GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
PHILOSOPHY OF ENVIRONMENT/FEL 420
Course Title: PHILOSOPHY OF ENVIRONMENT
Credits 2 ECTS 4
Semester 8 Compulsory/Elective Elective
COURSE INFO
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
  Assist. Prof. Dr. Ceyhun Akin CENGIZ
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/ceyhunakin/
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   ceyhunakin@gazi.edu.tr
 -- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT
Aim of this lesson is to teach human-nature interaction, environmental awareness, environmental ethic and basic facts, terms, notions and events about
 -- 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  Definition of Environmental Notion and its dimension, extent and feature.
2. Week  Definition of Environmental issues notion and its dimension, extent and feature
3. Week  Historical Development of the environment-human relationships and its reflections
4. Week  Environmentalism, environmental rights, environmental utopias and environmentalist movements.
5. Week  Definition of environmental awareness and environmental sensitivity and its dimension, extent and feature
6. Week  Definition, dimensions, scope and features of Environmental Ethic
7. Week  Midterm Exam
8. Week  Formation, development of Mechanist Worldview and its view on basic philosophical problems.
9. Week  Formation, development of Ecological Worldview and its view on basic philosophical problems.
10. Week  Ethics of Animal rights,life and respect for nature.
11. Week  Ethics and features of the soil.
12. Week  Ethics and features a lifeboat.
13. Week  Deep ecology and shallow ecology. Principles of deep ecology.
14. Week  Effects of Ecological View in Education and Politics
15. Week  General evaluation
16. Week  General evaluation
 -- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
  •Ferry, Luc, Ekolojik Yeni Düzen, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, İstanbul, 2000 •Keleş, Ruşen, İnsan Çevre Toplum, İmge Kitabevi, Ankara, 1997 •Kışlalıoğlu,Mine - Berkes, Fikret, Çevre ve Ekoloji, Remzi Kitabevi, İstanbul, 1993 •Kışlalıoğlu,Mine - Berkes, Fikret, Ekoloji ve Çevre Bilimleri, Remzi Kitabevi, İstanbul, 1994 •Bookchin, Murray, Toplumsal Ekolojinin Felsefesi. Diyalektik Doğalcılık Üzerine Denemeler, • Kabalcı Yayınevi, Felsefe Dizisi: 18, İstanbul, 1996 • Çepel, Necmettin, Doğa, Çevre, Ekoloji ve İnsanlığın Ekolojik Sorunları, Altın Kitaplar Yayınları, İstanbul, 1992 • Demirer, N. Göksel - Abay, E. Tezcan, Küreselleşmenin Ekolojik Sonuçları, Özgür Üniversite Kitaplığı, Ankara, 2000 • Erdoğan, İrfan – Ejder, Nazmiye, Çevre Sorunları; Nedenler, Çözümler, Doruk Yayıncılık, Ankara, 1997 • Lipson, Leslie, Uygarlığın Ahlâki Bunalımları. Manevi Bir Erime mi, Yoksa İlerleme mi?, Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, İstanbul, 2000 • Ponting, Clive, Dünyanın Yeşil Tarihi. Çevre ve
 -- 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
10
40
 Searching in Internet and Library
2
5
10
 Designing and Applying Materials
0
 Preparing Reports
0
 Preparing Presentation
1
12
12
 Presentation
0
 Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term
1
9
9
 Final and Studying for Final
1
10
10
 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.