Week |
Subject |
Related Preparation |
1) |
Relevance of Political Science Today |
• Jean Blondel and Pascal Vennesson, “The Future of Political Science”, European Political Science, 9 (2010).
• John E. Trent, “Should Political Science Be More Relevant? An Empirical and Critical Analysis of the Discipline”, European Political Science, 10 (2011).
• Polly Sly, “The Nonsense and Non-Science of Political Science: A Politically Incorrect View of Poly-Tricks”, Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum, 8:1 (2018).
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2) |
State |
• “State Capacity: How It is Measured and Compared”, HSE Report, 2019. Available at https://iq.hse.ru/en/news/298326722.html
• Moisés Naim, “Five Wars of Globalization,” American University International Law Review, 18 (2002).
• Barry Buzan and George Lawson, “Capitalism and the Emergent World Order,” International Affairs 90:1 (2014).
• Katharine Hall Kindervater, “Drone Strikes, Ephemeral Sovereignty, and Changing Conceptions of Territory”, Territory, Politics, Governance, 5:2 (2017).
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3) |
Democracy |
• Amy Chua, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, New York: Doubleday, 2003, Chp. Introduction.
• Bartosz M. Rydliński, “Viktor Orbán - First Among Illiberals? Hungarian and Polish Steps Towards Populist Democracy”, Online Journal: Modelling the New Europe, 26 (2018)
• Eunjung Choi and Jongseok Woo, “Confucian Legacies and the Meaning of Democracy in South Korea: A Cultural Interpretation”, Korea Observer, 49:3 (2018).
• Robert Lieberman, Suzanne Mettler et al., “Trumpism and American Democracy: History, Comparison, and the Predicament of Liberal Democracy in the United States”, SSRN Paper, August 21, 2017.
• Murat Somer, Understanding Turkey’s Democratic Breakdown: Old vs. New and Indigenous vs. Global Authoritarianism”, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 16:4 (2016).
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4) |
Religion |
• Oliver Hidalgo, “Religious Backgrounds of Illiberal Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe,” RASCEE, 12:1 (2019).
• Victor Roudometof, “Glocal Religions: An Introduction”, Religions, 9:294 (2018).
• Özlem Sandıkçı, “Religion and the Marketplace: Constructing the ‘new’ Muslim Consumer”, Religion, 48:3 (2018).
• Osman Antwi-Boateng, “Rise of Pan-Islamic Terrorism in Africa: A Global Security Challenge”, Politics & Polity, 45:2 (2017).
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5) |
Political Culture |
• Marija Andreeva, “(Re)shaping Political Culture and Participation through Social Networks”, Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, 5:2 (2019).
• Macabe Keliher and Hsinchao Wu, “Corruption, Anticorruption, and the Transformation of Political Culture in Contemporary China”, The Journal of Asian Studies, 75:1 (2016).
• Michal Onderco and Wolfgang Wagner, “The Ideational Foundations of Coercion: Political Culture and Policies towards North Korea”, European Political Science Review, 9:’ (2017).
• Cosmina Moghior, “The Political Culture in the Cyberspace: Profiling the Cyber Security”, Europolity, 12:1 (2018).
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6) |
Poblic Opinion and Electoral Behavior |
• Timothy Frye, “Economic Sanctions and Public Opinion: Survey Experiments from Russia”, Comparative Political Studies, 52:7 (2019).
• Desirée Schmuck and Jörg Matthes, “Voting “Against Islamization”? How Anti-Islamic Right-Wing, Populist Political Campaign Ads Influence Explicit and Implicit Attitudes Toward Muslims as Well as Voting Preferences,” Political Psychology 40:4 (2019).
• Brian Greenhill, “How can International Organizations Shape Public Opinion? Analysis of a pair of Survey-based Experiments”, The Review of International Organizations, 15 (2020).
• Andreas Dür, “How Interest Groups Influence Public Opinion: Arguments Matter More Than the Sources”, European Journal of Political Research, 58:2 (2018).
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7) |
Midterm Exam |
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8) |
Social Movements |
• Lauren Langman and Tova Benski, “Global Justice Movements: Past, Present, and the Future”, in B. Berberoğlu (der.) The Palgrave Handbook of Social Movements, Revolution, and Social Transformation, 2019, pp. 301-324.
• Christopher Chase-Dunn and Sandor Nagy, “Global Social Movements and World Revolutions in the Twenty-First Century”, in B. Berberoğlu (der.) The Palgrave Handbook of Social Movements, Revolution, and Social Transformation, 2019, pp. 427-446.
• Jackie Smith, Samantha Plummer and Melanie M. Hughes, “Transnational Social Movements and Changing Organizational Fields in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries,” Global Networks, 17:1 (2017).
• Lucy Martin, “Widespread Unrest in South America: Latin Spring or Isolated Protests?” The Boar (Univ. of Warwick), December 19, 2019. Available at: https://theboar.org/2019/12/widespread-unrest-in-south-america-latin-spring-or-isolated-protests/
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9) |
Nationalism |
• Berch Berberoğlu, “Nationalism and Nationalist Movements in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization”, in B. Berberoğlu (der.) The Palgrave Handbook of Social Movements, Revolution, and Social Transformation, 2019, pp. 269-298.
• Mark Juergensmeyer, “Religious Nationalism in a Global World”, Religions, 10:97 (2019).
• Natalie Koch and Tom Perreault, “Resource Nationalism”, Progress in Human Geography, 43:4 (2019).
• Jan-Werner Müller, “False Flags: The Myth of the Nationalist Resurgence”, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2019.
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10) |
Fascism |
• Sheri Berman, “Populism is not Fascism: But It Could Be a Harbinger”, Foreign Affairs, 95 (2016).
• Daniele Caramani and Luca Manucci, “National Past and Populism: The Reelaboration of Fascism and its Impact on Right-wing Populism in Western Europe”, West European Politics, 42:6 (2019).
• William I. Robinson, “Global Capitalist Crisis and Twenty-First Century Fascism: Beyond the Trump Hype”, Science & Society, 83:2 (2019).
• Jerry Harris, “The Future of Globalization: Neo-fascism or the Green New Deal?” Race & Class, 61:1 (2019).
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11) |
Socialism |
• “The Resurgent Left: Millennial Socialism”, The Economist, February 14, 2019.
• Alex Newman, “UN Agenda 2030: A Recipe for Global Socialism”, The New American, January 4, 2016.
• Ronaldo Munck, “Rethinking the Left: A View from Latin America”, Global Discourse (2018).
• Jerry Harris, “China’s Road from Socialism to Global Capitalism”, Third World Quarterly, 39:9 (2018).
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12) |
Feminism |
• Dinah Musindarwezo, “The 2030 Agenda from a Feminist Perspective: No Meaningful Gains without Greater Accountability for Africa’s Women”, Agenda, 32:1 (2018).
• Éva Fodor, Christy Glass and Beáta Nagy, “Transnational Business Feminism: Exporting Feminism in the Global Economy”, Gender, Work & Organization, 26 (2019).
• Kim Barker and Olga Jurasz, “Online Misogyny: A Challenge for Digital Feminism?” Journal of International Affairs, 72:2 (2019).
• Rosalind Gill, Post-postfeminism?: New Feminist Visibilities in Postfeminist Times”, Feminist Media Studies, 16:4 (2016).
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13) |
Green Politics |
• Jeffrey A. Ewing, “Hollow Ecology: Ecology Modernization Theory and the Death of Nature”, Journal of World Systems Research 23:1 (2017).
• Jerry Harris, “Can China’s Green Socialism Transform Global Capitalism?” Civitas, 19:2 (2019).
• Enrique Leff, “Power-Knowledge Relations in the Field of Political Ecology”, Ambiente & Sociedade, 20:3 (2017).
• Özge Yaka. “A Feminist-phenomenology of Women’s Activism against Hydropower Plants in Turkey’s Eastern Black Sea Region”, Gender, Place & Culture, 24:6 (2017).
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14) |
Presentations |
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Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
1) |
To be able to apply theoretical concepts related to mass communication, consumer behavior, psychology, persuasion,sociology, marketing, and other related fields to understand how advertising and brand communication works in a free-market economy.
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2) |
To be able to critically discuss and interpret theories, concepts, methods, tools and ideas in the field of advertising.
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3) |
To be able to research, create, design, write, and present an advertising campaign and brand strategies of their own creation and compete for an account as they would at an advertising agency.
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4) |
To be able to analyze primary and secondary research data for a variety of products and services.
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5) |
To be able to develop an understanding of the history of advertising as it relates to the emergence of mass media outlets and the importance of advertising in the marketplace.
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6) |
To be able to follow developments, techniques, methods, as well as research in advertising field; and to be able to communicate with international colleagues in a foreign language. (“European Language Portfolio Global Scale”, Level B1)
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7) |
To be able to take responsibility in an individual capacity or as a team in generating solutions to unexpected problems that arise during implementation process in the Advertising field.
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8) |
To be able to understand how advertising works in a global economy, taking into account cultural, societal, political, and economic differences that exist across countries and cultures.
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9) |
To be able to approach the dynamics of the field with an integrated perspective, with creative and critical thinking, develop original and creative strategies.
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10) |
To be able to to create strategic advertisements for print, broadcast, online and other media, as well as how to integrate a campaign idea across several media categories in a culturally diverse marketplace.
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11) |
To be able to use computer software required by the discipline and to possess advanced-level computing and IT skills. (“European Computer Driving Licence”, Advanced Level)
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12) |
To be able to identify and meet the demands of learning requirements.
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13) |
To be able to develop an understanding and appreciation of the core ethical principles of the advertising profession.
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