Studying history takes you on an enjoyable journey into the past to explore its events and understand how they happened. It allows you to follow the great moments and significant historical shifts. In addition, it helps you understand the reasons behind the events that caused the delay of nations, conflicts, and wars throughout history, where you can analyze them and see how we can avoid repeating such tragedies in the current era. Therefore, studying history is one of the most enjoyable and important studies.
The Importance of Studying History
By studying and analyzing past events, we gain a deeper understanding of the causes, outcomes, and long-term effects of decisions and events. Studying history helps you understand what is happening in the world today, as we can explore how cultures, civilizations, and religions have evolved over the ages, and how they were affected by interactions and exchanges between different peoples. It also helps in understanding the social, cultural, political, and economic changes that have shaped the world as we know it today.
Studying history also drives you to research, read, discuss, and explore the political, social, and economic reasons that led to important past events, so you can keep up with the latest developments and analyze them in-depth, which develops your research, analytical, and communication skills, and your ability to argue soundly.
Curriculum for History Major
Here are some of the academic topics covered by a history bachelor’s student in Turkey, although of course, the courses may vary from one university to another. Therefore, students should visit the university website they wish to study at to know the courses in detail.
The study of history in Turkey takes 4 years as follows:
First Academic Year
- World History
- Academic Historiography
- Ancient History
- Positive Psychology and Communication Skills
- Principles of Atatürk and History of the Revolution
Second Academic Year
- History and Civilization of Islam
- General Turkish History
- Ottoman History
- Modern European History
Third Academic Year
- History of Thought from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic
- Modern History of the Middle East
- Ottoman History
Fourth Academic Year
- Contemporary Turkish History
- Contemporary World History
- Graduation Project
In addition to some elective courses which include the following
- History of Anatolian Civilizations
- Studies on the Resources of General Turkish History
- History of Muslim Spain
- African History
- Key Issues in Medieval History
