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 |
GEP0509 | XX. Century Political History | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
The course opens with the approval of the Department at the beginning of each semester |
Language of instruction: | En |
Type of course: | GE-Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Dr. BURCU ALARSLAN ULUDAŞ |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi DERYA TARBUCK |
Course Objectives: | The aim of this course is to examine the conditions of the development of political ideas within historical context. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; In this course the student: 1. Will examine the historical conditions during the development of Marxism 2. Will evaluate the political ideas of intellectuals. 3. Will compare Marxism and Liberalism 4. Will know about the Post-war Political structure. 5. Will analyse the reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union 6. Students shall synthesize diverse kinds of information and to express ideas clearly and cogently. |
The course will cover political ideas that emerged from 19th century onwards. Main subjects include, Marxism, Liberalism, Republicanism, and Radicalism. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation | |
1) | Derse giris | none | |
2) | History: Structures, Empires. Political Philosophy: Max Weber | Coursebooks | |
3) | History: Europe as a System of Power Political Philosophy: Herbert Marcuse | Coursebooks | |
4) | History: First World War Political Philosophy: Hannah Arendt | Coursebooks | |
5) | History: The End of the Old World Order Political Philosophy: C.B. Macpherson | Coursebooks | |
6) | MIDTERM I | Coursebooks | |
7) | History: Global History Emerges Political Philosophy: Michael Oakenshott | Coursebooks | |
8) | History: Second World War Political Philosophy: Friedrich Hayek | Coursebooks | |
9) | History: Cold War Political Philosophy: Karl Popper | Coursebooks | |
10) | History: Asia, Africa and the Near East Political Philosophy: Isaiah Berlin | Coursebooks | |
11) | History: New Economic and Social Worlds Political Philosophy: John Rawls | Coursebooks | |
12) | MIDTERM II | Coursebooks | |
13) | History: A Changing World Balance Political Philosophy: Robert Nozick | Coursebook | |
14) | History: The End of an Era Political Philosophy: Jurgen Habermas | Coursebooks |
Course Notes: | J. M. Roberts, "Twentieth Century: The History of the World, 1901 to 2000" (Penguin, 1999) Michael H. Lessnoff, Political Philosophy of the Twentieth Century (Blackwell, 1999) |
References: | NONE |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 14 | % 20 |
Laboratory | % 0 | |
Application | % 0 | |
Field Work | % 0 | |
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) | % 0 | |
Quizzes | % 0 | |
Homework Assignments | % 0 | |
Presentation | % 0 | |
Project | % 0 | |
Seminar | % 0 | |
Midterms | 2 | % 40 |
Preliminary Jury | % 0 | |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Paper Submission | % 0 | |
Jury | % 0 | |
Bütünleme | % 0 | |
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 |
Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Field Work | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Presentations / Seminar | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Homework Assignments | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Quizzes | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Preliminary Jury | 0 | ||
Midterms | 2 | 15 | 30 |
Paper Submission | 0 | ||
Jury | 0 | ||
Final | 1 | 20 | 20 |
Total Workload | 92 |
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. | 2 |
2) | Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. | 1 |
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. | 1 |
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 |