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COURSE DESCRIPTION

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS/4340074

Course Title:	SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Credits	3	ECTS	7.5
Semester	1	Compulsory/Elective	Elective

COURSE INFO

-- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

Turkish

-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

Assoc. Prof. Kürşad Şeyhmus TURAN

-- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)

kursadturan.com.tr

-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

kturan@gazi.edu.tr

-- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT

Analyzes the concept of social movement.
Learns the relationship between social changes and social movements.
Learns the concepts of identity, collective action and cycles of protest.
Analyzes the steps of participation and networking, which have key importance in occurance of social movements.
Learns and analyzes how states police social movements.
Learns social movements in history and compares 20th and 21st century social movements.
Interprets the relationship between democracy, democratization and social movements.

-- 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	Introduction: Presentation of the subject, plan and aims of the course
2. Week	Social Movements
3. Week	Social Changes and Social Movements
4. Week	Identity
5. Week	Collective Action
6. Week	Networks and Participation
7. Week	Social Movements and Organizations
8. Week	Mid-term Examinations Week
9. Week	Cycles of Protest
10. Week	Policing of Movements
11. Week	Social Movements in History
12. Week	20th Century Social Movements
13. Week	21st Century Social Movements
14. Week	Democracy-Democratization and Social Movements
15. Week	The Future of Social Movements
16. Week	Final Examinations Week

-- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING

REQUIRED READINGS: H. Arendt, R. Dworkin, J. Habermas, J. Galtung, M.L. King, J. Rawls, H. Saner, H.D. Thoreau, Kamu Vicdanına Çağrı: Sivil İtaatsizlik, İstanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları, 1997; Derry Nairn, Yaşasın Devrim! Tarih Boyunca Halkın Sahneye Çıktığı 30 Devrim, İstanbul: Final, Sanat, Kültür Yayınları, 2014 RECOMMENDED READINGS:Tarık Aygün, Efendiliğin Reddi: Sivil İtaatsizlik ve Doğrudan Eylem, İstanbul: Versus, 2006; Donatella Della Porta ve Mario Diani, Social Movements: An Introduction, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006; Charles Tilly, Social Movements, 1768-2004, Boulder: Paradigm Publishing, 2004.

-- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS

Lecture, Question-Answer, Discussion

-- WORK PLACEMENT(S)

N/A

-- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA

	Quantity	Percentage
Mid-terms	1	40
Assignment	0	0
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	15	3	45
Practising Hours of Course Per Week			0
Reading	15	3	45
Searching in Internet and Library	15	3	45
Designing and Applying Materials			0
Preparing Reports			0
Preparing Presentation			0
Presentation			0
Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term	1	20	20
Final and Studying for Final	1	34	34
Other			0
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			189
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			7.56
ECTS:			7.5

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

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