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Course Code: 
HIST 435
Semester: 
Fall
Course Type: 
Area Elective
P: 
3
Lab: 
0
Laboratuvar Saati: 
0
Credits: 
3
ECTS: 
3
Course Language: 
English
Course Objectives: 
The objective of this course is to provide students with the knowledge that the West European powers established a universal hegemony in world politics and economy beginning with the late eighteenth-century and throughout the nineteenth-century; to examine and compare the effects of the European hegemony over China, Siam and the Ottoman Empire and to discuss how that hegemony caused the transformation of their political and economic institutions.
Course Content: 

The Ottoman methods of diplomacy until the end of the eighteenth-century, the reasons for the change of Ottoman methods of diplomacy beginning with the reign of Selim III,  the efforts of the WestEuropean powers to establish a universal hegemony in terms of politics and economy, and the effects of these efforts on China, Siam and the Ottoman Empire.​

Course Methodology: 
1: Lecture, 2: Question-Answer, 3: Discussion
Course Evaluation Methods: 
A: Testing

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Course Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

1 To be able to analyze the balance of power in Europe in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to discuss how European balance of power systems in those centuries forced the Ottoman Empire to change its own diplomatic methods.

1,2,3

A

2 To be able to analyze and discuss the reasons why the industrialized powers of Western Europe were in pursuit of establishing political and economic hegemony on other countries outside of the continent in the nineteenth-century.

1,2,3

A

3 To be able to analyze the reactions of China, Siam and the Ottoman Empire against the European hegemony by way of comparisons.

1,2,3

A

4 To be able to discuss the effects of European hegemony over three countries and to be able to express the derived conclusions orally and in written.

1,2,3

A 
 
 

Course Flow

Week

Topics

Study Materials

1

Introduction

Weekly Readingassignment

2

Islam and the West

Weekly Readingassignment

3

The Ottoman Obsession

Weekly Readingassignment

4

European Balance of Power and the Ottoman Empıre

Weekly Readingassignment

5

The Conduct of Ottoman Diplomacy before Selim III

Weekly Readingassignment

6

Reform in the Ottoman Diplomacy during the reign of Selim III

Discussion on paper topics

7

Midterm

Weekly Readingassignment

8

Ottoman Diplomacy and the State System

Weekly Readingassignment

9

Great Powers and the Ottoman Empire in the 19th Century

Weekly Readingassignment

10

Judicial Capitulations

Weekly Readingassignment

11

Expansion of Europe in the 19th Century

Weekly Readingassignment

12

Imperialism and China

Weekly Readingassignment

13

Imperialism and Siam

Weekly Readingassignment

14

Imperialism and the Ottoman Empire

Weekly Readingassignment
 
 

Recommended Sources

Textbook

LEWIS, Bernard. “Islam and the West,” From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East. London: Phoenix, 2004, pp.255-270.

LEWIS, Bernard. “The Ottoman Obsession,” in Islam and the West.New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, pp.72-84.

NAFF, Thomas. “Reform and the Conduct of Ottoman diplomacy in the Reign of Selim III, 1789-1807,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol.83, No.3 (Aug.-Sep. 1963), pp.295-315.

HUREWITZ, J.C. “Ottoman Diplomacy and the European State System,” Middle East Journal, Vol.15 No.2 (Spring, 1961), pp.141-152.

HOROWITZ, Richard S. “International Law and State Transformation in China, Siam, and the Ottoman Empire during the Nineteenth Century,” Journal of World History, Vol.15 No.4 (Dec., 2004), pp.445-486.

SONYEL, Salahi R.  "The Protege system in the Ottoman Empire and its Abuses," Belleten, Vol: 55 No: 214 (August, 1991), 675-686.

Additional Resources

 
 
 

Material Sharing

Documents

 

Assignments

 

Exams

 
 

 

Assessment

IN-TERM STUDIES

NUMBER

PERCENTAGE

Mid-term

1

50

Final 

2

50

Total

 

100

CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL GRADE

 

50

CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL GRADE

 

50

Total

 

100
       
       
 

 

COURSE CATEGORY

Expertise/Field Courses
 
 

Course’s Contribution to Program

No

Program Learning Outcomes

Contribution

1

2

3

4

5

1

To equip the students with the theoretical and practical skills necessary to pursue academic studies.

 

 

 

 

X

2

To provide the students skills such as analytical and critical thinking, interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional approach, deducing results and interpretation, necessary for a successful history education.

 

 

 

 

X

3

To provide the students with skills to relate historical issues to contemporary, local, regional and global problems.

 

 

X

 

 

4

To provide students with skills to use English in oral and written presentations and source languages to study the primary sources.

 

 

 

X

 

5

To provide the students with skills to use the contemporary technologies.

 

 

X

 

 

6

To provide the students with skills to become creative in team-work and skills for efficient oral and written communication.

X

 

 

 

 

7

Educating the students to become professionally and socially responsible and ethical individuals.

 

 

 

x

 
 
 

ECTS

Activities

Quantity

Duration
(Hour)

Total
Workload
(Hour)

Course Duration (Including the exam week: 14x Total course hours)

14

3

42

Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)

10

3

30

Mid-terms

1

1

1

Presentation

0

0

0

Paper

1

1

1

Final examination

1

1

1

Term Paper

 

0

0

0

Total Work Load

 

 

75

Total Work Load / 25 (h)

 

 

3

ECTS Credit of the Course

 

 

3

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