Syllabus

HISTORY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY OF TURKEY THROUGH CINEMA - HUMS. 110 (1)
2014 SPRING
Class Meeting Location CAS 124
Class Meeting Times
TH B4,TU B4
Instructor
Office Hours
Office Location
Office Phone
Email
Web Address
EDA DALOĞLU
Number of Credits
ECTS Credits
Prerequisites
Language
3
6
SOS 243
1579
[email protected]
English
Assistant
N/A
Course Description
Cumhuriyet dönemi, Türk tarihi, kültürü ve toplumuna filmlerin bakış açısından bakmak. Farklı toplumsal öğelerin arasındaki ilişkileri,
tarihsel bakış açısı ile tarihi gerçeklikler açısından değerlendirme. Azınlıklar, şehirleşme, İslam ve cinsiyet ilişkileri gibi ana temaları
irdeleme.
Course Objectives
This course aims to discuss issues in Turkish history and society through the perspective of movies. The goal is to familiarize the
students with these main themes of discussion through visual popular culture materials. Through this, the students will not only learn
about these subjects but will also see how different Turkish directors and script writers used these themes. The aim of the course is to
give students different perspectives and create an environment of discussion. The course is designed to have four main themes which
also have sub-categories.
Learning Outcomes
Critical look at the Turkish History and Culture.
Gaining an analytical look at the world and issues in Turkey.
Teaching Methods
One to one lecturing and discussion.
Course Contents
Session Starting
Number Date
10
Topics
Minorities in Turkey Oran,Baskın. ?The Minority Concept and Rights in Turkey The Lausanne Peace Treaty and
Current Issues? in Human Rights in Turkey. Edited by Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat. 35-40. Philadelphia: University
of Penslyvania Press. 2007.Fabbe, Kristin. ?Historical Legacies, modern conflicst: state consolidation and
religious pluralism in Greece and Turkey?. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. 13:3. 2013. 435-453.
Balancar, Ferda. ?I heard about ?40 days on Musa Mountain? from my Grandmother? in The Sounds of
04/02/2014 Silence: Turkey?s Armenians Speak. 37-43. Istanbul: Hrant Dink Foundation Publications. 2012. Balancar,
Ferda, ?They made him convert from his religion to Islam, and then wrote `convert? on his identity card? in The
Sounds of Silence II: Diyarbakır?s Armenians Speak. 73-81. Istanbul: Hrant Dink Foundation Publications.
2013. Pamuk, Orhan. ?Conquest or Decline? The Turkification of Constantinople? in Istanbul, Memories and
The City. 155-159. Faber and Faber, London, 2005.O?Neil, Mary Lou. ?Linguistic Human Rights and the
Rights of Kurds? in Human Rights in Turkey. Edited by Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat. 72-86. Philadelphia:
University of Penslyvania Press. 2007.
Urbanization and Istanbul Keyder, Çağlar. ?The Housing Market from Informal to Global? In Istanbul: Between
the Global and the Local, edited by Çağlar Keyder. 143-159. New York: Rowmen & Littlefield Publishers. 1999.
11/03/2014 Lovering, John and Hade Türkmen. ?Buldozer Neo-Liberalism in Istanbul:The State-led Construction of
Property Markets, and the Displacement of the Urban Poor? in International Planning Studies. Vol. 16 Issue. 1
(Feb. 2011). 73-96.
Secularism and Political Islam in Turkey Larrabee, F. Stephen & Angel Rabasa. ?The Islamic Landscape in
Turkey? in The Rise of Political Islam in Turkey. 7-26. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation. 2008. White, Jenny
01/04/2014 B. ?The Republic of Fear? in Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks. 68-79. New Jersey: Princeton University
Press. 2013. Pamuk, Orhan. ?Religion? in Istanbul, Memories and The City, 160-169. London: Faber and
Faber. 2005.
Women in Turkey White, Jenny B. ?State Feminism, Modernization, and the Turkish Republican Woman?.
NWSA Journal. Volume 15. Number 3. Fall 2003. 145-159. Ecevit, Yıldız. ?Women?s Rights, Women
29/04/2014 Organizations, and the State? in Human Rights in Turkey. Edited by Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat. 187-201.
Philadelphia: University of Penslyvania Press. 2007. İnce, Hilal Onur &Aysun Yarali, Doğancan Özsel. ?
Customary Killings in Turkey and Turkish Modernization? Middle Eastern Studies 45/4. 2009. 537-551.
6
5
5
Assessment Methods
Type
Description
Homework
Response Papers (3)
Individual/Group Theme Leading (1)
Analysis
Other
Participation
Total
Final Grade, %
75
15
10
100
Workload Breakdown
Type
Description
Hours
Lecture
Assignment
Project
Lectures in Class
Readings and Response Papers
Theme Leading
100
60
20
180
Total
Sources
Required Readings
White, Jenny B. ?State Feminism, Modernization, and the Turkish Republican Woman?. NWSA Journal. Volume 15. Number 3.
Fall 2003. 145-159. Ecevit, Yıldız. ?Women?s Rights, Women Organizations, and the State? in Human Rights in Turkey. Edited
by Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat. 187-201. Philadelphia: University of Penslyvania Press. 2007. İnce, Hilal Onur &Aysun Yarali,
Doğancan Özsel. ?Customary Killings in Turkey and Turkish Modernization? Middle Eastern Studies 45/4. 2009. 537-551.
Larrabee, F. Stephen & Angel Rabasa. ?The Islamic Landscape in Turkey? in The Rise of Political Islam in Turkey. 7-26. Santa
Monica: RAND Corporation. 2008. White, Jenny B. ?The Republic of Fear? in Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks. 68-79.
New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 2013. Pamuk, Orhan. ?Religion? in Istanbul, Memories and The City, 160-169. London:
Faber and Faber. 2005. Keyder, Çağlar. ?The Housing Market from Informal to Global? In Istanbul: Between the Global and the
Local, edited by Çağlar Keyder. 143-159. New York: Rowmen & Littlefield Publishers. 1999. Lovering, John and Hade Türkmen.
?Buldozer Neo-Liberalism in Istanbul:The State-led Construction of Property Markets, and the Displacement of the Urban Poor?
in International Planning Studies. Vol. 16 Issue. 1 (Feb. 2011). 73-96. O?Neil, Mary Lou. ?Linguistic Human Rights and the
Rights of Kurds? in Human Rights in Turkey. Edited by Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat. 72-86. Philadelphia: University of Penslyvania
Press. 2007.Fabbe, Kristin. ?Historical Legacies, modern conflicst: state consolidation and religious pluralism in Greece and
Turkey?. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. 13:3. 2013. 435-453. Balancar, Ferda. ?I heard about ?40 days on Musa
Mountain? from my Grandmother? in The Sounds of Silence: Turkey?s Armenians Speak. 37-43. Istanbul: Hrant Dink
Foundation Publications. 2012. Balancar, Ferda, ?They made him convert from his religion to Islam, and then wrote `convert? on
his identity card? in The Sounds of Silence II: Diyarbakır?s Armenians Speak. 73-81. Istanbul: Hrant Dink Foundation
Publications. 2013. Pamuk, Orhan. ?Conquest or Decline? The Turkification of Constantinople? in Istanbul, Memories and The
City. 155-159. Faber and Faber, London, 2005. Oran,Baskın. ?The Minority Concept and Rights in Turkey The Lausanne Peace
Treaty and Current Issues? in Human Rights in Turkey. Edited by Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat. 35-40. Philadelphia: University of
Penslyvania Press. 2007.
Other
N/A
Academic Dishonesty
N/A