Kocaeli University / European Credit Transfer System (ECTS)

Name of Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Ayşe Tuba ÖKSE

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

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

		Program Competencies
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Learning Outcomes
	1	Middle	No relation	No relation	No relation	Middle	No relation	No relation	No relation	No relation
	2	No relation	No relation	Middle	Middle	No relation	No relation	No relation	Middle	No relation
	3	Low	Middle	No relation	No relation	No relation	No relation	No relation	No relation	No relation
	4	No relation	No relation	No relation	No relation	No relation	Middle	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) Meaning of cultural diffusion
6) selected topics
7) selected topics
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10) selected topics
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16) selected topics

Recommended or Required Reading

1- Adams, R. M. 1960. The Evolutionayr Process in Early Civilizations. The Evolution of Man: Mind, Culture and Society (Ed. Sol Tx. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 153-168.
2- Childe, Vere Gordon 1939. Dawn of European Civilization. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & co.
3- Hodder, Ian 1982. Symbols in action. Ethnoarchaeological studies of material culture. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
4- Yoffe, N. Ve G. L. Cowgill (eds.) 1995. The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations. Tuscon, London. Rowlands, M., M. Larsen ve K. Kristiansen (eds.) 1987, Centre and Periphery in the Ancient World, Cambridge.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Discussion
4) Brain Storming
5) Case Study
6) Self Study
7) Project Based Learning

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Presentation/Seminar to Course Grade	50%
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade	50%
Total	100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)