HIST502 HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
| Course Code: |
2400502 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
8.0 |
| Department: |
History |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
Prof.Dr. RECEP BOZTEMUR |
| Offered Semester: |
Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
Development of history writing from ancient Greece to present. Various definitions and debates. methodological approaches and conceptual concerns related with historiography. historical understanding and historical inquiry. Selected historians and their writings from various periods of history. Change in historiography and the understanding of history. Concepts. debates. challenges and interactions in the philosophy of history. Middle East historiography and the Ottoman history writing through selected authors from different periods.
Continuation of 2400501.
