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INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES / TAR581 - HISTORY

Code: TAR581 Course Title: HISTORY OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 6
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Fall Semester
Level of Course 2nd Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department HISTORY
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer SUZAN AKKUŞ MUTLU (suzan.akkus@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
Teach Ancient History states

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 able to evaluate comprehend the importance of scientific activities. PO-1 able to conceptualize historical events and phenomenons with scientific methods and techniques by expert appraisal.
PO-2 able to use use of interdisciplinary approaches during this study
PO-3 able to define the information acquired at the level of expertise, evaluate critically and analyze the information obtained.
PO-4 able to access to historical datas, interpret these datas and assess the reliability and validity of these datas.
PO-7 able to develop life long learning progress
PO-13 able to continue PhD programme by the means of acquired skills from this programme.
Examination
LO-2 able to explain ancient civilizations PO-1 able to conceptualize historical events and phenomenons with scientific methods and techniques by expert appraisal.
PO-2 able to use use of interdisciplinary approaches during this study
PO-3 able to define the information acquired at the level of expertise, evaluate critically and analyze the information obtained.
PO-4 able to access to historical datas, interpret these datas and assess the reliability and validity of these datas.
PO-13 able to continue PhD programme by the means of acquired skills from this programme.
Examination
LO-3 Students will be able to share information and gain competence in learning together PO-1 able to conceptualize historical events and phenomenons with scientific methods and techniques by expert appraisal.
PO-2 able to use use of interdisciplinary approaches during this study
PO-3 able to define the information acquired at the level of expertise, evaluate critically and analyze the information obtained.
PO-4 able to access to historical datas, interpret these datas and assess the reliability and validity of these datas.
PO-5 able to use national and universal values and assimilate these values.
PO-6 able to develop applicable materials in the area of history
PO-7 able to develop life long learning progress
PO-8 able to direct the learning processes of the people who are under their control.
PO-9 able to plan professional projects and activities at the level of expertise with the awareness of social responsibilities and to perform these projects and activities.
PO-10 able to establish oral and written communication in a foreign language on a B2 level of European Language Portfolio.
PO-11 able tou se information and communication technologies and renew themselves by the following the developments in this area.
PO-12 able to develop customs suitable for democracy, human rights and scientific and professional ethics.
PO-13 able to continue PhD programme by the means of acquired skills from this programme.
Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
States of Ancient History
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 BC The third millennium Mesopotamia Lecture Question and answer technique
2 Late Uruk Period Lecture Question and answer technique
3 Akkadian Empire Lecture Question and answer technique
4 III.Ur Dynasty Period Lecture Question and answer technique
5 Old Assyrian period Lecture Question and answer technique
6 The Assyrian merchants in Anatolia Lecture Question and answer technique
7 Babylonian era Lecture Question and answer technique
8 mid-term exam
9 Ancient Egypt Lecture Question and answer technique
10 Middle Egypt Lecture Question and answer technique
11 Early Hittite Empire Lecture Question and answer technique
12 Hittite Empire Lecture Question and answer technique
13 Urartian Lecture Question and answer technique
14 Phrygia Lecture Question and answer technique
15 Lydia Lecture Question and answer technique
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Eski Çağda Yakındoğu Amelia Kuhrt İş Bankası Yayınları2007
2 Anadolu Kültür Tarihi, Ekrem Akurgal, Tübitak Yayınları, Ankara 2005
3 Gwendolyn Leick,Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City ,Penguin; Illustrated edition (August 29, 2002)
4 Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization Babylon,Thomas Dunne Books;.: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization,
5 Paul-Alain Beaulieu, A History of Babylon, 2200 BC - AD 75 (Blackwell History of the Ancient World) A History of Babylon, 2200 BC - AD 75,Wiley-Blackwell;
Required Course instruments and materials
Book

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 16 1 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 14 42
Outside Class
       a) Reading 10 10 100
       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 3 7 21
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 3 7 21
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 186