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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
KMY 2019	HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT I	COMPULSORY	3	0	0	4

Offered By

Public Administration

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR LEVENT YILMAZ

Offered to

Public Administration (Evening)
Public Administration

Course Objective

It is aimed to provide ideas of people related to political area which emerged by reorganise of the state within the process from Ancient until XIV century and make us recognise their representatives.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	Being able to tell theoretical approaches about fundamentals of political thought.
2	Being able to explain the thoughts about emerged of state and power.
3	Being able to analyze the development of political thought from Ancient to the end of the Medieval.
4	Being able to discuss the approaches of prominent political philosopher.
5	Being able to remark the political and socio-economic features of principal thinkers.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	Advertisement of Course
2	Political Thought and Political Area
3	Political Thought in Ancient Civilizations
4	Political Thought in China, Persia and India.
5	Political Thought in Ancient Greek: Heraclites, Sophists, Socrates.
6	Platon (The Republic, Crito), Aristo
7	Midterm
8	Midterm
9	Political Thought in Ancient Greek: Epicurism, Stoicism.
10	Political Thought in Rome: Polybios, Cicero, Seneca
11	The effect of Christianity to Political Thought: St. Paul and St. Augustine.
12	Thomas Aquinas. The effect of Islam to Political Thought.
13	Ibn Rüşd, Farabi, Ibn Haldun (Mukaddime)
14	The End of The Medieval in Europe: Dante, The Birth of Modern Political Thought: Machiavelli (The Prince)

Recomended or Required Reading

Textboooks:
Alâeddin Şenel, Siyasal Düşünceler Tarihi, Bilim ve Sanat Yayınları.
Donald G. Tannenbaum ve David Schultz, Siyasî Düşünce Tarihi, Adres Yayınları.
Platon, Devlet, (Çev. S. Eyüboğlu-M.A. Cimcoz), Iş Bankası Kültür Yayınları.
Niccolo Machiavelli, Prens.
Obligatory reading texts.
Helping Sources:
Murat Sarıca, 100 Soruda Siyasî Düşünce Tarihi, Gerçek Yayınları.
Mete Tunçay, Batı da Siyasal Düşünce Tarihi - Eski ve Orta Çağlar, Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları.
Larry Arnhart, Plato'dan Rawls'a Siyasî Düşünce Tarihi, Adres Yayınları.
Jonathan Wolff ve Michael Rosen (Der.), Siyasal Düşünce, Dost Kitabevi.
Patricia Crone, Ortaçağ Islam Dünyasında Siyasi Düşünce, Kapı Yayınları.
Atilla Yayla, Siyasî Düşünce Sözlüğü, Adres Yayınları.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Theoretical explanation
Discuss with questions inside and at the end of the course in the class.

Assessment Methods

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

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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1- Explains theoretical information in full
2- Uses theoretical information while analyzing the practices.
3- Interiorized knowledge is tested with questions within the class.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To read fundamental sources of course
Attendance to course
Follow of the course as much as.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

levent.yilmaz@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures	12	3	36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures	12	1	12
Preparation for midterm exam	1	10	10
Preparation for final exam	1	10	10
Reading	2	20	40
Midterm	1	1	1
Final	1	1	1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			110

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO	PO.1	PO.2	PO.8	PO.9
LO.1	1	1	1	1
LO.2	1	1	1	1
LO.3	1	1	1	1
LO.4	1	1	1	1
LO.5	1	1	1	1

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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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