PERFORMING ARTS
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
GEP0204	Istanbul in Social and Historical Perspectives	Fall	3	0	3	4

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Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	GE-Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi NURAN FERYAL TANSUĞ DOURLARİS
Course Lecturer(s):	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi NURAN FERYAL TANSUĞ DOURLARİS
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	It aims to provide background to understand multi-cultural Istanbul society within the framework of peaceful coexistence and to analyze dynamics of Istanbul society through exploring social and cultural life in the city.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1. Students shall understand the transformation process of the Ottoman society into modern Turkish society by using Istanbul as an example.
2. Students shall learn to analyze and critique historical developments in an interdisciplinary perspective.
3. Students shall learn to various actors of the cosmopolitan city.
4. Students shall develop ability for connecting historical debates to current historical and/or political, social, cultural and economic debates.
5. Students shall learn about various pioneer academic works about Istanbul.
6. Students shall develop presentation and communication skills in an international class environment.

Course Content

This course deals with social and cultural life in multi-cultural Istanbul in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Ders Tanıtımı ve de Ders İçeriğinin Açıklanması
2)	The end of the Byzantine Constantinople & Formation of the Ottoman Istanbul	Halil İnalcık, The Status of the Greek Patriarch Under the Ottomans Philip Mansel, Constantinople, chapter 2, “City of God”
3)	Ruling of multi-religious & multi-ethnic Istanbul under the Ottoman Rule	Halil İnalcık, The Status of the Greek Patriarch Under the Ottomans Philip Mansel, Constantinople, chapter 2, “City of God”
4)	The Golden Age of the Ottomans Hagia Sophia: From an imperial church to an imperial mosque. Sinan: The Chief Architect of the Empire	Gülru Necipoglu, The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire (Reaktion Books, London, and Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2005, 2010). Excerpt. Gülru Necipoğlu, “The life of an Imperial Monument: Hagia Sophia after Byzantium,” in Hagia Sophia from the Age of Justinian to the Present, R. Mark, A. S. Çakmak (NY: Cambridge University Press, 1992): 195-225.
5)	Oppressive imperial policies, 16th & 17th centuries Istanbul Society in pre-Tanzimat Period	Madeline Zilfi, “The Kadızadelis: discordant Revivalism in the 17th Century Istanbul”, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, vol. 45, no. 4, 1986, 251-269. Ekrem Işın, “Daily Life in Istanbul in Pre-Modern Period” in Daily Life in Istanbul.
6)	Leisure and Pleasure in the City	Shirine Hamadeh, The City’s Pleasures, Istanbul in the 18th Century, Excerpt Cengiz Kırlı: “Coffeehouses in Istanbul”
7)	Modernization / Westernization in the Empire Enraged Sultan and “the Greek Intrigue” (1821) Difficult times in the city & Social Tension	Philip Mansel, “Mahmud II” in Constantinople, city of the World’s Desire, chapter 10. Hakan Erdem, “Do Not Think of the Greeks as Agricultural Labourers’: Ottoman Responses to the Greek War of Independence,” in Citizenship and the Nation-State in Greece and Turkey, pp. 67-84.
8)	Istanbul Society after the years of the Greek Revolt (1821) Declaration of Reforms Tanzimat –Reorganization– 1839 Imperial Reform Edict	Şükrü Hanioğlu, A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire, Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008, chapters 2, 3 & 4. Philip Mansel, Mahmud II,” in Constantinople, city of the World’s Desire, chapter 10.
9)	European armies in Istanbul, Crimean War Municipal Reform & Imperial Power Exhibition	Murat Gül: Istanbul Between the Crimean War and First World War, in Emergence of Istanbul, chapter 2. Philip Mansel, “City of Marvels” in Constantinople, City of the World’s Desire, chapter 11.
10)	Social & Cultural Life in the City Theatres, Literary Societies Populations in the city	Philip Mansel, Constantinople, City of the World’s Desire, chapter 12. Aron Rodrigue, The Beginnings of Westernization and Community Reform Among Istanbul’s Jewry, 1854-1865.
11)	Istanbul in the eyes of the travelers	Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, The Turkish Embassy Letters (Longman) Ubicini, The Letters From Turkey Gerard Nerval, Voyage to the Orient. Excerpt
12)	Ottoman Parliament / Constitution (1876) Ottoman-Russian War & The difficult year, 1878	Philip Mansel, “Yıldız”, in Constantinople, City of the World’s Desire, Chapter 13. Florian Riedler, “Armenian Labor Migration to Istanbul” in The City on the Ottoman Empire, Migration and the Making of Urban Modernity, eds. U. Freitag, M. Fuhrmann, N. Lafi, F. Rriedler, New York: Soass, Routladge, 2011.
13)	A new Hope: Second Ottoman Parliament 1908 /The Young Turk Revolution Celebration & Disappointment Nationalism in Cosmopolitan Istanbul	Philip Mansel, “Young Turks” in Constantinople, City of the World’s Desire, chapter 14.
14)	First World War I The city under occupation Lausanne & forced exchange of populations Istanbul under the rule of Turkish Republic	Philip Mansel, “The Death of a Capital” in Constantinople, city of the World’s Desire, chapter 15. John Freely, The Imperial City, the last Chapter
15)	Final Exam
16)	Final Exam

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:

Philip Mansel, Constantinople, The World’s Desire, chapters 1, 2, 10-15.
Halil İnalcık, “Policies of Mehmed II towards Greek Population of Istanbul and Byzantine Buildings of the City”.
Halil İnalcık, The Status of the Greek Patriarch Under the Ottomans
Gülru Necipoglu, The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire (Reaktion Books, London, and Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2005, 2010). Excerpt.
Gülru Necipoğlu, “The life of an Imperial Monument: Hagia Sophia after Byzantium,” in Hagia Sophia from the Age of Justinian to the Present, R. Mark, A. S. Çakmak (NY: Cambridge University Press, 1992): 195-225.
Madeline Zilfi, “The Kadızadelis: discordant Revivalism in the 17th Century Istanbul”, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, vol. 45, no. 4, 1986, 251-269.
Ekrem Işın, “Daily Life in Istanbul in Pre-Modern Period” in Daily Life in Istanbul.
Shirine Hamadeh, The City’s Pleasures, Istanbul in the 18th Century, Excerpt
Cengiz Kırlı: “Coffeehouses in Istanbul”
Hakan Erdem, “Do Not Think of the Greeks as Agricultural Labourers’: Ottoman Responses to the Greek War of Independence,” in Citizenship and the Nation-State in Greece and Turkey, pp. 67-84.
Şükrü Hanioğlu, A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire, Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008, chapters 2, 3 & 4.

References:

Murat Gül: Istanbul Between the Crimean War and First World War, in Emergence of Istanbul, chapter 2.
Aron Rodrigue, The Beginnings of Westernization and Community Reform Among Istanbul’s Jewry, 1854-1865.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, The Turkish Embassy Letters (Longman)
Ubicini, The Letters From Turkey
Gerard Nerval, Voyage to the Orient. Excerpt

Florian Riedler, “Armenian Labor Migration to Istanbul” in The City on the Ottoman Empire, Migration and the Making of Urban Modernity, eds. U. Freitag, M. Fuhrmann, N. Lafi, F. Rriedler, New York: Soass, Routladge, 2011.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Attendance	14	% 10
Homework Assignments	1	% 20
Presentation	1	% 10
Midterms	1	% 30
Final	1	% 30
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 70
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 30
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	14	3	42
Study Hours Out of Class	12	2	24
Presentations / Seminar	1	6	6
Homework Assignments	1	15	15
Midterms	1	8	8
Final	1	10	10
Total Workload			105

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)	They acquire theoretical, historical and aesthetic knowledge specific to their field by using methods and techniques related to performing arts (acting, dance, music, etc.).
2)	They have knowledge about art culture and aesthetics and they provide the unity of theory and practice in their field.
3)	They are aware of national and international values in performing arts.
4)	Abstract and concrete concepts of performing arts; can transform it into creative thinking, innovative and original works.
5)	They have the sensitivity to run a business successfully in their field.
6)	Develops the ability to perceive, think, design and implement multidimensional from local to universal.
7)	They have knowledge about the disciplines that the performing arts field is related to and can evaluate the interaction of the sub-disciplines within their field.
8)	They develop the ability to perceive, design, and apply multidimensionality by having knowledge about artistic criticism methods.
9)	They can share original works related to their field with the society and evaluate their results and question their own work by using critical methods.
10)	They follow English language resources related to their field and can communicate with foreign colleagues in their field.
11)	By becoming aware of national and international values in the field of performing arts, they can transform abstract and concrete concepts into creative thinking, innovative and original works.
12)	They can produce original works within the framework of an interdisciplinary understanding of art.
13)	Within the framework of the Performing Arts Program and the units within it, they become individuals who are equipped to take part in the universal platform in their field.
14)	Within the Performing Arts Program, according to the field of study; have competent technical knowledge in the field of acting and musical theater.
15)	They use information and communication technologies together with computer software that is at least at the Advanced Level of the European Computer Use License as required by the field.