Course Objectives: This course aims to familiarize students with the major political, social, and economic developments of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth-century Middle East at an introductory …
Course Objectives: TV Shows and the Contemporary Society will introduce students to the most common themes of the modern world through major TV shows in the last two decades. Each …
Course Objectives: This course will offer a discussion of the European encounters with “the other” from the 4th century to the 13th century. During this long period Latin Europe met …
Course Objectives: This course introduces students to the world of cultural heritage and the history of its development. The focus will be the Middle East and archaeology, but students will …
Course Objectives: This course aims to introduce students to the end of the Ottoman Empire, First World War, and the making of the modern Middle East. The main questions asked …
Course Objectives: The students are expected to: Present a quasi-chronological history of money, exchange, and the evolution of the modern financial systems since the early exchange systems to the present …
Course Content: This course examines the transformation of the Ottoman political order with a particular focus on the reforms from 1700 to 1922. It investigates the major political and economic …
Course Content: In this course, the students will be introduced to the most important elements of popular culture (fashion, film, music, tv, media technology) in Turkey defining the period 1980-2000. …
Course Objective: This course intends to introduce students to the wide variety of approaches to the history of global capitalism. Throughout the course, we will engage with approaches including Marxist …
Course Objectives: Through readings, discussion and research, the course aims to; teach the basics of gastronomy and develop a base knowledge required to proceed to an advanced understanding of gastronomy. …
Course Objectives: The course aims to introduce students to the historical trajectories of global capitalism through the lens of an everyday commodity, tobacco. From its cultivation to its distribution, production, …
Course Objectives: The main aim is to stimulate students to think about the power of ideologies on people, to help them clarify concepts such as fascism, liberalism and communism, and …