Faculty Of Humanities & Social Sciences
MDS3OTT, 2013
| Subject Code: | MDS3OTT |
| Subject Short Title: | THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: FOURTEENTH TO TWENTIETH CENTURIES |
| Credit Points: | 30 |
| Special Conditions: | This subject will only be offered with sufficient enrolments and may be cancelled at anytime if minimum enrolments are not met |
| Subject Description: | This Humanities subject combines summer-semester foreign travel with the study of Ottoman Turkish history. Combining prior study with going to Turkey makes History come alive. In this subject offered in association with Australians Studying Abroad, students choose between scores of topics exploring the cultural, architectural and political history of the Ottomans from the Fourteenth Century to the First World War. At Marmara-region historic sites in Turkey -- including Gallipoli and the Ottoman capitals, Bursa, Edirne and Istanbul -- students examine seven key periods of Ottoman history: the early Ottomans, the conquest of Constantinople, the era of Süleyman the Magnificent, the eighteenth-century 'Tulip Age', nineteenth-century Europeanization and reform, and the Gallipoli campaign of 1915 and its tragic aftermaths, and the era of Atatürk. Note: availability of this unit (to Australian students) may be subject to advice drawn from Commonwealth travel safety notices. |
| Prerequisites: | 30 credit points of first year history or co-ordinator's approval |
| Incompatibles: | HIS2OTT, HIS3OTT and MDS3OTT |
| Work Experience Indicator: | Student is not undertaking work experience in industry |
| Available to 'Study Abroad' students: | Y |
Assessment:
| Assessment Type | % | Comments |
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| two 7-minute oral presentations onsite oral presentations | 30 | (equivalent to 2000 words) |
| one 2-hour test | 20 | (equivalent to 2000 words) |
| two 2,000-word research essays | 50 | Third-year students are to show greater levels of achievement of discipline-specific skills than second-year students. |
Readings:
| Reading Type | Title | Author | Publisher |
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| Preliminary | Constantinople: city of the world's desire, | Mansel, P. | John Murray 1995 |
| Preliminary | Ottoman empire and Islamic tradition, | Itzkowitz, N. | Phoenix 1980 |
| Recommended | The Ottoman Turks, | McCarthy, J. | Longman 1997 |
| Recommended | The Ottoman empire, | Imber, C. | Palgrave 2002 |
Subject Coordinator: Dr Adrian Jones
| Class Requirement |
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| ALBURY-WODONGA |
| Week 44-04, Day. Dr Susan Gilbert (S.Gilbert@latrobe.edu.au) |
| One 2-hour Seminar on any day including weekend during the day from week 44 to week 4 and delivered via face-to-face. (one 2-hour seminar in Melbourne/Albury-Wodonga and a three-and-a-half week intensive study tour in Turkey (11 lectures abroad in the context of an intensive 3.5 week study tour) ) |
| One 25-day Field Trip on any day including weekend during the day from week 44 to week 4. (one 2-hour seminar in Melbourne/Albury-Wodonga and a three-and-a-half week intensive study tour in Turkey (11 lectures abroad in the context of an intensive 3.5 week study tour) ) |
| BUNDOORA |
| Week 44-04, Day. Dr Adrian Jones (Adrian.Jones@latrobe.edu.au) |
| One 2-hour Seminar on any day including weekend during the day from week 44 to week 4 and delivered via face-to-face. (one 2-hour seminar in Melbourne/Albury-Wodonga and a three-and-a-half week intensive study tour in Turkey (11 lectures abroad in the context of an intensive 3.5 week study tour) ) |
| One 25-day Field Trip on any day including weekend during the day from week 44 to week 4. (one 2-hour seminar in Melbourne/Albury-Wodonga and a three-and-a-half week intensive study tour in Turkey (11 lectures abroad in the context of an intensive 3.5 week study tour) ) |
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