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HIST 500 M.A. Pro-Seminar

0 Credit

A multi-purpose course that can be used flexibly for a better preparation in research methods and analysis including deepening mastery of the relevant research languages through special readings, whenever necessary. The course also aims to expose students to ethical standarts and rules in research and publishing.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2022-2023	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2021-2022	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2020-2021	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2020-2021	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2019-2020	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2019-2020	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2018-2019	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2018-2019	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2017-2018	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2017-2018	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2016-2017	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2016-2017	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2015-2016	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2015-2016	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2014-2015	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2014-2015	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2013-2014	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2012-2013	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2011-2012	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2011-2012	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2010-2011	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2010-2011	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2009-2010	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2009-2010	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2008-2009	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2008-2009	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2007-2008	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2007-2008	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2006-2007	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2006-2007	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2005-2006	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2005-2006	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2004-2005	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2003-2004	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2002-2003	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2001-2002	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2001-2002	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2000-2001	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2000-2001	M.A. Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2021-2022	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Spring 2020-2021	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Fall 2020-2021	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Fall 2018-2019	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Spring 2017-2018	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Fall 2017-2018	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Spring 2015-2016	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Fall 2015-2016	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Spring 2014-2015	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Fall 2014-2015	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Spring 2013-2014	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Fall 2013-2014	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Spring 2011-2012	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Fall 2011-2012	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Spring 2010-2011	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Fall 2010-2011	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Spring 2009-2010	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Fall 2009-2010	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Fall 2008-2009	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Spring 2007-2008	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Fall 2007-2008	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Spring 2006-2007	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Fall 2006-2007	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Spring 2005-2006	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Fall 2005-2006	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Spring 2004-2005	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Fall 2004-2005	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0
Spring 2003-2004	PhD Pro-Seminar (HIST600)	0

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 501 Explorations in World History I

3 Credits

This is the first of a sequence of two term-courses that are required of all MA students in History. It is a general survey course that explores specific themes and periods from the first human communities to c. 1500, and problematizes them in comparative, theory-intensive ways. It runs parallel to the SPS 101 (Humanity and Society I) freshman course, which serves as the teaching practicum of HIST 501 for SU graduate students in History who also serve as SPS 101 section instructors. Both SPS 101 and HIST 501 embody a discrete, step-function view of historical development, examining sets of institutional-cultural "solutions" situated along each major material-technical threshold, without however proceeding in a continuous narrative from one such locus to another. Topics dealt with in the first semester include : Modernity's subsumptions and transformations of pre-modernities; comparing contemporary with prehistoric hunters and gatherers; nomadic pastoralism, mounted archers, steppe empires; the economics of peasant production; the role of movement and conquest in history; "dark ages" and state formation; precocious maritime civilizations in Antiquity; tributary states and societies; the function and varieties of fief distribution; types of urban space and culture; the world on the eve of the "European miracle"; the Italian Renaissance as the dawn of early modernity.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2022-2023	Explorations in World History I	3
Fall 2021-2022	Explorations in World History I	3
Fall 2020-2021	Explorations in World History I	3
Fall 2019-2020	Explorations in World History I	3
Fall 2018-2019	Explorations in World History I	3
Fall 2017-2018	Explorations in World History I	3
Fall 2016-2017	Explorations in World History I	3
Fall 2015-2016	Explorations in World History I	3
Fall 2014-2015	Explorations in World History I	3
Fall 2013-2014	Explorations in World History I	3
Fall 2012-2013	Explorations in World History I	3
Fall 2011-2012	Explorations in World History I	3
Fall 2010-2011	Explorations in World History I	3
Fall 2009-2010	Explorations in World History I	3
Fall 2008-2009	Explorations in World History I	3
Fall 2007-2008	Explorations in World History I	3
Fall 2006-2007	Explorations in World History I	3
Fall 2005-2006	Explorations in World History I	3
Fall 2004-2005	Explorations in World History I	3
Fall 2003-2004	History of Europe and the West I	3
Fall 2002-2003	History of Europe and the West I	3
Fall 2001-2002	History of Europe and the West I	3
Fall 2000-2001	History of Europe & the West I	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 502 Explorations in World History II

3 Credits

A general survey course exploring specific themes and periods from c. 1500 to the present, and problematizing them in comparative, theory-intensive ways. Runs parallel to the SPS 102 (Humanity and Society II) freshman course, which serves as the teaching practicum of HIST 502 for SU graduate students in History who also serve as SPS 102 section instructors. Topics dealt with over the second semester include : the Protestant Reformation and the subsequent relativization of religion; the European Reconnaissance and the birth of the modern world-system; the rise and political economy of the merchant empires; the "military revolution" and the genesis of the modern state; science, scientism, and the Enlightenment; modes of sovereignty and legitimacy : the birth of modern politics and political science; proto- industrialisation; the wealth of nations; revolutions and modernity; the French Revolution and its legacy of "revolutionism"; the Industrial Revolution and its legacy of the "social question" in the 19th century; varieties of nationalism : European; east-southeast European, extra-European; debating the new imperialism, 1875-1914; imperialism, war, and revolution; the new toughness of mind : socialism and communism; the new toughness of mind : fascism and national socialism; the post-1945 world order; the collapse of communism, and problems of post- communism; new issues and conflicts of capitalist modernity at the end of the 20th century.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2021-2022	Explorations in World History II	3
Spring 2020-2021	Explorations in World History II	3
Spring 2019-2020	Explorations in World History II	3
Spring 2018-2019	Explorations in World History II	3
Spring 2017-2018	Explorations in World History II	3
Spring 2016-2017	Explorations in World History II	3
Spring 2015-2016	Explorations in World History II	3
Spring 2014-2015	Explorations in World History II	3
Spring 2013-2014	Explorations in World History II	3
Spring 2012-2013	Explorations in World History II	3
Spring 2011-2012	Explorations in World History II	3
Spring 2010-2011	Explorations in World History II	3
Spring 2009-2010	Explorations in World History II	3
Spring 2008-2009	Explorations in World History II	3
Spring 2007-2008	Explorations in World History II	3
Spring 2006-2007	Explorations in World History II	3
Spring 2005-2006	Explorations in World History II	3
Spring 2004-2005	Explorations in World History II	3
Spring 2003-2004	Explorations in World History II	3
Spring 2002-2003	History of Europe and the West II	3
Spring 2001-2002	History of Europe and the West II	3
Spring 2000-2001	History of Europe and the West II	3

Prerequisite: HIST 501 - Masters - Min Grade D

or HIST 501 - Doctorate - Min Grade D

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 503 The Formations and Constructions of Europe

3 Credits

A double exploration of Europe's both "real" and "ideal" emergence. An introductory section to be devoted to (a) the physical shaping of a continent, (b) its stages of human settlement, from prehistoric times through the Germanic and Slavic migrations down to modern and recent patterns of movement, (c) the basic language groups created on this basis, and (d) Europe's religions in flux across space and time. Through these and related dimensions, simultaneously, the three main thresholds of "European history" as such : the Dark Ages, the birth of Early Modernity, and the Age of Revolution. The parallel development of the notion of Europe in political and social thought, together with its various theoretical ramifications or extensions (such as "the West", "the historical nations", "bourgeois civil society", "civilisation" or "capitalism"), juxtaposed to its non-European others or counterparts, in the course of the creation of a Eurocentric symbolic geography by the 19th and 20th century social sciences. Selective studies of specific aspects of European history (such as cities, wars, or revolutions), as well as of how all this has impacted on modern European politics and culture.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2013-2014	The Formations and Constructions of Europe	3
Spring 2012-2013	The Formations and Constructions of Europe	3
Spring 2011-2012	The Formations and Constructions of Europe	3
Spring 2010-2011	The Formations and Constructions of Europe	3
Fall 2009-2010	The Formations and Constructions of Europe	3
Fall 2008-2009	The Formations and Constructions of Europe	3
Fall 2007-2008	The Formations and Constructions of Europe	3
Fall 2006-2007	The Formations and Constructions of Europe	3
Spring 2005-2006	The Formations and Constructions of Europe	3
Fall 2004-2005	The Formations and Constructions of Europe	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 506 The Twentieth Century Through Art and Literature

3 Credits

This course seeks not to familiarize students with a basic factography of the 20th century, but to guide them into explorations of the infinite variety of its human conditions -- perceived through great art, literature and films pertaining to its great tragedies, bunched for example around the horror of trench warfare; the promise and failure of revolutions; Fascism, Nazism and Stalinism; totalitarianisms and their camp systems; occupations and resistance movements; atrocities and genocides; life in the shadow of nuclear weapons; readings and meanings of the collapse of Communism; the rise, degeneration and fall of the Third World.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2012-2013	The Twentieth Century Through Art and Literature	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 511 Trends, Debates, Historians I

3 Credits

The Historiography sequence of HIST 511-512 is required of all PhD students in History, and while it may also be taken by MA students, in all cases it should be taken after HIST 501-502 or some other, comparable survey of world or at least European history. This is necessary because ''Trends, Debates, Historians'' adopts an approach to the study of Historiography that is historical in more than one sense. It proposes to study methodology not in the abstract but in the concrete, as embodied in the output of a number of great historians living and working in the 20th century; naturally it strives to relate each such historian to his/her context and preferred paradigm; but it also situates each such contribution within the framework of the period problematic and literature to which it pertains. This means that works studied are taken up in the chronological order of their subject matter, i.e. of the historical period to which they refer (rather than by reference to their authors in chronological sequence). Furthermore, as a side objective of the course is to study problems of overall organization and sustained consistency in writing synthetic books (as opposed to research articles), in both semesters the emphasis is on reading complete books by leading- edge historians. Thus after opening with a few introductory texts of a general nature plus an initial set of readings on historians' own views of their profession, HIST 511 quickly moves into sampling works by historians of Antiquity, followed by close readings of some leading Medievalists. These and others are also scrutinized for the methodological insights they might shed into Ottoman historical studies. Controversies among Turkish as well as European scholars on the nature of serfdom, feudalism, or the feudal mode of production, as well as the more recent ''feudal revolution'' debate, are treated through special files interpolated where necessary. Throughout, two basic questions are repeatedly posed : From Herodotos and Thucydides, through the 19th century, down to the present, what has changed and what has not changed in the practice of historians ?

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2021-2022	Trends, Debates, Historians I	3
Fall 2019-2020	Trends, Debates, Historians I	3
Fall 2017-2018	Trends, Debates, Historians I	3
Fall 2015-2016	Trends, Debates, Historians I	3
Fall 2013-2014	Trends, Debates, Historians I	3
Fall 2012-2013	Trends, Debates, Historians I	3
Fall 2010-2011	Trends, Debates, Historians I	3
Fall 2008-2009	Trends, Debates, Historians I	3
Fall 2007-2008	- Trends, Debates, Historians I	3
Fall 2004-2005	Trends, Debates, Historians I	3
Fall 2003-2004	Trends, Debates, Historians I	3
Fall 2001-2002	Trends, Debates, Historians I	3
Fall 1999-2000	Trends, Debates, Historians I	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 512 Trends, Debates, Historians II

3 Credits

The second semester of the required HIST 511-512 sequence in Historiography pursues the same "complete readings" approach into major works concentrating on first the Early Modern and then the Modern era. Once more, historians are studied individually, and trends or schools are for the most part introduced through the historians that embody their distinctive approaches. Authors dealt with over the second semester may be as diverse as Febvre, Braudel, Le Roy Ladurie, Christopher Hill, Keith Thomas, E. P. Thompson, Charles Tilly, Simon Schama and Carlo Ginzburg, as well as Hobsbawm, Blackbourn, Landes, Eugen Weber, Peter Gay or FranÃ§ois Furet. Crucial debates, for example on "the transition from feudalism to capitalism" and its Brenner follow-up, or on "the military revolution and the genesis of the modern state", are introduced as separate files or appendices. The last quarter of the course is devoted to a closing survey of the current proliferation of outlooks and approaches, including discussions of microhistory, cultural history, history of mentalities, the return of the narrative, the return of the state, as well as modernist vs post-modernist positions on the question of "historical truth", "myth-making", or the relationship between literature and history.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2022-2023	Trends, Debates, Historians II	3
Spring 2020-2021	Trends, Debates, Historians II	3
Spring 2019-2020	Trends, Debates, Historians II	3
Spring 2017-2018	Trends, Debates, Historians II	3
Spring 2015-2016	Trends, Debates, Historians II	3
Spring 2013-2014	Trends, Debates, Historians II	3
Spring 2012-2013	Trends, Debates, Historians II	3
Spring 2010-2011	Trends, Debates, Historians II	3
Spring 2008-2009	Trends, Debates, Historians II	3
Spring 2007-2008	Trends, Debates, Historians II	3
Spring 2004-2005	Trends, Debates, Historians II	3
Spring 2001-2002	Trends, Debates, Historians II	3
Spring 1999-2000	Trends, Debates, Historians II	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 513 Readings in Historical Thought

3 Credits

More concentrated, in-depth readings in periods or fields that are not comprehensively covered in HIST 511-512, such as (a) the ancient (Greek and Roman) historians; (b) Medieval European and Ottoman chroniclers and historians; (c) Renaissance and Enlightenment historians; (d) the 18th-19th century development from antiquarianism through linguistics into history proper; (e) the systematization of the new "scientific history" early in the 19th century; and (f) a more detailed examination of the development of history throughout the rest of the 19th century. Recommended particularly for History students intending to concentrate on Historiography, as well as for Social Sciences students interested in the history of political ideas or intellectual history.

Last Offered Terms

Course Name

SU Credit

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 514 Readings in the Philosophy of History

3 Credits

An initial examination of the separations between History, Philosophy, and the Philosophy of History that occurred in the 19th century, followed by more concentrated, in-depth readings in the major philosophers and philosophies of history, including Vico, Herder, Hegel, Marx, with particular attention to the subsequent proliferations and derivatives of Marxist history. Also covers late 20th century developments and controversies, including Fukuyama, Huntington or the Paul Kennedy type of future-oriented macro-history as well as further attention to modernist vs post-modernist epistemologies. Recommended particularly for History students intending to concentrate on Historiography, as well as for Social Sciences students interested in the history of political ideas or intellectual history.

Last Offered Terms

Course Name

SU Credit

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 515 Episodes in the History of Science I

3 Credits

The course will begin with a quick survey of history of science from Antiquity to the present. It will then concentrate on the main aim, which is to try to have a better understanding of the emergence of the new science in central and western Europe following the Renaissance era. What are the cultural and social factors which helped this breakthrough, how did the results affect people's lifestyles and political views, and why did it take so many centuries for the scientific method to penetrate the Ottoman realm? These and other subjects will be discussed in a collective manner, many items will be assigned to students for deeper study, and new findings will bring important contributions to our understanding.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2021-2022	Episodes in the History of Science I	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 516 Historical Marxism II : Communism and Post-Communism

3 Credits

Coming out of the Bolshevik Revolutionin Russia, and then expanding to both Eastern Europe and China after World War II, Communism came to exert such a pervasive influence on the 20th century that up to the early 1980s, there was no aspect of politics, international relations, social life, art or culture that was not permeated by it. And yet, barely two decades after its fall, the set of theories and practices that was once regarded as " the future of humanity" lies almost forgotten. HIST 516 is an attempt to think back from the early 21st century to the concrete visage and historical legacy of Marxism in power, exploring especially the party that was its chief instrument, the theories through which it eternalized its dictatorship, fostered a permanent culture of "the enemy" and legitimized its purges, as well as the daily structures of living perpetually in an atmosphere of abnormal politics, with a new social contract of basic services but without any fundamental, constitutionally guaranteed rights and political empowerment.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2005-2006	Historical Marxism II : Communism and Post-Communism	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 517 Introduction to Orientalism and Oriental Studies

3 Credits

The ascendancy and self-globalization of the West went hand in hand with its exploration of âthe Restâ not only in geographical, political and military terms but also in the form of opening up a new Oriental Studies world of knowledge. Over centuries, European scholars proceeded to penetrate non-European societies and cultures from languages, literature and belief systems to history proper. They produced a wealth of publications, including major dictionaries, encyclopedias, translations, anthologies and commentaries, that are to this day the indispensable reference materials and tools of trade of all scholars of the Middle East, of Islam, or of the Ottoman Empire. At the same time they constructed a vision, a gaze, an ideology of Eurocentrism and Orientalism. The object of this course is to introduce historians in the making to both aspects in their interconnected development, and especially to familiarize them with an immensely rich background of learning that will stay with them through their entire careers.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2021-2022	Introduction to Orientalism and Oriental Studies	3
Spring 2018-2019	Introduction to Orientalism and Oriental Studies	3
Fall 2016-2017	Introduction to Orientalism and Oriental Studies	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 519 Political and Social Thought in France in the 19th and 20th centuries

3 Credits

The aim of this course is to introduce students to the political and social movements originating in France in the 19th and 20th centuries about which they should become knowledgeable in order to understand why Turkish modernization, whether in the 19th or the 20th century, has been primarily affected by currents of thought originating in France.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2000-2001	Political and Social Thought in France in the 19th and 20th cc.	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 521 Rites of Power

3 Credits

This course will examine the relations between a ruler and his/her subjects as expressions of what we broadly term "culture". Through ceremonies, rituals and festivities, a leitmotif of political power relations is investigated. Moving from the Middle Ages through the Early Modern Era to Modern Times, discussion focuses on (1) courtly ceremonies such as coronations, royal marriages and births, each accompanied by stately banquets; (2) the pageantry of politics and the politics of pageantry in the making of the architecture of cities such as London, Paris, Venice, Prague or Moscow; (3) the rites of rulership and personality cults in the Hannoverian monarchy, the French revolution, British India from the time of the Great Mutiny onward, Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union; and lastly (4) civic spectacles and popular culture. In each section a special effort will be made to bring in comparative examples from the realm of Ottoman studies.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2022-2023	Rites of Power	3
Spring 2017-2018	Rites of Power	3
Spring 2015-2016	Rites of Power	3
Fall 2013-2014	Rites of Power	3
Fall 2005-2006	Rites of Power	3
Fall 1999-2000	Rites of Power	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 524 Issues in the Gender History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey

3 Credits

This is a graduate-level survey course on various aspects of the history of women in Ottoman and Republican Turkish society. It aims to provide an introduction to the following historical "moments" and issues : the status of women according to Islamic law; women in rural society; provincial urban society and women; women of the royal household and court from the 14th to the 18th centuries; women in 19th century Ottoman modernization and related gender issues; the beginnings of active state involvement in maternity and abortion; the development of female education; the emergence of women into public life; marriage, family life, and divorce during the Ottoman reform period; New Ottoman and Young Turk views on the emancipation of women; male and female sexuality in Ottoman Turkish literature; stages in the development, subsumption, and revitalization of women's and feminist movements; gender issues in the Republican era.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2022-2023	Issues in the Gender History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey	3
Fall 2019-2020	Issues in the Gender History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey	3
Fall 2017-2018	Issues in the Gender History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey	3
Spring 2015-2016	Issues in the Gender History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey	3
Spring 2013-2014	Issues in the Gender History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey	3
Spring 2012-2013	Issues in the Gender History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey	3
Fall 2011-2012	Issues in the Gender History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey	3
Fall 2009-2010	Issues in the Gender History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey	3
Spring 2006-2007	Issues in the Gender History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey	3
Spring 2005-2006	Issues in the Gender History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey	3
Spring 2004-2005	Issues in the Gender History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey	3
Spring 2003-2004	Issues in the Gender History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 525 Law, State and Property in the 19th Century

3 Credits

This course studies the transformation in the understandings of state power, of property and of law, and the historical background to these changes that can be traced back to the formation of centralized monarchies and the commercial expansion of the 16th century. While this early history formed the background of the histories of modernity, the rupture in terms of the ways individual societies were governed, economic activity was organised, and property rights or resource allocation was affected, actually took place only in the 18th and the 19th centuries. These forms have subsequently been associated with the process of modernity, and were universalized given thecontext of competition, imperial penetration, and international economic expansion. The course will focus on the debates of 18th and 19th century political economists and political theorists including the Physiocrats, Montesqieu, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Jeremy Bentham and Alexis de TocquevÄ±lle. It will then address the historical context these conceptualizations grew out of and responded to.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2000-2001	Law State and Property in 19th Century	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 527 History of Citizenship in Europe

3 Credits

Citizenship is a powerful technology of inclusion and exclusion and of identity-building in modernity. History is one important perspective from which to understandind its functioning. The purpose of this course is to provide resources for a critical analysis of the philosophical, institutional and sociological foundations of citizenship and its changes over time, from their intellectual reformulation in the Italian Early Renaissance onwards. Another aim of the course is to provide a perspective on European history through the subject matter of citizenship building. Choosing citizenship as a vantage point challenges conventional interpretations, particularly of social movements from liberalism to the rise and transformation of the welfare state. The course combines readings from relevant figures of the so-called Republican tradition, as well as analyses of processes of citizen incorporation and definition of rights in different European countries from the 19th century to the present.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2005-2006	History of Citizenship in Europe	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 531 Early Islamic History: A Survey

3 Credits

The course covers the period from the emergence of Islam to the end of Abbasid rule in Baghdad, and focuses on the central lands of Islam. After a chronological review of the political processes of expansion, state-formation, and decentralization, various aspects of social and intellectual life are examined. Topics to be covered include : the question of unity and diversity in Islamic history; the development of the religious sciences, law, political thought and philosophy; social hierarchies in theory and practice; and economic life and thought. For the possibility of being taken as an undergraduate course, subject to adjusted work requirements, see HIST 331.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2021-2022	Early Islamic History: A Survey	3
Fall 2019-2020	Early Islamic History: A Survey	3
Fall 2017-2018	Early Islamic History: A Survey	3
Fall 2016-2017	Early Islamic History: A Survey	3
Summer 2008-2009	Early Islamic History: A Survey	3
Spring 2005-2006	Early Islamic History: A Survey	3
Fall 2002-2003	Early Islamic History: A Survey	3
Fall 1999-2000	Early Islamic History: A Survey	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 532 Islamic History: the Middle Period (c.945 - 1500)

3 Credits

A continuing survey of Islamic history from around the middle of the 10th century, comprising: the deepening crisis of the Abbasid caliphate; mass conversions to Islam among non-Arab peoples (including the Karakhanids as well as the Volga Bulgars); the triumph of the Seljukid war-leadership over the Ghaznavids, and from 980 the overrunning of East Iran, then Mesopotamia, and eventually Asia Minor by this new Turkish warrior nobility. A first external shock in the form of the Crusades. With the breakup of the Greater Seljukids, the emergence of a series of independent Seljukid successor sultanates in Anatolia, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Kirman and Iran; the triple division of the caliphate itself (between the Abbasids in Baghdad, the Fatimids in Egypt, and the Umayyads in Spain). A second external shock of the Mongol conquest. Finally, the rise of the Mamluks in Egypt, the Ottomans in northwest Anatolia and Rumelia, and the Safavids in Iranian space.

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Spring 2017-2018	Islamic History: the Middle Period (c.945 - 1500)	3
Spring 2016-2017	Islamic History: the Middle Period (c.945 - 1500)	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 533 Economic History

3 Credits

History of economic change and institutions from the Medieval Era onwards: key transformations that led to the industrial revolution; the impact of these transformations on economic, social and political life and global hierarchies.

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SU Credit

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 534 Russian History I : Tsarist Russia (from the 17th Century to 1917)

3 Credits

This is a survey course on the general history of Russia from its early beginnings with the Muscovite state until World War I. It will begin with a general discussion on the geographical characteristics of Russia and the cultural peculiarities of the Russian population. Here the emphasis will be on the Eurasian dimension or character of the Russian lands. Strictly historical lectures will begin with Muscovy over 1450-1598, and will continue into the ''Time of Troubles,'' leading to the rise of the Romanov dynasty.The next issue will be the modernizing efforts of Peter the Great, and the political and social effects of these Petrine reforms (1682-1740). In the course of reviewing the policies of ''enlightened reform'' pursued by Catherine the Great (1762-1796), Russian expansionism against Poland and the Ottoman empire, as well as popular reactions such as the Pugachev Rebellion (1773-1775) will also be taken into account. Over the period between 1801-1855, the Napoleonic wars (1805-1815) and their impact, autocratic conservatism, and the Crimean War (1853-1856) will be highlighted. For the second half of the 19th century, attention fill focus on the emancipation of the serfs (1860), other administrative reforms and economic development accompanying expansion in Central Asia and Far East, and the emergence of a revolutionary opposition. The turbulent period of 1890-1914 will be discussed in terms of rapid industrialization, general poverty and popular unrest, defeat in the Russo-Japanese war and the subsequent 1905 revolution. The last weeks of the course will be devoted to World War I and the coming of the 1917 February and October revolutions.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2015-2016	Russian History I : Tsarist Russia (from the 17th Century to 1917)	3
Fall 2014-2015	Russian History I : Tsarist Russia (from the 17th Century to 1917)	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 535 The Gunpowder Empires of the Islamic World, ca. 1450-1800

3 Credits

The course focuses on the so-called gunpowder empires of the Islamic world of the early modern era, i.e. the Ottoman Empire, Mughal India and Safavid Iran. As part of a universal trend, it was this age when much of the current territorial, confessional, political, social and cultural boundaries dividing the Islamic world were set up. The course consists of three units. After an introduction, first it focuses on the political history of these polities, compares them with each other from various aspects, including religion, administration, the military, economy, trade, the role of and attitude to minorities, as well as various facets of culture. Lastly it revisits these issues by way of a critique of decline narratives related to the Islamic World. It discusses Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal history not only as comparative but also as connected phenomena.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2020-2021	The Gunpowder Empires of the Islamic World, ca. 1450-1800	3
Spring 2018-2019	The Gunpowder Empires of the Islamic World, ca. 1450-1800	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 536 History of Central and Inner Asia

3 Credits

The course surveys the history of Central and Inner Asia (the territory of the former Soviet Central Asian republics, Kirgizstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, as well as Mongolia and Northwest China) from the beginnings to the present, also including in the discussion the East European steppe region when appropriate. While it looks at at this vast geographical space as part of various imperial configurations (the Hun, TÃ¼rk, Kazar, Mongol, Timurid, and Russian Empires, as well as the Muslim Caliphate and the Soviet Union), it discusses local historical processes and dynamics, addressing the question of in what sense the region can be considered a separate historical-geographical entity.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2020-2021	History of Central and Inner Asia	3
Fall 2018-2019	History of Central and Inner Asia	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 538 The Economic History of the Middle East Since World War II

3 Credits

A critical overview of the processes of economic growth and transformation in the Middle East from World War II to the present. Countries to be studied include Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, the Arab states of the Arabian Peninsula, Iran and Turkey.

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Summer 2008-2009	The Economic History of the Middle East Since World War II	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 539 Christians In The Ottoman Empire

3 Credits

This course offers to examine the history and condition of Christians -- a majority of whom were the Greek Orthodox people (Rum) -- in Anatolia and the Balkans under the Ottoman Empire. From some basic concepts of non-Muslim historiography (such as zÄ±mmi or millet), the course will move to the various ways in which historians have interpreted the Christian presence under Ottoman rule. Byzantium as a state was very closely associated with Orthodox Christianity and the Greek language. What did its demise mean for Orthodox Christians and their institutions ? How did Ottoman social, economic and administrative structures absorb and influence Christians; in turn, how did they participate in producing and re-producing the imperial framework ? Special attention will be paid to : communal life and institutions, the place of Christians in Ottoman administration and imperial networks, the Phanariots, the rise of the Greek bourgeoisie, the emergence of the Greek nation-state, Greek education, and the contribution of Christians to Ottoman urban space and architecture.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Summer 2011-2012	Christians In The Ottoman Empire	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 541 The Enlightenment World

3 Credits

This is an upper-level seminar course dealing with the intellectual history of the 18th century, covering aspects of the Enlightenment, as well as its wider reception, in France, Germany, Italy, and the British Isles. It examines the development of ideas on philosophy, religion, ethics, law, the economy, politics, and society, which had an impact on the historical arena at this time. It is intended to enable students to acquire a sound knowledge of the key figures of the European Enlightenment movement; to develop an overall grasp of the contribution of the European Enlightenment to the fields of literature, science, philosophy, and political and ethical theory; and to acquire an up-to-date understanding of modern critical historiography on the Enlightenment.

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Course Name

SU Credit

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 547 History of Political Ideas in the Balkans in the Modern Era (19th and 20th Centuries)

3 Credits

Capable of being taken both as a companion to HIST 549 and also on its own, HIST 547 represents a departure in some measure from that of a classical ''history of ideas'' course. It is concentrated less on the study of political ideas as theoretical/intellectual constructions per se, than on their contextualization, therefore on the explanation of their specific local articulations and varying social weight. This shift in focus follows from two general contextual premises : (a) The disproportionate significance of the political in the changing Balkan societies in the modern era; and (b) the ideological systems within and by way of which local national elites have pursued their developmental policies. Hence a primary concern will be not to gauge how faithfully a certain ''Balkan'' political development has corresponded to its ''European'' prototype, but rather to see what functions and hopes were pinned on it; how efficient it was in terms of imposing (new) norms of political action and of social and economic relations; and finally, what the sources of intra-Balkan diversity have been in all these regards. All major politico-ideological (self-) definitions of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as their mutual relations/influences, will be considered. The implicit objective will be to shed light on the historically crystallized semantics of the modern political vocabulary in the Balkans -- of terms like ''tradition'', ''modernity'', ''freedom'', ''the people'', ''democracy'', ''nation'', ''parliamentarianism'', and ''political participation''. Requirements : short presentations and papers, plus one or two written exams. For the possibility of being taken not as a taught course but as a seminar, subject to the approval of the instructor and the fulfillment of the research paper requirements for a seminar in History, see under HIST 647.

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Fall 2001-2002	History of Political Ideas in the Balkans in the 19th and 20th cc.	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 550 History of Ottoman Institutions

3 Credits

Close studies of Ottoman social and political institutions (including, for example, the dynasty and modes of succession, the palace and court society, religion and related ideological structures, law and the judiciary, land tenure and revenue-collection/sharing arrangements, pious foundations, the royal guards army and other components of the military establishment) through archival documents and narrative sources.

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Course Name

SU Credit

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 553 Aspects of Ottoman Rule in the Bulgarian Lands in the Pre-Tanzimat Period

3 Credits

Focuses on selected issues and specific features of Ottoman rule in the Bulgarian lands, and therefore requires some previous, preliminary knowledge of Ottoman history and documentation. The main themes addressed will include : early Ottoman administration (from the 15th to the early 16th centuries); the Ottoman judicial system and the functioning of the kadÄ± court; agrarian relations : timars, vakÄ±fs, Ã§iftliks; monuments of Ottoman culture; towns and urban society; Osman PazvandoÄlu of Vidin against the backdrop of KÄ±rcalÄ±/daÄlÄ± unrest; the National Awakenings of the Balkan peoples; the international situation at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries. At the same time, the core of the course will revolve around the official status and the real situation of various ethno-religious groups (such as the Orthodox Christians and the Jews) : their institutions; their attitudes vis-Ã -vis the Ottoman authorities; questions of Islamisation, and of neo-martyrs; church building and restoration; other and related problems. Assessment will be based on participation throughout the course, including short presentations, as well as a final paper based on either the relevant secondary literature, or an appropriate amount of work on the primary sources over and above the secondary literature, in which case it may count as a research seminar (also see HIST 653).

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2003-2004	Aspects of Ottoman Rule in the Bulgarian Lands in the Pre-Tanzimat Period	3

Prerequisite: HIST 561 - Masters - Min Grade D

or HIST 561 - Doctorate - Min Grade D

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 555 Frontier Societies and the Early Ottoman Community

3 Credits

The principal aim of the course is to study the emergence of the Ottoman polity and society in the context of frontiers as a universal phenomenon. After examining the frontier as an historical concept, the course considers specific frontier situations of particular relevance to Turkish and Islamic history, such as Inner Asia and China, Eurasia and Byzantium, Iran and Turan, the Arab lands and Byzantium, Andalusia and Christian Spain. The specific context of West Anatolia and the Balkans in the 14th century is then studied in terms of topics inherent in the study of frontiers, such as trade and warfare across the frontier, relations between central political authority and frontier lords, and cross-frontier political accomodation.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2004-2005	Frontier Societies and the Early Ottoman Community	3
Fall 2000-2001	Frontier Societies and the Early Ottoman Community	3
Fall 1999-2000	Frontier Societies and the Early Ottoman Community	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 556 The Ottoman Empire and the Balkans

3 Credits

A general introduction on: the early Ottoman emirate; methods of conquest and patterns of expansion in the Balkans rival claims to war-leadership; competition, cooperation, absorption; the rewriting of history by subsequent Ottoman chroniclers. To be followed by increasing concentration on : political, social, cultural interactions; decapitations and amalgamations in town and country; the emergence and growth of the "Ottoman system" as a series of successive incorporations of the pre-Ottoman or non-Ottoman social formations and systems of land tenure; giving and receiving; what is "Ottoman", what is "Balkan"; problems of talking about : the Ottoman empire in Balkan space, the Balkans under Ottoman rule, the Balkan lands in Ottoman times.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2000-2001	The Ottoman Empire and The Balkans	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 561 Sources and Methods for Ottoman History, 1450-1600

3 Credits

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2018-2019	Sources and Methods for Ottoman History, 1450-1600	3
Fall 2017-2018	Sources and Methods for Ottoman History, 1450-1600	3
Spring 2016-2017	Sources and Methods for Ottoman History, 1450-1600	3
Spring 2015-2016	Sources and Methods for Ottoman History, 1450-1600	3
Spring 2014-2015	Sources and Methods for Ottoman History, 1450-1600	3
Fall 2013-2014	Sources and Methods for Ottoman History, 1450-1600	3
Fall 2012-2013	Sources and Methods for Ottoman History, 1450-1600	3
Fall 2011-2012	Sources and Methods for Ottoman History, 1450-1600	3
Fall 2010-2011	Sources and Methods for Ottoman History, 1450-1600	3
Fall 2009-2010	Sources and Methods for Ottoman History, 1450-1600	3
Fall 2008-2009	Sources and Methods for Ottoman History, 1450-1600	3
Fall 2007-2008	Sources and Methods for Ottoman History, 1450-1600	3
Fall 2006-2007	Sources and Methods for Ottoman History, 1450-1600	3
Fall 2005-2006	Sources and Methods for Ottoman History, 1450-1600	3
Fall 2004-2005	Sources and Methods for Ottoman History, 1450-1600	3
Spring 2003-2004	Sources and Methods for Ottoman History, 1450-1600	3
Spring 2002-2003	Sources and Methods for Ottoman History, 1450-1600	3
Fall 2001-2002	Sources and Methods for Ottoman History, 1450-1600	3
Fall 2000-2001	Sources and Methods for Ottoman History, 1450-1600	3
Fall 1999-2000	Sources and Methods for Ottoman History, 1450-1600	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 562 Ottoman Reform Movements II: Political and Social (1839-1918)

3 Credits

Intellectual and social issues prevalent in present- day Turkey have their antecedents in 19th century Ottoman Empire. Ottoman 19th century was a period where old and new, reform and reaction met each other. In fact, this was an era where the empire was shaken by series of wars and crisis of disintegration. Reformist bureaucrats applied policies to forestall this process, while the intelligentsia vehemently opposed authoritarian reforms. Discussions on the future of the empire became most fruitful during the first four years of the Second Constitutional Period (1908-1912) when people enjoyed some degree of liberal freedom. Public discussions came to an abrupt end when the Committee of Union and Progress established military dictatorship (1913-1918). As a whole, this "long nineteenth century" was an era where institutional foundations of Turkish modernization were laid down. This course aims to introduce, discuss, and understand Ottoman reform movements and thoughts of the last hundred year of Ottoman existence, based on the evaluation of reformist statesmen of the Tanzimat-period, oppositional intellectuals of the 1860s and 1870s, conservative attitude of Hamidian absolutism (1878-1908), and Young Turk reformist ideas of the last decades of Ottoman existence (1889-1918)

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2007-2008	Ottoman Reform Movements II: Political and Social (1839-1918)	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 563 Social and Economic History of the Ottoman Empire

3 Credits

Over the last few decades, methodological insightsof of a comparative and inter-disciplinary nature have triggered major challenges to the textbook notion of a glorious Ottoman ''classical age'' followed by perpetual ''decline'' until the onset of Westernizing reforms in the 19th century. To be counterposed to the static nature of this traditional paradigm is a dynamic, historical treatment of socio-economic transformations and continuities over 1300-1800. Issues to be covered include : land tenure; the organization of urban production, trade, and credit relations; the challenge posed by the rise of the modern world system; family and gender relations; ethnic and religious diversity; intellectual life; popular culture and forms of plebeian protest; the mechanisms of social and political control; and relations between state and society.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2013-2014	Social and Economic History of the Ottoman Empire	3
Fall 2009-2010	Social and Economic History of the Ottoman Empire	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 564 Rebellion and Dissent in the Ottoman Empire

3 Credits

The course examines selected episodes of rebellion, social unrest and dissent. Major the oretical debates regarding early modern revolts in Eurasia are introduced and their relevance for the Ottoman Empire are explored. Themes to be covered include dynamics of state-making and socio-economic change, language of dissent, and questions of organization, agenda and agency in rural and urban revolts

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Course Name

SU Credit

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 565 Love, Entertainment and Daily Culture in Ottoman Poetry, 1400-1800

3 Credits

This course aims to explore selected topics in Ottoman poetry such as love, daily life and social gatherings, entertainment, imagined feasts. Together with themes characteristic to Divan Poetry such as understanding of love in Islamic societies, lovers and beloveds, sophism and mystical love, sexuality and worldly interactions; daily pleasures including uses of coffee, wine, opium; social functions and technical aspects of Ottoman poetry (aruz, poetic syntax, narrative styles, vocabulary) will be studied. This course introduces a variety of Ottoman poetic genres such as masnavis, ghazals, kasidas, mersiyes. At the end of the semester, students are expected to learn how to read and analyze samples of verses by major Ottoman poets written between 1400-1800.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2020-2021	Love, Entertainment and Daily Culture in Ottoman Poetry, 1400-1800	3
Fall 2018-2019	Love, Entertainment and Daily Culture in Ottoman Poetry, 1400-1800	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 570 History of a City I : From Byzantion to Constantinople

3 Credits

''A city capable of absorbing everything,'' is how the famous French historian Maurice Aymard described Constantinople / Istanbul in the 1970s. HIST 570 is designed to take students through the first two thousand years of this many-layered history, starting with a modest colony established by the Greek polis of Megara, growing through a crucial choice made by Constantine early in the AD 4th century into ''New Rome'', then rising and ultimately falling, in 1453, with the fortunes of the Byzantine empire. A historical introduction on these and other key phases will be followed by in-depth lectures many of which will be delivered on site in the course of study trips to leading Byzantine locations and monuments. A minimum of two lecture hours per week will be complemented by additional seminar hours focusing on the primary sources available in translation, as well as comprehensive readings in the available secondary literature. For the possibility of taking ''History of a City I'' as an undergraduate course, subject to appropriately adjusted requirements, see HIST 370.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2006-2007	History of a City I: From Byzantion to Constantinople	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 571 History of a City II : Ottoman Istanbul, 1450-1900

3 Credits

Beginning with a baseline survey of conditions prevailing shortly before the siege and eventual capture of Constantinople by Mehmed II in 1453, HIST 571, whether taken independently or as a sequel to HIST 570, is designed to take students from Ottoman Istanbul's initial re-building and repopulation, through its 16th century efflorescence as the capital of a new and resurgent empire, as well as through the manifold transformations of the 17th and 18th centuries, into the Tanzimat onset of modernity. Historical backgrounding lectures on these and other key phases or developments will be complemented with other, on site lectures in the course of study trips to leading Ottoman locations and monuments....

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2022-2023	History of a City II : Ottoman Istanbul, 1450-1900	3
Fall 2019-2020	History of a City II : Ottoman Istanbul, 1450-1900	3
Fall 2017-2018	History of a City II : Ottoman Istanbul, 1450-1900	3
Fall 2014-2015	History of a City II : Ottoman Istanbul, 1450-1900	3
Fall 2010-2011	History of a City II : Ottoman Istanbul, 1450-1900	3
Fall 2009-2010	History of a City II : Ottoman Istanbul, 1450-1900	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 572 Sources and Methods for 17th and 18th century Ottoman History

3 Credits

This is one of a series of term-courses reviewing sources relevant for the study of Ottoman and Turkish history in different periods, as well as methods that have been developed and employed by historians on the basis of different types of sources. Specifically for the 17th and 18th centuries, HIST 572 starts out with a review of the decline paradigm, which among other things portrays the Ottoman Empire as a stagnant, peripheral and passive spectator in Early Modernity, and which has been persuasively challenged since the 1970s. Building upon research based on the central Ottoman archives over the last three decades, and using the state as the key unit of analysis, the first part of this course takes an in-depth look at people and ideas in the Ottoman territories over 1600-1800, via (1) the changing political economy, (2) the transformation of agrarian relations, (3) the problems of provisioning Istanbul, (4) struggles between the reforming and conservative wings of the ruling elite, and (5) the "women's sultanate", so-called, and the changing legitimation patterns of the House of Osman. A second part deals with (6) economic, social and cultural life in the provinces, and (7) the growth of international trading cities such as Thessaloniki, Izmir or Aleppo. In concluding, historiographical attention is devoted to the clichÃ©s or tropes of (8) the "Tulip Age", (9) "Oriental despotism", and (10) "incorporation into the world- system".

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2021-2022	Sources and Methods for 17th and 18th century Ottoman History	3
Spring 2019-2020	Sources and Methods for 17th and 18th century Ottoman History	3
Fall 2018-2019	Sources and Methods for 17th and 18th century Ottoman History	3
Fall 2016-2017	Sources and Methods for 17th and 18th century Ottoman History	3
Spring 2014-2015	Sources and Methods for 17th and 18th century Ottoman History	3
Spring 2013-2014	Sources and Methods for 17th and 18th century Ottoman History	3
Spring 2012-2013	Sources and Methods for 17th and 18th century Ottoman History	3
Fall 2011-2012	Sources and Methods for 17th and 18th century Ottoman History	3
Spring 2009-2010	Sources and Methods for 17th and 18th century Ottoman History	3
Spring 2008-2009	Sources and Methods for 17th and 18th century Ottoman History	3
Spring 2006-2007	Sources and Methods for 17th and 18th century Ottoman History	3
Spring 2005-2006	Sources and Methods for 17th and 18th century Ottoman History	3
Spring 2003-2004	Sources and Methods for 17th and 18th century Ottoman History	3
Spring 2001-2002	Sources and Methods for 17th and 18th century Ottoman History	3
Spring 2000-2001	Sources & Methods for 17th and 18th century Ottoman History	3
Spring 1999-2000	Sources & Methods for 17th and 18th century Ottoman History	4

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 575 Postorientalism and Postcolonialism

3 Credits

The term âPostcolonialismâ characterizes a loosely defined field of interdisciplinary perspectives, theories and methods that deal with dimensions of colonial rule in the past and its effects into the immediate present. Venturing to deconstruct colonial discourses and representations, Postcolonial Studies has had a deep imprint on humanities and social sciences in the last decades, and familiarity with it has become crucial to handling research literature on the Middle East. Given academic developments over the last forty years, of equal importance to scholars in this field is a viable Postorientalist approach. Along with Edward Saidâs path-breaking work, students will also gain insight into other dimensions of postcolonial literature, such as Subaltern Studies originating in the attempt of South Asian scholars to come to terms with the legacy of British rule. The last third of the term will focus on applying all such theoretical insights to Middle Eastern, Ottoman and Turkey studies.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2015-2016	Postorientalism and Postcolonialism	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 576 Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Politics and Literature

3 Credits

This course concentrates on the interaction between late Ottoman and Republican Turkish politics and literature. By analyzing literary texts that suggest particular political positions, it discusses the influence of political movements on literature and how in turn literature contributes to these movements. The course equips students with a holistic approach towards literature, politics and history as well as with a conception of the ideal political and social orders that are suggested in these works.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Summer 2019-2020	Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Politics and Literature	3
Spring 2019-2020	Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Politics and Literature	3
Spring 2018-2019	Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Politics and Literature	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 581 Sources and Methods for 19th Century Ottoman History

3 Credits

This is one of a series of term-courses reviewing sources relevant for the study of Ottoman and Turkish history in different periods, as well as methods that have been developed and employed by historians on the basis of different types of sources. Specifically for the ''long'' 19th century, HIST 581 is designed to familiarize the student with the basic chronology, themes, problematics and source materials of Late Ottoman history; namely the period starting from the reforms of Selim III and the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt to the beginning of the Second Constitutional Period and the establishment of the Young Turk regime. The course aims to situate the myriad transformations in Late Ottoman social, political and cultural life not only within their European and Balkan context, but also in relation to the modernizing agendas of the non-western/colonial world. Thus, the Ottoman efforts to salvage the state and to redefine an exclusive imperial identity will be discussed through comparative perspectives and methodological insights provided by current studies on 19th century Austria-Hungary, Russia and Iran, as well as colonial North Africa and India.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2021-2022	Sources and Methods for 19th Century Ottoman History	3
Fall 2020-2021	Sources and Methods for 19th Century Ottoman History	3
Spring 2018-2019	Sources and Methods for 19th Century Ottoman History	3
Spring 2017-2018	Sources and Methods for 19th Century Ottoman History	3
Spring 2016-2017	Sources and Methods for 19th Century Ottoman History	3
Fall 2015-2016	Sources and Methods for 19th Century Ottoman History	3
Spring 2013-2014	Sources and Methods for 19th Century Ottoman History	3
Spring 2012-2013	Sources and Methods for 19th Century Ottoman History	3
Spring 2011-2012	Sources and Methods for 19th Century Ottoman History	3
Spring 2010-2011	Sources and Methods for 19th Century Ottoman History	3
Spring 2009-2010	Sources and Methods for 19th Century Ottoman History	3
Spring 2008-2009	Sources and Methods for 19th Century Ottoman History	3
Spring 2007-2008	Sources and Methods for 19th Century Ottoman History	3
Fall 2006-2007	Sources and Methods for 19th Century Ottoman History	3
Spring 2004-2005	Sources and Methods for 19th Century Ottoman History	3
Fall 2002-2003	Sources and Methods for 19th Century Ottoman History	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

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HIST 585 Minority Questions in Contemporary Turkey

3 Credits

First decolonization and then the end of the Cold War have led to new waves of transnational movement. Mass immigration and floods of refugees have given rise to economic, social and cultural clashes, feeding into fresh problems of ethno-religious otherization that have come to haunt even the normally most stable and tolerant democracies of Europe. Simultaneously, Turkey's EU process is bringing into question a number of minority issues that are the legacy of the transition from the multi-ethnic Ottoman empire into Balkan, Caucasian and Middle Eastern nation-states. What are these questions ? Which groups are involved ? How can cultural, linguistic and religious rights be applied to the relationship between majority and minority groups at the national and international levels ? How can consciousness of ethnic, religious or cultural diversity be fostered and promoted as a common value ? It is to such historical and contemporary problems that HIST 585 is addressed. For the possibility of taking this course at an undergraduate level, subject to appropriate adjustments, see SPS 485.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2018-2019	Minority Questions in Contemporary Turkey	3
Spring 2017-2018	Minority Questions in Contemporary Turkey	3
Summer 2016-2017	Minority Questions in Contemporary Turkey	3
Fall 2015-2016	Minority Questions in Contemporary Turkey	3
Fall 2014-2015	Minority Questions in Contemporary Turkey	3
Spring 2012-2013	Minority Questions in Contemporary Turkey	3
Fall 2008-2009	Minority Questions in Contemporary Turkey	3
Spring 2007-2008	Minority Questions in Contemporary Turkey	3
Spring 2006-2007	Minority Questions in Contemporary Turkey	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 586 Topics in Armenian History and Literature

3 Credits

This course offers an opportunity for an initial encounter with Armenian history, culture and literature. Its specific focus may change from one term to the next, depending on the visiting instructor as well as on student interest. Thus it may entail an overall survey as well as much more in-depth penetration of special issues or problems. Both the themes and approaches involved may be interdisciplinary in nature, drawing upon anthropology, sociology or visual studies, too, along with history and literature.

Last Offered Terms

Course Name

SU Credit

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 587 Proto-Fascism in Europe and the Ottoman Empire

3 Credits

Situated at the junction of nationalism studies with the history of Fascism and Nazism, this course proposes to explore the formation of proto-fascism (including its various dimensions of racism, anti-semitism, Social Darwinism, radical modernism, authoritarian state-fetishism, nihilism, mysticism, the death urge and the FÃ¼hrer principle) in the late 19th and early 20th century -- first in its original European and then its Late Ottoman context, where it acquired its Turkist and Unionist extensions. Course materials will comprise not only the usual secondary literature but also a number of primary sources (such as the key periodicals of the Second Constitutional period).

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Summer 2012-2013	Proto-Fascism in Europe and the Ottoman Empire	3
Summer 2011-2012	Proto-Fascism in Europe and the Ottoman Empire	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 588 Nationalist Projects in Southeast European History

3 Credits

The protracted decline and breakup of the Ottoman empire went hand in hand with the rise of a number of mutually antagonistic nationalisms which kept competing not only against the Porte but also against one another for political, ideological, and economic space. After initial, embryonic nation-statehood, such competition acquired irredentistic extensions. HIST 588 proposes to look at various such projects that culminated in great human tragedies in the early 20th century, the legacy of which endures to this day. Thus a brief introduction on theories of nation and nationalism will be followed by close examinations of : (1) the idea of a ''Greater Serbia''; (2) the ''Illyrianism'' (or Illyrismus) concept and the related notion of ''Yugoslavia'' in Croatia; (3) the role of state policy in the Greek megali idea; (4) Ottomanism (OsmanlÄ±lÄ±k) : an initial reaction against other nationalist movements; (5) religion, ethnos, and nation in Bulgaria; (6) how ''constructed'' was the Macedonian nation; (7) the development of Albanian ''nationhood'' and the idea of a ''greater Albania''; (8) the rise and outlines of Turkish nationalism. The course will conclude with a review of nationalism and ''minorities'' questions today. For the possibility of taking this course at an undergraduate level, subject to appropriate adjustments, see HIST 488.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2011-2012	Nationalist Projects in Southeast European History	3
Spring 2008-2009	Nationalist Projects in Southeast European History	3
Spring 2007-2008	Nationalist Projects in Southeast European History	3
Fall 2006-2007	Nationalist Projects in Southeast European History	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 589 From Empire to Republic : Turkish Nationalism and the Nation-State

3 Credits

A dense survey course on the making of Modern Turkey with a special focus on the ideological dimension of nation-building. Moves from multiple backgrounds (in : the broad outlines of Ottoman history; the ?long? 19th century; the New Imperialism; Eurocentrism and Orientalism; racism and Social Darwinism), through Ottoman-Turkish elites? evolving love-and-hate relationship with the West, to the fashioning and grounding of a specifically Turkish (as against an Ottoman or a Muslim) identity in the throes of the protracted crisis of 1908-22. Makes considerable use of literature, too, to explore the myths of originism and authocthonism, as well as the ''golden age'' narratives, connected with both early and Kemalist varieties of Turkish nationalism. Also see HIST 489 for the possibility of being taken at the undergraduate level.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2022-2023	From Empire to Republic : Turkish Nationalism and the Nation-State	3
Fall 2020-2021	From Empire to Republic : Turkish Nationalism and the Nation-State	3
Fall 2019-2020	From Empire to Republic : Turkish Nationalism and the Nation-State	3
Fall 2018-2019	From Empire to Republic : Turkish Nationalism and the Nation-State	3
Fall 2017-2018	From Empire to Republic : Turkish Nationalism and the Nation-State	3
Fall 2016-2017	From Empire to Republic : Turkish Nationalism and the Nation-State	3
Fall 2015-2016	From Empire to Republic : Turkish Nationalism and the Nation-State	3
Fall 2014-2015	From Empire to Republic : Turkish Nationalism and the Nation-State	3
Fall 2013-2014	From Empire to Republic : Turkish Nationalism and the Nation-State	3
Fall 2012-2013	From Empire to Republic : Turkish Nationalism and the Nation-State	3
Fall 2011-2012	From Empire to Republic : Turkish Nationalism and the Nation-State	3
Fall 2010-2011	From Empire to Republic : Turkish Nationalism and the Nation-State	3
Fall 2009-2010	From Empire to Republic : Turkish Nationalism and the Nation-State	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 591 Sources and Methods for Early Republican History, 1920-1938

3 Credits

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2006-2007	Sources and Methods for Early Republican History, 1920-1938	3
Fall 2005-2006	Sources and Methods for Early Republican History, 1920-1938	3
Fall 2004-2005	Sources and Methods for Early Republican History, 1920-1938	3
Spring 2002-2003	Sources and Methods for Early Republican History, 1920-1938	3
Fall 1999-2000	Sources and Methods for Early Republican History, 1920-1938	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 592 Sources and Methods for Late Republican History, 1938-1950

3 Credits

This is one of a series of term-courses reviewing sources relevant for the study of Ottoman and Turkish history in different periods, as well as methods that have been developed and employed by historians on the basis of different types of sources. Specifically for the mid-20th century, HIST 592 offers a close scrutiny of the Ä°nÃ¶nÃ¼ years -- comprising the tail end of the one-party period, and opening up to the transformation of the political rÃ©gime in the post-war era -- that simultaneously introduces the student to the ample primary sources of this crucial but often neglected era. Themes to be covered include : special focus on the Republican People's Party as a political organisation, and on the changing features of the one-party system, together with explorations of political, economic and cultural life. Aspects of Turkish foreign policy under Ä°nÃ¶nÃ¼. Frameworks of synchronic comparison with other one-party rÃ©gimes, as well as of diachronic comparisons between the early and late phases of one-party rule in Turkey.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2005-2006	Sources and Methods for Late Republican History, 1938 to Present	3
Spring 2004-2005	Sources and Methods for Late Republican History, 1938 to Present	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 593 Caucasus and its Hinterland: Clans, Ethnicities and Nations in Imperial Borderlands

3 Credits

The Caucasus and its hinterland, which separate as well as connect the Pontic, the Caspian, and the Persian Gulf basins, have been a strategically important and therefore contested space since antiquity. In modern times, the region was at first fought over by the rival Muslim empires of the Ottomans and the Safavids. The entry of imperial Russia into the arena in the last decades of the eighteenth century ushered in the era of Christian predominance. The next century saw the penetration of the whole Muslim Middle East by western economic interests, accompanied by new conflicts and alignments both on intraregional and international levels. Whereas the evolution of the so-called Eastern Question that implied the settlement of the Ottoman succession parallel to Russian expansion into Transcaucasia encouraged the Christian populations of the region (the Georgians, the Armenians) to aspire to self-rule and even independence, the Muslims felt humiliated and feared a degradation of their traditional ways of life. Their reaction, beginning with the mountaineers' resistance to Russian colonization of the north Caucasus in the last decades of the eighteenth century and reaching its apex under the leadership of Imam Shamil (1834-1859), exacerbated by forced migrations of the Circassians and other Caucasian groups into Anatolia, entailed in the long run ethnic and religious violence in various forms, directed against both the neighbouring groups and the imperial centres. This development culminated in mass deportations and genocidal events during the two world wars of the twentieth century, ethnic conflict, nationalist secessionism and imperialist rivalries breaking out with new vigour in the post-Soviet era. The course will approach this complex history from the vantage point of the concept of "zones of violence", studying and discussing thereby the catastrophic experiences of the period within a multicausal framework

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2009-2010	Caucasus and its Hinterland: Clans, Ethnicities and Nations in Imperial Borderlands	3
Fall 2007-2008	Caucasus and its Hinterland: Clans, Ethnicities and Nations in Imperial Borderlands	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 595 MA Term Project

0 Credit

For students in the "MA by Examination" program, the institutional framework for guided research under the supervision of a Faculty member towards the completion of their required research project, on a topic to be submitted to and approved by the History Program Committee.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2016-2017	MA Term Project	0
Fall 2016-2017	MA Term Project	0
Fall 2015-2016	MA Term Project	0
Spring 2014-2015	MA Term Project	0
Spring 2013-2014	MA Term Project	0
Spring 2012-2013	MA Term Project	0
Fall 2012-2013	MA Term Project	0
Fall 2009-2010	MA Term Project	0
Fall 2007-2008	MA Term Project	0
Spring 2006-2007	MA Term Project	0
Spring 2005-2006	MA Term Project	0
Fall 2005-2006	MA Term Project	0
Spring 2003-2004	MA Term Project	0

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 20 ECTS (20 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 596 The Tanzimat Process as a Transfer of Knowledge

3 Credits

A survey of reform movements in the Ottoman Empire especially through the prism of their contacts with West European scientific speculations in the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as through their sequel in the form of Tanzimat reforms up to 1850. An attempt will be made to cover the history of institutional developments parallel to the history of ideas. May be taken both as a taught course and as a seminar, subject to the approval of the instructor and the fulfillment of the research paper requirements for a seminar in History. See HIST 696.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2000-2001	The Tanzimat Process as a Transfer of Knowledge	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 597 Nations and Boundaries in the Middle East, the Balkans and the Caucasus

3 Credits

For advanced undergraduates as well as graduate students, a case-study based survey of the tortuous emergence of modern nations and nation-states, as well as of more "delayed" and "unfulfilled", therefore frustrated nationalisms, out of a matrix of ethno-confessional diversity, in the context of a decaying and disintegrating empire. The Great Powers, the new nationalisms, and the Porte. Modernization and nation-building. Converting millets into nations. Ambitions and their limits. Rival irredentisms Claims of language, of history, of symbolic geography. Predictable tragedies : war and revolution; atrocities; forced migrations. The state experience and the human experience. The struggle for sanity and stability in contested space. Constructions of national memory and of forgetfulness. For the possibility of being taken as an undergraduate course, subject to adjusted work requirements, see HIST 497.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2005-2006	Nations and Boundaries in the Middle East, the Balkans and the Caucasus	3
Spring 2003-2004	Nations and Boundaries in the Middle East, the Balkans and the Caucasus	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 598 A History of the Cyprus Conflict

3 Credits

The course aims to provide students with a historical overview of the Cyprus question (which entered the UN's agenda as a main issue for the first time in 1954) and various twists and turns it took since the beginning of the ethnic conflict in the island through the prolonged diplomatic processes it entailed till today.

Last Offered Terms

Course Name

SU Credit

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 599 Master's Thesis

0 Credit

Provides a non-credit framework for the continuous monitoring and collegial discussion of MA students' thesis research and writing, which they are expected to accomplish under the supervision of a Faculty member from the relevant field over the second year of their course-work.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2022-2023	Master's Thesis	0
Spring 2021-2022	Master's Thesis	0
Fall 2021-2022	Master's Thesis	0
Spring 2020-2021	Master's Thesis	0
Fall 2020-2021	Master's Thesis	0
Spring 2019-2020	Master's Thesis	0
Fall 2019-2020	Master's Thesis	0
Spring 2018-2019	Master's Thesis	0
Fall 2018-2019	Master's Thesis	0
Spring 2017-2018	Master's Thesis	0
Fall 2017-2018	Master's Thesis	0
Spring 2016-2017	Master's Thesis	0
Fall 2016-2017	Master's Thesis	0
Spring 2015-2016	Master's Thesis	0
Fall 2015-2016	Master's Thesis	0
Spring 2014-2015	Master's Thesis	0
Fall 2014-2015	Master's Thesis	0
Spring 2013-2014	Master's Thesis	0
Fall 2013-2014	Master's Thesis	0
Spring 2012-2013	Master's Thesis	0
Fall 2012-2013	Master's Thesis	0
Spring 2011-2012	Master's Thesis	0
Fall 2011-2012	Master's Thesis	0
Spring 2010-2011	Master's Thesis	0
Fall 2010-2011	Master's Thesis	0
Spring 2009-2010	Master's Thesis	0
Fall 2009-2010	Master's Thesis	0
Spring 2008-2009	Master's Thesis	0
Fall 2008-2009	Master's Thesis	0
Spring 2007-2008	Master's Thesis	0
Fall 2007-2008	Master's Thesis	0
Spring 2006-2007	Master Thesis	0
Fall 2006-2007	Master Thesis	0
Spring 2005-2006	Master Thesis	0
Fall 2005-2006	Master Thesis	0
Spring 2004-2005	Master Thesis	0
Fall 2004-2005	Master Thesis	0
Spring 2003-2004	Master Thesis	0
Fall 2003-2004	Master Thesis	0
Spring 2002-2003	Master Thesis	0
Fall 2002-2003	Master Thesis	0
Spring 2001-2002	Master Thesis	0
Fall 2001-2002	Master Thesis	0
Spring 2000-2001	Master Thesis	0
Fall 2000-2001	Master Thesis (HIST698)	0
Spring 1999-2000	Master Thesis (HIST698)	0

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 35 ECTS (35 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 600 PhD Pro-Seminar

0 Credit

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2021-2022	PhD Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2020-2021	PhD Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2020-2021	PhD Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2018-2019	PhD Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2017-2018	PhD Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2017-2018	PhD Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2015-2016	PhD Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2015-2016	PhD Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2014-2015	PhD Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2014-2015	PhD Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2013-2014	PhD Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2013-2014	PhD Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2011-2012	PhD Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2011-2012	PhD Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2010-2011	PhD Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2010-2011	PhD Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2009-2010	PhD Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2009-2010	PhD Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2008-2009	PhD Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2007-2008	PhD Pro-Seminar	0
Fall 2007-2008	PhD Pro-Seminar	0
Spring 2006-2007	Pro-Seminar for Ph.D.	0
Fall 2006-2007	Pro-Seminar for Ph.D.	0
Spring 2005-2006	Pro-Seminar for Ph.D.	0
Fall 2005-2006	Pro-Seminar for Ph.D.	0
Spring 2004-2005	Pro-Seminar for Ph.D.	0
Fall 2004-2005	Pro-Seminar for Ph.D.	0
Spring 2003-2004	Pro-Seminar for Ph.D.	0

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 1 ECTS (1 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 601 Advanced Readings in Ottoman Historical Texts

3 Credits

Readings in various types and styles of Ottoman handwritten sources from different periods. The purpose is to study a wide range of bureaucratic and intellectual texts, noting their historical contexts as well as stylistic and linguistic features. Provides extra training in intermediate-to-advanced Ottoman paleography, as well as enhanced source knowledge. Does not count as a 600-coded research seminar for graduate students registered in regular SabancÄ± University degree programs. Prerequisite : TLL 501-502 or the equivalent.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2015-2016	Advanced Readings in Ottoman Historical Texts	3
Fall 2013-2014	Advanced Readings in Ottoman Historical Texts	3
Spring 2008-2009	Advanced Readings in Ottoman Historical Texts	3
Spring 2007-2008	Advanced Readings in Ottoman Historical Texts	3
Spring 2005-2006	Advanced Readings in Ottoman Historical Texts	3
Spring 2004-2005	Advanced Readings in Ottoman Historical Texts	3
Summer 2002-2003	Advanced Readings in Ottoman Historical Texts	3
Spring 2001-2002	Advanced Readings in Ottoman Historical Texts	3

Prerequisite: (TLL 501 - Masters - Min Grade D

and TLL 502 - Masters - Min Grade D)

or (TLL 501 - Doctorate - Min Grade D

and TLL 502 - Doctorate - Min Grade D)

or (TLL 510 - Masters - Min Grade D

and TLL 520 - Masters - Min Grade D)

or (TLL 510 - Doctorate - Min Grade D

and TLL 520 - Doctorate - Min Grade D)

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 602 Advanced Readings in Research Languages

3 Credits

Readings in various types and styles of historical sources in languages of the Ottoman lands other than Ottoman Turkish (such as Arabic and Persian, as well as Greek, Bulgarian or Serbo-Croatian). Provides extra language training as well as enhanced source knowledge. Does not count as a 600-coded research seminar for graduate students registered in regular SabancÄ± University degree programs.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2020-2021	Advanced Readings in Research Languages	3
Fall 2019-2020	Advanced Readings in Research Languages	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 609 Ottoman Historians and Chroniclers

3 Credits

Review of the development of history writing in Ottoman society; the scope, meaning and uses of history; official and non-official Åehnames, chronicles, histories. Uses of Ottoman historical writing for modern scholarship. Readings in major historians of the 16th and 17th centuries (Kemal PaÅazade, Celalzade, Mustafa Ali, Naima) in printed and manuscript texts. Requirements : a major research paper of around 30 pages. Counts towards fulfilling the seminar requirement in History while also serving as a course in advanced paleography. Prerequisite : An adequate command of Ottoman Turkish, through TLL 501-502 or the equivalent, and subject to the instructor's approval.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2021-2022	Ottoman Historians and Chroniclers	3
Fall 2020-2021	Ottoman Historians and Chroniclers	3
Fall 2018-2019	Ottoman Historians and Chroniclers	3
Fall 2017-2018	Ottoman Historians and Chroniclers	3
Spring 2015-2016	Ottoman Historians and Chroniclers	3
Fall 2014-2015	Ottoman Historians and Chroniclers	3
Fall 2013-2014	Ottoman Historians and Chroniclers	3
Fall 2012-2013	Ottoman Historians and Chroniclers	3
Fall 2011-2012	Ottoman Historians and Chroniclers	3
Fall 2010-2011	Ottoman Historians and Chroniclers	3
Spring 2008-2009	Ottoman Historians and Chroniclers	3
Spring 2007-2008	Ottoman Historians and Chroniclers	3
Spring 2006-2007	Ottoman Historians and Chroniclers	3
Spring 2005-2006	Ottoman Historians and Chroniclers	3
Fall 2003-2004	Ottoman Historians and Chroniclers	3
Fall 2002-2003	Ottoman Historians and Chroniclers	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 613 Readings in Ottoman Legal Culture

3 Credits

Combines introductory instruction in Ottoman law and legal practice with advanced paleographical training. Different aspects of law, such as court practice, legal interpretation, and royal legislation, are examined, and the relevant primary sources introduced, in alternating years. (Thus if the theme for a particular semester has been the practice of ifta, after an introduction to relevant debates in the field of Islamic and Ottoman law, the class embarks on a collective historical survey of selected themes as they appear in fetva collections of the 16th to the 18th centuries. A comparable approach will be adopted for other themes to be offered in rotation over the years.) Requirements : a major research paper of around 30 pages based on primary source materials. Counts towards fulfilling the seminar requirement in History. Prerequisite : An adequate command of Ottoman Turkish, through TLL 501-502 or the equivalent, and subject to the instructor's approval.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2022-2023	Readings in Ottoman Legal Culture	3
Fall 2020-2021	Readings in Ottoman Legal Culture	3
Fall 2016-2017	Readings in Ottoman Legal Culture	3
Spring 2010-2011	Readings in Ottoman Legal Culture	3
Spring 2009-2010	Readings in Ottoman Legal Culture	3
Fall 2007-2008	Readings in Ottoman Legal Culture	3
Spring 2000-2001	Readings in Ottoman Legal Culture	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 623 Revolutions in History

3 Credits

What is a revolution ? Are revolutions necessary and inevitable, hence universal ? Is their balance sheet all positive or negative ? Why, after an enduring revolutionist legacy, are revolutions being so strictly questioned today ? Does "the end of history" mean "the end of revolutions" ? HIST 623 proposes to tackle these and other questions from a standpoint situated outside both the revolutionary and the anti-revolutionary discourses that have long dominated the intellectual scene. Attempting to construct a new, critical historiography of the subject, it draws on the evidence provided by a number of case studies on the English, the French, the Russian, the Kemalist and the Chinese revolutions, and works its way through a number of thinkers ranging from Burke and Tocqueville through Marx to Brinton, Skocpol, Furet or Hobsbawm, in order to problematize themes like the link between revolutions and modernity, the time-space distribution of revolutions, "normal" and "abnormal" politics, crises of legitimacy, the dialectics of leadership and mass support, stages of revolutionary action, violence and demonstrations of punishment, the radicalization and militarization of revolutions, European and non- European revolutions, and the alignments and legacies of revolutions. May be taken by undergraduates as a taught course (= HIST 323), and simultaneously by graduate students as a research seminar subject to the special requirement of producing a major, 30-page research paper based on primary materials. Subject to the fulfillment of these conditions, counts towards completion of the seminar requirement in History.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 1999-2000	Revolutions in History	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 625 Topics in Ottoman Cultural History

3 Credits

Topics in Ottoman Cultural History been treated mostly in terms of segmented and isolated fields, giving rise to separate "histories" of architecture, miniature painting, the other decorative arts, music and literature. Furthermore, its relationship with the Imperial court has been narrowly and superficially conceived, so that it has frequently been reduced to a mere "reflection" of the political and military fortunes of the state or the ruling house, and simultaneously divorced from the material and cultural conditions of production, the entire habitus, of a court society. Against this historiographical background, and through an ongoing critique of the prevailing modes of interpretation (including documentary, formalist retrospective-ideological, or connoisseurial approaches, as well as more up-to-date methodologies focusing on reception theory, the social foundations of art, or identity issues within art), HIST 625 will be exploring the possible avenues of "total history" in this regard, seeking to address questions of "Ottomanization", "social, political and cultural fluidity", "legitimate change", "barriers between various classes of official Ottoman society", "erosion of corporate distinction", or "cultural experimentations", and encouraging students to investigate the ways in which configurations of power and legitimation (in all their change and continuity) were both expressed by and constructed through artand culture at various times. Counts towards fulfilling the seminar requirement in History subject to the completion of a major research paper (of around 30 pages) largely based on primary source materials. For the possibility of being taken as an upper undergraduate lecture course, with adjusted readings and requirements, see HIST 425. Prerequisite : An adequate command of Ottoman Turkish, through TLL 501-502 or the equivalent, and subject to the instructor's approval.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2021-2022	Topics in Ottoman Cultural History	3
Spring 2019-2020	Topics in Ottoman Cultural History	3
Fall 2018-2019	Topics in Ottoman Cultural History	3
Fall 2003-2004	Topics in Ottoman Cultural History	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 631 Research in Popular and Applied History I :

3 Credits

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2001-2002	Research in Popular and Applied History I	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 632 Research in Popular and Applied History II : Topics in the History of Medieval Europe and Anatolia

3 Credits

The second of a series of comparative and applied workshops in the analysis of elements of popular historical consciousness, including fiction, popular journal and comic strips as well as history education materials. Focuses not only on Turkey but Southeast Europe as a whole, and creates space for exploring the possibilities of defining and producing alternative educational materials, including textbooks and/or theme kits for teacher and students. More specifically, and as the continuation of HIST 631 over the second semester, HIST 632 is devoted to critical investigations of existing accounts of Medieval Europe and Anatolia in history education, as well as the possibilities of improving on such treatments. Does not count as a 600 -coded research seminar for graduate students registered in regular SabancÄ± University degree programs.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2001-2002	Research in Popular and Applied History II	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 633 Research in Popular and Applied History III :

3 Credits

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2002-2003	Research in Popular and Applied History 3: Topics in Ottoman History,1300-1600	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 634 Research in Popular and Applied History IV: Topics in Ottoman and Late Ottoman History, 1600-1918

3 Credits

The fourth of a series of comparative and applied workshops in the analysis of elements of popular historical consciousness, including fiction, popular journals and comic strips as well as history education materials. Focuses not only on Turkey but on Southeast Europe as a whole, and creates space for exploring the possibilities of defining and producing alternative educational materials, including textbooks and/or theme kits for teachers and students. More specifically, HIST 634 is devoted to critical investigations of existing accounts of Ottoman ''decline'', belated modernization and tortuous collapse in history education, as well as the possibilities of improving on such treatments. Does not count as a 600-coded research seminar for graduate students registered in regular SabancÄ± University degree programs.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2002-2003	Research in Popular and Applied History IV: Topics in Ottoman and Late Ottoman History, 1600-1918	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 635 Research in Popular and Applied History V : Topics in 19th Century World and Ottoman-Turkish History

3 Credits

The fifth of a series of comparative and applied workshops in the analysis of elements of popular historical consciousness, including fiction, popular journals and comic strips as well as history education materials. Focuses not only on Turkey but on Southeast Europe as a whole, and creates space for exploring the possibilities of defining and producing alternative educational materials, including textbooks and/or theme kits for teachers and students. More specifically, HIST 635 is devoted to critical investigations of existing textbook accounts of the 19th century "reform period" in Late Ottoman history, as well as the possibilities of improving on such treatments. Does not count as a 600 -coded research seminar for graduate students registered in regular SabancÄ± University degree programs.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2003-2004	Research in Popular and Applied History V : Topics in 19th Century World and Ottoman-Turkish History	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 636 Research in Popular and Applied History VI : Topics in 20th Century World and Ottoman-Turkish History

3 Credits

The sixth of a series of comparative and applied workshops in the analysis of elements of popular historical consciousness, including fiction, popular journals and comic strips as well as history education materials. Focuses not only on Turkey but on Southeast Europe as a whole, and creates space for exploring the possibilities of defining and producing alternative educational materials, including textbooks and/or theme kits for teachers and students. More specifically, HIST 636 is devoted to critical investigations of existing textbook accounts of 20th century Late Ottoman and Turkish Republican history, as well as the possibilities of improving on such treatments. Does not count as a 600-coded research seminar for graduate students registered in regular SabancÄ± University degree programs.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2003-2004	Research in Popular and Applied History VI : Topics in 20th Century World and Ottoman-Turkish History	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 637 Research in Popular and Applied History VII : Topics in Nationalist Conflict and the Breakup of Empire I

3 Credits

The seventh of a series of comparative and applied workshops in the analysis of elements of popular historical consciousness, including fiction, popular journals and comic strips as well as history education materials. Focuses not only on Turkey but on Southeast Europe as a whole, and creates space for exploring the possibilities of defining and producing alternative educational materials, including textbooks and/or theme kits for teachers and students. More specifically, HIST 637 is devoted to critical investigations of existing as well as earlier textbook accounts of the nationalist conflicts emerging in the context of the protracted death throes of the Ottoman Empire. Unlike the previous courses in this series, HIST 637 (and its HIST 638 sequel) will count as a 600-coded research seminar for graduate students registered in regular SabancÄ± University degree programs.

Last Offered Terms

Course Name

SU Credit

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 638 Research in Popular and Applied History VIII : Topics in Nationalist Conflict and the Breakup of Empire II

3 Credits

The eighth of a series of comparative and applied workshops in the analysis of elements of popular historical consciousness, including fiction, popular journals and comic strips as well as history education materials. Focuses not only on Turkey but on Southeast Europe as a whole, and creates space for exploring the possibilities of defining and producing alternative educational materials, including textbooks and/or theme kits for teachers and students. More specifically, HIST 638 is devoted to critical investigations of existing as well as earlier textbook accounts of the nationalist conflicts emerging in the context of the protracted death throes of the Ottoman Empire. Unlike the previous courses in this series, HIST 638 (as well as its HIST 637 prerequisite) will count as a 600-coded research seminar for graduate students registered in regular SabancÄ± University degree programs.

Last Offered Terms

Course Name

SU Credit

Prerequisite: HIST 637 - Masters - Min Grade D

or HIST 637 - Doctorate - Min Grade D

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 650 The Eastern Question, 1768-1923

3 Credits

A survey of the ideological, political and military processes and structurations attending, and developing through, nearly two centuries of attempts by the European Great Powers of the 18th and especially the 19th centuries to partition the Ottoman Empire, eventually designated as the Sick Man of Europe. May be taken by undergraduates as a taught course (= HIST 450), and simultaneously by graduate students as a research seminar subject to the special requirement of producing a major, 30-page paper based on primary materials. Subject to the fulfillment of these conditions, counts towards completion of the seminar requirement in History.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2009-2010	The Eastern Question, 1768-1923	3
Fall 2002-2003	The Eastern Question, 1768-1923	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 664 Rebellion and Dissent in the Ottoman Empire

3 Credits

This seminar examines selected episodes of rebellion, social unrest and dissent through selected primary sources and secondary literature. It introduces major theoretical debates regarding early modern revolts in Eurasia and explores their relevance for the Ottoman Empire. Themes to be covered include dynamics of state-making and socio-economic change, ideology and language of dissent, and questions of organization, agenda and agency in rural and urban revolts.

Last Offered Terms

Course Name

SU Credit

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 669 Topics in the History of Ottoman Slavery

3 Credits

The purpose of this seminar is to explore slavery as an institution in the Ottoman context. Historical "moments" or issues regarding which students will be guided into in-depth research include: Ottoman slavery in the context of broader world perspectives; "open" and "closed" systems of slavery; means of acquiring or recruiting slaves; ethnicity and slavery; changes in the Ottoman demand for slaves; slaves as soldiers and administrators; slaves in agriculture; slaves in manufacturing activities; domestic slavery; popular slave culture in Ottoman society; slavery and its legal framework; the Abolitionist debate in Europe and North America, and its relevance for Ottoman slavery; Western involvement in Ottoman slavery; governmental measures against slavery and the slave trade; the eventual demise of Ottoman slavery in the absence of a legal act of abolition. Requirements : a major research paper of around 30 pages. Counts towards fulfilling the seminar requirement in History. Prerequisite : An adequate command of Ottoman Turkish, through TLL 501-502 or the equivalent, and subject to the instructor's approval.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2003-2004	Topics in the History of Ottoman Slavery	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 671 The Making of Istanbul

3 Credits

A research seminar combining visual materials with textual sources. Periods and topics dealt with, and which students may choose to concentrate upon, include : (1) The Byzantine past; rituals and monuments in the making of a city. (2) Early Ottoman land tenure in and around Istanbul : tahrirs and Imperial vakÄ±fs, kanun and canon. (3) Istanbul as a distinctive "local culture" within the Ottoman Empire. (4) Istanbul as a locus of social unrest. (5) Late Ottoman Istanbul : its changing topography; its diverging tastes and identities (or : the emergence of sub-localities within a local culture). (6) Republican Istanbul and the end of a city. Requirements : a major research paper combining multiple types of evidence. Counts towards fulfilling the seminar requirement in History. Prerequisite : An adequate command of Ottoman Turkish, through TLL 501-502 or the equivalent, and subject to the instructor's approval.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2019-2020	The Making of Istanbul	3
Fall 2014-2015	The Making of Istanbul	3
Fall 2006-2007	The Making of Istanbul	3
Spring 2003-2004	The Making of Istanbul	3
Spring 2001-2002	The Making of Istanbul	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 672 Seminar for Early Modern Ottoman History

3 Credits

A key research seminar in Ottoman history designed to introduce graduate students to first-hand familiarity with, and provide them with an initial capacity for working on, a variety of primary period sources, in their original form, revolving around a particular theme relevant to the 17th and 18th centuries. The thematic concentration may be changed by the instructor from year to year. Prerequisite: HIST 572 or the equivalent, plus an adequate Ottoman script reading ability (both to be verified by the History Program). Basic deliverable: a major, 30-page research paper based on primary materials as described above. Subject to the fulfillment of these conditions, counts towards completion of the MA or PhD seminar requirements in History.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2018-2019	Seminar for Early Modern Ottoman History	3
Spring 2016-2017	Seminar for Ottoman history	3

Prerequisite: HIST 572 - Masters - Min Grade D

or HIST 572 - Doctorate - Min Grade D

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 681 Seminar for Late Ottoman history

3 Credits

Last Offered Terms

Course Name

SU Credit

Prerequisite: HIST 581 - Masters - Min Grade D

or HIST 581 - Doctorate - Min Grade D

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 682 Politics and Society in Ottoman Cities, 16th -18th centuries

3 Credits

An introduction to major research paradigms used in the study of Ottoman towns. Different urban typologies based on geography, culture or material life, and commonly used units of analysis such as community, class or estate, are examined. Themes to be studied include formal and informal politics and aspects of life in public spaces; regulation, conformity and resistance, sociability and ceremony. Requirements : a major research paper of around 30 pages based on primary source materials. Counts towards fulfilling the seminar requirement in History while also providing advanced paleographical training. Prerequisite : An adequate command of Ottoman Turkish, through TLL 501-502 or the equivalent, and subject to the instructor's approval.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2021-2022	Politics and Society in Ottoman Cities, 16th -18th centuries	3
Fall 2013-2014	Politics and Society in Ottoman Cities, 16th -18th centuries	3
Spring 2011-2012	Politics and Society in Ottoman Cities, 16th -18th centuries	3
Fall 2008-2009	Politics and Society in Ottoman Cities, 16th -18th centuries	3
Spring 2006-2007	Society and Politics in Ottoman Cities, 16th -18th centuries	3
Spring 2005-2006	Society and Politics in Ottoman Cities, 16th -18th centuries	3
Fall 2002-2003	Society and Politics in Ottoman Cities, 16th -18th centuries	3
Spring 1999-2000	Society and Politics in Ottoman Cities, 16th -18th centuries	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 689 Special Readings on National Memory I : Varieties of Early Turkish Nationalism

3 Credits

The complex transition from 19th century varieties of Ottoman identity or Muslim patriotism to Turkish nationalism in the throes of the protracted crisis of 1908-22. The search for a viable past : contemporary traumas vs mytho-historical ways of compensation. Alternative "golden ages'', projected affinities, and corresponding value systems. Early textbooks; popular history; the invention of Central Asian origins; questions of race; Yusuf AkÃ§ura's and Fuat KÃ¶prÃ¼lÃ¼'s weaving of an evolutionary grand narrative; grafting a national discourse onto an Ottoman-centred imperial discourse; early Kemalism's redefinition of Turkish nationalism; the objectives and constraints of the Turkish Thesis of History. May be taken by graduate students as a research seminar subject to the special requirement of producing a major, 30-page research paper based on primary materials.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2014-2015	Special Readings on National Memory I : Varieties of Early Turkish Nationalism	3
Fall 2012-2013	Special Readings on National Memory I : Varieties of Early Turkish Nationalism	3
Fall 2011-2012	Special Readings on National Memory I : Varieties of Early Turkish Nationalism	3
Fall 2009-2010	Special Readings on National Memory I : Varieties of Early Turkish Nationalism	3
Spring 2008-2009	Texts and Constructions of National Memory I :	3
Spring 2005-2006	Texts and Const.of National Memo.I: Varieties of Early Turkish Nations	3
Fall 2003-2004	Texts and Const.of National Memo.I: Varieties of Early Turkish Nations	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 690 Texts and Constructions of National Memory II : Reading the Republican Historians

3 Credits

A critical, comparative approach to history-writing in the Republican era. The institutionalization and professionalization of History as an academic discipline. Historical backwardness, catching-up agendas, national developmentalism, and the "Prussian way" in Turkey. Nationalism, historians, and the state. The construction of a national canon from AkÃ§ura and KÃ¶prÃ¼lÃ¼, through Barkan, to Ä°nalcÄ±k. Universalism vs particularism. History from above vs history from below. Odd men out : ReÅat Ekrem KoÃ§u, Mustafa AkdaÄ. Debates over Islamic, Ottoman or Turkish identities/legacies as reflected in Art History. The contrasting worlds of historians and archeologists. The apertura of the 1950s and 60s. The advent of social and economic history. Debates over imperialism, underdevelopment, and pre-capitalist modes of production. The post-60s generation in History and the Social Sciences. May be taken by undergraduates as a taught course (= HIST 490), and simultaneously by graduate students as a research seminar subject to the special requirement of producing a major, 30-page research paper based on primary materials. Subject to the fulfillment of these conditions, counts towards completion of the seminar requirement in History.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2016-2017	Texts and Constructions of National Memory II : Reading the Republican Historians	3
Spring 2004-2005	Texts and Constructions of National Memory II	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 692 Modern Dictatorships, and the One-Party Period

3 Credits

This course offers an in-depth study of the one-party period and political system in Turkey, placing it in its historical and political context, and introducing primary source materials. Contrasting political alignments had already emerged in the course of the War of Independence; their extensions and ramifications are pursued through the phase immediately preceding the creation of the Republic, down to the end of the Kemalist-dominated early Republican era. The political, cultural, economic and foreign policy dimensions of this entire period are viewed as a whole, though with specific emphasis on its political organizations. The experience of 20th century dictatorships like Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, or Spain under Franco are drawn upon in constructing a broad comparative framework. May be taken by undergraduates as a taught course (= POLS 392), and simultaneously by graduate students as a research seminar subject to the special requirement of producing a major, 30-page research paper based on primary materials. Subject to the fulfillment of these conditions, counts towards completion of the seminar requirement in History.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2011-2012	Modern Dictatorships, and the One-Party Period	3
Fall 2009-2010	Modern Dictatorships, and the One-Party Period	3
Fall 2003-2004	Modern Dictatorships and the One-Party Period (1925-1945)	3
Fall 2002-2003	Modern Dictatorships and the One-Party Period (1925-1945)	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 695 Reform and the History of Ideas in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century

3 Credits

The existing literature about reform in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century concentrates primarily on the institutional components of reform. However, a great deal of research on the intellectual and knowledge components of reform has appeared since the 1960s. The time has now come to review this literature and bring it into a course constructed for that purpose. Graduate students may take this as a research seminar, subject to additional reading and research requirements, including writing a major research paper based on primary materials. Subject to these conditions, satisfies the 600-coded graduate research seminar requirement for History.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2011-2012	Reform and the History of Ideas in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 696 The Tanzimat Process as a Transfer of Knowledge

3 Credits

A survey of reform movements in the Ottoman Empire especially through the prism of their contacts with West European scientific speculations in the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as through their sequel in the form of Tanzimat reforms up to 1850. An attempt will be made to cover the history of institutional developments parallel to the history of ideas. May be taken both as a taught course (= HIST 596) and as a seminar, subject to the approval of the instructor and the fulfillment of the research paper requirements for a 600-coded research seminar in History.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2000-2001	The Tanzimat Process as a Transfer of Knowledge	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 697 Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Foreign Policy, 1870-1970

3 Credits

This course presents a detailed survey, based on primary source materials, of (a) the foreign policy orientations that the Ottoman state was forced to adopt in the face of developments originating in the realm of the Eurocentric international relations of the last quarter of the 19th century; and (b) the foreign policy course pursued by the modern Turkish republic from the first quarter of the 20th century. Special attention will be devoted to exploring the inner connections between Turkey's foreign policy issues, and international politics in general, as well as the continuities and discontinuities of a critical century in the history of Turkish foreign policy. May be taken by undergraduates as a taught course (= HIST 397), and simultaneously by graduate students as a research seminar subject to the special requirement of producing a major, 30-page research paper based on primary materials. Subject to the fulfillment of these conditions, counts towards completion of the seminar requirement in History.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2005-2006	Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Foreign Policy, 1870-1970	3
Spring 2003-2004	Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Foreign Policy, 1870-1970	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 699 PhD Thesis

0 Credit

Provides a non-credit framework for the continuous monitoring and collegial discussion of PhD students' thesis research and writing, which they are expected to accomplish under the supervision of a Faculty advisor plus two other examiners from the relevant field following the completion of their course-work.

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2022-2023	PhD Thesis	0
Spring 2021-2022	PhD Thesis	0
Fall 2021-2022	PhD Thesis	0
Spring 2020-2021	PhD Thesis	0
Fall 2020-2021	PhD Thesis	0
Spring 2019-2020	PhD Thesis	0
Fall 2019-2020	PhD Thesis	0
Spring 2018-2019	PhD Thesis	0
Fall 2018-2019	PhD Thesis	0
Spring 2017-2018	PhD Thesis	0
Fall 2017-2018	PhD Thesis	0
Spring 2016-2017	PhD Thesis	0
Fall 2016-2017	PhD Thesis	0
Spring 2015-2016	PhD Thesis	0
Fall 2015-2016	PhD Thesis	0
Spring 2014-2015	PhD Thesis	0
Fall 2014-2015	PhD Thesis	0
Spring 2013-2014	PhD Thesis	0
Fall 2013-2014	PhD Thesis	0
Spring 2012-2013	PhD Thesis	0
Fall 2012-2013	PhD Thesis	0
Spring 2011-2012	PhD Thesis	0
Fall 2011-2012	PhD Thesis	0
Spring 2010-2011	PhD Thesis	0
Fall 2010-2011	PhD Thesis	0
Spring 2009-2010	PhD Thesis	0
Fall 2009-2010	PhD Thesis	0
Spring 2008-2009	PhD Thesis	0
Fall 2008-2009	PhD Thesis	0
Spring 2007-2008	PhD Thesis	0
Fall 2007-2008	PhD Thesis	0
Spring 2006-2007	Ph.D. Thesis	0
Fall 2006-2007	Ph.D. Thesis	0
Spring 2005-2006	Ph.D. Thesis	0
Fall 2005-2006	Ph.D. Thesis	0
Spring 2004-2005	Ph.D. Thesis	0
Fall 2004-2005	Ph.D. Thesis	0
Spring 2003-2004	Ph.D. Thesis	0
Fall 2003-2004	Ph.D. Thesis	0
Fall 2002-2003	Ph.D. Thesis	0

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 119 ECTS (119 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 702 Literature Survey: Historiography

3 Credits

One of a series of eleven courses comprising advanced surveys of the secondary literature relevant to a particular field or period, and intended to prepare PhD students in particular for their comprehensive examinations in one major and two minor fields. May also be taken by other students as a field-specific directed readings course. Requirements : producing a comprehensive reading list (of what has actually been covered), plus a complete syllabus for a comparable undergraduate course in History.

Last Offered Terms

Course Name

SU Credit

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 712 Literature Survey : the Middle Ages in Europe

3 Credits

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2007-2008	Literature Survey : the Middle Ages in Europe	3
Fall 2004-2005	Literature Survey: the Middle Ages in Europe	3
Fall 2002-2003	Literature Survey: the Middle Ages in Europe	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 714 Literature Survey: The Early Modern Era

3 Credits

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2017-2018	Literature Survey: The Early Modern Era	3
Fall 2014-2015	Literature Survey: The Early Modern Era	3
Spring 2011-2012	Literature Survey: The Early Modern Era	3
Spring 2010-2011	Literature Survey: The Early Modern Era	3
Fall 2008-2009	Literature Survey: The Early Modern Era	3
Spring 2002-2003	Literature Survey: The Early Modern Era	3
Spring 1999-2000	Literature Survey: The Early Modern Era	4

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 715 Literature Survey: From the Age of Revolution

3 Credits

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2019-2020	Literature Survey: From the Age of Revolution	3
Fall 2016-2017	Literature Survey: From the Age of Revolution	3
Spring 2012-2013	Literature Survey: From the Age of Revolution	3
Fall 2012-2013	Literature Survey: From the Age of Revolution	3
Spring 2011-2012	Literature Survey: From the Age of Revolution	3
Spring 2009-2010	Literature Survey: From the Age of Revolution	3
Fall 2008-2009	Literature Survey: From the Age of Revolution	3
Spring 2004-2005	Literature Survey: From the Age of Revolution to the Present	3
Spring 2001-2002	Literature Survey: From the Age of Revolution to the Present	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 742 Literature Survey: Modern Balkan History, 1800 to the Present

3 Credits

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2008-2009	Literature Survey: Modern Balkan History, 1800 to the Present	3
Spring 2007-2008	Literature Survey: Modern Balkan History, 1800 to the Present	3
Spring 2003-2004	Literature Survey: Modern Balkan History	3
Spring 2000-2001	Literature Survey: Modern Balkan History	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 751 Literature Survey : Central Asian and Turkic History

3 Credits

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2003-2004	Literature Survey:Central Asian and Turkic History	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 762 Literature Survey : Ottoman History, 1300-1600

3 Credits

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2022-2023	Literature Survey : Ottoman History, 1300-1600	3
Spring 2020-2021	Literature Survey : Ottoman History, 1300-1600	3
Spring 2019-2020	Literature Survey : Ottoman History, 1300-1600	3
Fall 2018-2019	Literature Survey : Ottoman History, 1300-1600	3
Spring 2016-2017	Literature Survey : Ottoman History, 1300-1600	3
Fall 2008-2009	Literature Survey : Ottoman History, 1300-1600	3
Spring 2005-2006	Literature Survey : Ottoman History, 1300-1600	3
Spring 2004-2005	Literature Survey : Ottoman History, 1300-1600	3
Fall 2001-2002	Literature Survey : Ottoman History, 1300-1600	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 771 Literature Survey : Ottoman History, 17th and 18th centuries

3 Credits

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Fall 2021-2022	Literature Survey : Ottoman History, 17th and 18th centuries	3
Spring 2019-2020	Literature Survey : Ottoman History, 17th and 18th centuries	3
Spring 2018-2019	Literature Survey : Ottoman History, 17th and 18th centuries	3
Spring 2016-2017	Literature Survey : Ottoman History, 17th and 18th centuries	3
Spring 2014-2015	Literature Survey : Ottoman History, 17th and 18th centuries	3
Spring 2012-2013	Literature Survey : Ottoman History, 17th and 18th centuries	3
Spring 2010-2011	Literature Survey : Ottoman History, 17th and 18th centuries	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 781 Literature Survey : Ottoman-Turkish History, 1800-1918

3 Credits

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2021-2022	Literature Survey : Ottoman-Turkish History, 1800-1918	3
Fall 2021-2022	Literature Survey : Ottoman-Turkish History, 1800-1918	3
Fall 2020-2021	Literature Survey : Ottoman-Turkish History, 1800-1918	3
Spring 2016-2017	Literature Survey : Ottoman-Turkish History, 1800-1918	3
Fall 2012-2013	Literature Survey : Ottoman-Turkish History, 1800-1918	3
Spring 2011-2012	Literature Survey : Ottoman-Turkish History, 1800-1918	3
Fall 2011-2012	Literature Survey : Ottoman-Turkish History, 1800-1918	3
Spring 2008-2009	Literature Survey : Ottoman-Turkish History, 1800-1918	3
Fall 2005-2006	Literature Survey: Ottoman - Turkish History, 1800-1918	3
Fall 2004-2005	Literature Survey: Ottoman - Turkish History, 1800-1918	3
Spring 2003-2004	Literature Survey: Ottoman - Turkish History, 1800-1918	3
Spring 2001-2002	Literature Survey: Ottoman - Turkish History, 1800-1918	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 791 Literature Survey: Recent Turkish History, 1918 to the Present

3 Credits

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2021-2022	Literature Survey: Recent Turkish History, 1918 to the Present	3
Fall 2012-2013	Literature Survey: Recent Turkish History, 1918 to the Present	3
Fall 2010-2011	Literature Survey: Recent Turkish History, 1918 to the Present	3
Spring 2009-2010	Literature Survey: Recent Turkish History, 1918 to the Present	3
Spring 2007-2008	Literature Survey: Recent Turkish History, 1918 to the Present	3
Fall 2004-2005	Literature Survey: Recent Turkish History, 1918-Present	3
Spring 2001-2002	Literature Survey: Recent Turkish History, 1918-Present	3
Fall 2000-2001	Literature Survey: Recent Turkish History, 1918-Present	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements:

HIST 799 Literature Survey: Cultural History

3 Credits

Last Offered Terms	Course Name	SU Credit
Spring 2020-2021	Literature Survey: Cultural History	3
Spring 2019-2020	Literature Survey: Cultural History	3
Spring 2018-2019	Literature Survey: Cultural History	3
Fall 2017-2018	Literature Survey: Cultural History	3
Spring 2014-2015	Literature Survey: Cultural History	3
Fall 2013-2014	Literature Survey: Cultural History	3
Fall 2010-2011	Literature Survey: Cultural History	3
Spring 2008-2009	Literature Survey: Cultural History	3
Summer 2007-2008	Literature Survey: Cultural History	3
Spring 2007-2008	Literature Survey: Cultural History	3
Fall 2007-2008	Literature Survey: Cultural History	3
Spring 2004-2005	Literature Survey: Cultural History	3
Spring 2001-2002	Literature Survey: Cultural History	3
Fall 2000-2001	Literature Survey: Cultural History	3

Prerequisite: __

Corequisite: __

ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)

General Requirements: