| Academic Unit: |
Core Program |
| Mode of Delivery: |
Face to face |
| Prerequisites: |
- |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Course Unit: |
Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
- - |
| Course Objectives: |
The main objective of this course is to introduce the students with major concepts in humanities and social
sciences as they relate to world civilizations and history. It is expected that the students will become familiar with
social scientific theories that utilize and build upon these concepts and understand that concepts and ideas change
in time and space, and are institutionally framed. The course also aims to help the students develop their
capacities for critical thinking and analysis; learn ways of reading (primary) texts and expressing arguments and
ideas verbally, visually, and in writing; and develop intellectual responsibility and respect for others. |
| Course Contents: |
KHAS103 aims to equip students with an awareness of some of the predominant modes of relating to the past
within the contemporary field of history and social sciences, as well as the problematic and contested nature of our
relation to the past. The course spans the history of modern societies from the eighteenth century to the present,
and has been designed with multiple complementary goals in mind. Firstly, topics are located on some important
historiographical fault-lines, and the debates to which students are introduced serve as prisms for wider debates
over how we should understand history as a whole. Another key thematic focus of KHAS103 is historical agency,
and each module poses the same set of questions: what scope is there for the exercise of agency, and what
limitations are imposed upon it? What are some of the principal forms of historical agency, and how do different
forms of historical agency compete with one another? The class calls on students to develop their own voice in
addressing these debates and in responding to these questions and will encourage the cultivation of some key oral
and written academic skills across the process. The course is composed of one week of content introduction that
provides context for the specific debates and arguments covered in each subject, followed by a week of critical
skills education to help students develop the skills necessary to engage with those debates and arguments critically
and creatively |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO): |
- 1- Demonstrate a deeper understanding of the wider human community to which we belong: the history which this community shares; the values which we have inherited from it; the cultural and ethnic diversity inherent to it; and the ideological conflicts and ethical dilemmas which continue to inform how we relate towards it
- 2- Demonstrate an understanding of the multivocal nature of our relation to the past, and the capacity to synthesize competing perspectives and methods drawn from multiple sources towards arriving at their own conclusions on key subject-specific questions.
- 3- Demonstrate improved academic writing skills through the composition of a structured essay following academic conventions, and speaking skills containing their own critical and creative response to contemporary academic debates.
- 4- Attest to a greater awareness of the academic and extra-academic exercise of agency, of the scope available for the exercise of freedom and responsibility, within our world.
- 5- Take individual responsibility for and work collaboratively with fellow students towards the completion of group assignments
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: |
Lectures; complementary Short Readings/Discussions; In-class exercises; Written and oral assignments. |
| Week | Subjects | Related Preperation |
| 1 |
Introduction |
Introduction to Academic Writing and Active Reading |
| 2 |
Capitalism and Social Transformation/Content |
Reading assignment |
| 3 |
Capitalism and Social Transformation/Skills |
Paraphrasing & Citation |
| 4 |
The Age of Revolutions/Content |
Reading assignment |
| 5 |
The Age of Revolutions/Skills |
Main Ideas & Summarizing |
| 6 |
Imperialism and Colonialism/Content 1 st Assignment |
Reading assignment |
| 7 |
Imperialism and Colonialism/Skills 2nd Assignment |
Summary Practice |
| 8 |
Study Week |
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| 9 |
World Wars-1/Content |
Reading assignment |
| 10 |
World Wars/Skills |
Presentation Skills |
| 11 |
The World after 1945/Content |
Reading assignment |
| 12 |
The World after 1945/Skills |
Poster Presentation and Practice |
| 13 |
Content/3rd Assignment |
Preparing for the assignments |
| 14 |
Skills/4th Assignment |
Preparing for the assignments |
At Kadir Has University, a Semester is 14 weeks; The weeks 15 and 16 are reserved for final exams.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO) AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS (PQ)
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Contribution: 1 Low, 2 Average, 3 High
