COURSE UNIT TITLE

: COGNITIVE APPROACH TO RELIGION

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FDB 6269 COGNITIVE APPROACH TO RELIGION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CIHAD KISA

Offered to

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Course Objective

Especially in second half of the twentieth century in information and computer world made great strides with using the rapid development momentum entering the information science concepts and findings, the religious experience, religious beliefs and behavior of physical and mental backgrounds better understand and aims to explain.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The emergence of new approaches and developments in the science of psychology are learned.
2   Cognitive approach, concepts and issues are discussed in detail.
3   Cognitive science has to offer concepts and data to better understand the human aspects of the phenomenon of religion used to.
4   Induvidual because of learning new information has the opportunity to analyze its religious life and develop.
5   The data provided by cognitive science emerged both in individual life and in public life to understanding the causesof pathology and allows fixed.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 What is cognitive psychology
2 Information processing model.
3 The scope of cognitive psychology.
4 The history of cognitive psychology.
5 Cognitive neuroscience.
6 Development of perception, memory, mental imagination, language and cognition.
7 Midterm exam.
8 Religion in mind.
9 How can we believe in faith
10 Cognition, emotion and religious experience.
11 According to cognitive theories of the formation and development of God-concepts.
12 According to cognitive theories of the formation and development of God-concepts.
13 Ritual, memory and emotion: Comparing two cognitive hypotheses.
14 Religion and frontal lobes.

Recomended or Required Reading

Cognitive Psychology, Robert L. Solso, Allyn And Bacon Boston, London.2001.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

face to face

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

None

Assessment Criteria

Tests and paperworks.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Lecture and brain storming.

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 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 5 70
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 25 25
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 163

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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