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Coordinator:  Burcu Kayışcı Akkoyun

Assistant Professors: Sandrine Bertaux Akan,  Yaşar Tolga Cora, Burcu Kayışcı Akkoyun

The Humanities is a team-taught survey course in English. The course is designed in a lecture and discussion section format. Both Hum 101 and Hum 102 are 4 credits each, with two mandatory lectures and discussion sections. The bi-weekly morning lectures introduce important topics and themes, raising critical issues to be addressed in discussion sections. Organized chronologically and thematically, the lectures form the general framework for section discussions. Throughout the semester each lecture is given by a different Hum instructor. The program also invites guest lecturers both from abroad and from other universities in Turkey who are experts of the period or text examined.

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

HUM 101 Cultural Encounters I (4+0+0) 4 ECTS 6
(Kültürel Etkileşimler I)
An interdisciplinary humanities survey, designed to introduce students to cultures east and west, ancient and modern which have, over time, impacted and interacted with their own culture, and thus to encourage critical reflection on this wider cultural heritage with emphasis on philosophy, literature, arts, political thought, science and religion. Readings in primary and secondary materials to analyze, compare and contrast ideas, paradigms, world views in ancient, classical and medieval civilizations.

HUM 102 Cultural Encounters II (4+0+0) 4 ECTS 6
(Kültürel Etkileşimler II)

An interdisciplinary humanities survey, designed to introduce students to cultures east and west, ancient and modern which have, over time, impacted and interacted with their own culture, and thus to encourage critical reflection on this wider cultural heritage with emphasis on philosophy, literature, arts, political thought, science and religion. Readings in primary and secondary materials from the Renaissance era to the present to analyze, compare and contrast ideas, paradigms, world views.