GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
EXISTENTIALISM/FEL 411
Course Title: EXISTENTIALISM
Credits 2 ECTS 4
Semester 7 Compulsory/Elective Elective
COURSE INFO
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   Asst. Prof. Sengun Meltem ACAR
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/sengunacar
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  sengunacar@gazi.edu.tr
 -- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT
Students will learn to define concepts and use traditional vocabulary of philosophy.
Students will increase their abilities to read and analyze philosophical writing.
Students will learn the basic concepts and problems of existential philosophy.
 -- 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  Basic concepts and problems of Existentialism
2. Week  Kierkegaard and the foundations of Existentialism
3. Week  Existential themes in Kierkegaard
4. Week  Kierkegaard’s existentialism
5. Week  J.P. Sartre and Existentialism
6. Week  J.P. Sartre and Existentialism
7. Week  Mid-term Exam
8. Week  J.P.Sartre and Existentialism
9. Week  Bartle by, the Scrivener and existential themes in literature
10. Week  Dostoyevski and Existentialism
11. Week  Dostoyevski and Existentialism
12. Week  A. Camus and Existentialism
13. Week  A. Camus and Existentialism
14. Week  A. Camus and Existentialism
15. Week  Evaluation
16. Week  Final Exam
 -- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
  1- H.J. Blackham, Altı Varoluşçu Düşünür, Dost Kitabevi Yayınları, 2012. 2- A. MacIntyre, Varoluşçuluk, Paradigma Yayınları, 2001. 3- W. Kaufmann, Dostoyevski’den Sartre’a Varoluşçuluk, YKY 4- J. Colette, Varoluşçuluk, Dost Kitabevi, 2006. 5- J.M.Bochenski, Çağdaş Avrupa Felsefesi, 6- H. Melville, Katip Bartleby, İletişim Yayınları, 2013. 7- Sartre, Bulantı, Can Yayınları, 2012. 8- Dostoyevski, Yeraltından Notlar, İletişim Yayınları, 2013 9- A. Camus, Yabancı, Can Yayınları, 2003.
 -- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
  Lecture, Question & Answer
 -- WORK PLACEMENT(S)
  --
 -- 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
14
2
28
 Practising Hours of Course Per Week
0
 Reading
4
10
40
 Searching in Internet and Library
3
6
18
 Designing and Applying Materials
0
 Preparing Reports
0
 Preparing Presentation
1
6
6
 Presentation
0
 Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term
1
6
6
 Final and Studying for Final
1
9
9
 Other
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
107
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
4.28
 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.