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
1908020503	TURKISH-ISLAMIC MYTHOLOGY AND ICONOGRAPHY	Compulsory	3	5	3

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

To make students realize Turkish culture and oldest literary genre that is verbal. To make realize historical background of cultural structure in mythological texts.

Name of Lecturer(s)

ÖĞR.GÖR.AKİF BAYRAK

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 apply the modern methods writing and investigating history by being loyal to scientific ethical rules.
3	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.
4	To able to realize differences between Turkish mythology and others.
5	To able to realize historical background of Turkish mythology and cultural structure.

Mode of Delivery

Daytime Class

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Turkish mythology grasp of the content and features, the number of which has an important place in Turkish mythology, and color elements such as animals know

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Myth,Mythology, rituel, introduction to basic concepts about mythology.	Reading, criticizing
2	Mythology, Animatism, fetichism	Reading, criticizing
3	Relaqtionship between myth and faith.	Reading, criticizing
4	Shamanism and Turkish mythology	Reading, criticizing
5	Basic features of Turkish Mythology	Reading, criticizing
6	Features of Turkish mythology that sets apart from other mythologies	Reading, criticizing
7	Mythological texts: Saga	Reading, criticizing
8	Midterm Exam
9	Creation myths: Altai Creation Sagas	Reading, criticizing
10	Propagation Myths: Uighur Saga and Oghuz Saga	Reading, criticizing
11	Turkish Mythology and totemism	Reading, criticizing
12	Turkish Mythology and animals: Wolf, horse, eagle etc.	Reading, criticizing
13	Turkish mythology and colours: yellow, red, black.	Reading, criticizing
14	Turkish mythology and numbers	Reading, criticizing

Recommended or Required Reading

Fuzuli Bayat, Mitolojiye Giriş, İstanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, 2007. 2- Yaşar Çoruhlu, Türk Mitolojisinin Ana Hatları, İstanbul: Kabalcı Yayınevi, 2002. Muharrem Ergin, Oğuza Kağan Destanı, İstanbul 1988.Emel Esin, Türk Kozmolojisine Giriş, İstanbul: Kabalcı Yayınevi, 2001. Abdulkadir İnan, Makaleler ve İncelemeler, Ankara 1968.Abdulkadir İnan, Tarihte ve Bugün Şamanizm, Ankara 2006. Bahaeddin Ögel, Türk Mitolojisi, 1-2, Ankara 1998.

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

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

	PO 1	PO 2	PO 3	PO 4	PO 5	PO 6
LO1	3	3	3	3	2	3
LO2	2	2	4	3	5	2
LO3	1	3	2	5	5	3
LO4	3	3	2	3	2	2
LO5	5	3	3	3	4	4

* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High