GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
INTERNET AND PHILOSOPHY/FEL-107
Course Title: INTERNET AND PHILOSOPHY
Credits 3 ECTS 4
Semester 1 Compulsory/Elective Compulsory
COURSE INFO
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
  Instructor Betul YILDIRIM
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/betulyildirim
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  betulyildirim@gazi.edu.tr
 -- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT
Examine philosophical arguments from internet.
Learn how to scan philosophical essays and books on the internet.
Explain the problematic points of classical arguments
Demostrate the adequacy or inadequacy of a given argument
Articulate their ideas in a philosophically adequate language.
 -- 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  Use of the Internet effectively.
2. Week  Relationship between philosophy and the internet
3. Week  Philosophical evaluation of the Internet.
4. Week  Grounds of Critical Thinking: Definition, Attitudes, Skills
5. Week  The significance of Critical Thinking
6. Week  Barriers to Critical Thinking
7. Week   Mid-term Exam
8. Week  Recognition of Arguments, Conclusions, Premises and Suppositions
9. Week  The soundness of the Arguments
10. Week  The validity of the argument
11. Week  Literature on the Internet
12. Week  Research of the philosophical articles
13. Week  Numbers and Critical Thinking
14. Week  Critical reading, taking note and Interpretation
15. Week  Critical and analytical Writing
16. Week   Final Exam
 -- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
  Anthony Flew, Dosdoğru Düşünmenin Yolu: Eleştirel Akıl Yürütmeye Giriş, (çev. Hakan Gündoğdu), Ankara, 2008. Hakan Gündoğdu, “Eleştirel Düşünme ve Eleştirel Düşünme Öğretimine Dair Bazı Yanılgılar”, C. B. Ü. Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, cilt:7/1, 2009, ss.57-74. Hakan Gündoğdu, “Niçin Eleştirel Düşünemiyoruz?: Eleştirel Düşünmenin Engelleri”, Bilim ve Aklın Aydınlığında Eğitim, (Düşünme Eğitimi Dosyası), MEB, yıl: 13, sayı: 146, 2012, ss. 43-53. John Dewey, Nasıl Düşünürüz, İstanbul, 1957. Alev Alatlı, Safsata Kılavuzu, İstanbul, 2001. İbrahim Emiroğlu, Mantık Yanlışları, Ankara, 2004., Nigel Warburton, A’dan Z’ye Düşünmek, Ankara, 2006. Ertuğrul Uzun, Akıl Tutkunu Hukuk, Leyha, 2010.
 -- 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
20
 Assignment
1
10
 Exercises
0
0
 Projects
1
10
 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
2
5
10
 Searching in Internet and Library
8
3
24
 Designing and Applying Materials
0
 Preparing Reports
0
 Preparing Presentation
1
10
10
 Presentation
0
 Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term
1
6
6
 Final and Studying for Final
1
9
9
 Other
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
101
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
4.04
 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.X