COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ATA 6068 HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT ELECTIVE 3 0 0 3

Offered By

Principles of Atatürk and Turkish Revolution History

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MITHAT KADRI VURAL

Offered to

Principles of Atatürk and Turkish Revolution History

Course Objective

The objective of this course is to analyze political thoughts which have been produced
in Western world following Ancient Greek political thought and from French Revolution
to the end of 19th century.In this framework, concepts such as liberalism, democracy
and emergence of socialism will be taken into consideration in terms of modernity.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to apply the modern methods writing and investigating history by being loyal to scientific ethical rules.
2   To be able to understand the importance of the Ancient Greek political thought on way to interpret modern world.
3   To be able to consider effects of Roman political thought and Christian political thought on western political thought.
4   To be able to analyze how the concepts such as justice, power, liberty and equality are discussed by different thinkers and from the side of different ideologies.
5   To be able to analyze the conditions which paved way for the emergence of totalitarian ideologies such as fascism and national socialism; then s/he knows about the historical backround of anarchosyndicalism and social state.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction: Purpose of the course and course schedule
2 Political Thought in Antiquity I (Sophists and Socrates)
3 Political Thought in Antiquity II (Plato and Aristoteles)
4 olitical Thought in the Middle Ages (Thomas Acquinas and Ibn-i Khaldun)
5 Political Thought in the Modern Era I (Machiavelli, Morus, Bodin and Bossiet)
6 Political Thought in the Modern Era II (Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Sieyes)
7 Political Thought in Contemporary Age I (Reactions to French Revolution)
8 Political Thought in Modern Age I (nationalism and nation state)
9 Political Thought in Contemporary Age II (Liberalism and Democracy)
10 Political Thought in Contemporary Age III (Socialism: Before and After Marx)
11 Political Thought in Contemporary Age IV (Anarchism and Revolutionary Syndicalism)
12 Political Thought in Contemporary Age V (Fascism and National Socialism)
13 Thoughts that shape the modern world
14 Texts that shape the modern world

Recomended or Required Reading

GÖZE, Ayferi (2000), Siyasal Düşünceler ve Yönetimler, Beta Yayınları, Istanbul.
ARNHART, Larry (2004), Siyasi Düşünce Tarihi: Platon´dan Rawls´a, Adres Yayınları,
Ankara.
TANNENBAUM,Donald ve David Schultz (2005), Siyasi Düşünce Tarihi: Filozoflar ve
Fikirleri, Adres Yayınları, Ankara.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

This course will be discoursed via various books and articles which were published related with the subject

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.40 + FCG * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

40% midterm, %60 final

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

70 % of class attendance is mandatory. Lecturer reserves the right to make practical
tests . notes that of these exams can be added to the midterm and final exams

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Associate Prof. Mithat Kadri Vural
mithat.vural@deu.edu.tr
Dokuz Eylul University
Principals of Ataturk and Revalution History Institute
Tınaztepe Campus, 35390
Buca/IZMIR
0 232 301 79 38

Office Hours

Monday 13.00-13.45

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Preparation for midterm exam 1 7 7
Preparation for final exam 1 8 8
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 75

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.14
LO.23
LO.34
LO.45
LO.53

CONTACT INFORMATION
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Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

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