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
130300103104	HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY- I	Compulsory	2	3	4

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

History of ideas and institutions that have shaped contemporary geographic inquiry. Examines the evolving relations among human geography, physical geography, environment-society relations, and geographic information processing. Designed to situate graduate student research within major subfields and intellectual currents of geography.

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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	Definition of historical geography and the subject
7	The development of historical geography
8	Students will be knowledgeable about the fields such as the locations of old cities.

Mode of Delivery

Evening Education

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Being determined the relationship between history and geography and the effect of geography on historical events.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Definition of historical geography and the subject	reading, explanation, discussion
2	In the historical geography of geography within	reading, explanation, discussion
3	The development of historical geography	reading, explanation, discussion
4	Historical geography, written documents belonging to the past in the evaluation period	reading, explanation, discussion
5	Socio-economic activities in the prehistoric period	reading, explanation, discussion
6	Date of socio-economic activities in the period	reading, explanation, discussion
7	Date of socio-economic activities in the period	reading, explanation, discussion
8	Midterm Exam
9	Date of trade and trade routes in the period	reading, explanation, discussion
10	Prehistoric settlements and the settlements in the period associated with geographical factors	reading, explanation, discussion
11	Historical periods settlements and settlements associated with geographical factors	reading, explanation, discussion
12	The emergence of cities and urban settlements in the history of the evolution process	reading, explanation, discussion
13	Old settlement ruins	reading, explanation, discussion
14	Historical cities in Anatolia (Thrakia, Bithynia, İonia, Mysia, Phrygia Paphlagonia, Lykaonia, Arzava, Pisidia, Lydia, Karia, Lykia, Pamphylia, Kilikia)	reading, explanation, discussion

Recommended or Required Reading

Mitchel, J.B.,Historical Geography. Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, London 1975. Doğanay, H., Coğrafyaya Giriş. Atatürk Üniv. Yay. No:726, Kazım Karabekir EğitimFak.Yay.No:23,Erzurum1992. Elibüyük,M, Matematik Coğrafya. Ekol Yayınevi, Ankara 1995. Gümüşçü,O, Tarihi Coğrafya, Yeditepe yay., İstanbul 2006.

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	3	42
Individual Study for Mid term Examination	1	9	9
Individual Study for Final Examination	1	10	10
Reading	8	4	32
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			122

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