Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Course Catalogue

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FACULTY OF TOURISM / TR406 - TOURISM GUIDING

Code: TR406 Course Title: WESTERN CIVILIZATION Theoretical+Practice: 2+0 ECTS: 2
Year/Semester of Study 4 / Spring Semester
Level of Course 1st Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Compulsory
Department TOURISM GUIDING
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer FİLİZ YÜKSEL (fyuksel@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
The introduction of western culture and civilization to students with its basic features beginning from its earliest periods.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 can explain about West Civilization PO-19 Recognize, understand, and communicate with different cultures.
 		Examination
LO-2 can explain the basic concepts of measurement and evaluation. PO-11 Understand, analyze and interpret the cultures, history, religions, and the art of the civilisations that have lived in Turkey.
PO-19 Recognize, understand, and communicate with different cultures.
 		Examination
LO-3 The student can be knowledgeable about the civilizations that take Western Civilizations as example. PO-11 Understand, analyze and interpret the cultures, history, religions, and the art of the civilisations that have lived in Turkey.
 		Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Introduction to Civilization: Fundamental Conceptions and the Foundationof Western Civilizations; Culture and Civilization in early periods of Greeks and Romans; Christianity in Europe; The birth and Rise of Western Civilizations; Reneissance and reforms; Industrial Revolution; Contemporary Western Civilizations; The Rise of The United States of America; Socialist Europe; World war II and Consequential Developments.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Civilization in its general term; Introduction, definition and concepts, the foundations of Western Civilization. lecturing
2 Culture and civilization in ancient Greeks; City states, the era of Macedonian Kingdom. lecturing
3 Roman culture and civilization, the birth and rise of Rome, and its sovereignty in Europe and its consequences. lecturing
4 Spread of Christianity in Europe, Religious life, Sects that appeared in the West, the consequences of religious struggles in the West. question- answer
5 The birth of western civilization; Feudality, Church and its role in the Middle Ages. lecturing
6 The rise of Western civilization; technical transformations, years of discovery, Reneissance and Reforms. lecturing
7 From empire to nation state, parliamentarism, liberalism, French revolution, and the birth of the principle of nations and its development. question- answer
8 mid-term exam
9 Industrial revolution and its consequences, Imperialism, a cultural panorama of 19th century. question- answer
10 Contemporary Western civilization, the political, social, economical and cultural life of Western Europe. question- answer
11 The birth of the United States. question- answer
12 Socialist Europe. lecturing
13 World War II and its aftermath. question- answer
14 birth of bourgeois lecturing
15 rising of culture lecturing
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
Required Course instruments and materials
Course materials plus print and visual publications

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 1 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 1 1 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 2 1 2
Outside Class
       a) Reading 2 12 24
       b) Search in internet/Library 2 7 14
       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 3 3 9
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 3 3 9
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 60