HIST557 WOMEN IN TURKEY WITH A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ( FROM THE 19TH TO THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY )
| Course Code: | 2400557 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (0.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | History |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, the students will:
- Gain an understanding of the status, position, and conditions of women in society and before the law in Turkey with a historical perspective during the Ottoman period and in Modern Turkey.
- Explain the positive impact of reforms on the lives of women in Turkey from the Ottoman period onward.
- Define the major acts, organizations, and agencies in Turkey that women initiated or involved to become active in public space and in working life to gain status and power to act on behalf of themselves.
- Define the contributions of women in Turkey to national matters and struggles, and their efforts to become active in politics.
Course Content
Analysis of women in Turkey coming from different social classes, religious and ethnicities in the periods between 1800 and 1935; Status of women in private and public domains, their daily lives, participation in the economic and working lives, existence in the fine arts, press and publication, and relations among the social classes, ethnic and religious communities; Struggles of women for liberation, their participation in the national wars and political matters in Turkey.
Course Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Write an essay on the history of women in Turkey.
- Compare the status of women and the effect of the reforms on the lives of women during the Ottoman Period and in Modern Turkey.
- Explain women’s struggles to liberate themselves from the traditional obstacles via education, professions, press, and associations.
- Identify women’s contribution to the country and national matters and women’s participation in politics in Turkey.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Demonstrate competence in their chosen fields of study including the sources and the historiography relevant to it | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Construct arguments based on developed research skills that enable them to access, analyze, synthesize and evaluate primary, secondary and tertiary sources efficiently | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Disseminate and communicate research findings effectively in oral and written form | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Develop the ability to work cooperatively on investigation of an area of historical inquiry and to share own findings with co-researchers | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Conduct research in Ottoman archives and other national and international research institutions | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Have a command of language skills necessary for their research | ✔ | |||
| 7 | Act in accordance with a universal understanding of academic ethics | ✔ | |||
| 8 | Contribute to society through a sense of personal responsibility and awareness for social issues | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution