SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
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
POL6002	Contemporary Political Ideologies	Spring	3	0	3	9

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Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Assoc. Prof. ESRA ALBAYRAKOĞLU
Course Lecturer(s):	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi MERVE ÖZDEMİRKIRAN Assoc. Prof. ESRA ALBAYRAKOĞLU
Recommended Optional Program Components:	none
Course Objectives:	This course examines major political theories and ideologies such as liberalism, conservatism, socialism, anarchism, nationalism, fascism, feminism and so forth. In rethinking these ideologies, particular attention will be paid to the different aspects of each particular ideology through the works of monumental political thinkers from Locke to Marx, from Burke to Bakunin. The relationships and links between different ideologies and political theories will also be explored.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
This course aims at introducing the participants to the development of major political theories and particularly has two main objectives:

1. To familiarize them with political theories, ideologies and political thinkers.
2. To help them gain an insight on different assumptions and ideas concerning state, society and politics.

Course Content

The course includes the examination and thorough analysis of modernity and modern ideologies, in order to shed light on their development paths and divergences occurring throughout modern times.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction	Academic Articles and related books
2)	Modernity and Ideology	Academic Articles and related books
3)	Ideology and Modernity	Academic Articles and related books
4)	Liberalism: Development	Academic Articles and related books
5)	Liberalism: Classical	Academic Articles and related books
6)	Liberalism: Modern/Social Democracy	Academic Articles and related books
7)	Conservatism: Classical	Academic Articles and related books
8)	Conservatism: Modern	Academic Articles and related books
9)	Socialism: Marxism	Academic Articles and related books
10)	Socialism: Democratic Socialism	Academic Articles and related books
11)	Nationalism/Fascism	Academic Articles and related books
12)	Nationalism/Fascism	Academic Articles and related books
13)	Democracy	Academic Articles and related books
14)	Democracy	Academic Articles and related books

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Andrew Heywood, Political Ideologies, 3rd edition Terence Ball and Richard Dagger, Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal, 3rd edition
References:	various other journal articles to be handed out

Evaluation System

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

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	14	3	42
Application	14	4	56
Study Hours Out of Class	14	7	98
Homework Assignments	1	1	1
Final	1	3	3
Total Workload			200

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)	Be able to specify functional and non-functional attributes of software projects, processes and products.
2)	Be able to design software architecture, components, interfaces and subcomponents of a system for complex engineering problems.
3)	Be able to develop a complex software system with in terms of code development, verification, testing and debugging.
4)	Be able to verify software by testing its program behavior through expected results for a complex engineering problem.
5)	Be able to maintain a complex software system due to working environment changes, new user demands and software errors that occur during operation.
6)	Be able to monitor and control changes in the complex software system, to integrate the software with other systems, and to plan and manage new releases systematically.
7)	Be able to identify, evaluate, measure, manage and apply complex software system life cycle processes in software development by working within and interdisciplinary teams.
8)	Be able to use various tools and methods to collect software requirements, design, develop, test and maintain software under realistic constraints and conditions in complex engineering problems.
9)	Be able to define basic quality metrics, apply software life cycle processes, measure software quality, identify quality model characteristics, apply standards and be able to use them to analyze, design, develop, verify and test complex software system.
10)	Be able to gain technical information about other disciplines such as sustainable development that have common boundaries with software engineering such as mathematics, science, computer engineering, industrial engineering, systems engineering, economics, management and be able to create innovative ideas in entrepreneurship activities.
11)	Be able to grasp software engineering culture and concept of ethics and have the basic information of applying them in the software engineering and learn and successfully apply necessary technical skills through professional life.
12)	Be able to write active reports using foreign languages and Turkish, understand written reports, prepare design and production reports, make effective presentations, give clear and understandable instructions.
13)	Be able to have knowledge about the effects of engineering applications on health, environment and security in universal and societal dimensions and the problems of engineering in the era and the legal consequences of engineering solutions.