COURSE SYLLABUS

WOMEN IN THE OTTOMAN CLASSICAL PERIOD

1	Course Title:	WOMEN IN THE OTTOMAN CLASSICAL PERIOD
2	Course Code:	KAÇ5107
3	Type of Course:	Optional
4	Level of Course:	Second Cycle
5	Year of Study:	1
6	Semester:	1
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	4
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	2
9	Practice (hour/week) :	0
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:	None
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	Turkish
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Prof. Dr. SAADET MAYDAER
16	Course Lecturers:	-
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	smaydaer@uludag.edu.tr 0 224 2431337 60218 Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi
18	Website:	-
19	Objective of the Course:	To try to understand the position and importance of women in Ottoman society in the classical period
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development	Understanding the place of women in society in the Ottoman Classical period helps the student to gain a wider perspective in the field of women and family studies

Learning Outcomes:

1	The ability to understand the place of women in the Ottoman social structure;
2	The ability to evaluate the Ottoman society in terms of gender;
3	The ability to comprehend the place of women in the Ottoman family;
4	The ability to assess the place of women in the Ottoman economic life;
5	The ability to understand the place of women in the Ottoman Public life;
6	The ability to assess the place of women in the Ottoman art community;
7	The ability the evaluate the perception of women to the western travelers;
8	The ability to understand the function of women in waqfs in the Ottoman classical period;
9	The ability to evaluate the attitude of women to divorce in the Ottoman society;
10	The ability to evaluate the position of the guilty women in the Ottoman society;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	Ottoman Social Structure
2	The Concept of neighborhood in Ottoman Social life and women in neighborhood life
3	Family formation in the classical Ottoman society
4	Divorce and Woman in the Ottoman Classical Period
5	Polygamy in the Ottoman Classical Period and women's attitudes towards it
6	Woman in economic life
7	Ways to build wealth for women in the classical period
8	Women and Waqf in Ottoman Society
9	Women in Ottoman Courts
10	Crime and Woman: Female offenders and their punishments
11	Women in various statuses: being a slave/cariye or freed slave
12	Woman in Ottoman Empire according to western travelers
13	Women and Art
14	Artistic Women:Musician, composer, poet and calligrapher

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	Ronald Jennings, “Women in Early 17th Century Ottoman Judical Records- The Sharia Court of anatolian Kayseri”, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. XVIII, Part 1, Leiden, 1975, ss. 53-115. Esra Yakut, “Klasik Dönem Osmanlı Aile Hukukunda Kadının Konumu”, Anadolu Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi (ANDHD), c. 1, s. 1, s. 1-23. Ömer Düzbakar, “17. Yüzyılda Osmanlı Devletinde Kadınların Ekonomik Alandaki Faaliyetlerine Yönelik Olarak Bursa Şer’iyye Sicillerine Yansıyan Örnekler”, The Journal of Academic Socila Science , 4/30, 2016, s. 93-108. Selçuk Düğer, “Batılı Kadın Seyyahlar İmgeleminde Osmanlı Kadını”, KOSBED, 2015, 29, s. 71-90.
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	0	0
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	0	0
Final Exam	1	100
Total	1	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		0
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		100
Total		100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course	Classical exam will be applied
Information	The effect rate of the final exam on success is 100.

ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High