GENC 356

Course ID:

Course Code & Number

GENC 356

Course Title

Turkish Cultural Geography

Level

BS

Credit Hours/ ECTS Credits

(2+0+0) 2 TEDU Credits, 3 ECTS Credits

Year of Study:

Semester:

Type of Course:

Elective

Mode of Delivery:

Face-to-face

Language of Instruction:

English

Pre-requisite / Co-requisite:

Catalog Description

Culture, people and society; Turkish culture and Turkish civilization; The first ethnographic sources about Turks; Turkish states in history; Turkish state, administrative, military and social structure; Folk beliefs and mythology in Turks; The relationship between human and space in Turks; Verbal, written and material culture in Turks; Family structure in Turks; Demographic and cultural consequences of migrations in Turkish history; Turkish culture and its impact on other regions around; Tangible and intangible cultural heritage; transfer of natural and cultural heritage to future generations.

Course Objectives

How they meet the members of the Turkish cultural sphere that lives cultural continuity and discontinuities (Turkey, Turkish society and the other modern Turkish societies) past, their Soviet and by Post-Soviet past, Turkish communities in Europe, before and after WW1 and Bolshevik Revolution and interwar period, and post WW2 immigrant political emigré communities) under the different political dominance and the analysis of patterns of thought and action that developed on the face of this change are aimed.   

Software Usage

Course Learning Outcomes

• Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Defines the Turkish states and social structures in history.
  2. Express the elements of oral, written and material culture in Turks.
  3. Describes the family structure in Turks.
  4. Analyze the deomgraphic and cultural consequences of migrations in Turkish history.
  5. Creates views to be transferred to cultural heritage and future Kulas owned by Turkey.

Learning Activities and Teaching Methods:

Telling/Explaining Discussion/Debate Reading Collaborating Web Searching

Assessment Methods and Criteria:

Test / Exam Quiz

Assessment Methods and Criteria Others:

Design Content

Recommended Reading

Required Reading

Grading

Learning Activities and Teaching Methods Others:

Course Coordinator:

Student Workload:

Workload	Hrs
Course Readings	14
Exams/Quizzes	20

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