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SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 QF-EHEA: First Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code Course Name Semester Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
SOC2005 Changes in Contemporary Turkish Society I Fall 3 0 3 6
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Basic information

Language of instruction: English
Type of course: Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level: Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Prof. Dr. AYŞE NİLÜFER NARLI
Course Lecturer(s): Assist. Prof. KAYA AKYILDIZ
Recommended Optional Program Components: "."
Course Objectives: This course attempts to present a sociological understanding of Turkish society in relation to the legacy of the late Ottoman state and society. It provides a detailed analysis of selected aspects of Ottoman-Turkish modernization and discusses relevant topics within the framework of Ottoman/Turkish context. We will scrutinize late Ottoman and early republican periods by looking at politics, state-capital, and state-society-military relations.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1)Understand Turkish Society
2)Analyze the Historical Context from late Ottoman State to Modern Turkish Republic
3) Examine the Dynamics Modernization
4) Explore the Relationship Between at politics, state-capital, and state-society-military relations.
5) Develop a wide range of key transferrable research and interpretive skills that are highly valued by employers within a range of professions

Course Content

This course aims to analyze the formation of modern Turkey in relation to the legacy of the late Ottoman state and society. It examines the political and economic transformation, and the ethnic relations that shaped the late Ottoman Period. It also describes the early republican and late Ottoman periods by looking at the political conflict, state-capital, and state-society-military relations. In addition, the course evaluates prolonged controversial issues of the modern Turkey. Teaching methods of the course are lecture, reading and discussion.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction to the Course: Going over the Syllabus Discussion “Understanding Ottoman-Turkish Modernity”
2) Ottoman Modernization and The Middle East William Cleveland’s and Martin Bunton’s A History of Modern Middle East.
3) Ottoman Modernization and Tanzimat Era Erik J. Zürcher's Turkey: A Modern History's Introduction and Part I to understand the logic of periodization and early attempts of modernization.
4) Ottoman Modernization and Abdulhamid Era - I Erik J. Zürcher's Turkey: A Modern History's Part II.
5) Ottoman Modernization and Abdulhamid Era - II Erik J. Zürcher's Turkey: A Modern History's Part II.
6) Approaches to Ottoman Modernization Process Chapter 2, 3, 4 and Conclusion of Bernard Lewis’ The Emergence of Modern Turkey. Chapter 4, 5 and 6 of Niyazi Berkes’The Development of Secularism in Turkey. Çağlar Keyder's Introduction, 1st and 2nd chapters of State and Classes in Turkey
7) Ottoman Economy Part IV of Halil İnalcık's An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1914. Introduction and Part I (excluding the article of Peter Gran) of Huricihan İnan's (ed) The Ottoman Empire and The World Economy to conceive how the Immanuel Wallerstein's world-system approach.
8) Midterm
9) 1908 Revolution and The CUP “The Second Constitutional Period” in Erik J. Zürcher's , Turkey: A Modern History and the excerpts chosen from Aykut Kansu's 1908 Revolution.
10) Ittihadist in Power The excerpts from Fuat Dündar's CUP's Policy of Muslim Settlement.
11) Ittihadist Logic and “Minorities" 5th and 6th chapters of The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing of Michael Mann.
12) Economy After 1908 Revolution Zafer Toprak's Türkiye’de Milli İktisat 1908-1918 and 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th chapters of Korkut Boratav's Türkiye İktisat Tarihi 1908-2002.
13) Independence and the One-Party Era - I Erik J.Zürcher's “The Struggle for Independence” and “The Emergence of the One Party State” in Turkey: A Modern History
14) Independence and the One-Party Era - II Erik J.Zürcher's “The Struggle for Independence” and “The Emergence of the One Party State” in Turkey: A Modern History

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: Erik J. Zürcher. Turkey: A Modern History, I.B. Tauris, 2015.

References: Erik J. Zürcher. Turkey: A Modern History, I.B. Tauris, 2015.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance 14 % 30
Midterms 1 % 30
Final 1 % 40
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 40
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours 14 3 42
Study Hours Out of Class 14 4 56
Homework Assignments 1 10 10
Midterms 2 4 8
Final 1 3 3
Total Workload 119

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Low 3 Average 4 High 5 Highest
           
Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) Be able to specify functional and non-functional attributes of software projects, processes and products.
2) Be able to design software architecture, components, interfaces and subcomponents of a system for complex engineering problems.
3) Be able to develop a complex software system with in terms of code development, verification, testing and debugging.
4) Be able to verify software by testing its program behavior through expected results for a complex engineering problem.
5) Be able to maintain a complex software system due to working environment changes, new user demands and software errors that occur during operation.
6) Be able to monitor and control changes in the complex software system, to integrate the software with other systems, and to plan and manage new releases systematically.
7) Be able to identify, evaluate, measure, manage and apply complex software system life cycle processes in software development by working within and interdisciplinary teams.
8) Be able to use various tools and methods to collect software requirements, design, develop, test and maintain software under realistic constraints and conditions in complex engineering problems.
9) Be able to define basic quality metrics, apply software life cycle processes, measure software quality, identify quality model characteristics, apply standards and be able to use them to analyze, design, develop, verify and test complex software system.
10) Be able to gain technical information about other disciplines such as sustainable development that have common boundaries with software engineering such as mathematics, science, computer engineering, industrial engineering, systems engineering, economics, management and be able to create innovative ideas in entrepreneurship activities. 4
11) Be able to grasp software engineering culture and concept of ethics and have the basic information of applying them in the software engineering and learn and successfully apply necessary technical skills through professional life. 3
12) Be able to write active reports using foreign languages and Turkish, understand written reports, prepare design and production reports, make effective presentations, give clear and understandable instructions.
13) Be able to have knowledge about the effects of engineering applications on health, environment and security in universal and societal dimensions and the problems of engineering in the era and the legal consequences of engineering solutions. 3