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Code	FDB786
Name	The Problems of The History of Religions
Term	2024-2025 Academic Year
Term	Spring
Duration (T+A)	3-0 (T-A) (17 Week)
ECTS	6 ECTS
National Credit	3 National Credit
Teaching Language	Türkçe
Level	Yüksek Lisans Dersi
Type	Normal
Mode of study	Yüz Yüze Öğretim
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to reveal the basic problems of religions. Thinking about what these problems mean in the historical process

The basic concepts of religions and their development in the historical process

Reading of Worksbooks

On Religion, History of Religions

History of Religions, Religion, Religions

Order	Course Learning Outcomes
LO01	Learning about the definition and meaning of religion
LO02	Understanding the development process of religions
LO03	Historical process of religions
LO04	Learning the peculiarities of religions

Order	Type	Program Learning Outcomes	Level
PLO01	Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal	Students learn essential knowledge and approaches in the field.	2
PLO02	Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal	Students have extensive knowledge about national and international studies in the field.	3
PLO03	Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal	Students perform original researches on the field.
PLO04	Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal	Gain sufficient knowledge about national and international studies in the field.	2
PLO05	Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal	Can do original research in the field.	2
PLO06	Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal	Determines a topic from the proposals and develops a report on this issue.
PLO07	Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal	Discusses and presents the research report.
PLO08	Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal	Use individual and team work skills in national and international projects	3
PLO09	Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal	Recognize the basic sources of the field to use in scientific studies.
PLO10	Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal	Effective use of a foreign language to follow international literature in the field	2
PLO11	Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal	Using higher order thinking skills (critical thinking, problem solving, creative thinking, decision making, reflection)	3
PLO12	Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal	They can conduct their work independently and as a member of a team.
PLO13	Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal	Using scientific research skills in their work	3
PLO14	Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal	Follow ethical rules	5

Week	Topic	Preparation
1	On the concept of religion	source reading
2	History of Religions discipline and its development	source reading
3	Methods of the History of Religions	source reading
4	Classification of Religions	source reading
5	Speeches on Primitive Tribal religions	source reading
6	Talk on Religion and Mythology	source reading
7	Religion-Philosophy Relationship	source reading
8	Mid-Term Exam
9	Religion-Anthropology Relationship	source reading
10	Religions of Taoism, Confucianism, and Shintoism	source reading
11	The Birth and Development of Hinduism	source reading
12	The Birth and Development of Buddhism	source reading
13	Judaism, Faith, and Worship	source reading
14	Christianity, Faith and Worship	source reading
15	Islam, Faith and Worship	source reading
16	Term Exams
17	Term Exams

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	5	70
Assesment Related Works
Homeworks, Projects, Others	0	0	0
Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.)	1	15	15
Final Exam	1	30	30
Total Workload (Hour)			157
Total Workload / 25 (h)			6,28
ECTS			6 ECTS

FDB786 The Problems of The History of Religions