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TRH5820 | MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN MODERN HISTORY | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | Level of Course | Second Cycle | Status | Elective | Department | DEPARTMENT of HISTORY | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | Mode of Delivery | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | Lecturer | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Emre ÇELİK | Co-Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Melek ÖKSÜZ | Language of instruction | Turkish | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | The aim of the course: | The aim of the course is to understand the basic dynamics of the developments taking place in the Mediterranean world in a holistic structure and to identify the differences between regions. It is aimed to examine the developments specific to the Mediterranean world around the general trends of the period. |
Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | PO - 1 : | examine general and regional dynamics together in the Mediterranean world in modern times. | 1,4 | 1 | PO - 2 : | determine the effects of the developments in the fields of transportation and communication in the 19th century on the Mediterranean weather. | 2,3,4 | | PO - 3 : | discuss the political, social and economic developments that took place in the Mediterranean world together with the Industrial Revolution and Imperialism processes.
| 2,3,4 | 1 | PO - 4 : | identify nationalism and state-building processes at the regional level
| | | 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), PO : Learning Outcome | |
The political, social and economic developments that took place in the Mediterranean between 1800 and 1914 constitute the content of the course. |
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Course Syllabus | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | Week 1 | Course introduction and weekly plan
| | Week 2 | Definition and historical geographical evaluation of the Mediterranean
? | | Week 3 | The Mediterranean World at the beginning of modern history | | Week 4 | The Situation of the Mediterranean World in the Age of Imperialism
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| | Week 5 | The Impact of Modern Transportation and Communication Systems on the Mediterranean World
? | | Week 6 | European Imperial Struggle and Intervention | | Week 7 | Epidemic Diseases and Disinfection of the Mediterranean | | Week 8 | Mediterranean Security in the Context of Piracy and Slavery | | Week 9 | Mid term | | Week 10 | Akdeniz Dünyasında Devlet ve Millet Oluşumu | | Week 11 | Mediterranean Modernization | | Week 12 | Sumbission | | Week 13 | The Rise of Mediterranean Port Cities | | Week 14 | Cooperation and Conflict in the Mediterranean | | Week 15 | Tourism and Pilgrimage in the Mediterranean | | Week 16 | Final Exam | | |
1 | Braudel, Fernand, II. Felipe Döneminde Akdeniz ve Akdeniz Dünyası 1, çev. Mehmet Ali Kılıçbay, Doğu Batı Yayınları, Ankara, 2021. | | 2 | _____________, II. Felipe Döneminde Akdeniz ve Akdeniz Dünyası 2, çev. Mehmet Ali Kılıçbay, Doğu Batı Yayınları, Ankara, 2021. | | 3 | Burke III, Edmund, ?Toward a Comparative History of the Modern Mediterranean, 1750-1919?, Journal of World History, Vol. 23, No. 4 (December 2012), pp. 907-939. | | 4 | Fuhrmann, Malte, Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020. | | 5 | Innes, Joanna, Philp, Mark, Re-Imagining Democracy in the Mediterranean, 1780-1860, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019. | | 6 | Ozavci Ozan, Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864, Oxford, Oxford University?s Press, 2021. | | 7 | Tabak, Faruk, Solan Akdeniz, 1550-1870 Tarihsel Coğrafya Açısından Bir Yaklaşım, çev. Nurettin Elhüseyni, İstanbul, Telemak Kitap, 2021 | | 8 | Toksöz, Meltem, Nomads, Migrants and Cotton in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Making of the Adana-Mersin Region 1850-1908, Brill, 2010. | | 9 | Yazbak, Mahmud, Haifa in the Late Ottoman Period 1864-1914: A Muslim Town in Transition, Brill Academic Publishers, 1998. | | 10 | Horden, Peregrine, Kinoshita, Sharon, A Companion to Mediterranean History, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. | | |
Method of Assessment | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | Mid-term exam | 9 | 5.05.2025 | 3,00 | 25 | Homework/Assignment/Term-paper | 15 | 30.05.2025 | | 25 | End-of-term exam | 16 | 15/06/2025 | 3.00 | 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 | 8 | 14 | 112 | Arasınav için hazırlık | 10 | 3 | 30 | Arasınav | 3 | 1 | 3 | Kısa sınav | 3 | 1 | 3 | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 8 | 3 | 24 | Dönem sonu sınavı | 3 | 1 | 3 | Diğer 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | Total work load | | | 225 |
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