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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
KMY 5149	BIOPOWER AND BIOPOLITICS	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	5

Offered By

Public Administration

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR GÖKHAN TENIKLER

Offered to

Public Administration

Course Objective

Giving information about the definition of biopower and its local and regional and national practise areas, borders within state-government relations, its administrative and legal controls at ethical level in democratic state structures is the main objective. Giving information about biopower and its practises from the World and Türkiye, providing the ability to analyze and plan by examining the rules affecting the formation of space and practise results from various country examples are the course objects. It is intended to minimize the social burden that is due to the lack of strategic leadership features and to teach strategies with this information.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	To know the definition of biopower and its philosophical foundatitons.
2	To know the SWOT analysis of biopower.
3	To put forth past and current implementations, the problems caused by implementations and social benefits, to develop solutions to problems.
4	To gain ability to find solutions with biopower methods about the matters that prevent peace in soviety.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	The definition of biopower, power techniques, Genereal Expression
2	Foucault and Biopower
3	Various opinions and comparative analysis
4	Norm/Normalization Society
5	Biopower and population planning, theory and practise
6	Biopower and urban planning, urban transformation relations
7	Panopticon: Monitoring/Surveillance Society, application tools
8	Force Majeure and Biopower relations
9	Settlements and population regulations
10	Biopower and examples of urban transformation and confrontational&accommodating values
11	SWOT analysis according to biopower practises
12	Popular administrative and structural practises for the arrangement of biopower relations in Türkiye
13	Analysis of Paradiplomacy and biopower relations
14	Examples from various countries and their analysis

Recomended or Required Reading

Foucault, M. (2010) Cinselliğin Tarihi, Çev.Tanrıöver, H. U. Ayrıntı Yayınları, Istanbul.
Urhan, V.(2010) `Michel Foucault , Fikir Mimarları-24, Say Yayınları, Istanbul.
Keskin, F. (2003) Bilginin Arkeoloğu Michel Foucault, Kadife Karanlık 21. Yüzyıl Iletişim Çağını Aydınlatan Kuramcılar, (Ed. N. Rigel vd.) Su Yayınları, Istanbul.
Hancock, P. (2000) The Body, Culture and Society, First Published, Open University Press, Buckingham Philadelphia.
Foucault, M. (2005) Büyük Kapatılma, Çeviren: Ergüden, I. ve Keskin, F., Ayrıntı Yayınları, Istanbul.
Foucault, M. (2000) Özne ve Iktidar, Çeviren: Ergüden, I. ve Akınhay, O., Yayıma Hazırlayan: Keskin, F., Ayrıntı Yayınları, Istanbul.
Zerrin Toprak(2008) Kent Yönetimi ve Politikası, Izmir
Özkalp, E. (2004) Davranış Bilimlerine Giriş, Anadolu Üniversitesi Yayını, Eskişehir

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

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)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures	14	3	42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures	1	14	14
Preparation for midterm exam	1	20	20
Preparation for final exam	1	20	20
Preparing assignments	1	24	24
Midterm	1	3	3
Final	1	3	3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			126

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO	PO.1	PO.2	PO.3	PO.4	PO.5	PO.6
LO.1	5	4	5	4	5	4
LO.2	5	4	5	4	5	4
LO.3	5	4	5	4	5	4
LO.4	5	4	5	4	5	4

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Description of Individual Course Units

Offered By

Level of Course Unit

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Course Objective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

Recomended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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