COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
RPD 1005 INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY COMPULSORY 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Guidance and Psychological Counseling

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR HATICE ZEKAVET KABASAKAL

Offered to

Guidance and Psychological Counseling

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to show students the relationship between sociology and education, to provide students understand main sociological concepts, and main sociological problems with the possible solutions

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   explain the relation between sociology and education
2   Know current content of educational sociology
3   explain education and the sociological stratificaiton
4   Discuss equality and inequality concepts in education
5   Explain the effects of glabalization , immigration and like to the educational systems
6   Discuss violence and social environment relation with school as a social system

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Definition of sociology and relartions with related fields
2 Founders of sociology
3 Definition, content and development of educational sociology
4 Theories of sociology in education
5 Social conflict theory
6 Alienation and education
7 Social mobility and education
8 Midterm
9 Immigration, media, globalization and their effects on education
10 School as a social system
11 School-environment relations
12 School and violance
13 School and family relations
14 Current argument content 1, 2
15 final

Recomended or Required Reading

Tezcan, M. (1997). Eğitim Sosyolojisi, Ankara.
Doğan, I. (2004). Toplum ve Eğitim, Pegem Yayıncılık

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, research and discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FINS FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 +FINS * 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

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

zekavet.kabasakal@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 8 8
Preparation for tutorial exam 1 8 8
Midterm 0
Final 1 1 1
1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 72

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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