COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT II

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KMY 2014 HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT II COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5

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 teach ideas about political power by analysing environmental and class factors from emergence of absolute monarchies until end of the 19th Century.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to put in order the causes that affected emergence of the absolute monarchies.
2   Being able to put in order the reasons of why bourgeoisie class take back the support depending on its own benefits from absolute monarchies.
3   Being able to remark the development of political thought in the Age of Enlightenment and approaches of the prominent thinkers.
4   Being able to discuss the fundamentals of the socialist, liberal and nationalist thoughts.
5   Being able to remark the based opinions of thinkers who lived in this era

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Intellectual Developments of Mediaval Europe
2 Developments of The Absolute Monarchies and Stiffen of Bourgeois
3 Machiavelli
4 Bodin
5 Hobbes s Contributions to Political Thoughts and the other important thinkers
6 Era of Enlightenment: Locke and the others.
7 Era of Enlightenment: Rausseau
8 Era of Enlightenment: Montesquieu
9 Political Movements Against The French Revolution
10 First Socialists
11 19th Century Liberal Thinkers
12 Development and Representatives of Socialist Movements: Marx and the other important representatives.
13 Development of Nationalist Thought
14 Political Thoughts in Russia and East. German Romantic Thought

Recomended or Required Reading

Siyasî Düşünce Tarihi Murat SARICA
Siyasal Düşünceler Tarihi Alaeddin ŞENEL
Siyasal Düşünceler ve Yönetimler Ayferi GÖZE

Subsidiary Sources:
Batı'da Siyasal Düşünceler Tarihi Mete TUNÇAY
Tanrı Devletinden Kral-Devlete Levent KÖKER-M. A. AĞAOĞULLARI
Siyasi Düşünce Tarihi David THOMSON
Siyasal Düşüncenin Temelleri (Der.) Brian REDHEAD
Balkwell in Siyasal Düşünce Ansiklopedisi ÜmitYyayıncılık

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

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

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

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Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Optional, if the instructor needs to add some explanation or further note, this column can be selected from the DEBIS menu.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

nazmi.uste@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 13.15-17.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 1 4 4
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 3 36
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 118

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.211111
LO.3111
LO.4111111
LO.511