ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
POL5004	Middle East Politics I	Spring	3	0	3	7

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Basic information

Language of instruction:	Turkish
Type of course:	Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Assoc. Prof. İSMAİL BURAK KÜNTAY
Recommended Optional Program Components:	Non
Course Objectives:	Students will be exposed to the key historical and theoretical concepts necessary to understand the Middle East as a critical region of the world. The focus will be aslo on the current situation in the Middle East and the U.S.'s role in the region.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
Introduce the academic interest in the Middle East utilizing both historical and theoretical concepts

Understanding the role of ideology and religion, oil in the Middle East

Focuses on the Middle Eastern countries foreign policies

Opportunity to have analytical perspective on the Middle East history and politics and bilateral relations

Designed around specific historical trends and contemporary issues facing the poeple and governments of the region

Course Content

This course explores the Middle East using theoretical and historical approaches. Topics covered include: the legacies of colonialism; the Middle East regional system, the impact of the international system on the middle east, the challenge of security in the region.'

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction: Overview of the Middle East Region and the United States	Prereading
2)	Historical Perspective: Foreign Involvement in the Middle East	Prereading
3)	Historical Perspective: US Involvement in the Middle East 1833-1946	Prereading
4)	The Foreign Policies of Middle East States	Prereading
5)	The Foreign Policies of Middle East States II	Prereading
6)	The 2003 Iraq War	Prereading
7)	Iran	Prereading
8)	Turkey	Prereading
9)	U.S. Post-September 11Policy in the Middle East	Prereading
10)	The Arab-Israeli Conflict	Prereading
11)	Foreign Policies of Selected Middle Eastern States	Prereading
12)	Evaluating the “Class of Civilizations” Thesis	Prereading
13)	U.S. Democracy Promotion in the Middle East	Prereading
14)	Review	Prereading

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Required: Diplomacy in the Middle East: The International Relations on Regional and Outside Powers, Ed. By L. Karl Brown 2006
References:

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Attendance	14	% 40
Project	1	% 20
Final	1	% 40
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 40
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 60
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Workload
Course Hours	14	42
Study Hours Out of Class	14	73
Project	1	30
Homework Assignments	10	30
Total Workload		175

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works.	3
2)	Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies.	2
3)	Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events.	1
4)	Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa.	3
5)	Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches.	2
6)	Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating.	2
7)	Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form.	3
8)	Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence.	2
9)	Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments.	2
10)	Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues.	3