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Course Description /                           /  Türkiye and Iran 

This course description provides a summary of the most important characteristics of the course and the learning outcomes that the student is expected to achieve, demonstrating whether he or she has made the most of the learning opportunities available. It must be linked to the program description.

1. Educational Institution, Imam Jaafar al-Sadiq (peace be upon him) University - Faculty of Arts

2. University Department/Center, Department of History

3. Name/code of the course Türkiye and Iran

4. Programs in which bachelor’s degrees are included

5. Available forms of attendance are mandatory

6. Semester/Year Annual

7. Number of study hours (total) 90

8. The date this description was prepared is September 2022

9. Course objectives

Introducing the student to the history of Turkey and Iran and informing him of the most important historical events that had an impact on the political, economic, social and military situations of the two countries.

Introducing the student to the most prominent historical transformations of the two countries and their impact on the regional environment.

Introducing the student to the nature of the transformations in the ruling systems of the two countries, Türkiye and Iran

Working to enable students to acquire knowledge in line with quality standards in higher education

Enabling students to acquire scientific knowledge in order to be able to supply the labor market with effective outputs

10. Learning outcomes and methods of teaching, learning and evaluation

A- Knowledge and understanding

A1- Students’ familiarity with sources for studying the history of Türkiye and Iran

A2- Preparing students scientifically so that they are able to acquire scientific knowledge and apply it in the teaching process

A3- Empowering students intellectually to comprehend the scientific method

A4- Enabling students to write scientific research and reports in a correct scientific manner

A5- Familiarize students with methods of research and scientific thinking

B - Subject-specific skills

B1 - Organizing and strengthening students’ experiences by preparing them mentally by acquiring knowledge

B2 - Students acquire the greatest amount of scientific information about the history of Türkiye and Iran

B3 - Enabling students to participate in group dialogues

B4- Enabling students to comprehend the course

      Teaching and learning methods

Using different teaching methods, including raising the problem during the lecture and discussing it with the students in a scientific dialogue method, using maps, blackboards, and books as illustration tools.

      Evaluation methods

Written and oral exams, dialogue, discussion, daily reports, research.

C- Thinking skills

C1- Enabling students to understand the scientific method

C2- Enabling students to think scientifically, deduce, analyze and criticize

C3- Enabling students to interpret historical events and draw conclusions from them

C4- The ability to describe the prescribed curriculum

     Teaching and learning methods

  Increasing the acquired knowledge, speed, and breadth of learning by developing strategies that activate the student’s memory by relying on thinking, analysis, deduction, planning, and self-organization.

    Evaluation methods

Discussing scientific topics that stimulate deep thinking, in order to develop thinking and discussion skills

D - General and transferable skills (other skills related to employability and personal development).

D1- Class leadership skills

D2- Planning skills

D3- Evaluation skills and emphasizing individual differences among students

D4- Viewing and application skills

11. Course structure

Week Hours Required learning outcomes Name of unit/course or subject Teaching method Evaluation method

the first

9/21/2017 The Ottoman Empire before the outbreak of World War I The history of Turkey and Iran Monthly exam lecture, reports and research

The second: Türkiye during World War I, a written and oral exam lecture

The third: Mustafa Kamal and the War of Independence, a written and oral exam lecture

Fourth: Sèvres Institutes 1920, Treaty of Lausanne 1923, lecture, written and oral exam.

Fifth: The Establishment of the Turkish Republic, a written and oral exam lecture

Sixth: Establishment of the Republican People’s Party, Türkiye’s foreign relations, written and oral exam lecture

Seventh, Türkiye's neutrality in World War II, written and oral exam lecture

Eighth-Ninth Political developments in Türkiye (1945-1960) Lecture Written and oral exam

Tenth - thirteenth Military coups in Türkiye, written and oral exam lecture

Fourteenth-fifteenth: Türkiye’s foreign relations, written and oral exam lecture

Sixteenth 2/15/2018 The conditions of Iran before the Safavids, written and oral exam lecture

Seventeenth-nineteenth, Iran during the era of the Safavids, written and oral exam lecture

The twentieth: Iran during the era of turmoil, the Afghan invasion, Nader Shah, Karim Khan Al-Zand, a lecture, a written and oral exam.

The twenty-first: The establishment of Qajar rule (1796-1925), a written and oral exam lecture.

The twenty-third: General conditions in Iran in the nineteenth century, written and oral exam lecture

Twenty-fourth attempts at reform, 19th century, lecture, written and oral exam

The twenty-fifth Constitutional Revolution 1906, causes and results, lecture, written and oral exam

Twenty-sixth: Factors of the collapse of Qajar rule, written and oral exam lecture

The twenty-seventh, Iran during the era of Reza Pahlavi 1926-1941, lecture, written and oral exam.

The twenty-eighth, Iran during the reign of Muhammad Reza Shah 1941-1979, internal conditions, lecture, written and oral exam.

The twenty-ninth Tamim Oil lecture, written and oral exam

Iran between the fall of Mossadeq and the fall of the Shah (1953-1979)

12. Infrastructure

Required readings:

 Basic texts

 Course books

 Other, Ibrahim Khalil Ahmed and others, Iran and Turkey, a study in modern and contemporary history

Kamal Mazhar Ahmed, Studies in the Modern and Contemporary History of Iran

Graham Robert, Iran's economic policy under the Shah

Ibrahim Khalil and others, Contemporary Türkiye

Special requirements (including, for example, workshops, periodicals, software, and websites) Conducting discussions among students on specific topics and searching for...