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Subject |
Related Preparation |
| 1) |
• Describe the course.
• Get familiarized with the course books and extra reading materials.
• Introduce the course program.
• Inform on the grading and evaluation system.
• Define the concept of “modernization”.
• Introduce the content of the syllabus.
• List the course outline
• Explain the relevance of the course books and its authors.
• List extra course materials
• Explain the grading system evaluation methods.
• Discuss the daily and sociological meanings of the term “modern” and “modernization
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Review the Syllabus.
Read the assigned readings for next class session:
P. Nolte, “Modernization and Modernity in History,” International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, 2001, pp. 9954-9961
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| 2) |
• Define the term “modern”
• Describe the concept of “modernity”
• Define the concept of “modernization” and differentiate it from “modernity”
• Distinguish the paradigm of “modernization” in social sciences
• Discuss the synonyms of the term “modern”.
• Define the term “modern” as a historical and sociological concept
• Explain the concept of “modernity” as a historical and sociological concept
• Define the concept of “modernization” and differentiate it from the term “modernity”
• Explain the paradigm of “modernization” and its impact on social sciences
• Illustrate different concepts related with the term “modern”
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Read the assigned readings for next class session:
Samuel Huntington, Samuel P. Huntington, “The Change to Change: Modernization, Development, and Politics,” Comparative Politics, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Apr., 1971): 283-290.
Bernard Lewis, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, 1961, p. 480-87.
Write a report on the documentary until the next week.
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| 3) |
• Explain the roots of the modernization paradigm.
• Compare the theories of social change in the 19th century.
• List and analyze the characteristics of the modernization theory in the 20th century.
• Recognize the theorists of the modernization paradigm
• Explain the political context of the modernization paradigm.
• Explain the roots of the modernization paradigm in the 19th century
• Compare the social theories of social change as put forward by Marx, Durkheim and Weber.
• List and analyze the characteristics of the modernization theory as formulated in the 1950s.
• Recognize pioneers of the modernization theory.
• Discuss the political significance of the modernization approach.
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Read the assigned reading for next class session:
Reşat Kasaba, “Kemalist Certainties and Modern Ambiguities,” Rethinking Modernity, Ch. 2, p. 15-36.
Levent Köker, Modernleşme, Kemalizm ve Demokrasi, İstanbul: İletişim, 2013, 14. baskı, s. 39-61.
Andrew Mango, “Atatürk,” Cambridge Hist. of Modern Turkey, p. 147-172.
Write a report on the documentary until the next week.
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| 4) |
• Explain Turkish modernization in the light of modernization theory.
• Apply the stages of modernization to the Turkish case.
• Evaluate the Kemalist approach to modernization in consideration with the premises of the modernization theory.
• Discuss the advantages and the limits of the modernization theory.
• Familiarize with pioneering researchers who used modernization theory to study Turkish transformation
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Read the assigned reading for next class session:
Şevket Pamuk, “Economic Change in Twentieth-Century Turkey: Is the glass more than half full?” Cambridge History of Modern Turkey, p. 266-300.
Andre Gunder Frank, “The development of underdevelopment”, Monthly Review, Vol. 18, 1966, pp. 17-31
Write a report on the documentary until the next week.
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| 5) |
• Identify the problems of economic development in the global capitalist system
• Define the concept of underdevelopment.
• Explain the Marxist critique of capitalist development.
• Analyze how dependency theory and world-system analysis approach modernization.
• Recognizes major theorists of the dependency theory.
• Analyze the relationship between the problems of economic development and underdevelopment and the global capitalism.
• Explain the Marxist critique of national development model in the 1960s.
• List the characteristics of dependency and world-system theories.
• Compare dependency and world-system theories with modernization theory
• Differentiate pioneers of dependency approach.
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Read the assigned reading for next class session:
Zürcher, Turkey: A Modern History, 2012 p. 264-273.
Çağlar Keyder, “The Political Economy of Import-Substituting Industrialization,” State and Class in Turkey, London&New York: Verso, 1987, pp. 141-164.
Korkut Boratav, “İçe Dönük Bağımlı Genişleme (1962-1976) ve Yeni Bunalım (1977-1979), Türkiye İktisat Tarihi,1908-1985, s. 117-144.
Tanıl Bora, “68 Ruhu Nedir?,” Birikim, No: 109 (Mayıs 1998): 92-95.
Write a report on the documentary until the next week.
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| 6) |
• Identify the problems of economic development and underdevelopment in Turkey
• Apply the concepts of center and periphery to the Turkish case.
• Explain the Marxist critique of national development model in Turkey.
• Discuss the relation between Kemalism and socialism in Turkey.
• Familiarize with researchers who dealt with the problem of underdevelopment in Turkey.
• Explain the problems of economic development and underdevelopment as formulated in the Turkish context
• Discuss how the center-periphery paradigm can explain underdevelopment of and in Turkey.
• Recognize the Marxist critique of national development model in the 1960s.
• Analyze the roots of the alliance between Kemalism and socialism in Turkey.
• Recognize researchers who worked on underdevelopment in Turkey.
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Read the assigned reading for next class session.
Zürcher, Turkey: A Modern History, 2012 p. 306-315.
Arif Dirlik, “The Postmodernization of Production and its Organization: Flexible Production, Work and Culture,” Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1997, p. 186-219.
Alev Özkazanç, “Türkiye’nin Neo-liberal Dönüşümü ve Liberal Düşünce,” Modern Türkiye'de Siyasi Düşünce Cilt 7/ Liberalizm, İstanbul: İletişim, 2005, s. 634-657.
Write a report on the documentary until the next week.
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| 7) |
• Analyze the characteristics of neo-liberalism
• Explain the global economic developments giving rise to the neo-liberal theories.
• Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the neo-liberal approach.
• Compare neo-liberal theory with dependency theory and modernization theory
• Familiarize with theorists of neo-liberalism.
• Analyze the characteristics of neo-liberalism as formulated by its major theorists
• List global economic developments giving rise to the neo-liberal theories.
• Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the neo-liberal approach.
• Contrast neo-liberal theory with the previous theories of dependency modernization theory.
• Differentiate researchers who defended neo-liberalism.
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Read the assigned reading for next class session.
Write a report on the documentary until the next week.
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| 8) |
• Analyze the place of Turkey in the context of global capitalism.
• Explain the economic policies of the 1980s.
• Compare the economic policies of the previous period with the neo-liberal period in the 1980s.
• Explain the impact of the neo-liberal theory in Turkey.
• Discuss the role of Özal in the institutionalization of neo-liberalism.
• Analyze the socio-economic development of Turkey in the context of globalization.
• Differentiate the import substitution industrialization policies of the previous period with the new neo-liberal orientation in the 1980s.
• Explain the economic policies of the 1980s and the Decisions of January 24.
• Explain the impact of the neo-liberal theory in Turkey.
• Discuss the role of Özal and the shift in social values.
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| 9) |
• Evaluate students via midterm exam: measure the capacity to explain the basic assumptions of the modernization theory
• Evaluate students via midterm exam: measure the capacity to explain the critiques of the modernization theory
• Overview of the first part of the course
• Compare different theoretical paradigms on modernization
• Relate theories of development with historical developments in Turkey.
• Evaluate students via midterm exam: measure the capacity to explain the progressive, unilinear, Eurocentric, stage theory of history intrinsic the modernization paradigm.
• Evaluate students via midterm exam: measure the capacity to explain the departing points of the Marxist critique of the modernization theory
• Overview of the first eight weeks of the course
• Compare the main characteristics of modernization theory, dependency theory and neo-liberal theory.
• Relate these different theories of development with concrete historical developments in Turkey
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Read the assigned reading for next class session:
Zürcher, Turkey: A Modern History, 2012 p. 242-264, 278-288.
Ümit Cizre, “Ideology, Context and Interest: The Turkish Military,” Cambridge History of Modern Turkey, in The Cambridge History of Turkey Volume 4: Turkey in the Modern World, 2009
p. 301-332.
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| 10) |
• Explain the relation between the army and modernization in Turkey
• Analyze the role of the army in politics.
• Describe the logic of military interventions in Turkey.
• Differentiate between the characteristics of different coups.
• Explain the change in the relationship between military and politics in the 2000s.
• Discuss the importance of the army’s role in modernization of Turkey.
• List the causes of central role of the army in Turkish political history.
• Discuss the logic of different military interventions in Turkey in succeeding periods.
• List the political differences of military coups of 1960 and 1980.
• Discuss how the relationship between military and politics changed in the process of democratization.
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Read the assigned reading for next class session.
Zürcher, Turkey: A Modern History, 2012 p.316-323.
Hamit Bozarslan, “Kurds and the Turkish State,” Cambridge History of Modern Turkey, 2009, p. 333-356.
Ayşe Hür, “Bu kaçıncı isyan, bu kaçıncı harekât?” Radikal, 23.12.2007.
Mesut Yeğen, “The Kurdish Question in Turkish State Discourse,” Journal of Contemporary History, 34 (4) 1999: 555-568.
Martin van Bruinessen, “The Suppression of the Dersim Rebellion in Turkey (1937-38)” http://www.let.uu.nl/~martin.vanbruinessen/personal/
publications/Dersim_rebellion.pdf
Write a report on the documentary until the next week.
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| 11) |
• Explain nationalism as a modern phenomenon.
• Recognize the impact of modernization in the formation of national identity.
• Explain the consequences of modernization for the demographic structure.
• Analyze the discourses of Turkish nationalism in the Young Turk and Kemalist eras.
• Discuss Turkish nationalism with respect to the Kurdish issue.
• List and explain modernist theories of nationalism which describe the latter as a modern phenomenon.
• Analyze the relation between the formation of national identity and modernization
• Recognize the consequences of modernization understood as national homogenization.
• Compare the Turkist policies of the Young Turk and Kemalist regimes.
• Explain the impact of Turkish nationalism with reference the state’s discourse on the Kurdish uprisings.
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Read the assigned reading for next class session.
Ayhan Aktar, “Türkiye'de Gayrimüslimler: ‘Kâğıt Üzerinde’ Vatandaşlar,” in Fuat Keyman, ed., Türkiye’nin Yeniden İnşası: Modernleşme, Demokratikleşme, Kimlik, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2013, p. 175–188.
Çağlar Keyder, “The Consequences of the Exchange of Populations for Turkey,” in Renée Hirschon (ed.), Crossing the Aegean: an appraisal of the 1923 compulsory population exchange between Greece and Turkey, New York: Berghahn Books, 2004, p. 39-52.
Write a report on the documentary until the next week.
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| 12) |
• Analyze the legal definition of “minority” in Turkey.
• Explain the impact of nationalism on non-Muslim minorities in Turkey.
• Illustrate official policies towards non-Muslim minorities in Turkey.
• Analyze the relation between national identity and discriminatory policies against non-Muslims.
• Discuss the relationship between democracy and minority rights.
• Recognize the importance Lausanne Treaty in the legal definition of “minority” in Turkey.
• Evaluate the impact of nationalist policies on the rights of non-Muslim minorities in Turkey.
• List official policies towards non-Muslim minorities in Turkey: Lausanne Treaty; Greek-Turkish population exchange; Welfare Tax; 6-7 September Events; 1964 Law of expatriation of Greeks.
• Analyze the relation between national identity and discriminatory policies against non-Muslims.
• Recognize the developments concerning minority rights and democratization.
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Read the assigned reading for next class session.
Zürcher, Turkey: A Modern History, 2012, p. 288-306.
Haldun Gülalp, “Modernization Policies and Islamist Politics in Turkey,” Rethinking Modernity, p. 53-63.
Nilüfer Göle, “The Quest for the Islamic Self within the Context of Modernity,” Rethinking Modernity, p. 83-95.
Yüksel Taşkın, “AKP’s move to ‘conquer’ the center-right: its prospects and possible impacts on the democratization process,” Turkish Studies 9, No. 1 (March 2008): 53–72.
Write a report on the documentary until the next week.
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| 13) |
• Define the concepts secularization and secularism.
• Analyze the role of secularism in Turkish modernization
• Explain the peculiarities of Turkish secularism.
• Compare Turkish secularism with French and Anglo-Saxon models of secularism.
• Analyze the debate between secularists and Islamists in Turkey.
• Explain the meanings of the concepts “secularization” and “secularism”
• Differentiate secularism from secularization as a sociological process.
• Discuss the central role of secularism for Turkish modernization
• Analyze the specific characteristics of secularism in Turkey: “Laiklik”
• Differentiate Turkish, French and Anglo-Saxon models of secularism.
• Discuss the conflict between secularists and Islamists in Turkey, by focusing on the headscarf debate.
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Read the assigned reading for next class session.
Yeşim Arat, “The Project of Modernity and Women in Turkey,” Rethinking Modernity, 1997, p. 95-112.
Deniz Kandiyoti, “Gendering Modernity: On Missing Dimensions of Turkish Modernity,” Rethinking Modernity, 1997, p. 113-132.
Write a report on the documentary until the next week.
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| 14) |
• Define “gender” as an analytical concept.
• Explain the link between women’s movement and modernization.
• Explain the need for a “gendered” perspective in the study of Turkish modernization.
• Analyze the feminist critique of Turkish modernization.
• Compare Kemalist and 2nd wave Turkish feminisms.
• Discuss how the concept of “gender” can be a tool of analysis.
• Discuss the critical role of women’s movement for modernization.
• Recognize the importance of a feminist approach in the study of Turkish modernization.
• Explain how Turkish modernization process was criticized by feminists in the 1980s.
• Discuss how Kemalist and 2nd wave Turkish feminisms approach the state feminism of the Kemalist era.
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| 15) |
• Summarize the content of the course.
• List the potential themes on which term papers can be written.
• Explain the methodology of the research needed for writing the term paper.
• List the format rules of the paper.
• Discuss how and which materials will be used while writing the paper.
• Review the weekly themes of the course.
• Discuss the possible topics on which term papers can be written.
• Recognize the oral history methodology needed for writing the term paper.
• List the tips for a good interview.
• Explain the style of language used in the paper and the format.
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Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
| 1) |
Adequate knowledge in mathematics, science and engineering subjects pertaining to the relevant discipline; ability to use theoretical and applied information in these areas to model and solve engineering problems. |
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| 2) |
Ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems; ability to select and apply proper analysis and modelling methods for this purpose. |
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Ability to design a complex system, process, device or product under realistic constraints and conditions, in such a way so as to meet the desired result; ability to apply modern design methods for this purpose. (Realistic constraints and conditions may include factors such as economic and environmental issues, sustainability, manufacturability, ethics, health, safety issues, and social and political issues according to the nature of the design.) |
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Ability to devise, select, and use modern techniques and tools needed for engineering practice; ability to employ information technologies effectively. |
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Ability to design and conduct experiments, gather data, analyse and interpret results for investigating engineering problems. |
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Ability to work efficiently in intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary teams; ability to work individually. |
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Ability to communicate effectively i Turkish, both orally and in writing; knowledge of a minimum of one foreign language. |
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Recognition of the need for lifelong learning; ability to access information, to follow developments in science and technology, and to continue to educate him/herself. |
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Awareness of professional and ethical responsibility. |
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Information about business life practices such as project management, risk management, and change management; awareness of entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainable development. |
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Knowledge about contemporary issues and the global and societal effects of engineering practices on health, environment, and safety; awareness of the legal consequences of engineering solutions. |
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