GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION

AXIOLOGY/FEL 109

Course Title:	AXIOLOGY
Credits	2	ECTS	3
Semester	1	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 be able to recognize the main problems and concepts
Students will be able to perceive the difference of the discipline
To learn the foundations of the approaches within the context of certain philosophers in the field.

-- 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 foundation of axiology and the frame of the discipline
2. Week	Basic concepts of axiology
3. Week	Plato and his approach to the problems of value
4. Week	Aristotle and his approach to the problems of value
5. Week	General evaluation on axiology in Antiquity
6. Week	Modernity and value
7. Week	Mid-Term Exam
8. Week	Kant and his approach to the problem of values
9. Week	Kant and his approach to the problem of values
10. Week	Nietzsche and revaluation of values
11. Week	Nietzsche and revaluation of values
12. Week	The relation of value, evaluation and knowledge
13. Week	A philosophical approach to the problem of “evaluation”
14. Week	Exercising evaluation in literary texts
15. Week	Exercising evaluation in literary texts
16. Week	Final Exam

-- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING

1- A. Arslan, Felsefeye Giriş, Vadi Yayınları 2- İ. Kuçuradi, İnsan ve Değerleri, TFK 3- A. MacIntyre, Etik’in Kısa Tarihi 4- B. Akarsu, Ahlak Öğretileri

-- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS

Lecture, Question & Answer, Demonstration

-- 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	3	8	24
Searching in Internet and Library	2	4	8
Designing and Applying Materials			0
Preparing Reports			0
Preparing Presentation	1	7	7
Presentation			0
Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term	1	6	6
Final and Studying for Final	1	8	8
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
1	To obtain the ability of understanding and using the basic concepts of the discipline of philosophy.			X
2	To be a person who criticizes, investigates and makes true evaluations, by obtaining a philosophical look upon the values.					X
3	To obtain the ability of understanding and evaluating the philosophical problems by using the basic concepts.				X
4	To 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
5	To 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
6	To 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
7	To 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
8	To obtain a power of reasoning creativly and coherently and an ability to look from different perspectives at the events		X
9	by making the symbolic and abstract thinking a habit.	X
10	To be able to realize the relations of philosophical problems with contemporary problems.		X
11	To be able to relate the problems of different disciplines.				X
12	To think analytically.				X
13	To compare the relationship between opposing views.			X
14	To learn a foreign language at a basic level.
15	To be able to use communication Technologies at a basic level.

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