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| Language of Instruction |
Türkçe (Turkish) |
| Type Of Course |
Compulsory |
| Prerequisites |
No Pre-requisites |
| Recommended Optional Programme Component |
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| Course Objectives |
The fist part of the course taking place in the Fall Semester aims to analyse significant texts in the history of political thought from Ancient Greece to the Eighteenth Century and scrutinize how thinkers deal with main questions regarding political and social order. |
| Course Content |
In reviewing main concepts of political science, this course introduces theoretical frameworks of major political thinkers including Philsophers of Nature, Sophists, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, More, Bodin, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau to students. |
| Learning Outcomes (LO) |
1- Understanding how political thought develops within the historical process;
2- Comprehending the ways in which thinkers living in this period handle topics like justice, liberty, human nature, individual-the state relationship;
3- Being aware of the importance of Political Philosophy for Political Science |
| Mode of Delivery |
Face to face |
| Course Outline |
| Week |
Topics |
| 1. Week |
Introduction |
| 2. Week |
From Philosophy of Nature to the Idea of Democracy I: Philosophy of Nature |
| 3. Week |
From Philosophy of Nature to the Idea of Democracy II: Sophist Thought and Socrates |
| 4. Week |
Plato: Universe of Ideas and Objects / “Republic“ |
| 5. Week |
Aristotle: “Politics” |
| 6. Week |
Political Thought in Roman Period: Cicero / Seneca |
| 7. Week |
Middle age and Feudality |
| 8. Week |
Niccolo Machiavelli: “The Prince” |
| 9. Week |
Thomas More: “Utopia” |
| 10. Week |
Jean Bodin:“Six Books of the Republic” |
| 11. Week |
Thomas Hobbes: “Leviathan” |
| 12. Week |
John Locke: “Two Treatises of the Government” |
| 13. Week |
Jean Jacques Rousseau: “The Social Contract” |
| 14. Week |
General Review |
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| Assessment |
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Percentage(%) |
| Mid-term (%) |
40 |
| Quizes (%) |
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| Homeworks/Term papers (%) |
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| Practice (%) |
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| Labs (%) |
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| Seminars/Workshops (%) |
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| Final (%) |
60 |
| Other (%) |
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| Total(%) |
100 |
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| Course Book (s) and/or References |
Mehmet Ali Ağaoğulları, Kent Devletinden İmparatorluğa, İmge Kitabevi,Ankara.
Mehmet Ali Ağaoğulları, Tanrı Devletinden İmparatorluğa, İmge Kitabevi, Ankara
Mehmet Ali Ağaoğulları, İmparatorluktan Tanrı Devletine, İmge Kitabevi,Ankara.
Mehmet Ali Ağaoğulları, Kral Devlet ya da Ölümlü Tanrı, İmge Kitabevi,Ankara.
Mete Tunçay (der)., Batı’da Siyasal Düşünçeler Tarihi: Eski ve Orta Çağlar, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, İstanbul.
Mete Tunçay (der)., Batı’da Siyasal Düşünçeler Tarihi:Yeni Çağ, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, İstanbul.
Alaeddin Şenel, Siyasal Düşünçeler Tarihi, Bilim ve Sanat Yayınları, Ankara.
Bertrand Russel, Batı Felsefesi Tarihi, Say Yayınları, İstanbul. |
| Work Placement(s) |
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| The Relationship between Program Qualifications (PQ) and Course Learning Outcomes (LO) |
| | PQ1 | PQ2 | PQ3 | PQ4 | PQ5 | PQ6 | PQ7 | PQ8 | PQ9 | PQ10 | PQ11 | PQ12 | PQ13 | PQ 14 | PQ 15 | PQ 16 | PQ 17 | PQ 18 | LO1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | | | 5 | | | | | | | | | | | | 5 | LO2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | | | 5 | | | | | 3 | | | | | | | 5 | LO3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | | | 5 | 3 | | | 2 | 4 | | | | | | | 5 |
* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High |