Iğdır University Lifelong Learning Programme

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	Number of ECTS Credits
130300103303	ANCIENT HISTORY AND CIVILIZATIONS-III	Compulsory	2	3	3

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

Political and cultural history of Hittite empire will be given in detail

Name of Lecturer(s)

Learning Outcomes

1	The individuals who are major in their field and experienced are being grown as dependent on main principles of Republic of Turkey and convenient for the main aims of Turkish national education system.
2	They will achieve some behaviour such as being open-minded while doing scientific investigations, being suspicious and delaying decisions in the situation of having no complete proof, and they can maintain their studies with patience and care.
3	They will apply the modern methods writing and investigating history by being loyal to scientific ethical rules.
4	By learning other disciplines which can be an assist to science of history, they will benefit from the branches which will help them in their investigations and studies.
5	They will have the command of grammar rules of Turkish and will use it in best way.
6	By dividing periods into ages they will learn deeply one by one. By comprehending the facts containing old age, middle age and modern age and the republic of turkey, they will be able reach sources concerned with these.
7	They will achieve the skills to convey their collections concerned with subject both verbally and in writing, to work independently and to take responsibility , to make evaluation over the information they have learned and to manage and direct.
8	With social responsibility they will be able to increase attention to history in society in the condition of study of group and individual and they will contribute social enlightenment by presenting much people with actions such as conference and lecture.

Mode of Delivery

Daytime Class

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

The origin of the Hittites, the appearance of the Hittites on the scene of history, the geography in which the Hittites established state, Old and Neo-Hittites (age of empire), the collapse of the Hittites, state government in Hittites, army, military organization, language, literature, writing, law, religion, art, economy, commerce, centers of crucial archeological heritage belong to the Hittites, emigrations of Aegean, Syro–Hittite Beyliks (Late Hittites Beyliks) are discussed within the context of this lesson.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Roots of Hittites.	Reading, criticizing
2	Ancient Hittite state.	Reading, criticizing
3	Labarna, Hattusilis 1., 1. Mursilis and babil crucades, Telepinus and its command.	Reading, criticizing
4	Dark age(1550-1450 B.C)(Egypt, Mitanni and Anatolia.	Reading, criticizing
5	Supplimania and Syria campaigns, Mursilis 2nd.	Reading, criticizing
6	Muvattalli and Kades war, Hattusilis 3rd.	Reading, criticizing
7	The collapse of Hittite empire.	Reading, criticizing
8	Midterm Exam
9	Hittite state organisation and army and law.	Reading, criticizing
10	Writing, literature, language, aconomy and trade in Hittites.	Reading, criticizing
11	Religion, art and society of Hittites.	Reading, criticizing
12	Hittite architecture, sculpture and art of sealing.	Reading, criticizing
13	Provincial states in late Hittite.	Reading, criticizing
14	Provincial state civilisations in late Hittite.	Reading, criticizing

Recommended or Required Reading

Ekrem AKURGAL, Anadolu Uygarlıkları.; Sedat ALP, Hitit Devleti. Firuzan KINAL, Eski Anadolu Tarihi.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Midterm Examination	1	100
SUM		100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Final Examination	1	100
SUM		100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities		40
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities		60
SUM		100

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination	1	1	1
Final Examination	1	2	2
Attending Lectures	13	3	39
Field Work	8	2	16
Self Study	14	1	14
Individual Study for Homework Problems	2	2	4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			76

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