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FACULTY OF LETTERS & SCIENCE / KİM 113 - CHEMISTRY

Code: KİM 113 Course Title: HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY Theoretical+Practice: 2+0 ECTS: 3
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Fall Semester
Level of Course 1st Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department CHEMISTRY
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer DİLEK NARTOP (dileknartop@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s) HAŞİM YILMAZ,
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
To teach the history of this profession to a person trended toward a spesific profession.provides a wider view point to this person and at the same time, to put to a better position the worth of scientific discoveries in chronicle and to better forecast extensions to future of science and the past of science provides. In this context, it’ll be summarized with outlines the stages passed up to advanced the present position of chemistry to our students trended toward this profession by giving the course of the history of chemistry.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Can learn of science history and chemistry history PO-
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
What is history of science? What is object of science history? Categorization of sciences. Origin of chemistry. Import of history of chemistry. Chemistry in prehistoric. Antique Hellenistic Age. Chemistry in Medieval Europe. Medieval Islam-East chemistry. Scientific reform age-iatrochemistry. Independence chemistry- Phlogiston period. Chemistry of age of enlightenment. Chemistry in Ottoman. Modern chemistry
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 What is the history of science? What is the purpose and importance of the history of science? The classification of sciences. Introduction to the history of Chemistry slide show
2 Chemistry and the first civilizations of the prehistoric slide show
3 Chemistry of the Egypt period slide show
4 Chemistry of the Greek period slide show
5 Alchemy (El-chemistry), the period slide show
6 Chemistry of the medieval Christian world slide show
7 Chemistry of the medieval İslamic world slide show
8 mid-term exam
9 Chemistry of the Renaissance slide show
10 Chemistry from Boyle to Lavosoier slide show
11 Founder of modern chemistry, Lavoisier slide show
12 Developments in organic and physical chemistry slide show
13 20. Century Advances in Chemistry slide show
14 After the industrial revolution and the chemical industry slide show
15 Development of the republic during the teaching of chemistry and chemical industry in Turkey slide show
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 BERKEM, A.R., Kimya Tarihine Toplu Bir Bakış, Türkiye Kimya Derneği Yayınları, İstanbul, 1996.
2 BERKEM, A.R., Lavoisier- Lavoisier’e Kadar Kimya Tarihine Bir Bakış, Türkiye Kimya Derneği Yayınları, İstanbul, 1983.
3 RONAN, C.A., Bilim Tarihi, Tübitak Akademik Dizi, Ankara, 1983
4 DÖĞEN, Ş., İslam ve Kimya, Gençlik Yayınları, İstanbul, 1996.
5 FUAT SEZGİN, İslam'da Bilim ve Teknik, İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Kültür A.Ş. Yayınları 2008
6 ZEKİ TEZ Kimya Tarihi Nobel yayınları 2000
Required Course instruments and materials
Projector

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 1 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 14 1 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 2 14 28
Outside Class
       a) Reading 3 12 36
       b) Search in internet/Library 0
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 0
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 1 12 12
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 1 12 12
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 90