By the end of the course the successful students are expected to:
- Demonstrate knowledge and sophisticated understanding of some of the principal cultural products produced in the Ottoman Empire and of their historical and social contexts.
- Understand the role of patronage, audience, institutions and the wider historical and social context in shaping cultural production in the Ottoman Empire.
- Nurture an appreciation for artistic production and its cultural diversity and the value of understanding different cultural traditions both within the Ottoman Empire and its global networks.
- Critically engage with secondary sources on Ottoman cultural history in order to identify gaps and problems and suggest directions for future scholarship.
- Develop an original research question and frame an argument and anticipate counterarguments.
- Produce an argument-driven and logically organized paper that positions themselves within the scholarship and is supported by primary sources, both visual and textual
- Understand the genre and purpose of a book review and how to prepare it for publication.
- Plan and perform well-crafted and engaging presentations to contextualise and communicate their knowledge of Ottoman history effectively.
- Locate and analyse relevant primary sources, both published and unpublished, that are essential to studying Ottoman cultural production.