Information Package / Course Catalogue
Political History I
Course Code: INT103
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: English
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 5
Objectives of the Course

The aim of this course is to analyze the important events, from the pre-modern ages to 1st World War, those give a direction to world history in an inter-state context. Within this framework, the main objective is to understand the development of diplomatic traditions, how interstate relations are shaped under conditions of war and peace, and their impact on international politics.

Course Content

This course builds on the historical background of pre-Renaissance European political and social order and early modern European politics and interstate relations. On top of this background, the course aims to analyze European politics in the 18th and 19th centuries, including all economic and diplomatic developments. In this framework, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, the Congress of Vienna and Concert of Europe, social revolutions, ideological outbursts such as nationalism and socialism, the establishment of German and Italian unions, and the historical, political, economic, social and ideological processes leading up to the First World War are learnt.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Assoc. Prof. Ali BİLGENOĞLU
Learning Outcomes
1.Students will be able to analyze the historical events in a dialectical method.
2.Students will be able to be able to comprehend the term of diplomatic history and also the context of diplomatic history.
3.Students will be able to comprehend the important events, wars and revolutions from early modern Europe to the First World War.
4.Understands the emergence of modern central administrations and the political powers.
5.Learns and analyzes historical developments that differentiate the 19th century.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Barış Özdal, Kutay Karaca, Diplomatic History-I, Dora Publishing, 2021
2.Oral Sander, Diplomatic History: From Early Ages to 1918, 2016.
3.Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution 1789-1848, 1978.
4.Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Capital 1848-1875, 1975.
5.Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Empire 1848-1875, 1987.
6.Stephen J. Lee, Aspects of European History 1494-1789, Routledge, 1978.
7.Matthew Smith Anderson, The Eastern Question 1774-1923, 1966.
8.Herbert Heaton, Economic History of Europe, Harper&Brothers, 1948.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Feudalism and the Legacy of the Middle Ages
Week 2 - Theoretical
Renaissance and Renaissance Europe
Week 3 - Theoretical
Reform and Thirty Years War
Week 4 - Theoretical
Treaty of Westphalia
Week 5 - Theoretical
Industrial Revolution and European Economy
Week 6 - Theoretical
American Revolution 1776
Week 7 - Theoretical
French Revolution 1789
Week 8 - Intermediate Exam
Mid-term exam
Week 9 - Intermediate Exam
Mid-term exam
Week 10 - Theoretical
Napoleonic Wars and the Vienna Congress
Week 11 - Theoretical
Crimean War as a Rehearsal for a Total War
Week 12 - Theoretical
Unification of Germany in 1871 and the Era of Otto von Bismarck
Week 13 - Theoretical
The Historical Transformation of Capitalism and the Evolution of Colonialism into Imperialism
Week 14 - Theoretical
Road to the First World War: The Great Powers and the Imperialist Rivalry
Week 15 - Theoretical
Eastern Question: Intellectual, Ideological and Political Background
Week 16 - Final Exam
Final exam
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory144398
Midterm Examination110111
Final Examination114216
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)125
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
PÇ-1
PÇ-2
PÇ-3
PÇ-4
PÇ-5
PÇ-6
OÇ-1
5
5
4
4
4
4
OÇ-2
5
5
5
5
5
5
OÇ-3
2
5
4
4
5
5
OÇ-4
3
3
3
4
4
4
OÇ-5
5
5
4
4
3
3
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026