GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES/FEL211A
Course Title: CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES
Credits 3 ECTS 5
Semester 3 Compulsory/Elective Compulsory
COURSE INFO
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
  Lecturer Ph.D. Canan Gürsel
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  http://www.websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/canangursel
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  canangursel@gazi.edu.tr
 -- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT
Understand the development of psychology as a science.
Understand the effects of philosophical movements on the emergence of psychological theories.
Know the events chronologically that allowing the development of psychology as a science.
Identfy the interactional process of scientific development, philosophical, historical bacground and the way of how psychology became a science.
Describethe key contributions of major figures and how theoretical approaches effect each other and compare the similarities and differences.
Gain a critical perspective about research issues and current topics of psychology.



 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is face to face
 -- PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES
  There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.
 -- RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTS
  There is no recommended optional programme component for this course.
 --COURSE CONTENT
1. Week  Studies of History of Psychology.
2. Week  Philosophical Impact on Psychology.
3. Week  Physiological Effects on Psychology
4. Week  Psychological Theories-New Psychology
5. Week  Structuralism.
6. Week  Functionalism.
7. Week  Mid-Term.
8. Week  Applied Psychology.
9. Week  Behaviorism.
10. Week  Gestalt Psychology
11. Week  Psychoanalitic Approach,& Critics of Psychoanalysis and Followers, Neo-Freudian and Ego Psychologists.
12. Week  Humanistic Psychology and Cognitive Psychology.
13. Week  Topics on Contemporary Psychology(Race, Sex and Ethics).
14. Week  Final.
15. Week  
16. Week  
 -- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
  Schultz.D.P., Schultz.S.E., (2002). History of Modern Psychology,2.Ed.,(Çev.Y. Aslay),Kaknüs Yayınları.
 -- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
  Lecture,question & answer,demonstration
 -- WORK PLACEMENT(S)
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 -- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Percentage
 Mid-terms
1
40
 Assignment
0
0
 Exercises
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade  
40
 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade  
60
 -- WORKLOAD
 Efficiency  Total Week Count  Weekly Duration (in hour)  Total Workload in Semester
 Theoretical Study Hours of Course Per Week
14
3
42
 Practising Hours of Course Per Week
0
 Reading
10
3
30
 Searching in Internet and Library
5
2
10
 Designing and Applying Materials
0
 Preparing Reports
5
3
15
 Preparing Presentation
0
 Presentation
0
 Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term
2
5
10
 Final and Studying for Final
3
6
18
 Other
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
125
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
5
 ECTS: 
5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1Students have got the sufficiency about "department of philosophy and related fields teaching" and "educational sciences". They know the laws and rules about their profession.X
2Students take the theoretical and practical knowledge which is interested in "department of philosophy and related fields teaching" and "educational sciences" to solve the educational problems.X
3Students determine the educational problems and offer a solution these problems. They choose and practise the methods of analytic about these problems.X
4Students explain the theory, the model, the principle and the generalization about philosophy, psychology, sociology and logic. According to this explanation, they declare the basic principles of department of philosophy and related fields teaching.X
5Students know the individual, peripheral and social factors which have an effect on the human relations. By this way, they acquire effective listening, positive feedback and creative problem solving.X
6Students acquire some suffiencies that inquiry, evaluation, decision making, analyse and syntheses, relating between events, comparison, gain a different viewpoint, life-wide learning, logical thinking etc.X
7Students organize activity and material building about related field teaching. They choose and use the educational technology for quality education activity.X
8Students research and evaulate scientifically the notions and the idea about profession of a teacher and the education technology.X
9Students know the basic notion of growing and know the characteristics of adolescence and adult periods.X
10Students research related literature and use data bases. They use effectively the library, internet, the museum and the research center.X
11They acquire the skills that learning to learn, self-regulation, life long learning, critical thinking, creative thinking, logical thinking.X
12Students obey the professional and ethical rules and participate in the collusive practices. They protect the values of democratic, social, scientific, cultural and ethical.X