Course Objectives: The course aims at providing an understanding on the characteristics of an Ottoman city with its governance, social composition, societal life, economic circumstances, ethnic composition, gender relations and …
Course Objectives: Food provides a lens through which we explore inequalities and hierarchies in society. Thinking through and with food we may understand societal relations of class, gender, race, ethnicity, …
Course Content: This course explores the paths of specific historical changes that led to the formation and construction of Western identity as opposed and in relation to its nonWestern ‘others’ …
Course Content: This course surveys the history of the world’s first socialist state, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in the larger framework of 20th century’s global history. While …
Course Objectives: The course aims to raise awareness of students on how to understand society and urban space by using several different visual methods. To practice observational skills and different …
Course Objectives: The course aims to develop skills on how to define and describe video games analyze its narrative and aesthetics develop a critical understanding to video games / cultures …
Course Content: Many people tend to believe in things that are contrary to what science teach us (e.g., the Earth is flat), or think that governments are trying to hide …
Course Objectives: This course aims to introduce key concepts of and debates around popular culture to address the impact of social, economic, and political developments on popular culture and its …
Course Objectives: This course has two main objectives: To examine the history of soccer, the most popular sport of our time, and to look at football in the light of …
Course Objectives: The main purpose of this course is to give an overview of the lives of the non-Muslim minorities in Istanbul, and to think specifically about their place in …
Course Objectives: The course aims to introduce students to the debates over memory, space, and identity. Each module is designed around a specific concept and theme that is introduced through …
Course Objectives: This course is aimed at challenging the widespread image of the Dark Ages, during which the cultural and scientific achievements of the classical period (of ancient Greece and …