| INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS DESIGN | |||||
| Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 | ||
| Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
| POL6013 | Turkish Politics | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 |
| This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
| 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 : | Dr. ŞAHİN ALPAY |
| Recommended Optional Program Components: | none |
| Course Objectives: | 1. Enabling the students to understand and analyze the complexities and developments of political life, institutions and processes, as well as the socio-economic factors that influence the political system in Turkey. 2. Providing the students with the theoretical background and analytical tools to render their own political analyses of the Turkish political system, in the context of the field of comparative politics and of the political science discipline. 3. Analyzing the basic institutions of Turkish politics, political behaviors, level of political participation in Turkey, military and politics, the basic institutions and tenets of the Republic,development of democracy, and state and society in Turkey. |
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The students who have succeeded in this course; are introduced to Turkish politics through examining its cultural foundations, regime characteristics, political institutions, socio-economic processes, as well as movements and developments that affect the shape of its state-civil society relations, and the political economy of change that has been occurring in the Turkish political system. |
| 1. This course emphasizes substantial reading, intensive writing, careful analysis, systematic evaluation, rigorous training in conceptual ability, research ability, critical thinking, and writing, speaking and leadership skills. 2. Critically discussing and analyzing series of key issues in Turkish politics is the main content of the course |
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| 1) | Historical Background | |
| 2) | Historical Background II | |
| 3) | Turkish Military and Politics | |
| 4) | Secularism, Religion, State, Society | |
| 5) | Religion and Politics | |
| 6) | Turkish Political Economy, Culture, Globalization | |
| 7) | Media and Politics | |
| 8) | Elections | |
| 9) | Nationalism, Ultra-Nationalism and Politics | |
| 10) | Kurdish Question | |
| 11) | Law and Politics | |
| 12) | The European Union | |
| 13) | The European Union II | |
| 14) | Review of the course |
| Course Notes / Textbooks: | Ayşe Gül Altınay. 2004. Intro & Chapter 1, The myth of the military-nation: militarism, gender, and education in Turkey, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1-32 Umit Cizre Sakallioglu. 1996. Parameters and Strategies of Islam-State Interaction inRepublican Turkey. International Journal of Middle East Studies. 28(2). 231-251. Umit Cizre, The Justice and Development Party and the military: Recreating the past after reforming it?, , in Umit Cizre (ed)Secular and Islamic politics in Turkey The making of the Justiceand Development Party, London: Routledge 132 E. Fuat Keyman. 2010. Modernization, Globalization and Democratization in Turkey: TheAKP Experience and its Limits. F. Michael Wuthrich. 2010. 'Commercial Media, the Military, and Society in Turkey duringFailed and Successful Interventions',Turkish Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2, 217-234. Sabri Sayari and Hasanov, Alim. 2008. 'The 2007 Elections and Parliamentary Elites inTurkey: The Emergence of a New Political Class?',Turkish Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2, 345-361. Mesut Yeğen. 2007. Turkish nationalism and the Kurdish Question, Ethnic and Racial Studies Vol. 30 No. 1 January 2007 pp. 119-151 |
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| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Homework Assignments | 10 | % 30 |
| Presentation | 1 | % 20 |
| Final | 1 | % 50 |
| Total | % 100 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 50 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 50 | |
| Total | % 100 | |
| Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
| Course Hours | 14 | 42 |
| Application | 14 | 54 |
| Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 79 |
| Total Workload | 175 | |
| No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
| Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
| 1) | Having the theoretical and practical knowledge proficiency in the discipline of industrial product design | |
| 2) | Applying professional knowledge to the fields of product, service and experience design development | |
| 3) | Understanding, using, interpreting and evaluating the design concepts, knowledge and language | |
| 4) | Knowing the research methods in the discipline of industrial product design, collecting information with these methods, interpreting and applying the collected knowledge | |
| 5) | Identifying the problems of industrial product design, evaluating the conditions and requirements of problems, producing proposals of solutions to them | |
| 6) | Developing the solutions with the consideration of social, cultural, environmental, economic and humanistic values; being sensitive to personal differences and ability levels | |
| 7) | Having the ability of communicating the knowledge about design concepts and solutions through written, oral and visual methods | |
| 8) | To identify and apply the relation among material, form giving, detailing, maintenance and manufacturing methods of design solutions | |
| 9) | Using the computer aided information and communication technologies for the expression of industrial product design solutions and applications | |
| 10) | Having the knowledge and methods in disciplines like management, engineering, psychology, ergonomics, visual communication which support the solutions of industrial product design; having the ability of searching, acquiring and using the knowledge that belong these disciplines when necessary. | |
| 11) | Using a foreign language to command the jargon of industrial product design and communicate with the colleagues from different cultures | |
| 12) | Following and evaluating the new topics and trends that industrial product design needs to integrate according to technological and scientific developments |