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
130300106400	PALEOGRAPHY OF OTTOMAN- IV	Compulsory	3	6	4

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

To be able to comprehend the language and terminology and read the manuscripts used by the foundations in Ottoman Empire.

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 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	Students have a command of the diplomatic language of Ottoman Empire used in XX. century.
7	Students can read manuscripts reasonably used in second half of XVII. XVIII. century.
8	Students comprehend firman, letters patent, warrant and other diplomatic terminology.

Mode of Delivery

Evening Education

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Sample interinstitutional correspondences, rika, sülüs and talik manuscripts are instructed to students.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Introduction to epigraphy and paleography	reading, explanation, discussion
2	Interinstitutional correspondences and fonts used in Ottoman Empire	reading, explanation, discussion
3	Reading manuscripts	reading, explanation, discussion
4	Reading manuscripts	reading, explanation, discussion
5	Characteristic of the literary language used in XVII. XVIII. century.	reading, explanation, discussion
6	Sample reading	reading, explanation, discussion
7	Sample reading	reading, explanation, discussion
8	Midterm Exam
9	Reading formal petitions filed by public and the procedure steps	reading, explanation, discussion
10	Kinds of manuscripts used in late XVII. XVIII. century.	reading, explanation, discussion
11	Introduction to handwritings	reading, explanation, discussion
12	Reading handwritings in basic rika	reading, explanation, discussion
13	Sample reading	reading, explanation, discussion
14	Sample reading	reading, explanation, discussion

Recommended or Required Reading

Jan Reychman/Ananıasz Zajaczkowskı, Osmanlı Türk DiplomatikasıEl Kitabı, çev. M.Fethi Atay, İstanbul 1993. - Yılmaz Kurt, Osmanlıca Dersleri I-II,

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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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