Students will learn by listening to prescribed podcast episodes and taking notes on those. There will be a few questions assigned that we will discuss in class and they can prepare their responses for those class times.

Students will interact with the teacher through video lessons once a week where we will discuss what they have been learning in the prescribed episodes.

Overview: This is the first class in the first series on Ottoman History. This first series is on the Rise of the Ottoman Empire from a small Bay(principality) in Anatolia to a powerhouse of similar size to the Roman Empire.

Course structure:
Week 1 - Introduction and Overview
Week 2 - Osman begins the Empire / Orhan and Murad I
Week 3 -  Bayezid I's conquest and demise
Week 4 - Civil War
Week 5 - Mehmed and Murad II
Week 6 - Murad II and conquest
Week 7 - The Crusades and the Fall of Byzantium
Week 8 - Review 

Session structure:
Each week we will start off by reviewing the notes and questions for each set of learning materials. 
We will then talk about how this fits into what has happened before and introduce the coming weeks topic.
Homework will be assigned.

Main Project:
Students will create a 5-10 minute podcast summarizing one thing the student found interesting and then present it to the other students in Week 8.