GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE/4430031
Course Title: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Credits 3 ECTS 7.5
Course Semester 2 Type of The Course Elective
COURSE INFORMATION
 -- (CATALOG CONTENT)
 -- (TEXTBOOK)
 -- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)
 -- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- COURSE OBJECTIVES
 -- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  Introduction
2. Week  Philosopy
3. Week  Epistemology
4. Week  Rasionalizm
5. Week  Emprism
6. Week  Positivism
7. Week  Logical Positivism
8. Week  Exam
9. Week  Karl Popper,Thomas Kuhn
10. Week   İmre Lakatos ,Paul Feyeraband
11. Week  Ethics in Science
12. Week  Concepts in Science (Law, Theory, ...)
13. Week  Scientific Method
14. Week  Science and Society
15. Week  
16. Week  
 -- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS
 -- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Total Weighting (%)
 Midterm Exams
1
40
 Assignment
0
0
 Application
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Percent of In-term Studies  
40
 Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score  
60
 -- WORKLOAD
 Activity  Total Number of Weeks  Duration (weekly hour)  Total Period Work Load
 Weekly Theoretical Course Hours
14
3
42
 Weekly Tutorial Hours
0
 Reading Tasks
14
4
56
 Searching in Internet and Library
14
2
28
 Material Design and Implementation
0
 Report Preparing
0
 Preparing a Presentation
0
 Presentation
0
 Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam
1
10
10
 Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam
1
15
15
 Other (should be emphasized)
14
3
42
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
193
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
7.72
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
7.5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1X
2X
3X
4X
5X
6X
7X
8X
9X
10X
11X
12X
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   (Prof.Dr. YÜKSEL TUFAN)
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/ytufan )
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (ytufan@gazi.edu.tr )