DIGITAL GAME DESIGN
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
POL6040	Special Topics in Political Science	Spring	3	0	3	12

This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester.

Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:
Course Coordinator :	Prof. Dr. ESRA ALBAYRAKOĞLU
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	This course is designed to familiarize the students with issues that occupy the agenda of political science in the new millennium. It offers a survey of some major political science concepts and ideologies that shape the social, political and cultural landscape of contemporary times. In addition to tracing the evolution of these concepts and ideologies, the course analyzes related developments in different parts of the world.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1. Define the pressing issues of political science in the new millenium;
2. Grasp the historical evolution of certain actors, concepts and approaches in political science;
3. Evaluate the legal and ethical dimensions of contemporary developments in political science;
4. Assess the effectiveness of various modern policy practices at the state and organizational levels;
5. Develop competencies with respect to active inquiry, critical thinking, collaborative exploration and supportive interactions.

Course Content

Relevance of Political Science Today; State; Democracy; Religion; Political Culture; Public Opinion and Electorate Behavior; Social Movements; Nationalism; Fascism; Socialism; Feminism; Green Politics

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
7)	Midterm Exam
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/
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.
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).
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).
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).
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).
14)	Presentations

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	BAU Kütüphanesinden temin edilebilen akademik makaleler ve kitap bölümleri.
References:	Scholarly articles and book chapters available at the BAU Library

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Presentation	1	% 20
Midterms	1	% 30
Final	1	% 50
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 50
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 50
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	13	3	39
Study Hours Out of Class	65	4	260
Presentations / Seminar	1	0.5	0.5
Midterms	1	1.5	1.5
Final	1	1.5	1.5
Total Workload			302.5

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)	Comprehend the conceptual importance of the game in the field of communication, ability to implement the player centered application to provide design.
2)	Analyze, synthesize, and evaluate information and ideas from various perspectives.
3)	Analyze the key elements that make up specific game genres, forms of interactions, mode of narratives and understand how they are employed effectively to create a successful game.
4)	Understand game design theories and methods as well as implement them during game development; to make enjoyable, attractive, instructional and immersive according to the target audience.
5)	Understand the technology and computational principles involved in developing games and master the use of game engines.
6)	Understand the process of creation and use of 2D and 3D assets and animation for video games.
7)	Understand and master the theories and methodologies of understanding and measuring player experience and utilize them during game development process.
8)	Comprehend and master how ideas, concepts and topics are conveyed via games followed by the utilization of these aspects during the development process.
9)	Manage the game design and development process employing complete documentation; following the full game production pipeline via documentation.
10)	Understand and employ the structure and work modes of game development teams; comprehend the responsibilities of team members and collaborations between them while utilizing this knowledge in practice.
11)	Understand the process of game publishing within industry standards besides development and utilize this knowledge practice.
12)	Pitching a video game to developers, publishers, and players; mastering the art of effectively communicating and marketing the features and commercial potential of new ideas, concepts or games.