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 |
GEP0801 | 20th Century History of Thought | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
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): |
Assoc. Prof. SONGÜL DEMİR Dr. Öğr. Üyesi DERYA TARBUCK |
Course Objectives: | The aim of this course is to make an introduction to the principles of 20th century thought from a historical perspective. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; After successfully completing this course the student will be able • to define what 20th century thought is • to understand the historical dynamics of 20th century thought • to outline the main principles of 20th century thought • to think openmindedly within alternative systems of thought • to communicate effectively with other in figuring out solutions to complex problems |
• The evolution of 20th century thought • The rise of history and ideology • The attack on authority (secularism and individualism) • Parallel truths |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation | |
1) | Introduction | none | |
2) | Beginnings: Max Planck and Quantum, Picasso in Paris, Nietzsche, Veblen, Spencer | Coursebook | |
3) | Einstein, Rutherford, Russell and Whitehead, the intellectual consequences of war, Wittgenstein. | coursebook | |
4) | Spengler, Economic consequences of peace, idea of progress, Whig history | coursebook | |
5) | Golden Age of Physics, Freud and the West, Jung and Modern Man. | coursebook | |
6) | Benjamin, Keynes, German Academics in Turkey | Coursebook | |
7) | Sartre, Merleu-Ponty, Camus, Beckett, Hannah Arendt | coursebook | |
8) | Wittgenstein, Skinner vs. Chomsky, Hayek, Martin Luther King. | coursebook | |
9) | Moon Landing, Braudel and Annales Okulu, Pulsars | coursebook | |
10) | Oil Crisis, The contradictions of Capitalism, Studies on Genetics. | coursebook | |
11) | AIDS, Susan Sontag, Lyotard, Rorty. | coursebook | |
12) | Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Edward Said, Culture Wars | Coursebook | |
13) | Revision | Coursebook | |
14) | Final Exam | Coursebook |
Course Notes: | Peter Watson, The Modern Mind, An Intellectual History of the 20th century (Perrenial, 2002) |
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 |