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
130300106208	OTTOMAN DIPLOMACY- II	Elective	3	6	3

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

The goal of the course is learning and reading the types of writing , inter-agency correspondence procedures used by institutions, terminology and handwriting in the 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	To be able to master the XX century of the Ottoman Empire diplomatic language .
7	To be able to read Rica documents printed in the second half of the XIX century in a moderate level.
8	Knows ferman, berats, ilam and other diplomatic terminology.

Mode of Delivery

Evening Education

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

The meaning of writings and terminology used by the institutions will be taught. Plenty of examples of correspondence between the Ottoman institutions will be studied. Documents like printed writings, rika, sülüs and talik will be studied.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Giving general information about the course of Ottoman diplomacyin the XIX century.	reading, explanation, discussion
2	Correspondence between the institution and the types used in the Ottoman Empire in the XIX century.	reading, explanation, discussion
3	Reading printed examples of correspondence with the students, vocabulary practices.	reading, explanation, discussion
4	Reading simple diplomatic correspondence written in XIX century.	reading, explanation, discussion
5	Features of the language used in diplomatic correspondence in XIX century.	reading, explanation, discussion
6	Sample readings,	reading, explanation, discussion
7	Sample readings,	reading, explanation, discussion
8	Midterm Exam.
9	Examples of official correspondence between institutions.	reading, explanation, discussion
10	Types of manuscripts used in XIX century.	reading, explanation, discussion
11	Presentation of sülüs and talik	reading, explanation, discussion
12	Reading handwriting written letters in Sülüs and talik,	reading, explanation, discussion
13	Sample readings,	reading, explanation, discussion
14	Sample readings,	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, Ankara 2000. - Şemseddin Sami, Kamus-ı Türkî, İstanbul 1978. - Y. İhsan Genç/Heyet, Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi Rehberi, 1992. - Muallim Naci, Lügat-ı Naci, İstanbul 2006. - Hüseyin Nazım Paşa, Ermeni Olayları Tarihi I-II, 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	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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