from different periods and genres.
6	To be able to compare and contrast British culture with other cultures
7	To plan, organize, and conduct the activities related to the field
8	To acquire the skills of creative, critical, and analytical thinking
9	To gain knowledge about how to conduct an academic research and to use the acquired knowledge in accordance with the purpose of the research
10	To acquire professional ethics and to use them in the process of research and production
11	The ability to translate various kinds of texts from different disciplines both from English into Turkish and from Turkish into English
12	To get prepared for professional life by developing a sense of responsibility through individual tasks and group projects
13	To be able to understand and decipher various discourses involved in literature such as literary, philosophical, psychological, cultural, critical and theoretical discourses in English language
14	To be able to understand and be a part of world culture

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	14	3	42
Presentation/Seminar Prepration
Project
Report
Homework Assignments
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury	1	4	4
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury	1	6	6
Total Workload			100