HIST 226
Introduction to the history of architecture and urbanism. Development of the city in Anatolia, the Mediterranean basin and the Near East.
HIST 302
The institution of the Republic and a study of historical conditions and events following Atatürk's reforms. Covers the period from the beginning of the Turkish Republic to the 1980s.
HIST 307
This course examines what Türkiye and Russia have in common · a Tatar and Byzantine inheritance, a comparable process of westernization and, in the revolutionary period 1918-1938, much collaboration as Türkiye went ahead with state building. The reception of Russian culture in Türkiye will be considered, and so, also, will be the comperative succes of Türkiye as against Russia in modern times.
HIST 310
Analysis of history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic from the 19th century until 2000’s. Modules including Empires and Nation States; Citizenship and Minorities; Secularism; Elections and Democracy. The main goal is to familiarize students with these universal concepts while going through history of Türkiye.
HIST 314
The evolution of local nationalism, social change and its effects on political structures, and problems of economic development in the emergence of nation-states in the Balkan region.
HIST 301
The evolution of the reforms from the Tanzimat Period to the Kemalist period is studied through the period between 1839 and 1938, including their political, economic and social aspects.
HIST 304
A survey of the history of the Empire of the Romanovs from Peter the Great to the Bolsheviks' October Revolution. Examining the political and social origins of the empire, how it came to be ruled, who ruled it, who was ruled, and why the latter accepted the Romanov dynasty's rule for more than three centuries. Also looking at social movements, the plight of peasants and urban workers, of women and men as gendered beings, and the long-term causes of the convulsions of 1917.
HIST 309
The establishment and development of Middle Eastern political systems; social and political processes including the end of empires, formation of nation-states, and their foreign policies.
HIST 313
Compares Turkish social structures since the 1920s to other societies. Topics include constitutional structures, development of the civil society, economic policies and their impact on rural-urban differentiation, the impact of trends in international development on the environment and income distribution, Istanbul as a global city, gender and ethnicity with respect to economic, political, and social rights.
HIST 317
This course explores the world of the seventeenth-century Ottoman globe-trotter Evliya Celebi as depicted in his Seyahatname (Book of Travels). Our readings of Evliya Celebi?s travels will take us into Ottoman cities such as Salonica, Istanbul, Bursa, Aleppo and Cairo, and will offer us glimpses into various areas of the social and cultural life, such as the bath houses, coffee shops, and Sufi lodges. The aims of this course are two-fold. First to introduce the students to some of the recent trends in Ottoman historiography, especially the new approaches to urban history. And second, to provide an opportunity to work closely with a primary source and to discuss the ways in which a seventeenth century Ottoman observed, and commented upon, the life in the Ottoman Empire (and neighbouring countries). Selections will be assigned from passages available in English translation, but students who have taken Ottoman Turkish could also read them in transcription. Lectures will include a couple day-trips in Istanbul to some of the major locations described by Evliya Celebi.
HIST 300
Analysis of history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic from the 19th century until 2000’s. Modules including Empires and Nation States; Citizenship and Minorities; Secularism; Elections and Democracy. The main goal is to familiarize students with these universal concepts while going through history of Türkiye.
HIST 303
Deals with the classical period of social thought. Covers the works of Durkheim, Weber, Simmel and Marx, and the impact these works had on later theories of society.
HIST 308
An historical analysis of great political ideas as put forth by ancient and modern philosophers and political theorists such as Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Rousseau and Marx. Intellectual debates on the foundational questions of politics (forms of government, the relationship of the individual to the state, justice and morality).
HIST 311
Examines the evolution of modern diplomacy from the 19th century to the present. Studies topics such as the balance of power, the Concert of Europe, the secret agreements and open diplomacy. Investigates the transformation from the old to the new diplomacy including parliamentary and global diplomacy.
HIST 316
History of Europe from the end of the First World War up to the expansion of the European Union in the early years of the twenty-first century. The creation of nation-states after 1919, the great economic crisis of 1929-33; the emergence of Fascist movements, and the spread of Communist sympathies; the emergence of an apparently successful alternative to `capitalism? in the USSR. The Second World War and the sustained recovery of Western Europe after 1945; the making of the European Union.
