Information Package / Course Catalogue
Envıronmental Hıstory
Course Code: SBE595
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Second Cycle (Master's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 5
Objectives of the Course

The "Environmental History" course aims to provide future generations with a healthy, livable and sustainable environment, environmental awareness and a constructive thinking model for solution. The aim is to produce a detailed analysis document, so that the relevant data can be brought together with the decision-making authorities and all community dynamics in practice. In addition, other primary objectives are to draw attention to environmental issues throughout history and to keep them on the agenda.

Course Content

The "Environmental History" course aims to provide future generations with a healthy, livable and sustainable environment, environmental awareness and a constructive thinking model for solution.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1.Will be able to master the approaches to important environmental issues throughout history, the road map put forward, the basic ways of thinking and practices that are the basis of environmental decisions.
2.Will be able to create or participate in the agenda on the subject and propose solutions.
3.With ecological awareness, lessons will be learned and exemplary approaches can be taken as role models or adapted to the present.
4.With ecological awareness, lessons will be learned and exemplary approaches can be taken as role models or adapted to the present.
5.With ecological awareness, lessons will be learned and exemplary approaches can be taken as role models or adapted to the present.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Yenigün, İ, Günümüzle Karşılaştırmalı Değerlendirmeler Işığında “Çevre Tarihi”, Harran Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Doktora Tezi, Şanlıurfa, 2017.
2.Akdur, R., Avrupa Birliği ve Türkiye’de Çevre Koruma Politikaları “Türkiye’nin Avrupa Birliğine Uyumu”, Ankara Üniversitesi Avrupa Topluluğu Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi , Araştırma Dizisi: 23, Ankara, 2005
3.Akgündüz, A., İslam ve Osmanlı Çevre Hukuku, Osmanlı Araştırmaları Vakfı, İstanbul, 2009.
4.Anabolu, M., İstanbul ve Anadolu’daki Roma İmparatorluk Dönemi Mimarlık Yapıtları, Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları, İstanbul, 2001.
5.Arslantürk, A., Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda Çevre ve Şehir, T.C. Çevre ve Şehircilik Bakanlığı-İstanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi, İstanbul, 2015.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Overview of environmental problems
Week 2 - Theoretical
Formation and development of environmental science
Week 3 - Theoretical
The birth and importance of environmental history
Week 4 - Theoretical
Environmental footprints in the early ages
Week 5 - Theoretical
Environmental footprints in the early ages
Week 6 - Theoretical
An environmentalist perspective on Anatolian civilizations
Week 7 - Theoretical
An environmentalist perspective on Anatolian civilizations
Week 8 - Intermediate Exam
Mid-term Exam
Week 9 - Theoretical
Ottoman Empire and environmentalism
Week 10 - Theoretical
Ottoman Empire and environmentalism
Week 11 - Theoretical
Environmental structuring and Turkey
Week 12 - Theoretical
Environmental structuring and Turkey
Week 13 - Theoretical
Environmental structuring and Turkey
Week 14 - Theoretical
The place and importance of environmental history in education
Week 15 - Theoretical
The place and importance of environmental history in education
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
Assignment23312
Midterm Examination1448
Final Examination1448
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)126
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
PÇ-1
PÇ-2
PÇ-3
PÇ-4
PÇ-5
PÇ-6
PÇ-7
PÇ-8
PÇ-9
PÇ-10
OÇ-1
4
4
OÇ-2
4
4
OÇ-3
4
4
OÇ-4
4
4
OÇ-5
4
4
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026