GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION

POLITICAL IDEAS AND DEMOCRACY/5350067

Course Title:	POLITICAL IDEAS AND DEMOCRACY
Credits	3	ECTS	7.5
Semester	2	Compulsory/Elective	Elective

COURSE INFO

-- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

Turkish

-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

Assoc. Prof. Cem Yaşın

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

-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

-- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT

Students acquire the sight about political philosophy and theories of democracy.

-- 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
2. Week	The Birth of Democracy
3. Week	Democracy and political proses in City State
4. Week	Sophists and Democratic Thinking
5. Week	Sokrates
6. Week	Platon
7. Week	Aristoteles
8. Week	Midterm Exam
9. Week	Political Thoughts in Rpme: Cicero,Seneca
10. Week	The Development of Democratic Thinking in the 17th century:Thomas Hobbes ve Leviathan
11. Week	The Development of Democratic Thinking in the 17th century:Natural Rights and democracy in Lock’s thought
12. Week	The Development of Democratic Thinking in the 18th century:Montesquieu, Roessesu
13. Week	The Development of Democratic Thinking in the 19th century: Hegel and National State; Marks and inequality; John Stuart Mill, and individual freedom
14. Week	The concepts of Democratic Thinking in the 20th century: Rawls’ theory of justice,welfare state, libertarianism, participatory democracy
15. Week	Discussion
16. Week	Final Exam

-- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING

Göze, Ayferi (2009). Siyasal Düşünceler ve Yönetimler, 12. Baskı, İstanbul: Beta. Tannenbaum, Donald ve Schultz, David (2008) Siyasal Düşünceler Tari

-- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS

Lecture

-- WORK PLACEMENT(S)

-- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA

	Quantity	Percentage
Mid-terms	1	50
Assignment	0	0
Exercises	0	0
Projects	0	0
Practice	0	0
Quiz	1	50
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade		50
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade		50

-- WORKLOAD

Efficiency	Total Week Count	Weekly Duration (in hour)	Total Workload in Semester
Theoretical Study Hours of Course Per Week	14	3	42
Practising Hours of Course Per Week			0
Reading	14	3	42
Searching in Internet and Library	14	3	42
Designing and Applying Materials	14	3	42
Preparing Reports			0
Preparing Presentation	14	1	14
Presentation	1	3	3
Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term			0
Final and Studying for Final	1	3	3
Other			0
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			188
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			7.52
ECTS:			7.5

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

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