Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Dünya Tarihi
	English	World History
Course Code	ITB 202E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Ebubekir Ceylan
Course Objectives		1. To analyze the similarities and differences of social, economic organizations and the state structures of world civilizations and the reasons of these difference and similarities; 2. To analyze the dynamics of the rise and demise of these civilizations from a comparative perspective; 3. To investigate the creative inventions of the world civilizations to overcome their chronicle problems and the cultural and technological transfers between these civilizations; 4. To re-evaluate the emergence of modern societies with the rich analytical knowledge gained after the analysis of world civilizations.
Course Description		This course aims to provide a general understanding of the world civilizations from antiquity to modern times; to provide analytical knowledge about the emergence, rise and demise of these civilizations from a comparative and historical perspective. In this course, the similarities and differences of the social organizations of these civilizations; the solutions they produced before the chronicle problems of civilizations like population growth, food shortages, the raids of nomadic tribes; their cultural and technological contribution to the common knowledge accumulation of humanity; and finally their economical, political and social inventions that gave rise to modern societies will be analyzed.
Course Outcomes		Students who pass the course will be able to: 1. Define the historical development of world civilizations; 2. Describe social, economical organizations, state structures, culture and technological accumulations of these civilizations analytically and comparatively; 3. Analyze the cultural and material transfers between the world civilizations, their struggle to find stable and permanent social and economic organizations, and finally the process of the creation of social and economic organizations that modern societies lay upon; 4. Develop comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives; 5. Critically interpret the hegemonic norms of their own civilization due to the comparative perspective they will have.
Pre-requisite(s)		none
Required Facilities		textbook
Other		nne
Textbook		Robert Tignor et al., Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: From the Beginnings of Mankind to the Present (Norton, 2013; 4th edition).
Other References		J.M. Roberts, Dünya Tarihi 1.& 2. Ciltler (İstanbul: İnkılap Kitabevi, 2011) William McNeil, Dünya Tarihi, (İstanbul: İmge Yayınevi, 2015) Jared Diamond, Tüfek, Mikrop, Çelik, (Ankara: TÜBİTAK Yayınları, 2016) Clive Ponting, Yeni Bir Bakış Açısıyla Dünya Tarihi, (İstanbul: Alfa Yayınları, 2016).

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