COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ILS 3186 SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH ELECTIVE 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Theology

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR RECEP YAPAREL

Offered to

Theology
Theology (Evening)

Course Objective

The main aim of this course is to help students to focus on the relationship between soul and body. By doing this, students can realize how individual s spiritual side affect both their spiritual wellbeing and physical health.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   At the end of the course; sudents will demonstrate an understanding and interpretation of mutual-interaction between soul/spirit and body, as well as be able to deal with the social-level and individual-level potential psychological problems by considering this interaction.
2   Students will improve a realistic approach to the case of spiritual crisis which is propounded that it occurs nowadays/present-days.
3   Try to distinguish concepts related to spirituality and health.
4   Knowledge to be spiritual counseling.
5   Learn to reviews of the literature on the psychology death, afterlife and near-death experience.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The terms of `spirituality , `religion and `health
2 Spirituality, Mysticism, Sufism (Islamic Mysticism) and Metaphysic
3 Mysticism and Psychology
4 Relationship between spiritual wellbeing and spirituality.
5 Relationship between spiritual wellbeing and religion.
6 New development in spirituality and health
7 Mysticism, Psychology and psychiatry
8 Midterm Exam
9 The term of Transpersonal and Transpersonal psychology
10 Dream and Psychotherapeutic Function of it
11 Spiritual counseling
12 Spiritual crisis
13 The Psychology of death
14 Self achievement
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Required Textbooks:
1. Edt. R. Frager, Manevi Rehberlik ve BenÖtesi Psikolojisi Üzerine Paylaşımlar, Çev. Ömer Çolakoğlu, Kaknüs Yayınları, Istanbul-2009.
2. Stanislav Grof & Christina Grof, Manevi Kriz, Çev. Ahu Ayan, Kaknüs Yayınları, Istabul-2011.
Supplemantary Texts:
1. L. Wilcox, Sufizm ve Psikoloji, Çev. Orhan Düz, Insan Yayınları, Istanbul-2003.
2. Kemal Sayar, Sufi Psikolojisi, Insan yayınları, Istanbul-2000.
3. C.G. Jung, Doğu Metinlerine Psikolojik Yaklaşım, Çev. A. Demirhan, Insan Yayınları, Istanbul-2001.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Face to face lecture.

Assessment Methods

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


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

The students will be assessed based on success in their mid-term and final exams along with their performance during the classes throughout the semester.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

recep.yaparel@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

By appointment.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 56

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51