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KAY6362 | Environmental Ethics Approaches | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | Level of Course | Third Cycle | Status | Elective | Department | DEPARTMENT of PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | Mode of Delivery | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Muhammed Yunus BİLGİLİ | Co-Lecturer | | Language of instruction | Turkish | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | The aim of the course: | The aim of this course is to examine human-environment relations through environmental ethics approaches systematically and to explain the relationship between environmental ethics and environmental issues such as climate change, environmental justice and municipal solid waste pollution. |
Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | PO - 1 : | Have detailed information about environmental ethics | 1,3 | 1,3, | PO - 2 : | Explain the relationship between environmental issues and environmental ethics | 1,3 | 1,3, | PO - 3 : | Will be able to offer suggestions on the utilization of environmental ethics approaches in combating environmental issues | 1,2,3 | 1,3, | PO - 4 : | Explain the effects of environmental ethics approaches on policy areas such as economy, security, law and politics | 1,3 | 1,3, | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | |
Environment, environmental issues, ethics, morality, environmental ethics, anthropocentric environmental ethics, biocentric environmental ethics, holistic environmental ethics, deep ecology, environmental justice, social ecology, climate justice, environmental management and environmental ethics, ecofeminism, ecosocialism, ecofascism, ecoanarchism, land ethics, lifeboat ethics. |
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Course Syllabus | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | Week 1 | The concept of environment and the causes of environmental issues | | Week 2 | Concepts of ethics and morality | | Week 3 | Emergence and development of environmental ethics | | Week 4 | The anthropocentric environmental ethics | | Week 5 | Pathocentric and biocentric environmental ethics | | Week 6 | Holistic environmental ethics approach | | Week 7 | General evaluation and comparison of environmental ethics approaches | | Week 8 | Deep ecology | | Week 9 | Midterm Exam | | Week 10 | Lifeboat ethics | | Week 11 | Land ethics | | Week 12 | Environmental justice | | Week 13 | The relationship between climate change and environmental ethics | | Week 14 | Political ideologies and environmental ethics | | Week 15 | Sustainable development and environmental ethics | | Week 16 | Final Exam | | |
1 | Attfield R. 2019; Environmental Ethics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press. | | |
1 | Des Jardins, J. R. 2006; Çevre Etiği - Çevre Felsefesine Giriş, İmge Kitabevi, Ankara. | | 2 | Kılıç, S. 2013. Çevre Etiği, Orion Yayınevi, Ankara. | | |
Method of Assessment | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | Mid-term exam | 9 | 19/11/2024 | 1 | 30 | In-term studies (second mid-term exam) | 12 | 19/12/2024 | 1 | 20 | End-of-term exam | 16 | 07/01/2025 | 1 | 50 | |
Student Work Load and its Distribution | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | Yüz yüze eğitim | 14 | 3 | 42 | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 14 | 8 | 112 | Arasınav için hazırlık | 2 | 12 | 24 | Arasınav | 1 | 2 | 2 | Ödev | 3 | 2 | 6 | Kısa sınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 12 | 3 | 36 | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | Total work load | | | 225 |
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