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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
FDB 6202	UNDERSTANDING AND INTERPRETATION THEORIES IN HUMAN SCIENCES	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	7

Offered By

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR OSMAN BILEN

Offered to

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to create a recognition on students about the topics of interpretation and meaning in 'Humanities', the conceptions used in social sciences and
Islamic sciences and various aspects of them will be evaluated and interpreted by students; therefore they are able to use these conceptions and evaluations in their own fields

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	Students realize the historical development of human sciences.
2	Students explain the place of human sciences in the history of philosophy.
3	Students apprehend the basic concepts of human sciences and their processes and problems.
4	Students meet and relate the critiques about the contents and methods of social sciences

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	Cognition and interpretation as a problem of epistemology
2	The logical and conceptual frame of cognition: Knowledge, Truth, Rightness, relation between meaning and interpretation
3	Meaning and interpretation as language and text analysis
4	Cognition as a philological method
5	Cognition as a method of human sciences: Historical, Psychological and Objective cognition
6	Philosophical problems of cognition and interpretation
7	Rational and empirical theory: Positivism, Empiricism
8	Mid-term Exam
9	Romantic and Historical Hermeneutics
10	Phenomenological analysis of understanding
11	Existential Hermeneutics
12	Philosophical Hermeneutics
13	Critical Theory
14	Structuralism and Deconstructuralism

Recomended or Required Reading

Osman Bilen, Çağdaş Yorumbilim Kuramları
Doğan Özlem; Metinlerle Hermeneutik (yorumbilgisi) dersleri.
Brice R. Wachterhauser; Hermeneuticsand Modern Philosophy
Josef Bleicher; ContemporaryHermeneutics

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, research, text and concept analysis, question- answer,

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER	SHORT CODE	LONG CODE	FORMULA
1	MTE	MIDTERM EXAM
2	FCG	FINAL COURSE GRADE
3	FCGR	FINAL COURSE GRADE	MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 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

It is expected from students to meet and explain the methods and representatives of human sciences. Also, it is expected from students to evaluate the epistemological problems in the social sciences

Assessment Criteria

The success of student is evaluated based on his or her mid-term and final examinations and his or her attendance continuity to lectures and his or her participation on the arguments during the course

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

osman.bilen@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday: 16:00-17:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures	13	3	39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures	13	7	91
Preparation for midterm exam	1	7	7
Preparation for final exam	1	15	15
Preparing assignments	1	4	4
Preparing presentations	1	4	4
Reading	7	3	21
Final	1	2	2
Midterm	1	2	2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			185

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO	PO.1	PO.3	PO.5
LO.1	5	5	5
LO.2	5	5	5
LO.3	5	5	5
LO.4	5	5	5

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Description of Individual Course Units

Offered By

Level of Course Unit

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Course Objective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

Recomended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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