COURSE UNIT TITLE

: POLITICAL THOUGHT AND LAW

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
HUK 1057 POLITICAL THOUGHT AND LAW ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Law

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR SERKAN EKIZ

Offered to

Law

Course Objective

To give detailed knowledge about the political ideologies which occur after Industrial Revolution by the academic meaning of the concept of ideology. Within this aim every single ideology's theory, main theme and main philosopher will be discussed and explanations about the social reality which was offered by the relevant ideology. After that law systems which was offered by every single ideology and reflections of the main themes of every single ideology will be examined. For instance ideology of liberalism will be examined about it's theorical base, historical development, liberal philosophers. Then the reflection of the liberalism in to reality will be discussed within the main elements of the law system which gives legitimacys to that political system.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To examine the academic meaning of the concept of ideology
2   To understand the social and economic factors which affect the occurence of Industrial Revolution.
3   To examine theoretical structure of liberalism and theoretical reflections to the law system of this ideology.
4   To examine the theoretical structure of marxism and criticism about liberalism. To have knowledge about main elements of marxist law system.
5   To examine theoretical development of social democracy and it's differences from marxism and liberalism. To have basic knowledge on state's positive and negative obligations whitin the social democratic law system.
6   To have basic knowledge about ideology of fascism. To have knowledge about main structure of fascist state and fascist law system.
7   To have academic knowledge about anarchism. To examine state and law system of anarchism.
8   To have basic knowledge about conservatism, feminism, syndicalism, etc.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Concept of ideology and academic context
2 Relationship between ideology and law.
3 Social and economic dynamics which affect occurrence of Industrial Revolution
4 Liberal ideology and its main themes
5 Liberal law system
6 Marxism as a criticism of liberal ideology- Theoretical basis of marxism
7 Marxist law system
8 Social democracy as a hybrid ideology- Theoretical basis of social democracy
9 Positive obligations of state within social democracy and its reflection to law
10 Anarchism and law and state within anarchism
11 Fascism and fascist law system
12 Conservatism and nationalism
13 Feminism
14 Midterm

Recomended or Required Reading

1- H. Birsen Örs, 19. YY. dan 20.Yy. a Modern Siyasal Ideolojiler, Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi yayınları, 3. Baskı, Istanbul 2009.
2- George Sabine, Yakınçağ Siyasal Düşünceler Tarihi, Cem Yayınevi, Istanbul, 2000.
3- Jean Touchard; Siyasal Düşünceler Tarihi, Islık Yayınları.
4- Şefik T. Akman; Hukuk ve Politika Ilişkisi; Hukukun Ekonomi Politik Analizi ve Liberal Hukuk Düzeninin Eleştirisi, Imge Kitabevi.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, seminar representations, film etc. visual materials.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE 1 MIDTERM EXAM 1
2 MTE 2 MIDTERM EXAM 2
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE+FIN
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE+RST


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)

serkan.ekiz@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Friday, 11.00-13.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 25 25
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 100

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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