COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SPECIAL TOPICS IN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AKE 6055 SPECIAL TOPICS IN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

American Culture and Literature (English)

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR EVRIM ERSÖZ KOÇ

Offered to

American Culture and Literature (English)

Course Objective

To learn and compare the subjects of international relations by looking at the international conflicts that threatening the world peace through US point of view

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To learn some important concepts international relations
2   To learn the mechanism of protecting the world peace
3   To learn different approaches of US foreign policy in different cases
4   Looking at the preceding international cases and finding out the similarities between different cases just to make analogy
5   To make logical interpretations by looking at the concepts of international system, foreign policies of states and decision making process of the states

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 How New is the World Order Class Discussion
2 The Transformation of Classical Theory Class Discussion
3 Security and the Control of Conflict Class Discussion
4 Democracy and Human Rights Class Discussion
5 The Political Economy of the Environment Class Discussion
6 America at the Apex: Empire or Leader Class Discussion
7 Midterm
8 America and Europe: Democracies Class Discussion
9 Western Hemisphere Class Discussion
10 Asia: The World Equilibrium Class Discussion
11 Middle East and Africa: World in Transition Class Discussion
12 Politics of Globalization Class Discussion
13 Peace and Justice Class Discussion
14 The New Challenge of Terrorism Class Discussion
15 Presentation and discussion Class Discussion
16 Final

Recomended or Required Reading

Jerel A. Rosati, The Politics of United States Foreign Policy, California, Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2003.
Henry Kissinger, Does America Need a Foreign Policy New York, First Touchstone Edition, 2002.
William Clinton Olson, The Theory and Practices of International Relations, New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 1994.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assigned reading texts should be studied before attending the class and these assigned and prepared special topics that threatening the world peace will be discussed in the class.

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Wiil be annouced.

Assessment Criteria

If needed, other assessment methods can be added to the table given below.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

evrim.ersoz@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Tutorials 0 0 0
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 1 14 14
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 3 15 45
Preparing assignments 13 3 39
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
Quiz etc. 0 0 0
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 166

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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