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| INTR2013 | Professional English - I | 3+0+0 | ECTS:4 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Öğretim Görevlisi Cem KÜÇÜKALİ | | Co-Lecturer | Asst. Prof. Dr. Vahit Güntay | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The course will enhance students' knowledge, understanding and appreciation of events, actions and incidents in the international system. It will assist them to give meaning to actions that unfold among state and non-state actors in historical times, in the contemporary world and in the future. The course will also let the students have the ability to express their ideas in paragraph level which is the fundamental of academic essays. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | Will learn the basic jargon in the target language | 4 | 1, | | LO - 2 : | Can understand the basic concept,theory and paradigm in the field of IR with the help of the papers studied | 4 | 1, | | LO - 3 : | Can express his ideas both in the field and generaly at paragraph level | 4 | 1, | | 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), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Students will explore the fundamental concepts, theories and paradigms of international relations. Among these are the International System, International Law, International Politics, Sovereignty, Balance of Power, Realism,
Liberalism, Power, and Power theory in the target language. Students will have the chance to review the basics of the field both spoken and written with the help of the related papers in English. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction | | | Week 2 | The meaning, scope and nature of IR | | | Week 3 | Power and power theory | | | Week 4 | Diplomacy | | | Week 5 | Alliance and anarcy concepts | | | Week 6 | Balance of power concept | | | Week 7 | Capitalism | | | Week 8 | Realism and idealism | | | Week 9 | Midterm exam | | | Week 10 | Sovereignty concept | | | Week 11 | Clash of civilisations | | | Week 12 | Dependency concept | | | Week 13 | Geopolitics | | | Week 14 | Academic paragraph writing: The structure of a paragraph | | | Week 15 | Paragraph Types : Description, comparison, cause- effect | | | Week 16 | Final exam | | | |
| 1 | ESSENTIALS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND DIPLOMACY, Dr. Ademola Adeleke Department of History & Strategic Studies University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos, 2014
| | | 2 | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: THE KEY CONCEPTS, Martin Griffiths and Terry O?Callaghan, published 2002 by Routledge, London | | | 3 | PARAGRAPH DEVELOPMENT METHODS, M. Demirezen, Adım Publications 1993, Ankara | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 25/11/2021 | 1 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 20/01/2022 | 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 | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 6 | 3 | 18 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 7 | 4 | 28 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Total work load | | | 120 |
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