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| Code | AS358 |
| Name | Contemporary Political Thought |
| Term | 2024-2025 Academic Year |
| Semester | 6. Semester |
| Duration (T+A) | 3-0 (T-A) (17 Week) |
| ECTS | 4 ECTS |
| National Credit | 3 National Credit |
| Teaching Language | Türkçe |
| Level | Lisans Dersi |
| Type | Normal |
| Mode of study | Yüz Yüze Öğretim |
| Catalog Information Coordinator | Prof. Dr. İLKER ÖZDEMİR |
| Course Instructor |
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Course Goal / Objective
Giving detailed information about contemporary political thought with its developments; establishing of a link between political thought and communication studies. Acquiring a basic approach for solving social, political and communicative problems with the knowledge of political developments of today.
Course Content
Contemporary political thoughts and ideas from 19th century to today will be discussed. Liberalism, conservatism, nationalism, socialist thougnts and social democracy will be handled detailly. In addition to that new social movements (femism, ecologism etc.),new conservatism, neo-liberalism and postmodernist approaches will be discussed.
Course Precondition
None
Resources
Batı´da Siyasal Düşünceler Tarihi, M. Ali Ağaoğulları, İletişim Yayınları, 2011/Minerva´nın Baykuşu: Batı Siyasi Düşünce Tarihi, Jeffrey Abramson, Çeviren: İbrahim Yıldız, Dipnot Yayınları, 2013/ Çağdaş Siyaset Felsefesine Giriş, Will Kymlicka, Çeviren: Ebru Kılıç, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, İstanbul, 2016/19. Yüzyıldan 20. Yüzyıla Modern Siyasal İdeolojiler, H. Birsen Örs (Der.) İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, İstanbul, 2015/ Siyasal İdeolojiler, Andrew Heywood, Çeviren: Levent Köker, BB101 Yayınevi, 2016
Notes
Çağdaş Temel Kuramlar, Qentin Skinner, Çeviren: Ahmet Demirhan, Vadi Yayınları, Ankara, 2007
Course Learning Outcomes
| Order | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| LO01 | Defines the contemporary political concepts and political institutions. |
| LO02 | Establish a link between contemporary political thoughts and communication studies. |
| LO03 | Follows developments within the political area with the updated work. |
| LO04 | Produces thoughts and knowledge to understand and solve politics and communication. |
| LO05 | Develops a sense of responsibility towards the society, as individuals, develops projects for the benefit of the community. |
| LO06 | Synthesize information that communication studies and contemporary political ideas within a interdisciplinary perspective. |
| LO07 | Has creative thinking using the methods and strategies, for the purpose of society, communication and politics. |
| LO08 | Follows the local, national and international political events with criticallly comments. |
| LO09 | Actively participates to the social and political activities and reports events. |
Relation with Program Learning Outcome
| Order | Type | Program Learning Outcomes | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLO01 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Explains the basic concepts of the field, communication patterns, communication and cultural functions within the framework of communication as the basis of Communication Studies. | 4 |
| PLO02 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Recognizes the national and global communication systems, the basic concepts, theories and principles. | 4 |
| PLO03 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Holds information related to the fields as a basis; Instrumental Social Communications (Radio, TV, Film, Advertising, Public Relations, Journalism) within a terminological frame (=teleological) (Public Sphere, Public Opinion, Cultural Production Areas, Citizen Participation, Popular Culture, etc.). | 4 |
| PLO04 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Has the knowledge and skills to use and/or explain how communication works in every aspect in different cultures, from individual to group, mass, institutional communication within the major tools of communication. | 2 |
| PLO05 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Distinguishes non-scientific knowledge from the scientific method, and follows technological innovations in the field with the updated work. | 2 |
| PLO06 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | From an interdisciplinary perspective, acknowledged the concept of communication to synthesize information that Communication Studies has background from different areas like, Sociology, History, Psychology, Linguistics, Political Sciences, Anthropology and so on. | 4 |
| PLO07 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Produces thoughts and knowledge to understand and solve communication problems encountered in size of individual to global communications. | 3 |
| PLO08 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | As a requirement of competence to communicate effectively, has the ability to express himself/herself up, facing the people with correct understanding in environments in which he/she is capable of empathy sets. | 3 |
| PLO09 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Organizes and/or actively participates in the social, artistic and cultural activities, reports events. | |
| PLO10 | Yetkinlikler - Bağımsız Çalışabilme ve Sorumluluk Alabilme Yetkinliği | Follows the local, national and international events with critical comments. | 5 |
| PLO11 | Yetkinlikler - Bağımsız Çalışabilme ve Sorumluluk Alabilme Yetkinliği | Is able to work in the group as well as having the competence of the individual work | |
| PLO12 | Yetkinlikler - Bağımsız Çalışabilme ve Sorumluluk Alabilme Yetkinliği | Develops a sense of responsibility towards the society, as individuals, develops projects for the benefit of the community, leadership and entrepreneurial skills of intellectual exhibitions. | 3 |
| PLO13 | Yetkinlikler - Bağımsız Çalışabilme ve Sorumluluk Alabilme Yetkinliği | Improves constantly himself/herself, as well as being open to professional developments in scientific, social, cultural and artistic fields according to his/her interests and abilities, identifying needs of learning | 4 |
| PLO14 | Yetkinlikler - Öğrenme Yetkinliği | Has rational thinking skills, creative thinking in written, oral, visual and so on, as well as using the methods and strategies, for the purpose of communicating thoughts. | 2 |
| PLO15 | Yetkinlikler - İletişim ve Sosyal Yetkinlik | Has at least one foreign language in the European Language Portfolio (B) with the level of using the information in track and communicate with colleagues abroad. | |
| PLO16 | Yetkinlikler - İletişim ve Sosyal Yetkinlik | While accessing all kinds of information, using and transmitting of all other thoughts on the process and in all other practices of the profession strives to comply with ethical requirements and endeavors. | 4 |
| PLO17 | Yetkinlikler - İletişim ve Sosyal Yetkinlik | Has basic skills and use these skills for mediating to the general population methods in the specific praxis areas, such as media literacy, | 4 |
| PLO18 | Yetkinlikler - İletişim ve Sosyal Yetkinlik | Is competent to use required level of knowledge of the area and use of computer software as well as all means of communication (body language, verbal and nonverbal communication, newspapers, magazines, radio, television, cinema, internet and other information / communication technologies, and mass media) | |
| PLO19 | Yetkinlikler - Alana Özgü Yetkinlik | Identifies learning needs and future career plan and perform accordingly. | |
| PLO20 | Yetkinlikler - Alana Özgü Yetkinlik | Has the knowledge of the legal framework related to the field. |
Week Plan
| Week | Topic | Preparation | Methods |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to Contemporary Political Thought | Presentation | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap |
| 2 | The concept of ideology | Reading and Discussion | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 3 | Liberalism: Origins of Liberal Thougt | Reading and Discussion | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 4 | From classic liberalism to neo-liberalism | Reading and Discussion | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 5 | Political liberalism: John Rawls's Theory of Justice | Reading and Discussion | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 6 | Conservatism: from classic conservatism to neo-conservatism. | Reading and Discussion | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 7 | Nationalism | Reading and Discussion | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 8 | Mid-Term Exam | owerall files | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 9 | Racism | Reading and Discussion | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 10 | Marxism and anarchism | Reading and Discussion | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 11 | Contemporary Marxist Thougt: Gramschi and Hegemony, Althusser and ideological state apparatus | Reading, research and discussion. | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 12 | Contemporary Marxist Thougt: Critical Theory | Reading, research and discussion. | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 13 | Contemporary Marxist Thougt: Foucault, Bourdieu and Habermas | Reading, research and discussion. | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 14 | New social movements and feminism and ecologism | Reading, research and discussion. | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 15 | Postmodernism and owerall evaluation | owerall files | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 16 | Term Exams | owerall files | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Yazılı Sınav |
| 17 | Term Exams | owerall files | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Ödev |
Student Workload - ECTS
| Works | Number | Time (Hour) | Workload (Hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Related Works | |||
| Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Assesment Related Works | |||
| Homeworks, Projects, Others | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) | 1 | 7 | 7 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 18 | 18 |
| Total Workload (Hour) | 109 | ||
| Total Workload / 25 (h) | 4,36 | ||
| ECTS | 4 ECTS | ||