| Academic Unit: |
Department of Core Academics – Core Program |
| Mode of Delivery: |
Face to face |
| Prerequisites: |
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| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Course Unit: |
Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
- - |
| Course Objectives: |
This course intends to introduce students to the wide variety of approaches to the history of global capitalism. Throughout the course, we will engage with approaches including Marxist examinations of capital in relationship to labor, approaches that study capital in relation to ecology, mobility, and ideas, as well as from feminist critiques of capitalism and anti- and post-colonial readings of history of capitalism. Through readings, including academic articles, primary sources, excerpts from fictional narratives and life writings, and viewings of films, videos, and documentaries, we will trace the arc of history of capital across the planet. From early networks of merchant capital in the Indian Ocean World to early sugar plantations and finance in the Mediterranean, from silver mines and slave plantations in the Americas to join-stock companies and merchant vessels plying the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, from the factories of industrial Europe to the peasant farms in Asia, Middle East, and Africa, from the nineteent-century colonialism to the twenty-first century neoliberalism, students will leave the course well-versed in the history of the social, economic, and ecological order and crises that mark the world we live in. |
| Course Contents: |
This course examines the history of capitalism, focusing on how capital has operated in different geographic and ecological contexts from the 14th century to the present. In the course, we will explore questions raised in the historical examination of capitalism. The course also relates the global economy to the everyday lives and labor of a variety of economic communities across the globe: including traders, bankers, creditors, plantation owners, industrialists, peasants, workers, enslaved people, pirates, and smugglers. It analyzes the fundamental processes and contingencies that the global expansion of capitalism relied upon and reinforced, including—but not limited to—debt and indebtedness, colonial hierarchies, dispossession, ecological crisis, and gendered social reproduction and care. |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO): |
- 1- reflect on how the world economy got to be the way it is, and to put the present and future and their own lives into a global historical perspective.
- 2- learn to think critically, analytically, and historically, to identify patterns and particularities over time and to pay attention to context, scale, cause and effect, and point of view.
- 3- be exposed to some of the different ways in which historians "do" history, particularly history of capitalism.
- 4- develop skills as critical readers, fluent analytical writers, collaborative peers, and public speakers.
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: |
Teaching: Lecture and discussion - 3 hours / week Learning: Synchronous and asynchronous reading and writing tasks completed both individually and in groups. |
| Week | Subjects | Related Preperation |
| 1 |
Introduction to Class |
Reading the relevant articles, watching the assigned videos, answering the forum question |
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What is Capital(ism)? |
Reading the relevant articles, watching the assigned videos, answering the forum question |
| 3 |
Capital in the pre-capitalist world |
Reading the relevant articles, watching the assigned videos, answering the forum question |
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World Capitalism |
Reading the relevant articles, watching the assigned videos, answering the forum question |
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Historical Capitalism: The Mediterranean World |
Reading the relevant articles, watching the assigned videos, answering the forum question |
| 6 |
Historical Capitalism: The Indian Ocean World |
Reading the relevant articles, watching the assigned videos, answering the forum question |
| 7 |
Historical Capitalism: The Atlantic World |
Reading the relevant articles, watching the assigned videos, answering the forum question |
| 8 |
Research Week |
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| 9 |
The Age of Fossil Capital |
Reading the relevant articles, watching the assigned videos, answering the forum question |
| 10 |
The Order of Debt |
Reading the relevant articles, watching the assigned videos, answering the forum question |
| 11 |
Anti-Capitalist Resistance and Revolutions |
Reading the relevant articles, watching the assigned videos, answering the forum question |
| 12 |
Neoliberalism |
Reading the relevant articles, watching the assigned videos, answering the forum question |
| 13 |
Limits to Capital(ism) |
Reading the relevant articles, watching the assigned videos, answering the forum question |
| 14 |
Alternatives to Capitalism? |
Reading the relevant articles, watching the assigned videos, answering the forum question |
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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