European Studies at KU
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There are many graduate and undergraduate courses taught at Koc University, on the subject of Europe and European Union. Many fields cover a different perspective of Europe in their lectures. Here is a detailed information about our courses: |
 INTL 330 Institutions and Politics of the European Union
Evolution of European Union institutions, how they are organized and how they operate; the Union’s internal politics and external relations.
INTL 414European Diplomacy and the Ottoman Empire
(Also HIST 406)
European diplomatic history since the French Revolution focusing on the impact of 19th century European diplomacy on the Ottoman Empire. Concepts such as the “Balance of Power” and the “Eastern Question” are studied by investigating European policy vis-à-vis the Ottoman Empire and the Ottoman response.
INTL 446Human Rights and European Integration
(Also INTL 546)
Theoretical, historical and practical developments in the formation of international human rights. Impact of global actors and institutions on human rights with emphasis on the European Union and its institutions in promoting human rights at global level. Human rights policies in the EU. EU responses to human rights violations in the world. Models and policy choices in preventing human rights violations especially in multicultural contexts.
Offered in Fall 2009
INTL 447Identity and Foreign Policy of the European Union
Debates on European identity; the link between identity and foreign policy; evolution of the EU's foreign economic and security policy; EU foreign policy in various regions of the world, such as the Balkans and the Middle East; EU-US relations. Offered in Fall 2009
LAW 402European Union Law
International status of European Community and Union; the institutions. The law making power. Court of Justice. The Association Agreement. The law of the European Union: Free movement of persons, capital and services. Competition. Harmonisation and unification of laws. Customs Union.
HIST 205Europe From Late Antiquity to 1700
Emergence of a distinctive western European civilization out of Christian, Greco-Roman and Germanic institutions, the formation and transformation of medieval European society, the Renaissance and the Reformation, and state building and social change in the early modern era.
Offered in Fall 2009
HIST 206Europe since The French Revolution
Emergence of modern societies in Europe the transition from the absolutist to the French revolution and its aftermath in Western and Eastern Europe.
Offered in Fall 2009
HIST 215 Modern European History
A general introduction to European history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Analyzes the emergence of nation-states and new ideologies in Europe. Also discuses political, economic and social changes in Europe.
HIST 212Culture and Society in the Early Modern Europe
This course introduces the major themes of the early modern European cultural history from the late middle ages to the French Revolution. In addition to providing a general survey, it aims to familiarize the students with the historiography, that is, the writing of history, of this
period. Topics will include the crisis of the late Middle Ages; the Renaissance of the Italian humanists; popular culture and social control; science, magic, and wonders; women and their world; witches and witch hunts; discovery of the Americas; and the Reformation and Counter Reformation.
HIST 316 Twentieth Century European History
History of Europe from the end of the First World War up to the expansion of the European Union in the early years of the twenty-first century. The creation of nation-states after 1919, the great economic crisis of 1929-33; the emergence of Fascist movements, and the spread of Communist sympathies; the emergence of an apparently successful alternative to `capitalism’ in the USSR. The Second World War and the sustained recovery of Western Europe after 1945; the making of the European Union.
HIST 350-1Selected Topics in History-Religion and Politics in Europe
Study the turbulent history of religion and politics in Europe in a blended learning environment with Professor Yonca Köksal (Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey) and Professor Wayne Te Brake (Purchase College, SUNY). Up to 20 Koç University students will collaborate, learn, and engage with up to 20 students and Professor Te Brake. As a blended or hybrid course, it will include a significant amount (approximately 50%) of work on-line in collaboration with students from Purchase College. Koç students will be grouped with Purchase students in exploring the ways in which religion has recurrently been entangled in European politics in the last millennium to produce both episodes of violent religious conflict and war and long-term religious coexistence and pluralism. The close collaboration with students and faculty from the USA promises to challenge our often parochial understandings of European, and by extension Turkish and American, history. Face-to-face meetings will only occur on Mondays, when we will have the opportunity for occasional video-conferences with our collaborators. We will explore the complex ways in which religion and politics have been intertwined in European history, from the persecution or expulsion of "infidels" and "heretics" in the Middle Ages to the cleansing of "ethnic minorities" in the 20th century in Western Europe and the Balkans. Some topics include living in a diverse world; religious identities and the invention of "the West"; religious war and the cultural politics of peace; revolutionary peoples and nations; modernity and the new age of religious wars.
Offered in Fall 2009
HIST 437Europe and the Ottoman Empire: Cultural Encounters through the Centuries
(Also ACHM 537)
Interactions between Europe and the Ottoman world through the centuries. Ottoman political presence in Europe and its impact on European culture starting with the 15th century. The ‘image of the Turk’ in Europe shifting in the following centuries with different political alliances and different economic interests. The changes in Ottoman interest in the west starting in the 17th century, introduction of westernisms in technology, social life and the arts in view of political and economic relations
Offered in Fall 2009
ARHA 321 The Art of Mediterranean and European Civilizations: Ancient to Pre-Modern
Art, architecture and the visual culture of the Ancient Near East, the Classical civilizations of Greece and Rome, the Byzantine Empire, the Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance periods in Europe. The political symbolism of art and architecture, the nature of patronage, how art and architecture inform our understanding of the past.
ARHA 461 European Art and Architecture I
A survey of European art, architecture and visual culture from the early modern era to World War One. Various aspects of the visual culture of Europe will be examined within its cultural, social, and political contexts.
ARHA 462 European Art and Architecture II
A survey of European art, architecture and visual culture from World War One to the present. Various aspects of the visual culture of Europe will be examined within its cultural, social, and political contexts.
ARTS 214European Cinema
European cinema from approximately 1960 to the present. Differences in style and context of European Films, American Films, and among national cinemas. British Social Realism movement and the western European Renaissance films of Fellini, Bergman, Bertolucci, and Antonioni; the European identity through films.
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INTL 533 Politics of European Integration
Examination of major issues of politics and public policy in the EU and its candidate countries such as: theoretically informed study of EU policy-making over core issue areas, including the single market, social and environmental policies, Common Agricultural Policy, cohesion policies, European Monetary Union, and enlargement.
Offered in Fall 2009
INTL 534Advanced Topics in European Studies
In-depth analysis of the institutions and politics of the European integration and EU enlargement, comparative study of domestic adjustment to the EU in terms of political behavior, policy processes and institutional changes, selected topics related to European integration such as human rights, immigration, foreign policy and security.
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