TURKS AND EUROPE

Historical reasoning, theoretical analysis, writing

This course helped me with analyzing primary sources (paintings, treaties, etc.) and making arguments based off of them. Also, the Group Discussions helped me with presentation skills and framing thoughts in an argument. Finally, I appreciate how in each class, we started with a discussion on historiography, and then did a deep dive into other sources. This helped me structure my final paper.

I learned so much in so many different ways. Obviously, I learned a lot content-wise, but I feel like my pattern of thinking has evolved so much this semester.

I gained valuable insight into historical analysis. I learned an immense amount about ottoman and Turkish history. I got experience writing academic papers.

I learned a lot about the influence of historiography on the understanding of history in ways I had never thought to consider or draw a distinction between. I learned about the confluence of social memory and official record. I also learned about systematic methods of societal change such as cultural irradication through educational adjustments like changing the alphabet to “modernize” while taking away the ability to read previous texts and thus divorce the student from historical context in