COURSE UNIT TITLE

: RELIGION AND MODERN ISSUES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ILS 3077 RELIGION AND MODERN ISSUES ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Theology

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR OSMAN BILEN

Offered to

Theology
Theology (Evening)

Course Objective

To provide for students cognization about industrialization, individualization, triumphant of reason and science, globalization, migrations, modernty, basic positions of contemporary situation and religion. Religion and faith freedom, religious and cultural discrimination. To provide for students ability about how to benefit from religious tenets and historical experiences of religions in order to solve socail problems like religion and faith, religious and cultural discrimination.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   At the end of lecture, student could evaluate international constitutional documents about religion.
2   The student will understand basic problems of contemporary world from main religions' outloook
3   The student will learn solutions of main religions about problems of internation constitutions.
4   General outlook on contemporary problems and Islam
5   Relation between philosophy and religion from contemporary outlook.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 contemporaneity, humanistic phenomenons describing contemporary situation and social chances dimesions concerning with religion
2 The religious and constitutional problems which describes contemporary situation. Its dimensions concernig with religion, Interantional constitutional documents
3 UN Universal Human Rights Declaration and Religion
4 Definition of contemporary religious problems from the point of view of living religions
5 Juristic problems: Religion and faith freedom, political problems. Secularism and laicisim implementings religious minority rights
6 Cultural problems: Religious and cultural discrimation problems
7 Social Problems: Discrimation concerning with domestic rights
8 Midterm exam
9 Religions and social contacts
10 Ethical Problems
11 Environmental Problems
12 The place of religious tenets in education of sensation for environment in the Unesco Program For Posterity
13 Islamic tenets and importance of environment in historical experiences
14 General Evaluation
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Hilmi Ziya Ülken, Eski Yunandan Çağdaş Düşünceye Doğru Islam Felsefesi: Kaynakları ve Etkileri, Ülken Yayınları, Istanbul 2007.
2. Mehmet Bayraktar, Islam Felsefesine Giriş, Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı Yayınları, Ankara 1997.
3. Macit Fahri, Islam Felsefesi Tarihi, çev., Kasım Turhan, Iklim Yayınları, Istanbul 1992.
4. M.M. Şerif (ed.), Islam Düşüncesi Tarihi, (Islam Felsefesi ve Filozofları Bölümü), insan Yayınları, c.I-IV, Istanbul 1990.
5. Seyyid Hüseyin Nasr-Oliver Leaman (ed.), Islam Felsefesi Tarihi, çev., Şamil Öçal, Hasan Tuncay Başoğlu, Açılımkitap Yayınları, c.I-III, Istanbul 2007.
6. Peter Adamson ve Richard C. Taylor (ed.), Islam Felsefesine Giriş, çev., M. Cüneyt Kaya, Küre Yayınları, Istanbul 2007.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

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


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)

osman.bilen@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Free

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 99

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

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