COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SYMBOLIC LOGIC

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ELECTIVE

Offered By

Sociology

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR YILDIZ AKPOLAT

Offered to

Sociology (Evening)
Sociology

Course Objective

To make students understand the laws and functioning of deductive logic, which enables the most masterful use of verbal language.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Revealing the importance of the concept
2   Comprehension of five universals with the help of the Porphyrios tree
3   The importance of definition and division on the path to qiyas
4   The importance of establishing a proposition before syllogism
5   Making students understand qiyas, the most important form of reasoning, in detail.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Etymological and terminological meaning of logic
2 Propositions, Truth Values
3 Propositional Joints and Truth Tables
4 Validity, Consistency and Identity
5 Inspection Methods
6 Relations between concepts, five universals, categories
7 Concept discussion, definition and division
8 Mid-term exam
9 Propositions: definition, structure, types, predicated and conditional propositions
10 Complex propositions, compound propositionsComplex propositions, compound propositions
11 Modal propositions Relations between propositions: Opposition Rotation Syllogism: definition, types, simple syllogisms, precise syllogisms
12 Selective comparisons,
13 Compound syllogisms
14 Modality of syllogisms
15 Etymological and terminological meaning of logic
16 Final

Recomended or Required Reading


-Temel Sembolik Mantık, Kutlusoy, Zekiye, Art Basın Yayın, Ankara, 2018.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods


1. Ders
2. Soru-yanıt
3. Tartışma

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Exams

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

aykut.caliskan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday 12.00-13.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 4 56
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 139

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.1333
LO.23445
LO.334
LO.44445
LO.5444