COURSE UNIT TITLE

: STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ESH 0058 STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Faculty Of Letters

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR ÖZKAN YILDIZ

Offered to

American Culture and Literature
Archeology
Museology
.
Translation and Interpreting
.
Turkish Language and Literature
Translation and Interpreting(Turkish-German-English)
Psychology
Archeology
Comparative Literature
Philosophy
Linguistics
History
Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies (English)
History
Comparative Literature

Course Objective

To examine the rise of modern civil societies with an historical perspective and to understand the rise discussions over civil society after the collaps of Soviet Union

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To understand modern civil society within historical and sociological perspective
2   To understand the relationships between civil society with political state, economy, human rights, and democracy
3   To understand different theories of civil society and to make comparisons among them
4   To understand theories of and concepts of civil society and state
5   To make comparisons between civil societies in the West and the other parts of the world

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Examinations on the state and civil society relationships (1)
2 Emergence of the modern civil society
3 Capitalism, Modern state and Civil Society
4 The rise of discussions of Civil Society after 1989
5 Radical Sivil Society theory
6 Sociological Civil Society Theory
7 Economic Civil Society Theory
8 A Critic of Civil Society: Hannah Arendt
9 Mid-Term
10 Notes from Gramsci over Civil Society
11 Discussions of Civil Society in Turkey I
12 Diiscussions of Civil Society in Turkey II

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Gülnur Savran, 1987, Sivil Toplum ve Ötesi, Istanbul, Alan Yayıncılık
2. Jean L. Cohen and Andrew Arato, Civil Society and Political Theory, The MIT Press, Massachusets and London, 1995.
3. Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, the MIT press, Massachusets and Cambridge, 1991.
4. Hannah Arendt, insanlık Durumu, Iletişim yayınları, Istanbul, 1998.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Face to face

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


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

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)

Mail: ozkan.yildiz@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 16 3 48
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 16 2 32
Midterm 1 6 6
Final 1 12 12
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 98

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.15
LO.25
LO.35
LO.45
LO.55

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