Course Information

Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
Cultural Exchange TAR 112 2. Semester 2 + 0 2.0 4.0
Prerequisites None
Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Undergraduate
Course Type
Mode of delivery Theoretical
Course Coordinator Assoc. Prof. Dr. İsmail YAŞAYANLAR
Instructors Furkan KÜLÜNK
Assistants
Goals To examine the processes of social and cultural changes through the example of Turkish history; The formation of the Turkish identity.
Course Content
Learning Outcomes - Has knowledge about theories of social and cultural change.
- Gain a critical and consistent ability to analyze the cultural change of the society in which he lives.
- It identifies the socio-economic and political dynamics that lead to cultural change.
- Compares the issues that arise between the cultural change process of the contemporary Turkey and the processes that lived in the previous periods and the problems that arise between the process and the living processes.
- Evaluates pre-Islamic and post-Islamic periods of Turkish cultures comparatively.
- Analyzes the process of transition from umma to nation state in Turkey in the context of cause-effect relationship.
Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Learning Methods
1. Week Culture, Identity, Cultural change concepts Preparation, After Class Study Research Other Activities Course Hours
2. Week Social change theories. Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Research Other Activities
3. Week Identity and culture concepts in Ancient Turkic States. Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Research Other Activities
4. Week Islamic factor and Turkish Culture Research Other Activities Preparation, After Class Study Course Hours
5. Week Social classes and Ottoman identity in the Ottoman State. Preparation, After Class Study Other Activities Course Hours Research
6. Week Everyday life and cultural identity in the Ottoman society during the modernization process. Other Activities Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Research
7. Week "Was there an Ottoman identity?" Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Other Activities Research
8. Week Midterm Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Other Activities Research
9. Week The effects of wars and migrations on social and cultural changes. Preparation, After Class Study Research Other Activities Course Hours
10. Week The period of National Struggle social and cultural change. (The Concepts of the Ummah and the Nation) Preparation, After Class Study Other Activities Course Hours Research
11. Week Early Republican Period Social and Cultural Change (Nationalism, Civil Law, Women's Rights) Other Activities Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Research
12. Week Early Republican Period Social and Cultural Change (Everyday life, education and art) Other Activities Course Hours Research Preparation, After Class Study
13. Week Distinction of rural-urban, internal migration and spatial changes in cities. Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Other Activities Research
14. Week Popular and arabesque culture in Turkey. Preparation, After Class Study Research Other Activities Course Hours
Recommended Sources
Emre Kongar, Toplumsal Değişme Kuramları ve Türkiye Gerçeği, Ankara: Bilgi Yayınevi, 1979.
Bozkurt Güvenç, Türk Kimliği – Kültür Tarihinin Kaynakları, Ankara: Remzi Kitabevi, 1996.
Türkiye’de Modernleşme ve Ulusal Kimlik, Ed. Sibel Bozdoğan, Reşat Kasaba, İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 2010.
Relations with Education Attainment Program Course Competencies
Program Requirements Contribution Level DK1 DK2 DK3 DK4 DK5 DK6 Measurement Method
PY1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 60
PY2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -
PY3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -
PY4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -
PY5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -
PY6 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 60
PY7 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 -
PY8 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 60
PY9 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 60
PY10 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 60
PY11 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 60
PY12 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 60
PY13 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -
PY14 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -
*DK = Course's Contrubution.
0 1 2 3 4 5
Course's Level of contribution None Very Low Low Fair High Very High
Method of assessment/evaluation Written exam Oral Exams Assignment/Project Laboratory work Presentation/Seminar
ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Hours 14 2 28
Preparation, After Class Study 14 2 28
Research 14 1.5 21
Other Activities 14 1.5 21
Midterm 1 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
Total Workload 102
ECTS Credit of the Course 4.0