HIST590 COMMONS IN HISTORY
| Course Code: | 2400590 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | History |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
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| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, the students will be able to:
- pursuit a critical study of scholarly and literary works on analyzing political, economic and environmental aspects of commons in history
- discuss how different approaches are put to work to study the role of commons in political, economic and environmental transformations
- understand the contemporary conditions and problems of commons in the world
Course Content
Political, economic, and environmental history of the commons; theory of commons; privatization and commodification of shared resources, history of enclosures; history of enclosures; tragedy of the commons; governing the commons; property and commons, land and water as commons; forest as commons; dispossession of local communities; commons in Ottoman and Turkish histor.
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- learn reading texts on commons critically and to make connections between key concepts, main themes, approaches, and methods of environmental history
- develop research skills and evaluate critically a range of primary, secondary and tertiary sources through individual and group work
- understand how commons are interrelated
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