GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
HISTORY OF RUSSIA -II/RDE- 214
Course Title: HISTORY OF RUSSIA -II
Credits 2 ECTS 3
Semester 4 Compulsory/Elective Compulsory
COURSE INFO
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
  Assistant. Prof. B. Tumen Somuncuoglu
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/tumen/contact
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  tumen@gazi.edu.tr
 -- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT
Students are not only high self-confident about their subjects, but also active and competent at academic spheres.
Students are able to prepare and make visual or written presentations about Russian language and literature.
The students organise social,cultural and artistic activities which are necessary to be done in the fields of Russian culture,literature,language.
Students have current theoritical and practical knowledge in order to make translations from Russian to Turkish or from Turkish to Russian.
Student practically analyses literary and cultural texts related to their theories as part of interdisciplinary approach.
The students gain the ability of researching methods and to make academic publications in the field of literature and linguistics.
The student is able to do researches,solve problems with critical,creative and analytical thinking skills and he can express himself at each subject.
The student develops an unbiased, respectful and open attitude towards different languages, races,religions, and social classes.
Besides Russian, students learn Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Bosnian languages and get informations about the cultures of these languages.
Students have knowledge about Russian language, literature, history and culture to work in public-private sectors.
 -- 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  Toward revolutions, political, economic and societal situation of Russia during the second half of 19 century
2. Week  1905 Russo-Japanese War, 1905 Revolution and reforms
3. Week  Participation of Russia to the First World War, February and October Revolutions of 1917
4. Week  Civil War, “war communism”, Soviet Russia’s efforts of recognition
5. Week  Collectivisation, purges, construction of Stalin cult
6. Week  Second World War and Great Patriotic War
7. Week  The Cold War and its causes
8. Week  Khrushchev period
9. Week  Brezhnev period, detente
10. Week  The beginning of the end, 1979 invasion of Afghanistan
11. Week  Toward the fall of the USSR and the fall
12. Week  Establishment of the Russian Federation and Yeltsin period
13. Week  Putin period and resurgent Russia
14. Week  Evaluation of Russian history
15. Week  
16. Week  
 -- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
  A. N. Kurat, Rusya Tarihi, Türk Tarih Kurumu, 1999; A. N. Kurat, Türkiye ve Rusya, Ankara, 1990; A. N. Kurat, Panislavizm, A.Ü. Dil ve Tarih Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, XI. Cilt, Haziran-Aralık 1953, Sayı 2-4, s. 241-278 den ayrı bası; A.N. Kurat, IV-XVIII. Yüzyıllarda Karadeniz Kuzeyindeki Türk Kavimleri ve Devletleri, Ankara, 1992; Fahir Armaoğlu, XIX. Yüzyıl Siyasi Tarihi, Türk Tarih Kurumu, 1999; George Vernadsky, Rusya Tarihi,Çev: Doğukan Mızrak, Egemen Ç. Mızark, Selenge Yayınları, İstanbul 2009; Geoffrey Hosking, Rusya ve Ruslar Erken Dönemden 21. Yüzyıla, Çev: Kezban Acar, İleşitişim Yayınları, Ankara 2011; Boris Kagarlitsky, Çevrenin İmparatorluğu Rusya ve Dünya Sistemi, Phonix, Ankara 2007; Nıcholas V. Riasanovsky-Mark D. Steinberg, Rusya Tarihi, Çev: Figen Dereli, İnkılap Yayınevi, İstanbul 2011.
 -- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
  Lecture, Question & Answer
 -- WORK PLACEMENT(S)
  Not Applicable
 -- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Percentage
 Mid-terms
1
40
 Assignment
0
0
 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
3
9
 Searching in Internet and Library
3
4
12
 Designing and Applying Materials
0
 Preparing Reports
0
 Preparing Presentation
5
2
10
 Presentation
2
2
4
 Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term
1
6
6
 Final and Studying for Final
1
10
10
 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
1Students are not only high self-confident about their subjects, but also active and competent at academic spheres, so they have practical and theoritical knowledge about Russian language and literature, its history and culture.X
2Students are able to prepare and make visual or written presentations about Russian language and literature.X
3Students have theoritical and practical knowledge in order to qualify the categories of Russian literature with their characteristical features. So, they are able to explain and analyse the texts, which represent these categories, with their historical, social, cultural, economical and political backgrounds.X
4Students have current theoritical and practical knowledge in order to make translations from Russian to Turkish or from Turkish to Russian in different types of texts.X
5Student practically analyses literary and cultural texts related to their theories as part of interdisciplinary approach.X
6The students gain the ability of researching methods and to make academic publications in the field of literature and linguistics.X
7The student is able to do researches, solve problems with his/her critical, creative and analytical thinking skills and he can express himself at each subject.X
8The students gain useful skills in a positive sense from intercultural differences and have the ability to compare Turkish and Russian culture with sufficient knowledge about the Russian culture as having.X
9Besides Russian, students learn Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Bosnian languages and get informations about the cultures of these languages, accordingly they realize the importance of Russian language and culture within Slavic languages and cultures.X
10The student is able to collect information and data individually and/or in groups about Russian language, literature and culture through up-to-date information technologies and research methods and techniques, and shares these in national and international educational and other professional environments.X
11Students have knowledge about Russian language, literature, history and culture to work in public-private sectors.X
12The students organise social, cultural and artistic activities which are necessary to be done in the fields of Russian culture, literature, language and history.X
13The student develops an unbiased, respectful and open attitude towards different languages, races, sexes, religions, and social classes.X