TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Elective Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Associate Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	-
SEMESTER	-
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	5
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	-
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) Understand about culture, identity and history of culture. 2) Know The World Civilisations and ask questions related to novadays. 3) Understand better the cases happening on the globe. 4) Understand the far future by learning the past. 5) Examine and searche interdiciplinary the matters related to culture and history of culture. 6) Use the tehcnics, methods and materials in studies related to history of civilisation.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	None
COURSE DEFINITION	The aim of the course; is to make the students recieve a vast knowledge that provides them a better understanding of history of world and geological location of their country and achieve intellectual and Professional profeciency.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week What is history? Thinking about the past? Existence of the universe, paleontology and paleoantropology. What is fossil? Existence of the world and geological times Writing: Existence of the world (It is written in the class, not rated) 2nd Week Unwritten records; paleolithic age, mesolithic age, neolithic age and pre.pottery neolithic age and pottery neolithic age, chalcolithic age.Project: The subjects will be hand out for the projects 3rd Week Written records; Sumerian Civilisation and Babylonian Civilization 4th Week Ancient Egypt civilisation; Early Dynasctic Period, Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom and Late Periods. 5th Week Hattians, Hittites.Reading: Seeher, J. "Hititlerin Türkiye Kültür Mirası İçindeki Yeri" Hititler ve Hitit İmparatorluğu. Kunst.und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Bonn 2002) 6th Week Minoan Civilization and Mycenaean Civilization.Projects oral presantations: The students will be presents their projects from the 6th week 7th Week Ancient Greek Civilization; politic and administrative status; Athens ve Sparta, Colonization 8th Week Mid-term 9th Week Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, Thales, Hippocrates, Anaximandras, Anaximenes, Heracleitos, Pythagoras, Anaxagoras, Epicurus and Oclides, Apollonius, Archimedes 10th Week Persian Civilization, Ancient Chinise Civilization, Ancient India (Maurya) 11th Week Roman Empire, social and administrative status. 12th Week Steppe cultures, Byzantine Empire, Great Seljuq Empire. Feodalizm, European Medieval History, Renaissance. St. Augustine, Bede, St. Anselmus, Bacon, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, William of Ockham 13th Week Islamic Golden Age, Islamic scholars; El.Kindi, Farabi, El.Hazen, İbni Sina, İbn.i Rüşd, El.İdrisi, İbnü'l.Heysem, Battani, El.Biruni, Ömer Hayyam, İbni Haldun.Ottoman Empire 14th Week Russia and America, western influances and culturel changes, industrial revolution First World War, Second World War.
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Gombrich, E. H., Genç Okurlar İçin Kısa Bir Dünya Tarihi (İstanbul: İnkılap Kitabevi, 19973) Ribard, A., İnsanlığın Tarihi (İstanbul: Say Kitap, 1983)
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Project,Presentation,Questions/Answers,Discussion
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 30 Project 1 30 Total(%) 60 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 60 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 40 Total(%) 100
ECTS WORKLOAD	Activities Number Hours Workload Midterm exam 1 1 1 Preparation for Quiz Individual or group work Preparation for Final exam 1 40 40 Course hours 14 3 42 Preparation for Midterm exam 1 30 30 Laboratory (including preparation) Final exam 1 1 1 Homework Project 1 35 35 Total Workload 149 Total Workload / 30 4,96 ECTS Credits of the Course 5
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	Turkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No