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
130300106102	READING TRAVELOGUES	Elective	3	6	3

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

The information contained in reports to the embassy sometimes travelogues and accurate understanding of the period may play an important role. Date and place of their contributions to the science of travelogues is indisputable. Accurate assessments of resources in terms of presentation of history, travelogues and the indispensable need to know.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Serpil Sönmez

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	At the end of course provided the student's travel writing and Sefaretname vukufiyeti area sources.
7	In addition, the ability to reach the recognition of different texts.

Mode of Delivery

Daytime Class

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Travel Culture, Travelers in history, Islamic geography travelers, Travelers in the Ottoman Period, Evliya Celebi and Travelogues

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	History of travel	reading, explanation, discussion
2	The early Travelers	reading, explanation, discussion
3	The first written Travelogues	reading, explanation, discussion
4	Marco Polo and Western Travelers	reading, explanation, discussion
5	Formation of the idea of Muslims Travel	reading, explanation, discussion
6	first Geographical works	reading, explanation, discussion
7	Ibn Fadlan and his Travelogue	reading, explanation, discussion
8	Midterm Exam.
9	Ibn Batuta and his Travelogue	reading, explanation, discussion
10	Pilgrimage Travelogues	reading, explanation, discussion
11	Evliya Çelebi and his Traveloguess	reading, explanation, discussion
12	Voyagers of the last period and Theirs major works	reading, explanation, discussion
13	Description of the embassy rise	reading, explanation, discussion
14	Travels and Embassy description between and evaluation of the differences	reading, explanation, discussion

Recommended or Required Reading

Seyahatname ve sefaretnamelerin matbu ve yazmaları da birlikte işlenecektir. İbn Battuta Seyahatnamesi, Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnamesi , I-X, haz. R.Dankoff, Yücel Dağlı, Seyit Ali Kahraman, Yapı Kredi Yayınları. Seyahatname madddesi (DİA), 37. CİLT. Coşkun, Menderes (2006), "Seyahatname ve sefaretnameler", Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi, 2, İstanbul: Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, Ercüment Kuran, Avrupa'daki Osmanlı İkamet Elçiliklerinin Kuruluşu ve İlk Elçilerin Siyasî Faaliyetleri --------------, Türkiye'nin batılılaşması ve milli meseleler, 1920-2009 ; Ankara : Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı, 1994. Bidwell, R., Travellers in Arabia. Lebanon 1994. Suraiya Farughi, Pilgrims and Sultans. The Hajj under the Ottomans. London 1992

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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