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| SEC 121 | History of Political Thought | 2+0+0 | ECTS:4 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | Second Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of GENERAL MEDICINE | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Ahmet KÖKSAL | | Co-Lecturer | ASSOC. PROF. DR. Ahmet KARAÇAVUŞ | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | Objective of this course is to provide basic information about imergence and development process of near-term political thinking. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | analyze the contribution of the emergence of liberal thought to individual freedoms | | 1 | | LO - 2 : | interpret the relations between political thoughts and revolutions | | | | LO - 3 : | examine the conditions which give rise to totalitarian ideas. | | | | LO - 4 : | understand the dangers which domcracies may face with. | | | | 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 | | |
| Political concepts; Political thoughts; Political theories; Political movements; Political ideologies.
Development of political thought after 18th century. Montesquieu and J.J. Rousseau's views, the French Revolution and its impact to political thought, emergence of ideas wich react liberalism. Babeuf, Fichte and Hegel's ideas, emergence of contemporary totalitarian thought and its effects, Fascism, Marxism and National Socialism, Anarchism, Syndicalism and Leninism and it effects.
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 2 | Anarchism
| | | Week 3 | Freedom, autonomy and authority | | | Week 4 | Ethnicity, Nation and Nationalism | | | Week 5 | Traditionalism and conservative thinking | | | Week 6 | Utilitarianism and Liberal thinking | | | Week 7 | Religion, modernity and political thought | | | Week 8 | Mid-Term Exam | | | Week 9 | Citizenship theories | | | Week 10 | Secularism approach and related theories
| | | Week 11 | The opposite directions to secularism (Fundamentalisms) | | | Week 12 |
Left thinking | | | Week 13 | New Social Movements
| | | Week 14 | Democracy (Liberal, Participatory, Deliberative, Radical)
| | | Week 15 | Civil society | | | Week 16 | Final Exam | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | 13/11/2019 | 05 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 08/01/2020 | 05 | 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 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 12 | 2 | 24 | | Ödev | 6 | 8 | 48 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 18 | 2 | 36 | | Total work load | | | 150 |
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