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COURSE DESCRIPTION

POSTSTRUCTURALIST AND POSTMODERN THEORIES/5350069

Course Title:	POSTSTRUCTURALIST AND POSTMODERN THEORIES
Credits	3	ECTS	7.5
Semester	2	Compulsory/Elective	Elective

COURSE INFO

-- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

Turkish

-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

Prof. Himmet Hülür

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

http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/himmethulur

-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

himmethulur@gazi.edu.tr

-- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT

Student conceives how postmodern and poststructuralist theories emerged.
Student learns the basic arguments of poststructurlaist and postmodernist theories.
Student understands the main sources of postmodern and poststructuralist theories, the differences and similarities between them.
Student understands the importance of poststructuralist and postmodern theories for the social sciences.
Student learns major thinkers contributing poststructuralist and postmodernist approaches, and their views.
Student develops the ability of looking at the society in terms of postmodernism and poststructuralism.
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-- MODE OF DELIVERY

The mode of delivery of this course is lecturing, presentation and discussion in the classrooom.

-- 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	Introducing the course content Poststructuralist and postmodern theories in genereal
2. Week	Modernism and its critique
3. Week	The main sources of deconstruction
4. Week	The critique of the idea of subject
5. Week	The critique of the conception of development
6. Week	The critique of science, reality, truth, objectivity, universalism
7. Week	Major sources and Nietzsche
8. Week	Heidegger
9. Week	Midterm examination
10. Week	Foucault
11. Week	Derrida
12. Week	Jameson
13. Week	Baudrillard
14. Week	Power and technology
15. Week	Dsicourse and deconstruction
16. Week	Final examination

-- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING

Akay, Ali (1995), Michel Foucault. İktidar ve Direnme Odakları, İstanbul: Bağlam Yayınları. Anderson, Perry (1998), Postmodernitenin Kökenleri, Çev. Elçin Gen, İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları. Baudrillard, Jean (2003), Simülakrlar ve Simülasyon, Çev. Oğuz Adanır, Ankara: Doğu Batı Yayınları. Bauman, Zygmunt (2000), Postmodernlik ve Hoşnutsuzlukları, Çev. İsmail Türkmen, İstanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları, Best, Steven ve Kellner Douglas (1998), Postmodern Teori. Eleştirel Soruşturmalar, Çev. Mehmet Küçük, İstanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları. Bogue, Ronlad (2002), Deleuze&Guattari, Çev. İsmail Öğretir-Ali Utku, İstanbul: Birey Yayıncılık. Deleuze, Gilles (2013), Foucault, Çev. Burcu Yalım, Emre Koyuncu, İstanbul: Norgunk. Derrida, Jacques(2001),Marx’ın Hayaletleri-Borç durumu, Yas çalışması ve Yeni Enternasyonal, Çev.AlpTümertekin, İstanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları. Foucault, Michel (2000), Kelimeler ve Şeyler,Çev. Mehmet Ali Kılıçbay, Ankara: İmge Kitabevi Yayınları. Foucault, Michel (2011), Bilgi

-- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS

Lecture, presentation, discussion.

-- WORK PLACEMENT(S)

-- 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	14	3	42
Practising Hours of Course Per Week			0
Reading	14	4	56
Searching in Internet and Library	14	3	42
Designing and Applying Materials	14	3	42
Preparing Reports			0
Preparing Presentation			0
Presentation			0
Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term	1	3	3
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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