Dersin Ayrıntıları
YarıyılKoduAdıT+U+LKrediAKTSSon Güncelleme Tarihi
3HIST 325Formations and Constructions of Europe3+0+03503.11.2025

 
Dersin Detayları
Dersin Dili İngilizce
Dersin Düzeyi Lisans
Bölümü / Programı Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Lisans Programı
Öğrenim Türü Örgün Öğretim
Dersin Türü Seçmeli
Dersin Öğretim Şekli Yüz Yüze
Dersin Amacı * To develop a non-linear approach to the crisscrossing overlaps, and the discontinuities as well as
continuities, of European history and society.
* In that context, to acquire a basic grasp of the foundations and overall shape of European history
and culture.
* To achieve a working understanding of the demographic, linguistic and religious threads wowen
into European culture.
* To be able to understand, cross-culturally translate, predict and explain European mentalities and
ideo-cultural attitudes.
* To develop a capacity to take higher or more specialized courses in European history.
* To arrive at a critical appreciation of the dynamic, inherently unstable, constantly changing and
yet cumulative “idea of Europe” with reference to its constitutive outside(s).
Dersin İçeriği A double exploration of Europe's both “real” and “ideational” emergence. An introductory section to be devoted to (a) the physical shaping of a continent; (b) its stages of human settlement, from prehistoric times through the Germanic and Slavic migrations down to modern and recent patterns of movement; (c) the basic language groups created on this basis; and (d) Europe's religions in flux across space and time. Through these and related dimensions, simultaneously, the three main thresholds of European history as such : the Dark Ages, the birth of Early Modernity, and the Age of Revolution. The parallel development of the notion of Europe in political and social thought, together with its various theoretical ramifications or extensions (such as "the West", "the historical nations", "bourgeois civil society", "civilisation" or "capitalism"), juxtaposed to its non-European others or counterparts, in the course of the creation of a Eurocentric symbolic geography by the 19th and 20th century social sciences. Selective studies of specific aspects of European history (such as cities, wars, or revolutions), as well as of how all this has impacted on modern European politics and culture.
Dersin Yöntem ve Teknikleri
Ön Koşulları Yok
Dersin Koordinatörü Yok
Dersi Verenler Prof. Halil Berktay
Dersin Yardımcıları Yok
Dersin Staj Durumu Yok

Ders Kaynakları
Kaynaklar Relevant campus resources * Our Library and Library Staff are very user-friendly. Make the most of this opportunity, and with their help also explore access to other online libraries, courses, and resources. * Make the most of the Writing Center to have your essays corrected. * If and when you face personal difficulties, do not hesitate to call on the Center for Counseling and Psychological Services.
Study tips As mature young men and women, you should not have to be told all this, but I’ll say it anyway. * You are full-time students. This is your principal business, occupation, and vocation. So get organized, steer clear of unproductive distractions, and concentrate. * In terms of subject matter, HIST 325 is likely to cover ground that you are probably least familiar with. You will have to pay extra attention to factography and chronology. * Do your readings on time. Come to class having done the readings for that week. This is where Turkish student culture is at its weakest: students expect the instructor to just lecture and explain everything, so that they don’t really have to read. Forget it. Make a clean and absolute surgical break with this backward notion. You yourselves will have to explain and discuss the main materials that have been assigned. * Learning begins in class, and not afterwards. Develop the skill of taking quick notes in bullet points, of creating a mental m
Other class norms and expectations * Attendance is mandatory. Over 14 weeks, each 2 absences will result in a one-notch decrease in your letter grade (from A to A-, or from B+ to B, etc). * In the course of online teaching, your laptop camera must be open and your face visible at all times. * Again in the course of online teaching, you must make sure beforehand that there will be no background noise or interference of any kind. * You may use your laptops or cell phones in class purely for academic, subject-related purposes (such as taking notes, writing short essays, or looking up information on the internet). * Deadlines are deadlines. Late submission will result in a 5 percent cut per day for the first five days. After five days, it will no longer be acceptable. * Medical excuses: These are notoriously misused. Try to control yourself against the impulse to obtain a one-day report for “headache” or “tension” or “diarrhea” simply in order to put off a response paper or presentation.
Academic ethics Ibn Haldun University is very strict on academic ethics. Cheating on quizzes or exams will cause you to flunk at least that exam. If it appears that such cheating was premeditated and prepared in advance, you are likely to flunk the whole course, and also to be taken before the Disciplinary Board. Plagiarism, which basically means intellectual stealing, will also be dealt with in stringent fashion. Every assignment, response paper or essay that you submit should be an original piece of writing, presenting your own ideas in your own words unless otherwise noted. Everything you borrow from books, articles, visual materials or the internet(including those in the syllabus or the course web site) should be properly cited. Copying-and-pasting is absolutely taboo. On the other side of the coin, you are free to use sources outside of the course materials as long as you reference them. You are also free (in fact, encouraged) to discuss your papers and research ideas with othe
Teaching processes and procedures Lecturing and discussion combined over 3-hour blocks, with a short break in between. All weekly readings must be done before class. This is crucial. Prep questions will be circulated beforehand.
Ders Notları Contact information

Instructor: Prof. Halil Berktay
E-mail: halil.berktay@ihu.edu.tr, hberktay@sabanciuniv.edu
(please use both)
Office: İTBF, Z-51
Class hours: Monday, 10:00 - 13:00
Classroom: İTBF, Z-53
(right opposite my office)
Office hours: Subject to appointment by email

Learning resources

The following are all available in electronically scanned pdf format,
organized into separate folders, on the course web site.

Tim Unwin (ed), A European Geography (Routledge, 1998).
Gerard Delanty, Inventing Europe (St Martin’s Press, 1995).
John R. Hinnels (ed), A New Handbook of Living Religions (Wiley, 2017).
Stephen J. Lee, Aspects of European History, 1494-1789 (Routledge, 2005).
R. J. Knecht, The French Wars of Religion, 1559-1598
(Routledge, Seminar Series, 3rd edition 2010).

Peter Rietbergen, Europe, A Cultural History (Routledge, 1998).
Immanuel Wallerstein et al, Open the Social Sciences. Report of the Gulbenkian
Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences
(Stanford University Press, 1996).
Stephen Howe, Empire. A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2002).
Peter Stearns, Western Civilization in World History (Routledge, 2003).
Ernest Gellner, Plough, Sword and Book. The Structure of Human History
(The University of Chicago Press, 1988).
Jared Diamond. Guns, Germs, and Steel. The Fates of Human Societies (Norton, 1997).
Jean Baechler, John A. Hall, Michael Mann (eds), Europe and the Rise of Capitalism
(Blackwell, 1990).
Michael Cook, A Brief History of the Human Race (Norton, 2005).
Mark Mazower, Dark Continent. Europe’s Twentieth Century (Vintage Books, 1998).

Halil Berktay, “The Feudalism Debate: The Turkish End. Is ‘Tax-vs-Rent’ Necessarily
the Product and Sign of a Modal Difference?”
The Journal of Peasant Studies, vol 14, no 3 (1987), p. 291-333.
Halil Berktay, “The Search for the Peasant in Western and Turkish History/Historiography,”
The Journal of Peasant Studies, vol 18, no 3 (1991).
Halil Berktay, “Three Empires and the Societies They Governed”;
The Journal of Peasant Studies, vol 18, no 3 (1991).
For the last two items, also see: Halil Berktay ve Suraiya Faroqhi (eds),
New Approaches to State and Peasant in Ottoman History (Frank Cass, 1992),
pp. 109-184 and pp 242-263.
Michael G. Müller, “European history, a façon de parler?” (European Review of History,
vol 10 no 3, 2003, 409-414).

Rudyard Kipling, The White Seal
Rudyard Kipling, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Rudyard Kipling, Toomai of the Elephants
Rudyard Kipling, Her Majesty's Servants

Also available on the course web site are the following folders
containing electronically scanned maps and other visuals.

400.01.Human evolution, dynamism and invasiveness (combined)
400.02.Spread of settlements, techniques, and peoples without names into Europe
400.03.The first civilizations (for comparison)
400.04.Early peoples and Indo-European beginnings
400.05.Indo-Aryan movements into Iran and India
400.06.Earliest peoples with names - Celts, Scythians, Cimmerians
400.07.The peopling of Greece and the Aegean
400.08.Ancient Greece and the Mediterranean
400.09.Alexander's empire and the Hellenistic world
400.10.The peopling of Italy
400.11.The Roman Empire
400.12.Judaism
400.13.The birth and spread of Christianity
400.14.Christian art and iconography
400.14a.Iconography (from Wikipedia)
400.14b.Christian Iconography (from Wikipedia)
400.15.The Germanic and Slavic invasions, settlements, and kingdoms
400.16.The Second Wave of the Invasions
400.17.The expansion of the Slavs, and the formation of Russia
400.18.Main Axis and Stages of Muslim Expansion
400.19.Islamic Expansion from the Middle East to North Africa and Spain
400.20.Scandinavian geography and settlements
400.21.Historical synopsis on the Vikings
400.22.Viking raids in or around Europe
400.23.Viking voyages to Iceland, Greenland, and North America
400.24.The Mag
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Ders Yapısı
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Mühendislik Bilimleri %0
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Sosyal Bilimler %100
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Planlanan Öğrenme Aktiviteleri ve Metodları
Etkinlikler ayrıntılı olarak "Değerlendirme" ve "İş Yükü Hesaplaması" bölümlerinde verilmiştir.

Değerlendirme Ölçütleri
Yarıyıl Çalışmaları Sayısı Katkı
Ara Sınav 1 % 40
Devam 1 % 20
Yarıyıl Sonu Sınavı 1 % 40
Toplam :
3
% 100

 
AKTS Hesaplama İçeriği
İş Yükü Sayısı Süre Toplam İş Yükü (Saat)
Ders Süresi 3 3 9
Ara Sınavlar 1 3 3
Yarıyıl Sonu Sınavı 1 3 3
Toplam İş Yükü   AKTS Kredisi : 1 15

 
Dersin Öğrenme Çıktıları: Bu dersin başarılı bir şekilde tamamlanmasıyla öğrenciler şunları yapabileceklerdir:
Sıra NoAçıklama
1 * Can critically explain the meaning, implications, applications, and overall significance of constructivism in the humanities and social sciences. * Can explain the difference and the relationship between “the real” and “the ideational.” * Can critically explain the difference between this approach, and just one-sided materialism or just one-sided idealism.
2 * Approaches and appraises Europe realistically, as a historical product, in all its historicity, without any essentialism, idealization, or demonization. * Critically evaluates the diversity of European societies, politics, cultures, and ideological movements as well as the common elements of “Europeanness” (or of “European civilization”). * Critically evaluates both the “bright” and the “dark” sides of Europe’s history.
3 * Can differentiate between, classify, describe and explain the main stages in the formation of Europe. * Can relate these stages to Europe’s constitutive outsides, resulting self-perceptions, and historical alterities. * Can work or read these stages into the history of any particular country. * Is able to adapt to and operate in multicultural European spaces.
4 * Can predict and critically appraise a multiplicity of possible European reactions (and the cultural contexts behind them) to various current events or situations. * Can critically evaluate Europe’s present problems and iderntity crises. * Understands the roots and origins of Eurocentrism and Orientalism. * Understands the roots and origins of Occidentalism.
5 * Has developed a mental ability to mediate critically between Europeanist and anti-Europeanist attitudes and discourses.

 
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  Katkı Düzeyi: 1: Çok Düşük 2: Düşük 3: Orta 4: Yüksek 5: Çok Yüksek

  
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