GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
HISTORY OF SCIENCE/FEL 112
Course Title: HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Credits 2 ECTS 3
Semester 2 Compulsory/Elective Elective
COURSE INFO
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
  Lec. Betul YILDIRIM
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/betulyildirim
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  betulyildirim@gazi.edu.tr
 -- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT
The history of mankind, to illustrate the development of scientific knowledge.
Learn the process of development in the history of science since ancient times.
Evaluate and interpret the information acquired.
 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face
 -- PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES
  There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.
 -- RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTS
  There is no recommended optional programme component for this course.
 --COURSE CONTENT
1. Week  Written prehistoric science
2. Week  Science From Antiquity
3. Week  Science in China, Indian and Middle Asia
4. Week  Science in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Anatolia
5. Week  Science in Time of Greek
6. Week  Hellenistic Age, the School of Miletus
7. Week  MID-TERM
8. Week  Pythagoras School of Elea, and new perspectives on the universe
9. Week  Science during the Roman Period
10. Week  World of the Medieval Christian Science
11. Week  Science in Medieval Islamic World
12. Week  Science in the new age, Renaissance and Enlightenment
13. Week  Science in the new age, Renaissance and Enlightenment
14. Week  Science in the Modern Era in the West and the Ottoman Empire
15. Week  the new science
16. Week  FINAL EXAM
 -- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
  1. Bilim Tarihi, Hüseyin Gazi Topdemir, Yavuz Unat, Pegem A Yayıncılık / Eğitim Dizisi. 2. Bilim Tarihi, Cemal Yıldırım, Remzi Kitabevi. 3. Bilim, Felsefe ve Metodoloji, Şadi Can Saruhan, Ata Özdemirci, Beta Yayınevi - Ders Kitapları.
 -- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
  Lecture, Question & Answer
 -- WORK PLACEMENT(S)
  -
 -- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Percentage
 Mid-terms
1
30
 Assignment
1
10
 Exercises
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade  
40
 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade  
60
 -- WORKLOAD
 Efficiency  Total Week Count  Weekly Duration (in hour)  Total Workload in Semester
 Theoretical Study Hours of Course Per Week
14
2
28
 Practising Hours of Course Per Week
0
 Reading
3
5
15
 Searching in Internet and Library
4
4
16
 Designing and Applying Materials
0
 Preparing Reports
0
 Preparing Presentation
3
2
6
 Presentation
0
 Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term
1
6
6
 Final and Studying for Final
1
8
8
 Other
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
79
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
3.16
 ECTS: 
3
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1To obtain the ability of understanding and using the basic concepts of the discipline of philosophy.X
2To be a person who criticizes, investigates and makes true evaluations, by obtaining a philosophical look upon the values.X
3To obtain the ability of understanding and evaluating the philosophical problems by using the basic concepts.X
4To be a sensible person to the humane, social, cultural, moral and political problems in our age and to produce solutions to these problems in a philosophical manner.X
5To improve the methods of text analysing, interpretation, evaluation and critique which bring in skills for text reading and writing concerning the comprehension and solution of philosophical problems.X
6To use the correct forms of thinking and obtain intellectual accoutrements, by developing a philosophical look upon knowledge, science, art and being. by making the symbolic and abstract thinking a habit.X
7To obtain a consciousness regarding the preservation of the human rights, history and ethics by seeing the development of the thought of the human rights with a philosophical look upon human.X
8To obtain a power of reasoning creativly and coherently and an ability to look from different perspectives at the eventsX
9by making the symbolic and abstract thinking a habit.X
10To be able to realize the relations of philosophical problems with contemporary problems.X
11To be able to relate the problems of different disciplines.X
12To think analytically.X
13To compare the relationship between opposing views.X
14To learn a foreign language at a basic level.
15To be able to use communication Technologies at a basic level.