GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION

POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY (OPT)/PUAD317

Course Title:	POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY (OPT)
Credits	3	ECTS	5
Semester	3	Compulsory/Elective	Compulsory

COURSE INFO

-- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

English

-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

Assist.Prof. Özge Çelik Russell

-- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)

-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

celik@gazi.edu.tr

-- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT

Develop an understanding of how social divisions are formed in a social structure.
Think critically about social class, gender, ethnicity, and religious divisions within civil society.
Analyze how the interaction of social and economic factors effect power structures within civil society.
Evaluate the limits of the state's power with respect to the processes of globalization and rise of neoliberalism.
Analyze the limits of the state's power with respect to the emergence of new social movements.

-- 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	It will be given a short introduction to political sociology.The goal of that lecture is to give the students a sense of what kind of course to be.
2. Week	It will be adressed Marxist, Weberian, and Durkheimian traditions of political sociology in that week’s lecture.
3. Week	The topic of that week’s lecture is types of political system.
4. Week	The main goal of that week’s lecture is to discuss why liberal democracy is in a crisis
5. Week	It will be explained the role of political parties and election in the crisis of democracy.
6. Week	It will be analysed the functionality of political change and conflict in types of political system.
7. Week	The topic of that week’s lecture is global politics in the 20th century.
8. Week	Midterm
9. Week	The aim of that week’s lecture is to try to explain the relation among social movements, political parties, and political action.
10. Week	It will be summarized the premises of new social movements of liberal and marxist viewpoints in that week’s lecture.
11. Week	It will be explained the concept of violence and types of violence.
12. Week	the aim of that week’s lecture is to try to explain the meaning of citizenship.
13. Week	It will be addressed the relation between citizenship and social class.
14. Week	It will be addressed the relation among citizenship, gender and ethnicity and also it will be explained how gender and ethnicity can be political.
15. Week	The topic of that week’s lecture is the new concept of politics.
16. Week	Finally, it will be summarized the topics which have been explained during the lectures.

-- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING

Political Sociology: A Critical Introduction (Keith F. Faulks)

-- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS

Lecture

-- WORK PLACEMENT(S)

None

-- 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	15	3	45
Practising Hours of Course Per Week			0
Reading	15	2	30
Searching in Internet and Library	15	2	30
Designing and Applying Materials			0
Preparing Reports			0
Preparing Presentation			0
Presentation			0
Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term	1	5	5
Final and Studying for Final	1	5	5
Other			0
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			115
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			4.6
ECTS:			5

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

NO	PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES	1	2	3	4	5
1	Having skills and professional expertise in the field of international relations theories, political history and international law	X
2	Being able to manage the disciplines of juridical sciences, sociology, history, economics etc. with the necessity of the international relations discipline by having theretical knowledge and competence	X
3	Obtaining professional qualification to work at state institutions and organizations, private sector and non-governmental organizations in the field of professions that district governorship, administrative jurisdiction magistracy, diplomacy, inspectorship and expert assistantship with the advantage of accumulation of interdisciplinary knowledge	X
4	Having adequate information about the regional and global institutions and organizations which dominate interntional relations	X
5	Being able to comprehend the status of Turkey and other actors in international system with the help of academic, historical and factual perspectives	X
6	Having information about the Middle East, Russia- Caucasus, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Europe and Africa regions with regards to their history, economics, sociology and strategy by analyzing international system with regional perspective	X
7	Being able to make interpretation on the progresses of international relations with respect to international law	X
8	Having knowledge of the political history of XIX. and XX. century to make interpretations on contemporary international relations system	X
9	Being able to apply the theories of international relations, to make analyses, to develop hypotheses and to promote solution offers in the individual, state and system levels of analyses		X
10	Being conscious of professional, humane and scientific ethical manners and also the principals related to these manners					X
11	Being able to reach the resources and to have foreign language proficiency on the level to follow the developments related to international relations discipline and the literature	X
12	Using basic computer programmes and information technologies efficiently by adhering to the principal of continuous learning	X
13	Being able to find solutions and having capability of preparing documents such as projects, drafts, programmes and reports for national, regional and global problems with being coherent to group actions, open-minded, having capability to take initiatives and analytical thinking		X

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