GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
HISTORY OF TURKISH DEMOCRACY/SOS1012
Course Title: HISTORY OF TURKISH DEMOCRACY
Credits 2 ECTS 3
Semester 2 Compulsory/Elective Elective
COURSE INFO
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
  Asist.Prof. Bahattin Demirtaş
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  http://www.websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/bdemirtas
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  bdemirtas@gazi.edu.tr
 -- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT
Examining the general structure of the basic institutions of Turkish politics.
Comparing and subtly describing the constitutional movements from the Ottoman period onward.
Analyzing the re-structuring the political system in the republican period.
Evaluating the political structure in the single-party period.
Examining the factors that were effective in the shift to multi-party political life.
Comparing and criticizing the military coups in Turkey.
Evaluating the future of Turkish democracy.
 -- 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  The general structure of the Turkish political system
2. Week  The change of the traditional system and the factors under this change
3. Week  Institutions assisting the sultan
4. Week  Constitutional movements
5. Week  Emergence of the representative system
6. Week  The development and organization of the concept of opposition
7. Week   The passage from the sultanate to the republic and the problems experienced
8. Week  Midterm Exam
9. Week  The power of the single-party period, its purposes and policies
10. Week   The Republic's conception of "public space"
11. Week  The passage to multi-party political life: the factors affecting this process
12. Week  The interventions on multi-party political life and their consequences
13. Week  Internal and external factors in the development of Turkish democracy
14. Week  The effect of the European Union in the transformation of Turkish democracy
15. Week  General Review
16. Week  Final Exam
 -- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
   1) Şükrü Karatepe, Osmanlı Siyasi Kurumları/ Klasik Dönem, İstanbul, İşaret Yayınları, 1989. 2) Halil İnalcık, Osmanlı Padişahı, AÜSBFD, 13/4, Aralık 1958, s. 68-79. 3) Ahmet Mumcu, Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda Egemenlik Kavramı ve Gelişmesi, 1. Milli Egemenlik Sempozyumu, Ankara, 24-25 Nisan 1985. 4) Kemal H. Karpat, ?The Transformation of The Ottoman State, 1789-1908, International Middle East Studies, 3, 1972, s. 243-28. 5) Davut Dursun, Osmanlı Devletinde Siyaset ve Din, İstanbul, İşaret Yayınları, 1992. 6) Davut Dursun, "Osmanlı Toplum Yapısına Genel Bir Bakış", İlim ve Sanat, 22, Kasım-Aralık 1988. 7) Halil İnalcık, Sened-i İttifak ve Gülhane Hatt-ı Hümayunu, Belleten, 28/112, Ekim 1964. 8) Halil İnalcık, Tanzimat’ın Uygulanması ve Sosyal Tepkileri,
 -- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
  Lecture, Question & Answer
 -- WORK PLACEMENT(S)
  Not Applicable
 -- 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
2
28
 Practising Hours of Course Per Week
0
 Reading
14
2
28
 Searching in Internet and Library
8
1
8
 Designing and Applying Materials
0
 Preparing Reports
0
 Preparing Presentation
0
 Presentation
0
 Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term
1
8
8
 Final and Studying for Final
1
9
9
 Other
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
81
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
3.24
 ECTS: 
3
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1To train individuals who are contemporary, entrepreneur and have unique and aesthetic values, self-confidence and capable of independent decision-making.X
2To train individuals who are equipped with enough mathematics
3To teach mathematical thinking methods in order to improve the ability to express mathematics both orally and in writing,
4To train individuals who are knowledgeable about the history of mathematics and the production of scientific knowledge and can follow developments in these disciplines.
5To provide necessary equipments to take positions such areas as banking, finance, econometrics, and actuarial,X
6To acquire ability to solve problems encountered in real life by means of mathematical modeling using mathematical methods,X
7To provide ability to do necessary resource researches in the areas of mathematics and to use accessed information,X
8To give appropriate training in such areas as in computer programming and creating algorithms in order to take parts in developing IT sector,X
9To gain substructure to be able to study at graduate level.X
10The skill to have professional and ethical responsibilityX