ECONOMICS AND FINANCE | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
ACL3055 | Modern America and Politics | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
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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. Öğr. Üyesi HATİCE ÖVGÜ TÜZÜN |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | none |
Course Objectives: | The objective of this course is to introduce present political and social USA and to specify U.S positioning in the world affairs by developing a critical eye on the foreign relations of U.S particularly focusing on Turkish-American relations since 1950s. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; The students who succeed in this course will be able to: 1)discuss the major themes of modern American socio-politics from World War I to present 2)employ historical and sociological perspectives relating to the development of relations berween U.S and the World 3)formulate interpretations of U.S relations to the Middle East 4)evaluate how foreign relations between Turkey and America was established and shaped due to the changing political interests of both sides. 5)examine the evolution of current political and social events such as peace making policies, globalization, international relations. |
Modern America and Socio Political Relations, Turkish-American Relations |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction: America is on the stage ( The politics of a new century 1910-1920) | |
2) | The Rise of Black Militance and the Harlem Renaissance: The Age of Jazz and Mass Culture | Reading |
3) | Getting Ready for the Second World War | Reading |
4) | The Fascist Challenge and the Pasific Conflict , 1940-1950 | Reading |
5) | Post-war America: The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, the history of NATO, 1945-1955 | Reading |
6) | Eisenhower Years (1953-1960): The Soviet (Communist Challenge) The Age of Space | Reading |
7) | The Civil Rights Movement: The Age of Television, Beat Generation, 60s/ Black Power | Reading |
8) | 1960s Turkish-American Partnership: The Alliances | Reading |
9) | The Rise of the New Right: Ronald Reagan ( Issue of Iran and Middle East) | Reading |
10) | Turkish- American Relations 1980s: Turning Point, Turgut Ozal/ The Collapse of the Communist Regimes | Reading |
11) | The Era of: Bush and Clinton | Reading |
12) | George W. Bush and September 11, 2001 | Reading |
13) | America Fights Back : War in Afghanistan, Second Iraq War and Turkey's role | Reading |
14) | Obama's Policy: Iran, Taliban and the Nucleer Issue (Where Turkey Stands? | Reading |
15) | Final | |
16) | Final |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | My own lecture notes Stephen Ambrose and Douglas Brinkley, Rise to Globalism, eighth edition (New York: Penguin, 1997). |
References: | G. John Ikenberry, ed., American Foreign Policy: Theoretical Essays, Fifth edition (New York: Pearson Longman, 2005) Roger R. Trask, The United States Response to Turkish Nationalism and Reform 1914-1939, The University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1971 Richard C. Company Turkey and the United States : The Arms Embargo Period, New York : Praeger, 1986 McGhee, George. The US-Turkish-Nato Middle East Connection:How the Truman Doctrine Contained the Soviets in the Middle East . New York : St Martin ’s, 1990 Akdes Nimet Kurat Turk-Amerikan Munasebetlerine Kisa Bir Bakis, , Dogus, Ankara, 1959 Oral Sander Turk-Amerikan Iliskileri 1947-1964, Ankara Uni. Siyasal Bilgiler Fak. Yay. 1979 |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 16 | % 10 |
Quizzes | 2 | % 10 |
Midterms | 1 | % 40 |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 2 | 28 |
Quizzes | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Midterms | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Final | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Total Workload | 78 |
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 |