SemesterFall Semester, 2025
DepartmentSophomore Class of Department of Turkish Language and Culture
Course NameThe Wonders of Turkey
InstructorAltun Abdulrezak
Credit2.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule








  1. Week  Course introduction

  2. Week  Modern Turkey with indicators

  3. Week  An overview of history of Anatolia

  4. Week  UNESCO and its World Heritage Conventions

  5. Week  Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği Historic Areas of İstanbul

  6. Week  Göreme National Park and Rock Sites of Cappadocia Hattuşa: The Hittite Capital

  7. Week  Mt. Nemrut Hierapolis - Pamukkale

  8. Week  MIDTERM EXAM

  9. Week  Xhantos –Letoon City of Safranbolu

  10. Week  Archeological site of Troy Selimiye Mosque and its social complex

  11. Week  Neolitic site of Çatalhöyük Bursa and Cumalıkızık: The birth of Ottoman Empire

  12. Week  Pergamon and its multi-layered cultural landscape Diyarbakır fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape

  13. Week  Ephesus Archaeological site of Ani

  14. Week  Aphrodisias Göbeklitepe

  15. Week  Arslantepe Mound Gordion

  16. Week  FINAL EXAM

Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant
Requirement/Grading

Attending to the class: % 15, Midterm exam :% 20, presentation:% 30 Final exam % 35


Textbook & Reference

Meskell, lynn  “UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention at 40 Challenging the Economic and Political Order of International Heritage Conservation”,



Current Anthropology, Vol. 54, No. 4 (August 2013), pp. 483-494



 



Titchen, Sarah M, “On the construction of ‘outstanding universal value’: Some comments on the implementation of the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention”, https://doi.org/10.1179/135050396793138971



 



Rodwell, Dennis, “The Unesco World Heritage Convention, 1972–2012: Reflections and Directions”,  https://doi.org/10.1179/1756750512Z.0000000004



 



Somuncu, M. & Yiğit, T., “World heritage sites in Turkey: Current status and problems of conservation and management”, Coğrafi Bilimler Dergisi, 8 (1), 1-26 (2010)



 



Leask, A. & Fyall, A, Managing world heritage sites, Routledge, 2006


Urls about Course
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/
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