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 …
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 …