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Cultural Formation, Development and Change Processes

Archaeology

Institute of Social Sciences
Third Cycle (Doctorate Degree)
Course Unit Title Course Unit Code Type of Course Unit Level of Course Unit Year of Study Semester ECTS Credits
Cultural Formation, Development and Change Processes ARK134 Elective Doctorate degree 1 Spring 7

Name of Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Şengül AYDINGÜN

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1) Analysis and synthesis of cultural properties
2) Defining evolution and change of cultural properties
3) Analyzing the change and transformation of cultural propeties
4) Analyzing the influences of several components on social and cultural collapse

Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

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4 No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation High No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Not Required

Course Contents

The reflections of these processes vary parallel to the form and level of social organization, and in this context each community needs to be examined in its own way. Topics such as the process of dissolution of different societies in different periods, internal and external dynamics that create this process, the level of societal complication and the relation of collapse or transformation processes will be discussed and analyzed through archaeological data. This course aims criticism and theoretical projecting.

Weekly Schedule

1) Defining culture and reflections
2) Formation and evolution
3) Interaction and change
4) Collapse and transformation
5) Approaches on cultural diffusion
6) New Archaeology Approaches
7) Post-modern Archaeology Approaches
8) Chosen topics-student presentations
9) Chosen topics-student presentations
10) Chosen topics-student presentations
11) Chosen topics-student presentations
12) Chosen topics-student presentations
13) Chosen topics-student presentations
14) Chosen topics-student presentations
15) Chosen topics-student presentations

Recommended or Required Reading

- Adams, R. M. 1960. The Evolutionary Process in Early Civilizations. The Evolution of Man: Mind, Culture and Society (Ed. Sol Tx. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 153-168.
- Childe, Vere Gordon 1939. Dawn of European Civilization. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & co.
- Hodder, Ian 1982. Symbols in action. Ethnoarchaeological studies of material culture. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
- Maspero, G. 2010. The Dawn of Civilization, Kessinger’s Legacy Reprints.
- Hart-Davis, A. 2015. History - From The Dawn Of Civilization to the Present Day, London.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Discussion
4) Group Study
5) Brain Storming
6) Self Study


Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Presentation/Seminar to Course Grade

70%

Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade

30%

Total

100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required