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| SEC 411 | Political History | 3+0+0 | ECTS:5 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of BUSINESS | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | -- | | Co-Lecturer | None | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The course aims to provide the students with a general knowledge on General Political History of 19th and 20th centuries and historical backgrounds of important global political events and eras; which has essential importance for an International Relations student. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | learn General Political History of 20 th Century and historical backgrounds of important global political events and eras. | 3,5,6,8,10 | 1 | | LO - 2 : | explain concept of general political history from the past to today; twentieth century wars; World War I and II, Cold War and important global political developments. | 5,6,8,10 | 1 | | LO - 3 : | evaluate events which have great effect on the shaping of world history. | 5,8 | 1 | | LO - 4 : | analyze political events in chronological order. | 5,8 | 1 | | LO - 5 : | avaluate and present current international structure in the light of historical developments. | 6,8 | 1 | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| This course intends to examine the all political developments all over the world from 1789, until today. The new political structure after 1918 will be considered from the point of global developments. World involvement of the U. S. in Europe affairs, Cold War Sovietization of Eastern Europe and the Third World countries are also to be discussed. The relations among the industrial and non-industrial political, economic and military fields will be explained with some comments on future pro-developments. Term between two World War, Second World War, Cold War and Post-Cold War eras all political and diplomatical improvements, alliances, establishments; course of international relations, political evolution prosess of super powers; and reflections of all these to countries relations and foreign policies are the main topics of this lesson. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | General Features of the Cold War | | | Week 2 | Becoming important of Soviet Union in World Policy - Soviet's expansionism | | | Week 3 | Beginnings of the Western Block and measures taken against Soviet's expansionism | | | Week 4 | Internal conflicts in Eastern and Western Block | | | Week 5 | Conflicts of the continent of Asia | | | Week 6 | Conflicts of Middle East | | | Week 7 | Arab - İsrael disputes | | | Week 8 | Non-Alignment Movement and its effects on international relations
| | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 10 | Efforts for peace and disarmament
| | | Week 11 | Occupation of Afghanistan by Soviet Union
| | | Week 12 | Iranian Revolution and Iran - Iraq War
| | | Week 13 | Dissolution of the Soviet Union | | | Week 14 | Dissolution of the Yugoslavia | | | Week 15 | New World Order | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Armaoğlu,Fahir,1995,20.Yüzyıl Siyasi Tarihi,Alkim Yayınları,İstanbulSander,Oral,1994,Siyasi Tarih,Ankara | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 5/4/2014 | 1 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 6/6/2014 | 1 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 4 | 14 | 56 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 6 | 2 | 12 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 6 | 2 | 12 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Total work load | | | 124 |
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