GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION/FEL 404
Course Title: PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Credits 2 ECTS 4
Semester 8 Compulsory/Elective Compulsory
COURSE INFO
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
  Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hakan GUNDOGDU
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/hakangundogdu
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  hakangundogdu@gazi.edu.tr
 -- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT
Understand the different ways of dealing with the philosophy of religion
It provides students with the possibility of comprehending the main problems of the philosophy of religion through developing their skills of philosop







 -- 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 scope, method and sources of philosophy of religion
2. Week  Faith and reason
3. Week  Ontological Argument
4. Week  Cosmological Argument
5. Week  Teleological Argument
6. Week  Religious Experience Argument
7. Week  Midterm Exam
8. Week  Moral Argument
9. Week  Atheism, the problem of evil and various theodicies
10. Week  God; Divine Attributes and God’s relation to the world
11. Week  The nature, possibility and understanding of revelation
12. Week  The concept of miracle Death, immortality and after-life
13. Week  Religion and Science
14. Week  Diversity and religious pluralism.
15. Week  The relation of religion to other disciplines such as morality, science and art The phenomenon of religious
16. Week  Overall Evaluation
 -- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
  1) Mehmet Aydın, Din Felsefesi, Ankara: Selçuk Yay., 1992 2) Mehmet Bayraktar, Din Felsefesine Giriş, Ankara, 1997 3) Recep Kılıç, Ahlakın Dini Temeli, Ankara 1992
 -- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
  Lecture, Question & Answer, Demonstration,
 -- WORK PLACEMENT(S)
  Not Applicable
 -- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Percentage
 Mid-terms
1
30
 Assignment
1
10
 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
13
2
26
 Practising Hours of Course Per Week
0
 Reading
4
9
36
 Searching in Internet and Library
3
6
18
 Designing and Applying Materials
0
 Preparing Reports
0
 Preparing Presentation
1
11
11
 Presentation
0
 Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term
1
8
8
 Final and Studying for Final
1
9
9
 Other
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
108
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
4.32
 ECTS: 
4
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1To obtain the ability of understanding and using the basic concepts of the discipline of philosophy.X
2To be a person who criticizes, investigates and makes true evaluations, by obtaining a philosophical look upon the values.X
3To obtain the ability of understanding and evaluating the philosophical problems by using the basic concepts.X
4To be a sensible person to the humane, social, cultural, moral and political problems in our age and to produce solutions to these problems in a philosophical manner.X
5To improve the methods of text analysing, interpretation, evaluation and critique which bring in skills for text reading and writing concerning the comprehension and solution of philosophical problems.X
6To use the correct forms of thinking and obtain intellectual accoutrements, by developing a philosophical look upon knowledge, science, art and being. by making the symbolic and abstract thinking a habit.X
7To obtain a consciousness regarding the preservation of the human rights, history and ethics by seeing the development of the thought of the human rights with a philosophical look upon human.X
8To obtain a power of reasoning creativly and coherently and an ability to look from different perspectives at the eventsX
9by making the symbolic and abstract thinking a habit.X
10To be able to realize the relations of philosophical problems with contemporary problems.X
11To be able to relate the problems of different disciplines.X
12To think analytically.X
13To compare the relationship between opposing views.X
14To learn a foreign language at a basic level.
15To be able to use communication Technologies at a basic level.