COURSE UNIT TITLE

: APPROACHES OF GLOBALISATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IKT 5067 APPROACHES OF GLOBALISATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Economics

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR TIMUÇIN YALÇINKAYA

Offered to

Economics

Course Objective

To enable the students to learn and evaluate the theoretical approaches to globalization in a multidimensional and interdisciplinary perspective and in terms of the philosophical ground of the phenomenon of globalization

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to learn and evaluate the morphological structure and definition of the concept of globalization.
2   To be able to research and assess the historical roots of the process of globalization.
3   To be able to understand and assess multidimensionality of globalization in terms of an interdisciplinary view
4   To be able to learn and explain the approaches to globalization
5   To be able to assess Türkiye s situation in the process of globalization, on the basis of the theoretical approaches

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Definitions of the Concept of Globalization
2 Globalization, Universalization and Imperialism
3 Historical Roots of Globalization
4 Ideology of Globalization
5 Global Political Power Formation
6 Theories of Globalization: A First View
7 World-System Theory
8 Theory of Global Capitalism
9 Midterm Exam
10 Globalization and Transnational Migration
11 Globalization and the Approach of Network Society
12 Globalization and the Approaches to Place and Space
13 Globalization and Identity
14 Approaches to Global Culture
15 Modernism, Post-modernism and Globalization

Recomended or Required Reading

Main reference:
Manfred B. Steger, Küreselleşme.
Secondary references:
* Gülten Kazgan, Küreselleşme ve Ulus-Devlet.
* Joseph Stiglitz, Küreselleşme: Büyük Hayal Kırıklığı.
* Paul Hirst ve Grahame Thompson, Küreselleşme Sorgulanıyor.
* George Ritzer, Toplumun McDonaldslaşması.
* John Tomlinson, Küreselleşme ve Kültür.
* Roland Robertson, Küreselleşme: Toplum Kuramı ve Küresel Kültür.
* William I. Robinson, Theories of Globalization .
* Leslie Sklair, Competing Concepts of Globalization .

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

To explain the theoretical approaches for evaluating all dimensions of globalization in accordance with the basic references and articles, and to enable the students to undertake researches on the cases and institutions and to discuss them.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.20 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.20 + RST* 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

timucin.yalcinkaya@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Giving the Lecture 14 3 42
Before/After Lecture Preperation Process (Weekly) 13 2 26
Preperation for the mid exam 1 15 15
Preperation for the final exam 1 20 20
Preperation of essay 1 25 25
Preperation of presentation 1 15 15
Final Exam 1 3 3
Mid Exam 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 149

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.155
LO.255
LO.35
LO.4555555
LO.555555

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