COURSE UNIT TITLE

: AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AKE 4037 AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

American Culture and Literature

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

American Culture and Literature

Course Objective

In this course, American Foreign Policy is explained regarding the different periods of US and this ends focusing on Sept.11 terrorist attack and globalization. Especially Turkish American Relation always emphasized in this course. Furthermore, different periods of American Foreign Policy are evaluated considering existing international relation.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   American Foreign Policy and different periods of this policy are studied
2   Different periods of American Policy are evaluated considering the existing international relations, too
3   To understand the international relations, important topics of international relations are also studied
4   International relations is interpreted by decision makers differently because of perception
5   Students should be able to benefit from international relation theories from when they evaluate the American Foreign Policy

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction of the course and the topics
2 Importance of Foreign Policy
3 History of the US foreign Policy
4 The American Power in the Global Era
5 The New International Relations after the Cold War
6 The American Power in 21st. century and US Ability To Affect Other Actors
7 How a foreign policy is formed
8 Midterm Examination
9 Idealism versus realism
10 Foreign Policy Objectives
11 What is the balance of power and its examples historically
12 Balance of Power: Homogeneous and Heterogeneous systems
13 Unipolar, Bipolar, Multipower international systems
14 General Evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

Jerel A. Rosati, The Politics of United States Foreign Policy, CA, Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2004.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. 1. Homework
2. 2. Active participation in the classroom.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

1. Midterm
2. Homework
3. Active participation
4. Final

Assessment Criteria

1. Different periods of American Policy are studied.
2. Basic concepts of international relations will be studied.
3. How US did become superpower will be studied by regarding its foreign policy

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance is must 70%
Active participation is expected in the classroom and necessary assigned subjects should be studied before coming to class.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Ass.Prof.Dr. Bülent Uğrasız
DEU Faculty of Lettes, Department of American Culture and Lit.
Room: A/111

Office Hours

Monday 9.30-11.30 am

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Tutorials 0 0 0
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparation for midterm exam 1 12 12
Preparation for final exam 1 12 12
Preparing assignments 1 6 6
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
Quiz etc. 0 0 0
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 125

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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