| HIST 191 Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 Credits |
|
This basic, comprehensive survey of the politics,
economics and sociology of Turkish modernization begins
with a review of the pressures building up on the Ottoman
Empire, and the recurring confrontations between
the conservative and the reform-minded wings of the ruling
elite, through the 17th and 18th centuries, dovetailing
into the challenges confronting the porte under Selim III
and Mahmud II. The long drawn-out tragedy of the Turkish
19th century, comprising: a context of continuing retreat
and territorial contraction, as well as of deepening
despair, summed up as a non-colonial pattern of
incorporation; the complicated relationships between
the Great Powers and the various Balkan nationalisms; the
initial introduction and the subsequent expansion of
modernization agendas from the top down; the interplay of
political and economic factors, and of local
vs international forces, in the major crises of the
1830s, the 1850s, and the 1870s; the course
of restructuring in the legal, administrative, educational,
fiscal and economic spheres; the ancien régime complexity
set up by Tanzimat dualisms; the Ottomans' ambition
to modernize and to be recognized as modern (and hence of
being admitted into the Concert of Europe); the gradual
emergence of a state of law, and the replacement of the
First Constitution's abortive liberalism by the resurgent
authoritarianism of the Hamidian era.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2020-2021 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Fall 2020-2021 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Spring 2019-2020 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Fall 2019-2020 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Spring 2018-2019 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Fall 2018-2019 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Spring 2017-2018 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Fall 2017-2018 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Spring 2016-2017 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Fall 2016-2017 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Summer 2015-2016 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Spring 2015-2016 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Fall 2015-2016 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Summer 2014-2015 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Spring 2014-2015 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Fall 2014-2015 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Spring 2013-2014 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Fall 2013-2014 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Summer 2012-2013 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Spring 2012-2013 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Fall 2012-2013 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Spring 2011-2012 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Fall 2011-2012 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Spring 2010-2011 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Fall 2010-2011 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Spring 2009-2010 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Fall 2009-2010 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Spring 2008-2009 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Fall 2008-2009 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Fall 2007-2008 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Fall 2006-2007 |
Principles of Atatürk and History of Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Fall 2005-2006 |
Principles of Atatürk and History of Turkish Revolution I |
2 |
| Fall 2004-2005 |
The Making of Modern Turkey I |
2 |
| Fall 2003-2004 |
The Making of Modern Turkey I |
2 |
| Fall 2002-2003 |
The Making of Modern Turkey I |
2 |
| Fall 2001-2002 |
The Making of Modern Turkey I |
2 |
| Fall 2000-2001 |
The Making of Modern Turkey I |
2 |
| Spring 1999-2000 |
The Making of Modern Turkey I |
2 |
| Fall 1999-2000 |
The Making of Modern Turkey I |
2 |
|
| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: |
| ECTS Credit: 3 ECTS (4 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
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| HIST 192 Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 Credits |
|
The''revolution vs empire''dilemna faced by the Young Turks
in 1908 ,continuing into:the intellectual ferment of the
first two decades of the century ;the impact of the Balkan
Wars and of Gallipoli on Turkish nationalism; the beginnings
of an Anatolia -oriented populism;the fatique and despair of
1918-19 ,and the call to mobilize for one last struggle ;the
forging of a new leadership and of a program of resistance ;
and the role of local and national elements in the grand
alliance for independence.From 1923 onwards,attention shifts
to : economic reconstruction; the ''smashing the idols''
refoms of the 1920s and early 30s;education,history,
archeology,folklore,and the construction of a new national
identity;the Great Depression and the shift to a more
statist economic policy; the difficulties of the war years;
and the 1946-50 transition to parliamentary pluralism.In
conclusion ,the course raises some broad analytical
questions : the Kemalist revolution in comparative
perspective; the emergence and development of a
''catching up agenda'' in a non -colonial context;the
pragmatism and empiricism of Kemalism contrasted
with other (later)examples of national developmentalism;
the prospects for Turkish democracy on the threshold of the
21st century.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2020-2021 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Fall 2020-2021 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Summer 2019-2020 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Spring 2019-2020 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Fall 2019-2020 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Spring 2018-2019 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Fall 2018-2019 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Summer 2017-2018 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Spring 2017-2018 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Fall 2017-2018 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Summer 2016-2017 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Spring 2016-2017 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Fall 2016-2017 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Summer 2015-2016 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Spring 2015-2016 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Fall 2015-2016 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Summer 2014-2015 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Spring 2014-2015 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Fall 2014-2015 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Spring 2013-2014 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Fall 2013-2014 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Summer 2012-2013 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Spring 2012-2013 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Fall 2012-2013 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Spring 2011-2012 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Fall 2011-2012 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Spring 2010-2011 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Fall 2010-2011 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Spring 2009-2010 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Fall 2009-2010 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Spring 2008-2009 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Spring 2007-2008 |
Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Spring 2006-2007 |
Principles of Atatürk and History of Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Spring 2005-2006 |
Principles of Atatürk and History of Turkish Revolution II |
2 |
| Spring 2004-2005 |
The Making of Modern Turkey II |
2 |
| Spring 2003-2004 |
The Making of Modern Turkey II |
2 |
| Spring 2002-2003 |
The Making of Modern Turkey II |
2 |
| Spring 2001-2002 |
The Making of Modern Turkey II |
2 |
| Spring 2000-2001 |
The Making of Modern Turkey II |
2 |
| Spring 1999-2000 |
The Making of Modern Turkey II |
2 |
|
| Prerequisite: HIST 191 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: |
| ECTS Credit: 3 ECTS (4 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
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| |
| HIST 205 History of the Twentieth Century |
3 Credits |
|
The first half of the 20th century witnessed catastrophic
destruction through world wars and genocides;
its third quarter, in contrast, became a period of
unprecedented stability and affluence; this,
however, gave way to yet another phase of
collapse and epochal change that
marked not only the end of the century but perhaps
also the end of the entire Modern
Era. This course proposes to look at all this
social and political tumult, as well as the accompanying
history of culture, ideas, art and science, through the
works and overlapping yet diverging
interpretations of some its major observers
and commentators.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2019-2020 |
History of the Twentieth Century |
3 |
| Fall 2018-2019 |
History of the Twentieth Century |
3 |
| Fall 2017-2018 |
History of the Twentieth Century |
3 |
| Fall 2016-2017 |
History of the Twentieth Century |
3 |
| Spring 2015-2016 |
History of the Twentieth Century |
3 |
| Fall 2014-2015 |
History of the Twentieth Century |
3 |
| Fall 2013-2014 |
History of the Twentieth Century |
3 |
| Fall 2012-2013 |
History of the Twentieth Century |
3 |
| Fall 2011-2012 |
History of the Twentieth Century (HIST405) |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| and SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
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| |
| HIST 221 Renaissance and Reformation Europe |
3 Credits |
|
European society and art c. 1300-1600. The cultural
underpinnings of the transition from a horizontally
organized world of regional civilizations and their
relatively isolated great traditions, to a more vertically
organized modern world-system. Individualism and its
manifestations. Aspects of wealth and public space
in the maritime city-states of Italy. Religious and civic
humanism. Concentrations of talent in architecture,
painting and sculpture from Florence to Rome and Venice.
The Church from the late Middle Ages into the
Early Modern Era. Critical independence, the printing press,
and anti-clericalism. Luther at Worms: authority vs the
individual conscience. The Protestant Reformation
and the Catholic Counter-Reformation. Mannerism
and the Baroque in Italy, Germany and northern Europe.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 223 Women in Pre-Modern Societies |
3 Credits |
|
In recent decades, the feminist challenge to a male,
ruling class dominated genre of history-writing from
above has moved quickly from the 1960s' paradigm of women
purely as "victims of patriarchy", through underscoring
women's scope for autonomous counter-activity, to
extricating "herstory" from "history" as virtually
the only true and valid account. Today, though
a re-integration is under way, focusing not on a separate
"women's history" but on women in
history - or even better, on historical women,
whose real lives may be seen to have
comprised a dimension of sharing and co-existence
as well as a dimension of oppression and
resistance. In HIST 223, all such issues and
debates form part of the theoretical background that frames
an empirical investigation of women's position, roles,
and modes of activity in kin-based societies, in the early
empires of Antiquity, in India and the Far East, in
Greece and Rome, in medieval Christendom and
Islamdom and in the Ottoman Empire.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Fall 2000-2001 |
Women in Pre-Modern Societies |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
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| |
| HIST 227 History Goes to the Movies |
3 Credits |
|
Contrary to popular belief, historical "facts" do not
speak for themselves, but are structured into different
interpretations which acquire even greater
degrees of autonomy as we move from scholarship
to art. The course will revolve around a number of movies
grouped around (a) themes ranging from
war to religion or from royalty to peasant life;
(b) periods ranging from Biblical times to World War II;
(c) geographies extending from China to the
Americas; and (d) production traditions ranging
from Cinecitta to Hollywood. In each case, discussion
will cover the historical period, event(s) or
process(es) that the movie focuses on, as
well as the role of the film-maker's vision in constructing
that representation.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Fall 2009-2010 |
History Goes to the Movies |
3 |
| Fall 2008-2009 |
History Goes to the Movies |
3 |
| Fall 2005-2006 |
History Goes to Movies |
3 |
| Spring 2001-2002 |
History Goes to Movies |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 233 The Medieval Hero, East and West |
3 Credits |
|
Designed as an introduction to reading and analyzing epic
narratives, this course focuses on four such
key types of works re-introduced in writing during
the Middle Ages : the Shahnama,
the Oghuznama, the Alexander Romance,
and the Arthurian Legends. Introduced at the outset
will be the main themes and narrative tools employed
in the construction of epics; the common
features which make a ?hero?; and the relevant historical
contexts. These will then be brought to bear on a close
examination of the works in question,
with the final case study of Alexander and the
Romances serving to explore the common aspects
of ?Eastern? and ?Western? epics and heroes.
The course will conclude with
a discussion of the afterlife of these epics.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2020-2021 |
The Medieval Hero, East and West |
3 |
| Spring 2019-2020 |
The Medieval Hero, East and West |
3 |
| Spring 2018-2019 |
The Medieval Hero, East and West |
3 |
| Spring 2017-2018 |
The Medieval Hero, East and West |
3 |
| Spring 2016-2017 |
The Medieval Hero, East and West |
3 |
| Spring 2015-2016 |
The Medieval Hero, East and West |
3 |
| Spring 2014-2015 |
The Medieval Hero, East and West |
3 |
| Spring 2013-2014 |
The Medieval Hero, East and West |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
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| |
| HIST 242 The Age of Revolution 1789-1848 |
3 Credits |
|
European society and art at a time of cataclysmic
transformation, involving both the Industrial Revolution
the creation of the material foundations of modern
welfare, and the French Revolution and the forging
of the political and cultural structures of mass democracy.
The old regime, the Enlightenment, and the storm.
Classicism, romanticism, realism. The art market and the
reading public. Studies of genres, artists and works
including Hogarth, David, Goya, Constable, Delacroix,
Courbet, Turner; Wordsworth, Coleridge Blake,
Shelley, Keats, Byron; Beethoven, Chopin, Wagner;
the rise of the novel.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
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| |
| HIST 245 Men, Ships and the Sea |
3 Credits |
|
The history of shipbuilding and seafaring offers
fascinating insights into the interaction between ecologies,
technologies, incentives and ambitions, knowledge,
production, and lifestyles. Human societies inhabiting
coastal areas have developed various ship types
both by way of utilising the available materials, and in
order to cope with the specific problems posed by
different seas or oceans. As a complicated piece
of machinery, each such ship generates multiple
technological demands on different sectors;
it also becomes a part of dense patterns of human existence,
comprising routes, movement, trade, exploration,
and migrations. Combining social with technological history,
the course proposes to explore these and other themes
through the prism of five major ship types : a Mediterranean
galley; an 18th century ship-of-the-line; a tea clipper;
a dreadnought; and an ocean liner from
the gilded age of transatlantic travel.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Fall 2016-2017 |
Men, Ships and the Sea |
3 |
| Spring 2015-2016 |
Men, Ships and the Sea |
3 |
| Spring 2013-2014 |
Men, Ships and the Sea |
3 |
| Spring 2011-2012 |
Men, Ships and the Sea |
3 |
| Spring 2009-2010 |
Men, Ships and the Sea (HIST345) |
3 |
| Fall 2008-2009 |
Men, Ships and the Sea (HIST345) |
3 |
| Spring 2005-2006 |
Men, Ships and the Sea (HIST345) |
3 |
| Spring 2004-2005 |
Men, Ships and the Sea (HIST345) |
3 |
| Spring 2003-2004 |
Men, Ships and the Sea (HIST345) |
3 |
| Fall 2002-2003 |
Men, Ships and the Sea (HIST345) |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| and SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
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| |
| HIST 285 The Süleymanic Era |
3 Credits |
|
This course aims to analyze the political institutions
and social organization of the Ottoman Empire at the
time of its greatest impact in world history. The
evolution of political ideas and institutions and the
articulation of internal social mechanisms will be
studied across the full spectrum of Ottoman
involvement in European and Asian affairs - in
diplomacy, warfare and trade as well as ideological and
cultural contacts and interactions ranging from
Renaissance Europe to flourishing Asian empires.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
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| HIST 315 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 |
| Fall 2011-2012 |
Episodes in the History of Science I |
3 |
| Fall 2010-2011 |
Episodes in the History of Science I |
3 |
| Fall 2009-2010 |
Episodes in the History of Science I |
3 |
| Spring 2008-2009 |
Episodes in the History of Science I |
3 |
| Fall 2005-2006 |
Episodes in the History of Science |
3 |
| Fall 2004-2005 |
Episodes in the History of Science |
3 |
| Fall 2003-2004 |
Episodes in the History of Science |
3 |
| Fall 2002-2003 |
Episodes in the History of Science |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
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| HIST 316 Episodes in the History of Science II |
3 Credits |
|
A sequel to HIST 315, which pursues the story
of the further development of the sciences and their
impact on society from the middle of the 19th century
to the present, covering, together with the West, the
history of science in both Ottoman and Republican Turkey.
As in HIST 315, an episodic treatment requiring
extensive student participation throughout.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2010-2011 |
Episodes in the History of Science II |
3 |
| Spring 2009-2010 |
Episodes in the History of Science II |
3 |
| Spring 2005-2006 |
Episodes in the History of Science II |
3 |
| Spring 2004-2005 |
Episodes in the History of Science II |
3 |
| Spring 2003-2004 |
Episodes in the History of Science II |
3 |
| Spring 2002-2003 |
Episodes in the History of Science II |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
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| |
| HIST 323 Revolutions in History |
3 Credits |
|
What is a revolution? Are revolutions necessary
and inevitable, hence universal? Is their balance sheet all
positive or all negative ? Why, after an enduring
revolutionist legacy, are revolutions being so strictly
questioned today? Does "the end of history" mean
"the end of revolutions" ? The course 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. Also see
HIST 623 for the possibility of being taken simultaneously
as a graduate seminar subject to extra
conditions and requirements.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
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| |
| HIST 324 A History of North America up to the Reconstruction Era |
3 Credits |
|
This is mainly a history of the English colonies and
of the United States of America up to the third quarter
of the 19th century. Topics to be dealt with include :
Old and New World societies; what "discovery" entailed;
exchange and transfer of people, germs, animals, plants and
technology; Spanish vs English colonization; New
England vs the Chesapeake Bay colonies; the importance
of being Puritan; European rivalries and native alliances;
England and the colonies; the Navigation Acts; indentured
servitude and slavery; the American Revolution; the
Constitution and the Bill of Rights; the initial growth
and expansion of the United States; the North-South divide;
religious / social reform and party politics; the debate
over slavery vs Abolitionism; "states' rights"
and the Civil War of 1861-1865.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2006-2007 |
A History Of North America Up To The Reconstruction |
3 |
| Fall 2004-2005 |
A History Of North America Up To The Reconstruction |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
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| |
| HIST 326 Latin American History and Culture |
3 Credits |
|
This is a historical survey of the
Latin American continent, organized around
instances of encounter, disruption, exchange
and creativity. Major themes to be dealt with
comprise : colonial encounters and legacies,
including especially the Columbian Exchange;
the dynamics of slavery and slave
societies; post-independence processes of
nation-building; Latin America's post-/neo-colonial
relationship to the United States;
the 20th century predicaments of the region,
ranging from dictatorships to genocide,
from racism to modern day slavery
and police violence. Following an interdisciplinary
approach, the course surveys the
literature as well as the film, music,
literature and policy produced within
the region, students will be exposed
to ways of thinking about Latin American
culture and society, as well as to
how Latin American artists, writers and intellectuals
represent their nations and cultures
to themselves and to the world
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| and SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
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| |
| HIST 331 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 a graduate course,
subject to additional readings and work requirements,
see HIST 531.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| 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 2006-2007 |
Early Islamic History : A Survey |
3 |
| Spring 2005-2006 |
Early Islamic History : A Survey |
3 |
| Fall 2003-2004 |
Early Islamic History : A Survey |
3 |
| Fall 2002-2003 |
Early Islamic History : A Survey |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 332 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.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| 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: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 335 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: (SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| and SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D) |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 336 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 this vast
geographical space as part of various imperial
configurations (the Hun, Türk, 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: (SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| and SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D) |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 341 War and Society II : The Military Revolution and the Genesis of the Modern State |
3 Credits |
|
This is the second in a series of five "period" courses
revolving around the general theme of the social roots and
determinants of warfare, and the impact of war on society.
The series as a whole is designed to contribute to both the
war-and-peace and the state-formation and state-
theory dimensions of the SPS degree program, while
this course in particular focuses on the second
major threshold problematized by the new military
history: the European development and crystallization
of the modern state. Readings, ranging from Geoffrey Parker
and Michael Howard, to Gabor Agoston and Rhoads Murphey,
draw heavily on Charles Tilly's notion of "war-making
and state-making as organized crime", as well as the
literature on the "military revolution", which is seen as
a new way of organizing fighting with gunpowder weapons.
Crucial in this regard was the invention of a close-order
infantry drill, though developments in siege and naval
warfare were also important. This then impacted in all
directions, transforming warriors into soldiers in order
to effect one of the greatest homogenizations of modernity:
armies in uniform, bearing standardized weapons, using
standardized ammunition and undergoing constant training
in order to achieve clockwork precision in carrying out
standardized commands -- the same kind of mechanical
precision that was overtaking the sphere of production
through the division of labour in Adam Smith's
manufactories. It also engendered enormous costs,
forcing state apparatuses into functional specialization,
bureaucratization, and the creation of national tax systems
in order to pay for the supply lines and systems
required by modern warfare. There were social consequences
(in the form of process analysis); also existential
consequences for non-European societies, including the
Ottomans, who like a few other pre-modern empires were
faced with the-do-or-die question of
"importing the European army."
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2001-2002 |
War and Society 2:The Military Revolution and the Genes. of the Modern State |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 348 Diplomatic History of the Modern Era I (1815-1950) |
3 Credits |
|
An overview of international politics and diplomacy
from the Settlement of Vienna to the immediate
aftermath of the Second World War. Weekly sub-themes
to be pursued as issues both in diplomatic and military
history, and in international law, include : (1) A
general introduction focusing on the transformations
wrought by the French Revolution; (2) the Congress
of Vienna; (3) the Age of Restoration; (4) the
Eastern Question and the Crimean War; (5) the Paris
Conference and settlement; (6) the age of nationalisms and
national unification; (7) the age of imperialism, and the
emergence of permanent alliances or ententes; (8) World
War I and the various treaties of Paris; (9) the League
of Nations; (10) revisionism in Central Europe; (11)
World War II and the birth of the UN; (12) de-colonization;
(13) the onset of the Cold War.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Summer 2011-2012 |
Diplomatic History of the Modern Era I (1815-1950) |
3 |
| Spring 2003-2004 |
Diplomatic History of the Modern Era (1815-present) |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 349 Diplomatic History of the Modern Era II (1945-2004) |
3 Credits |
|
Aims to provide an overview of international developments
from the Potsdam Conference down to the current issues
of globalization and the emergence of USA as the only world
power. Topics dealt with include : the origins of the
Cold War; NATO and the Warsaw Pact; regional wars (Korea,
Vietnam) and other crises (Berlin, Cuba, the Middle
East); ); the partial thaw of the 1970s; the SALT
agreements; the Third World and the Non-Alignment movement;
the Helsinki Summit of 1975. Escalating tensions from the
late 1970s into the 1980s (renewed nuclear buildups,
together with crises in Grenada, Nicaragua, Afghanistan,
and Ethiopia- Somalia). The disintegration of the USSR
and the end of the Cold War. A new era of diplomatic and
military instability, marked by US unilateralism,
the emergence of China as a new power, the EU as
another global player, continuing problems in Russia,
"failed states" in the Third World, and global terrorism.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2020-2021 |
Diplomatic History of the Modern Era II (1945-2004) |
3 |
| Spring 2018-2019 |
Diplomatic History of the Modern Era II (1945-2004) |
3 |
| Fall 2016-2017 |
Diplomatic History of the Modern Era II (1945-2004) |
3 |
| Fall 2014-2015 |
Diplomatic History of the Modern Era II (1945-2004) |
3 |
| Fall 2013-2014 |
Diplomatic History of the Modern Era II (1945-2004) |
3 |
| Fall 2012-2013 |
Diplomatic History of the Modern Era II (1945-2004) |
3 |
| Spring 2011-2012 |
Diplomatic History of the Modern Era II (1945-2004) |
3 |
| Spring 2010-2011 |
Diplomatic History of the Modern Era II (1945-2004) |
3 |
| Fall 2008-2009 |
Diplomatic History of the Modern Era II (1945-2004) |
3 |
| Spring 2006-2007 |
Diplomatic History of Modern Times II (1945-2004) |
3 |
| Spring 2005-2006 |
Diplomatic History of Modern Times II (1945-2004) |
3 |
| Spring 2004-2005 |
Diplomatic History of Modern Times II (1945-2004) |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 370 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 370 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 such lecture hours per
week will be complemented by intensive discussion sessions.
For the possibility of taking ''History of a City I''
as a graduate course, subject to additional readings as well
as research and writing requirements, see HIST 570.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2006-2007 |
History of a City I: From Byzantion to Constantinople |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| and HUM 202 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 371 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 371, whether taken independently
or as a sequel to HIST 370, 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.
For the possibility of proceeding from the ?taught course?
components of HIST 371 to primary
research at the advanced graduate level,
see HIST 571.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Summer 2014-2015 |
History of a City II : Ottoman Istanbul, 1450-1900 |
3 |
| Summer 2013-2014 |
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: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| and SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 385 The Ottomans, Europe and the World in the Sixteenth |
3 Credits |
|
Century A broad comparative perspective : political
formations and societies in a century of quickened change.
European ''early modern'' era compared with the Ottomans
and other great Muslim empires (Safavi, Mughal), as well
as with Ming China and the establishment of Tokugawa Japan.
Social and political institutions; global reach of Atlantic
Europe; claims, aspirations and objectives of Asian empires.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Summer 2018-2019 |
The Ottomans, Europe and the World in the Sixteenth |
3 |
| Summer 2017-2018 |
The Ottomans, Europe and the World in the Sixteenth |
3 |
| Summer 2016-2017 |
The Ottomans, Europe and the World in the Sixteenth |
3 |
| Summer 2010-2011 |
The Ottomans, Europe and the World in the Sixteenth |
3 |
| Summer 2009-2010 |
The Ottomans, Europe and the World in the Sixteenth |
3 |
| Summer 2008-2009 |
The Ottomans, Europe and the World in the Sixteenth |
3 |
| Fall 2008-2009 |
The Ottomans, Europe and the World in the Sixteenth |
3 |
| Spring 2006-2007 |
The Ottomans, Europe and the World in the Sixteenth Century |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 397 Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Foreign Policy |
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.
For the possibility of being taken as a graduate research
seminar, subject to the condition of producing a major
research paper based on primary sources, see HIST 697.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2005-2006 |
Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Foreign Policy |
3 |
| Spring 2004-2005 |
Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Foreign Policy |
3 |
| Spring 2003-2004 |
Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Foreign Policy |
3 |
| Spring 2002-2003 |
Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Foreign Policy |
3 |
| Spring 2001-2002 |
Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Foreign Policy |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 406 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 2014-2015 |
The Twentieth Century Through Art and Literature |
3 |
| Spring 2012-2013 |
The Twentieth Century Through Art and Literature |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| and SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 415 The Scientific Revolution |
3 Credits |
|
The Scientific Revolution of the 17th and 18th centuries
did more than explain the motions of the
heavenly bodies. It also invented scientific method.
Thereby it established a new way of knowing.
Furthermore, it built science, which was not
even a distinct, recognizable activity up to that
point, into the independent and centrally important
institution that it has become in contemporary
society, It was only from the mid-17th century onward,
that the material, social, political and cultural
conditions which have become integral parts of modern
science emerged. Dealing with all these and
other dimensions, this course will focus especially on
the interaction between scientific ideas and the
context that gave birth to them. It offers a
gallery of sources and methods historians of
science use to understand science in the past,
and introduces students to reading and
analyzing scientific texts, individuals and
circumstances in history. The course also aims to
encourage literacy across disciplines
and faculties on the history of science.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| and SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 423 Nature and Empires |
3 Credits |
|
What did empires look like on the ground? What
can changing landscapes tell us about the
history of imperialism or colonial societies,
politics, and economies? How did local
environments aid or constrain particular forms
of empire? How did the study and use of
nature contribute to the conquest and
exploitation of foreign territories, or the expansion,
administration, and upheaval of colonial regimes?
This course will survey the recent scholarly
literature on the global environmental history of empire,
with emphasis on Early Modern and
Modern European colonies. Special attention will
focus on the environmental aspects
of the reciprocal relationship between science
(especially medicine, natural history,
geography, and anthropology) and the
making and unmaking of empires.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| and SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 424 Family, Childhood and Gender in European History |
3 Credits |
|
Historical and cultural studies have previously discounted
the history of the ''private life'', such that
takes place within the intimate sphere of home. In that
respect, women and children as individuals, and
family, as a social entity were kept out of research and
analysis for a long time. In the 1960s, however,
social history had a pioneering and remarkable role
as a major authority to change the status quo.
Gender, childhood, and family came to be considered
as significant sites of analysis and the consecutive decades
brought about the formation of them
into significant fields of inquiry.
History of family, history of childhood, and
gender history grew considerably in time
and the last three decades have produced discrete
historical studies that provide richly detailed
accounts on these issues.
Parallel with this trend, this course will specifically
focus on family, gender, and childhood in
Europe in order to provide an alternative
version of studying European history.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Summer 2007-2008 |
Family, Childhood and Gender in European History |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 425 The History of Childhood and Youth in Modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire |
3 Credits |
|
This course is devoted to comparative perspectives on the
cultural, social, economic, and political history
of childhood and youth in both 19th century
Europe and the Ottoman Empire. More
specifically, it will focus on how children
as historical actors played a role in the
history of their communities. An introduction
on children in historiography will be followed by
explorations of : European and Ottoman childhood(s)
before the modern era; the ''discovery'' of childhood
and youth in modern times; families and
child-rearing; motherhood and fatherhood;
policies and practices relating to education;
policies and practices relating to Ottoman
child labor; crime, criminalization, and juvenile
delinquency; mechanisms of constructing
adolescence; the sexuality of childhood and youth;
orphans and non-family environments of
growing up. The course will conclude with a
preview of childhood and youth
issues in modern Turkey.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Summer 2008-2009 |
The History of Childhood and Youth in Modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| and SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 427 Education, Literacy, Printing |
3 Credits |
|
The history of education and literacy in Islamic and
Ottoman societies from around 1400 to 1800 will be studied
in comparative perspective. Topics will include :
conceptions of reading and education in pre-modern
societies; elite readers and elite reading matter;
the diffusion of literacy and publishing; the social and
political conditions for widespread printing in Tokugawa
Japan; comparisons between pre-1800 modes and
levels of literacy in the Russian and Ottoman empires.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2005-2006 |
Education, Literacy, Printing |
3 |
| Spring 2003-2004 |
Education, Literacy, Printing |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 431 Introduction to Byzantine History (AD 300-1453) |
3 Credits |
|
This course is an introduction to the society, politics, and
culture of Byzantium. It covers the transformation of the
Late Roman through the East Roman into the Byzantine
empire, the role of the Byzantine church, the changing
political, military, and economic fortunes of the empire
over the centuries, as well as the everyday life of
various social groups (including peasants, soldiers, monks,
artisans, and women). Byzantium will be treated not in
isolation, but in a broader world-context comprising its
neighbors and political rivals, and focusing especially
on its relations with the Papacy and the Holy Roman
Empire, the Balkan Slavs, and contemporary Muslim powers.
Readings will include a variety of printed primary sources
in translation together with selections from the standard
secondary literature.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Summer 2010-2011 |
Introduction to Byzantine History (AD 300-1453) |
3 |
| Summer 2008-2009 |
Introduction to Byzantine History (AD 300-1453) |
3 |
| Summer 2007-2008 |
Introduction to Byzantine History (AD 300-1453) |
3 |
| Fall 2005-2006 |
Introduction to Byzantine History (AD 300-1453) |
3 |
| Spring 2003-2004 |
Introduction to Byzantine History (AD 300-1453) |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 433 Medieval Europe: A Social and Economic History |
3 Credits |
|
Introduces the student to the basic shape and some
fundamental problems of the European Middle Ages, and
simultaneously to the works and ideas of a number of
leading Medievalists. Topics dealt with include:
a retrospective on the Renaissance and Enlightenment
construction of the Middle Ages as part of a
Eurocentric periodization. Axes of comparison between
Ancient and Medieval civilization. Medieval Europe
as a type of peasant (or tributary) society. Kingship and
lordship; state-formation and class-formation. Paths
into manorialism and serfdom. Determinants and patterns
of fief distribution. The remoulding of old into new
social classes. Factors accelerating the rise of private
lordship. Church and state in the definition of Medieval
society. Debates over "feudalism", and over comparisons
between European feudalism and the Ottoman timar
system. Processes and problems of High and Late Medieval
history. Towns and trade. Forms of rent in transformation.
From" feudal" to "national" monarchies: the
growth of state power.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Fall 2004-2005 |
Medieval Europe: A Social and Economic History |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 434 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 |
| Fall 2005-2006 |
Russian History I : Tsarist Russia (17th Century - 1917) |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 436 History of The Modern Middle East |
3 Credits |
|
A survey designed to introduce students to the basic
themes and problems of Middle East history from the
Ottoman conquest to the Oslo Peace Process, with special
emphasis on the period from the late 18th to the late
20th century. The establishment of Ottoman rule over
the Arab lands; Arab-Ottoman society and culture;
European expansionism beginning from Napoleon's
invasion of Egypt; the impact of the West in general;
the coming of modern, reforming governments; the rise
of the intelligentsia, of nationalism, and of Islamic
revivalist modernism (salafiyya); Constitutionalism
and constitutional revolutions in Iran and the Ottoman
Empire. The collapse of the Ottoman order; imperialism
and the zenith of European power; Arab struggles
for independence; consolidation of the Yishuv
and the birth of Israel; collapse of the European empires;
the radicalisation of Arab politics; Nasserism, Baathist
regimes in Syria and Iraq, the Iranian Revolution,
and the Israeli-Palestinian question.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Fall 2012-2013 |
History of The Modern Middle East |
3 |
| Spring 2005-2006 |
History Of The Modern Middle East |
3 |
| Spring 2004-2005 |
History Of The Modern Middle East |
3 |
| Spring 2003-2004 |
History Of The Modern Middle East |
3 |
| Spring 2002-2003 |
History Of The Modern Middle East |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 437 Empires, Nations, and their Aftermath: Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries |
3 Credits |
|
This course will introduce the modern history of Central
and Eastern Europe through the prism of nationalism.
First, attention will be paid to the relationship between
nation and empire, specifically in the cases of the Habsburg
and Russian empires. Themes addressed will include
how empires incorporated, divided or excluded heterogeneous
territories and peoples, and how the existence of
multi-ethnic empires influenced nationalism and
national movements in Central and Eastern Europe. Students
will be encouraged to discuss parallels with the Ottoman
case. The second main topic of the course concerns
the role of nationalism in the breakup of empires,
as well as the fate of their legacy in the form of the
resulting successor-states. In other words, this part of the
course will deal with the emergence of nation-states
and the survival of nationalism in inter-war Europe,
including the rise of National Socialism. Finally,
without accepting the often-emphasized similarities of the
dissolution of the Soviet Union with that of the Russian,
Habsburg or Ottoman empires, the course will
conclude with reflections on the role of nationalism in
and after the collapse of the Communist bloc.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Fall 2003-2004 |
Empires, Nations, and their Aftermath: Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 438 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.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Summer 2008-2009 |
The Economic History of the Middle East Since World War II |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: ECON 202 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 439 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 zımmi 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 |
|
| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 441 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.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2012-2013 |
The Enlightenment World |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 443 War and Society IV: World War I and the Ottoman Empire |
3 Credits |
|
As the watershed between the ''long 19th'' and the
''short 20th century'', the Great War cuts across
many national histories. In particular, it marks the
twilight of empires. This course will take a close
look at both the general and the Ottoman-Turkish
experience of 1914-18. Aspects covered will include
: the New Imperialism background; the road to war; the
unfolding of military action, and the various fronts
and campaigns, in Europe and elsewhere;
the new war economies; the carnage at the front
and various other forms of human suffering
behind the lines; dimensions of ethnic cleansing;
; the impact on art and literature; social and
political consequences.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Summer 2008-2009 |
War and Society IV: World War I and the Ottoman Empire |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 447 Palestine versus the Palestinians |
3 Credits |
|
There is a tremendous tension between the
historical evolution of ?Palestine? as a territorial
unit, on the one hand; and of the ?Palestinians? as a
people, on the other. Instead of a natural
fit between identity and territory, it is as if one can
only exist at the expense of the other. Why is
it that Palestine resists belonging to its inhabitants? How
and when did they become a ?people?? And
can they become a single political community, divided as
they are into Palestinian citizens of Israel;
?residents? of Occupied Territories, and stateless
refugees? To explore these questions students are
introduced to recent scholarship on the
modern history of Palestine and the Palestinians
that unsettles nationalist narratives and
imagines alternative futures.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Summer 2014-2015 |
Palestine versus the Palestinians |
3 |
| Summer 2013-2014 |
Palestine versus the Palestinians |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 450 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. Also see HIST 650 for the
possibility of being taken as a graduate seminar subject to
the fulfillment of the necessary conditions for a research
seminar 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: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 455 History of the Balkan Lands up to the Early 19th Century and the Onset of Tanzimat Modernization |
3 Credits |
|
This course is designed to introduce undergraduate
students with some initial knowledge of key Ottoman
institutions, to the pre-modern history of the Balkan
peoples during the Ottoman centuries. But it may also
provide useful backgrounding for graduate students
interested in focusing on Modern Balkan History, or on Late
Ottoman and Modern Turkish History complemented
by a comparative knowledge of modern Balkan
dimensions. The main themes to be dealt with may include :
the Balkans as a region; the Balkans on the eve of the
Ottoman conquest; the Ottoman expansion into southeast and
then towards central Europe; the impact of the wars of
Ottoman conquest on the Balkan peoples; establishing
Ottoman authority in the Balkans : the specifics of the
administration and status of the Balkan territories;
questions of self-rule; administrative and judicial
institutions in the Balkan provinces of the Ottoman
empire; agrarian relations; towns and urban society;
Islam in the Balkans; colonisation and Islamisation;
the organisation of the religious and cultural life
of non-Muslim Ottoman subjects; questions of
communal status; the cultural life of the Balkan
peoples during the 15th - 18th centuries; the Balkan
provinces during the 18th and the early 19th centuries;
the emergence of the Eastern Question; characteristic
features of the Balkan Awakenings as a cultural
and economic phenomenon -- the Enlightenment and
Romanticism, the genesis and specific features of Balkan
capitalism, the Serbian Uprisings and the formation
of the Serbian vassal principality; the Greek War of
Independence and the formation of the Greek kingdom.
Assessment will be based on a written paper and
a final examination.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Fall 2003-2004 |
History of the Balkan Lands up to the Early 19th century and the Onset of Tanzimat Modernization: |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 461 Ottoman Reform Movements I (1550-1839) |
3 Credits |
|
Introduction to classical Ottoman political thought.
Increasing consciousness of political and social crisis,
exemplified in the writings of Kınalızade and Gelibolulu
Mustafa Âli. Attempts to return to the past during the
17th century, as seen in the Kadızadeli movements and
the reports of Koçibey. Early tendencies of partial
Westernization in the 18th century, as reflected in the
Tulip Era or the thinking of the likes of İbrahim
Müteferrika and Yirmisekiz Çelebi Mehmet Efendi. The
Nizâm-ı Cedid and the beginnings of institutional
modernization (1792- 1807). Reactions against
reform : Halet Efendi. The centralizing policies and reforms
of Mahmud II (1808-1839), and local resistance.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Fall 2002-2003 |
Ottoman Reform Movements I (1550-1839) |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 462 Ottoman Reform Movements II:Political and Social Reforms (1839-1918) |
3 Credits |
|
Intellectual and social issues that are still very much
alive in present-day Turkey have their antecedents
in the 19th century Ottoman empire. The Ottoman 19th
century was a period where old and new, reform and
reaction met and mingled, and simultaneously confronted
each other. This was also a time when the empire was shaken
by a series of wars and crises of disintegration. Reformist
bureaucrats implemented policies intended to forestall
this process, while the intelligentsia vehemently opposed
authoritarian reforms. Debates around 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.
But public discussion came to an abrupt end when the
Committee of Union and Progress established its
military dictatorship (1913-1918). As a whole, this ''long
19th century'' was when the institutional foundations of
Turkish modernization were laid down. This course aims to
introduce, discuss, and understand Ottoman reform movements
and ideas of the last hundred years of Ottoman existence,
based on evaluations of reformist statesmen of the Tanzimat
period, of oppositional intellectuals of the 1860s and
1870s, of the conservative stance adopted by Hamidian
absolutism (1878-1908), and the Young Turk reformist
ideas of the last decades of the Ottoman empire
(1889-1918).
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Fall 2007-2008 |
Ottoman Reform Movements II:Political and Social Reforms (1839-1918) |
3 |
| Fall 2004-2005 |
Ottoman Reform Movements II: Political and Social (1839-1918) |
3 |
| Spring 2002-2003 |
Ottoman Reform Movements II: Political and Social (1839-1918) |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 463 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 |
| Fall 2013-2014 |
Social and Economic History of the Ottoman Empire |
3 |
| Fall 2009-2010 |
Social and Economic History of the Ottoman Empire |
3 |
| Spring 2007-2008 |
Social and Economic History of the Ottoman Empire |
3 |
| Fall 2006-2007 |
Social and Economic History of the Ottoman Empire (HIST363) |
3 |
| Spring 2005-2006 |
Social and Economic History of the Ottoman Empire (HIST363) |
3 |
| Spring 2004-2005 |
Social and Economic History of the Ottoman Empire (HIST363) |
3 |
| Spring 2002-2003 |
Social and Economic History of the Ottoman Empire (HIST363) |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| and SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 465 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 2019-2020 |
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: (SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| and SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D) |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 473 Approaches to Agrarian Societies |
3 Credits |
|
In the last two decades the social sciences
have become increasingly urban-biased.
While cities, slums, skyscrapers and
urban dwellers have crowded the stage,
peasants and agricultural life have vanished
from it. This course aims to bring agrarian societies
back into scholarly attention. It examines
agrarian societies in the modern era from a
comparative historical and theoretical
perspective. Topics to be investigated include : approaches
to agrarian history and sociology;
typologies of peasant societies and economies;
ways in which forces of commercialization,
industrialization and urbanization have been imprinting
themselves on agrarian lives; systems of
land tenure, moral economy debates, migration,
peasant resistance and agency, and representations
of agrarian societies or peasants in literature,
film and other art.
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| and SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 475 Postorientalism and Postcolonialism |
3 Credits |
|
The term ?Postcolonialism? 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 Said?s 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: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 476 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: (SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| and SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D) |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 484 Peripheral Populations in the Ottoman Empire (1300-1914) |
3 Credits |
|
The Ottoman state considered itself to be the
"protector of the ideal world order (nizâm-ı âlem)"
and the center of justice. As part of this view, the Sublime
Porte assumed a regulatory role towards what it regarded
as the peripheral elements (such as heterodox communities,
or tribal and nomadic groups) of the provincial population
of the Balkans, Anatolia, and the Arab lands. In the 19th
century era of reforms, adopting the ''rational order'' and
''progress'' values of the European Enlightenment
led to an even further enhancement of this role. Over the
17th and 18th centuries, on the other hand, the provinces
had been governed by local gentry and notables enjoying
a de facto autonomy. Thus after 1774, the centralizing and
regulatory policies of reforming governments created
new tensions between the center and the provinces. These
tensions continued well into the late 19th century. This
course aims to discuss this complex relationship
between the center and peripheral populations from the 15th
and 16th centuries onward, focusing on topics such as the
New Order (Nizâm-ı Cedîd) reforms, Mahmud II's policies
of centralization and provincial resistance, the issue of
frontier regions (Bosnia, Albania, Kurdistan), the problem
of the sedentarization of tribal/nomadic populations, and
ideological steps to integrate peripheral groups into
the imperial framework (the Hamidian era and the
Second Constitutional Period).
|
| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Fall 2003-2004 |
Peripheral Populations in the Ottoman Empire (1300-1914) |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
|
|
| |
| HIST 485 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 SPS 485 is addressed. For the
possibility of taking this course at a graduate level,
subject to certain additional requirements, see HIST 585.
|
| 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 |
| Summer 2014-2015 |
Minority Questions in Contemporary Turkey |
3 |
| Fall 2014-2015 |
Minority Questions in Contemporary Turkey |
3 |
| Summer 2013-2014 |
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 (SPS485) |
3 |
| Spring 2006-2007 |
Minority Questions in Contemporary Turkey (SPS485) |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| HIST 486 Topics in Armenian History and Literature |
3 Credits |
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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.
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Course Name |
SU Credit |
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| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| and SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| HIST 487 Proto-Fascism in Europe and the Ottoman Empire |
3 Credits |
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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
Führer principle) in the late 19th and early 20th
century -- first in its original European and then its
Late Ottoman context, where it acquired
secondary literature but also a number
of primary sources (such as the key periodicals of
the Second Constitutional period).
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| 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 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| HIST 488 Nationalist Projects in Southeast European History |
3 Credits |
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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 488 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 rise of 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 (Osmanlılık) : an initial reaction
against 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.
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| 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 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| HIST 489 From Empire to Republic : Turkish Nationalism and the Nation-State |
3 Credits |
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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 589 for the possibility
of being taken at the graduate level.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| 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 |
| Summer 2014-2015 |
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 |
| Spring 2008-2009 |
Texts and Constructions of National Memory I : Varieties of Early Turkish Nationalism |
3 |
| Fall 2003-2004 |
Texts and Const.of Nation.Memo.I: :Varieties of Early Turkish Nations |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
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| HIST 490 Texts and Constructions of National Memory II : Reading the Republican Historians |
3 Credits |
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A critical 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 Akçura and Köprülü, through
Barkan, to İnalcık. Universalism vs particularism. History
from above vs history from below. Odd men out :
Reşat Ekrem Koçu, Mustafa Akdağ. 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. For the possibility of taking this
course as a graduate research seminar subject to the
special requirement of producing a major research paper,
see HIST 690.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2004-2005 |
Texts and Constructions of National Memory II : Reading the Republican Historians |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
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| HIST 491 Popular Culture and Nationalism |
3 Credits |
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The popular realm of `everyday culture'
is an important factor in explaining how nationalisms
are produced and/or reproduced in
people?s minds. This course studies how
nationalism is fostered through
history in popular materials such as cartoons,
literary pieces, and films. In that context, it
also deals with modernity, overlaps between imperialism
and collapse of empires, nation building and
history writing in official and unofficial
realms. The focus in space and time as well as the key
elements of the discussion may vary according to
the instructor's choice. Special
topics may include the influence of contemporary
traumas in search for a mythical past, the
differences between official and unofficial
representations, the influence of state
hegemony on different representations, popular
representations of `self' and `other,' demonologies,
alternative discourses in both popular
narration and vision, how memories of war
and trauma influence nation building at the
popular realm and how and why it is
different from the official one
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Summer 2010-2011 |
Popular Culture and Nationalism |
3 |
| Summer 2008-2009 |
Popular Culture and Nationalism |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| and SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
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| HIST 492 War and Literature in Turkish History |
3 Credits |
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Analyses of Turkish narratives or echoes of the
Balkan Wars, World War I, the War of Independence,
World War II, the Korean War, the war in Vietnam
and other wars of the late 20th century. The full gamut of
possible reactions to war : pain, horror, disgust;
poverty, deprivation; exalted heroism; cowardice,
profiteering, betrayal -- and how all this is rarely
encountered as a totality in Turkish literature.
Casting wars in social time and in monumental time.
The question of just and unjust wars, or of "our" wars
and wars that are waged "against us", and the erasures that
this causes in narrating war experience. Problematizing the
persistent lyricisation of warfare: why has Turkey not
had any enduring pacifist of anti-militarist literary
tradition ?
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
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| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
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| HIST 493 Caucasus and its Hinterland: Clans, Ethnicities and Nations in Imperial Borderlands |
3 Credits |
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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-Sovie
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
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| 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 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
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| HIST 494 Recent Turkish Political and Social History : Impressions and Inferences from Memoirs |
3 Credits |
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This course is intended for all sophomores, juniors and
seniors interested in the Ottoman everyday life
of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It aims to introduce
and discuss Ottoman socio-economic history
on the basis of memoirs. After setting out the
methodological uses and shortcomings of memoirs
as a historical source, participants will have the
opportunity to encounter concrete personalities and
characters, their lifestyle, personal actions and drama
as a part of late Ottoman history. Thus a glimpse will be
provided into the recent past in terms of the
complex relationship between concrete human action and
impersonal historical circumstances. This course covers
childhood experiences, school impressions,
the social conditions of 19th century Ottoman women,
commercial life, literary-artistic activities, journalistic
experiences, and the everyday life of bureaucrats. Each
of these issues will be treated within the context of
Ottoman political and social history.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Summer 2009-2010 |
Recent Turkish Political and Social History : Impressions and Inferences from Memoirs |
3 |
| Spring 2002-2003 |
Recent Turkish Politics and Social History: Impressions and Inferences from Memoirs |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
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| HIST 497 Nations and Boundaries in the Middle East, the Balkans and the Caucasus |
3 Credits |
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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 graduate course, subject to additional readings and
work requirements, see HIST 597.
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| 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 |
| Spring 2001-2002 |
Nations and Boundaries in the Middle East, the Balkans and the Caucasus |
3 |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
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| HIST 498 A History of the Cyprus Conflict |
3 Credits |
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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.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
|
| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| and SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
| General Requirements: |
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