COURSE UNIT TITLE

: RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ILA 2346 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH ELECTIVE 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Theology

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR CIHAD KISA

Offered to

Theology
Theology

Course Objective

The main aim of this course is to help students to focus on the relationship between soul and body. By doing this, students can realize how individual s spiritual side affect both their spiritual wellbeing and physical health.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   At the end of the course; the students will demonstrate an understanding and interpretation of mutual-interaction between soul/spirit and body, as well as be able to deal with the social-level and individual-level potential psychological problems by considering this interaction.
2   Will improve a realistic approach to the case of spiritual crisis which is propounded that it occurs nowadays/present-days.
3   Try to distinguish concepts related to spirituality and health.
4   Knowledge to be spiritual counseling.
5   Learn to reviews of the literature on the psychology death, afterlife and near-death experience.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The terms of `spirituality , `religion and `health
2 Spirituality, Mysticism, Sufism (Islamic Mysticism) and Metaphysic
3 Mysticism and Psychology
4 Relationship between spiritual wellbeing and spirituality.
5 Relationship between spiritual wellbeing and religion.
6 New development in spirituality and health
7 Mysticism, Psychology and psychiatry
8 Mid-Term Exam.
9 Dream and Psychotherapeutic Function of it
10 Spiritual counseling
11 Spiritual crisis
12 The Psychology of death
13 Self actualisation
14 General evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Manevi Rehberlik ve BenÖtesi Psikolojisi Üzerine Paylaşımlar, Edt. R. Frager, Çev. Ömer Çolakoğlu, Kaknüs Yayınları, Istanbul-2009.
2. Stanislav Grof & Christina Grof, Manevi Kriz, Çev. Ahu Ayan, Kaknüs Yayınları, Istabul-2011.
Supplemantary Texts:
3. L. Wilcox, Sufizm ve Psikoloji, Çev. Orhan Düz, Insan Yayınları, Istanbul-2003.
4. Kemal Sayar, Sufi Psikolojisi, Insan yayınları, Istanbul-2000.
5. C.G. Jung, Doğu Metinlerine Psikolojik Yaklaşım, Çev. A. Demirhan, Insan Yayınları, Istanbul-2001.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Question-Answer, Discussion, Brain Storming , Testing, Homework

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + BUT * 0.60


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Assessment Criteria

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Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

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Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

cihad.kisa@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday 14:00-16:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 56

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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