Information Package / Course Catalogue
Countries and Cultures
Course Code: AGE234
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 0
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 2
Objectives of the Course

Try to explain the differences and smilarities between societies and cultures with theological,ethnological,philologic,juridical,geoghraphic,economic,sociologic and politic explanations.

Course Content

Culture,civilization,domestication,culture diffusion,acculturation,culture shock,assimilation,cultural shift

Name of Lecturer(s)
Assoc. Prof. Hakan ATAY
Learning Outcomes
1.Definition of Culture and understand the properties.
2.Cultural themes, universalism, butunculuk, butunlesmecilik, adaptation and cultural relativity of the concepts detected.
3.That is why people and cultures didn't match each other or a common causal explanations and universal regard to the properties.
4.Have knowledge about Japanese culture.
5.Have knowledge about Irish culture.
6.Have knowledge about Dutch culture.
7.Have knowledge about Chinese culture.
8.Have knowledge about Russian culture.
9. Have knowledge about Bulgarian culture.
10.Have knowledge about German culture.
11. Have knowledge about Swedish culture.
12. Have knowledge about French culture.
13. Have knowledge about Greek culture.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.• Güvenç, B. 1976. Sosyal Kültürel Değişme, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları.
2.• Güvenç, B. 1984. İnsan ve Kültür, Remzi Kitabevi.
3.• Güvenç, B. 1997. Kültürün abc’si, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, İstanbul.
4.• Kudat, A. 2004. Kirvelik, sanal akrabalığın dünü ve bugünü, Ütopya Yayınevi, Ankara.
5.• Levi-strauss, C. 2004. Yaban Düşünce, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, İstanbul.
6.• Braidwood, R.J. 1995. Tarihöncesi İnsan, Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları, İstanbul.
7.• Childe, G. 2004. Kendini Yaratan İnsan, Varlık Yayınları, İstanbul.
8.• Frangipane, M. 2002. Yakındoğu’da Devlet’in Doğuşu, Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları.
9.• Herodot Tarihi, 1991. (çev: Ökmen, M.), Remzi Kitabevi, İstanbul.
10.• Malinowski, B. 2000. Büyü, bilim ve din, Kabalcı, İstanbul.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Concept and therminology of culture
Week 1 - Preparation Work
Reading
Week 2 - Theoretical
Qualities of culture
Week 2 - Preparation Work
reading
Week 3 - Theoretical
Culturel content, relations and processes
Week 3 - Preparation Work
reading
Week 4 - Theoretical
Japanese Culture
Week 4 - Preparation Work
reading
Week 5 - Theoretical
Irish Culture
Week 5 - Preparation Work
reading
Week 6 - Theoretical
Dutch Culture
Week 6 - Preparation Work
reading
Week 7 - Theoretical
Chinese Culture
Week 7 - Preparation Work
reading
Week 8 - Theoretical
Russian Culture
Week 8 - Preparation Work
reading
Week 9 - Theoretical
Bulgarian Culture
Week 9 - Preparation Work
reading
Week 10 - Theoretical
German Culture
Week 10 - Preparation Work
reading
Week 11 - Theoretical
Swedish Culture
Week 11 - Preparation Work
reading
Week 12 - Theoretical
French Culture
Week 12 - Preparation Work
reading
Week 13 - Theoretical
Greek Culture
Week 13 - Preparation Work
reading
Week 14 - Theoretical
Summarizing the course
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory140228
Assignment1224
Reading32212
Midterm Examination1516
Final Examination1516
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)56
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Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026