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
130300105102	OTTOMAN ECONOMIC HISTORY-I	Compulsory	3	5	3

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

To know economical sistems of the Ottoman State.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Mehmet Dağlar

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 information of archive, library and documents. In addition, by evaluating these sources in decent way through its originality, they will present service and being of academic society.
6	To be able to compass the economic state of Ottoman Empire.
7	To be able to compare Ottoman tax system with other state?s tax systems.
8	To be able to confirm the connections between economic structure and social life of Ottoman Empire.

Mode of Delivery

Daytime Class

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Economical structure of the Ottoman State and its reflections on social life.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Economical mentality in the Ottoman State	reading, explanation, discussion
2	State and economy in the Ottoman Empire	reading, explanation, discussion
3	Rise of the Ottoman Timar system	reading, explanation, discussion
4	Military dimensions of Ottoman Timar	reading, explanation, discussion
5	Ottoman tax system	reading, explanation, discussion
6	Ottoman custom regime	reading, explanation, discussion
7	Implementations of Malikane	reading, explanation, discussion
8	Midterm Exam.
9	Implementations of Iltizam	reading, explanation, discussion
10	First Ottoman coin	reading, explanation, discussion
11	Money order in the early Ottomans	reading, explanation, discussion
12	Price revolution and Ottoman coin	reading, explanation, discussion
13	Devaluations in the Ottoman era	reading, explanation, discussion
14	Conclusion and evaluations	reading, explanation, discussion

Recommended or Required Reading

1- Mehmet Genç, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda Devlet ve Ekonomi, İstanbul 2000. 2- Ömer Lütfi Barkan, Timar, MEB İA, 12/I, ss. 286-333. 3- Halil İnalcık, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu: Toplum ve Ekonomi, İstanbul 1996. 4- Erol Özvar, Osmanlı Maliyesinde Malikâne Uygulaması, İstanbul 2003. 5- Eftal Batmaz, İltizam Sisteminin 18. Yüzyıldaki Boyutları, AÜDTCF Tarih Araştırmaları Dergisi, c: XVIII, sayı: 29, Ankara 1997, ss. 39-50. 6- Şevket Pamuk, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda Paranın Tarihi, İstanbul 2000

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	2	26
Self Study	14	2	28
Individual Study for Mid term Examination	1	9	9
Individual Study for Final Examination	1	10	10
Reading	7	2	14
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			90

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