TÜRKÇE
ENGLISH
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Course Goal / Objective
This course aims to help students develop an ability to critically engage with the current debates on democracy and to analyze the problems associated with existing democratic modelsin the context of globalization.
Course Content
Thiscourse focuses on the theory and practice of democracy. It aims to examine the key themes and issues as well as contemporary debates in relation to the study of democratic politics today. Among the issues are the definition of who the people are, the value and limits of majority rule and the protection of minorities, the complex relationship between liberty and equality, sovereignty and freedom, democracy and constitutionalism, and democracy and Islam.
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Course Learning Outcomes
| Order | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| LO01 | To be able to identify the key issues and debates in relation to the study of democratic politics. |
| LO02 | To develop an ability to critically engage with the current debates on democracy. |
| LO03 | To discuss the development of democracy in Turkey. |
| LO04 | To be able to identify and analyze the problems associated with the existing democracies in the context of globalization. |
Relation with Program Learning Outcome
| Order | Type | Program Learning Outcomes | Level |
|---|
Week Plan
| Week | Topic | Preparation | Methods |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | Reading will be assigned. | |
| 2 | Nation-state and Democracy | Reading will be assigned. | |
| 3 | Freedom, Equality, Justice and Democracy | Reading will be assigned. | |
| 4 | Political Participation, Representation and Democracy | Reading will be assigned. | |
| 5 | Liberal democracy and its critics | Reading will be assigned. | |
| 6 | Deliberative democracy | Reading will be assigned. | |
| 7 | Conservatism and Right Wing Extremism | Reading will be assigned. | |
| 8 | Mid-Term Exam | ||
| 9 | Islam and Democracy | Reading will be assigned. | |
| 10 | Rethinking democracy in the context of Globalization | Reading will be assigned. | |
| 11 | Presentations | Group assignment | |
| 12 | Presentations | Group assignment | |
| 13 | Presentations | Group assignment | |
| 14 | Presentations | Group assignment | |
| 15 | Presentations | Group assignment | |
| 16 | Term Exams | ||
| 17 | Term Exams |
Student Workload - ECTS
| Works | Number | Time (Hour) | Workload (Hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Related Works | |||
| Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) | 15 | 3 | 45 |
| Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) | 15 | 6 | 90 |
| Assesment Related Works | |||
| Homeworks, Projects, Others | 5 | 3 | 15 |
| Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Total Workload (Hour) | 152 | ||
| Total Workload / 25 (h) | 6,08 | ||
| ECTS | 6 ECTS | ||