COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HUMANISTIC EXISTANTIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND RELIGION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FDB 6275 HUMANISTIC EXISTANTIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND 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

At the end of this course, students will learn about the nature and process of personality, factors that affect behavior, personality measurement and the development of psychopathology within the context of humanistic/existentialist theories and the factor approach. Students will be able to explain the behavior of the given cases in the framework of these theoretical perspectives.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The students will make distinction between existential philosophy and existential psychology.
2   Will learn how to test existential problems in psychological studies.
3   Will question existential anxieties in their lives.
4   Will understand how to religion to provide answers to the search for meaning

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Existential Philosophy
2 Introduction to Existential Psychology
3 Existentialism and the Absurd
4 Being-in-the-World
5 What is Death What is the meaning of Death
6 Fear of Death and Terror Management
7 Existential Isolation
8 Mid-Term Exam.
9 Freedom
10 Existential Anxieties and on the meaning of suffering
11 The meaning of life and Religion
12 Peak experience and religious experience
13 Logotherapy and Religion
14 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Greenberg, J, Koole, S. L. ve Pyszczynski, T. (2004). Handbook of experimental existential psychology. New York: Guilford.
2. Frankl, V. (1969). The will to meaningNew York: Signet
3. Frankl, V. (1973). The Doctor and The Soul. New York 1973.
4. Maslow, A.H. (1964). Religions, values, and peak experiences. London: Penguin Books Limited.
5. Maslow, Abraham (1968). Toward a Psychology of Being. New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Question-Answer, Discussion, Brain Storming , Testing, Homework

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


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Assessment Criteria

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Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

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Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

cihad.kisa@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Çarşamba 14:00 16:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 5 65
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 3 3
Preparing presentations 1 3 3
Reading 10 3 30
Web Search and Library Research 4 3 12
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 181

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.1555
LO.2555
LO.3555
LO.4555

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