| Course Type | Elective Course |
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| Course Level | Bachelor's Degree |
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| Year of Study | - |
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| Semester | - |
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| ECTS | 4 |
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| Name of Lecturer(s) |
- |
| Learning Outcomes |
At the end of this course, the students;
- Explain in a coherent manner how and why America is fundamentally different from other nations.
- Reflect on the ways in which American foreign policy approaches and constraints serve the country well or poorly.
- Familiarize themselves with American foreign policy institutions and actors and their sources of power and authority.
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| Mode of Delivery | Face to face |
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| Prerequisites | No |
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| Recommended Optional Programme Components | |
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| Course Description | John Kingdon, American the Unusual (New York: St. Martin?s/Worth, 1999)
Jeffery D. Sachs, A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018)
Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth, America Abroad: The United States? Global Role in the 21st Century, 2016, Oxford University Press |
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| Course Contents |
| WEEK |
TOPICS |
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1st Week |
Introduction: The rise of America after the Independence as a new political and economic power, and the new American Republic's efforts to establish diplomatic, political, economic, and commerical relations overseas. |
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2nd Week |
The initial process of American relations with the Ottoman Empire; North African (Barbary) piracy activities and the American invasion (1801-1805 and 1815). |
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3rd Week |
Ottoman-American relations during the antebellum period (the 1820s to 1861); the 1830 Commerce and Navigation Treaty; |
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4th Week |
The initiation and expansion of American missionary activities within the Ottoman Empire; |
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5th Week |
The political, cultural, and social impact of American missionary activities. |
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6th Week |
Ottoman-American relations from the Civil War to World War I: Trade and politics. |
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7th Week |
MIDTERM EXAMINATION |
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8th Week |
America and World War I: America's Changing Identity as a New World Power |
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9th Week |
Turkish-American relations in the 1920s and 1930s: American policies as regards the Turkish War of Independence, the declaration of the Republic, the modernization reforms of the Republic; |
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10th Week |
Atatürk's American policy; Turkish-American economic, cultural, institutional and social relations. |
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11th Week |
America and World War II: New Dimensions in World Politics, Turkish-American relations during World War II |
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12th Week |
Turkish-American relations in the post-war period: The Marshall Plan, the Korean War, Turkey's entry into NATO;increasing political, economic, cultural, industrial, institutional, and social relations. The beginnings of the Cold War. |
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13th Week |
(Continued) |
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14th Week |
Turkish-American relations from the 1960s down to the present: The Cold War and the aftermath. |
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15th Week |
Review and wrap-up. |
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| Recommended or Required Reading | John Kingdon, American the Unusual (New York: St. Martin's/Worth, 1999)
Jeffery D. Sachs, A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018)
Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth, America Abroad: The United States' Global Role in the 21st Century, 2016, Oxford University Press |
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
- Lecture
- Questions/Answers
- Other
- Discussion
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| Assessment Methods and Criteria |
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Quantity |
Percentage (%) |
| Mid-term |
1 |
30 |
| Quiz |
2 |
20 |
| Project |
1 |
10 |
| Attendance |
1 |
10 |
| Total(%) |
|
70 |
| Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) |
|
70 |
| Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) |
|
30 |
| Total(%) |
|
100 |
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| ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload |
| Activities |
Quantity |
Duration (Hour) |
Total Workload (Hour) |
| Midterm exam |
1 |
2 |
2 |
| Preparation for Quiz |
3 |
1 |
3 |
| Individual or group work |
14 |
3 |
42 |
| Preparation for Final exam |
1 |
8 |
8 |
| Course hours |
14 |
3 |
42 |
| Preparation for Midterm exam |
1 |
8 |
8 |
| Laboratory (including preparation) |
|
|
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| Final exam |
1 |
2 |
2 |
| Homework |
2 |
3 |
6 |
| Project |
1 |
6 |
6 |
| Total Work Load | 119 |
| Total Work Load / 30 (h) | 3.96 |
| ECTS Credit of the Course | 4 |
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| Language of Instruction | English |
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| Work Placement(s) | No |
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