COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CONTEMPORARY TURKISH THINKERS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KMY 5048 CONTEMPORARY TURKISH THINKERS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Public Administration

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR LEVENT YILMAZ

Offered to

Public Administration

Course Objective

To study the thinkers, ideologists and theoreticians who contributed to political life in Turkey in the 20th Century and at the end of the 19th Century.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to analyse the political thoughts in Modern Turkey.
2   Being able to know thinkers who contributed to political thought in Turkey.
3   Being able to examine the emergence of political thought in Turkey.
4   Being able to tell the political developments in Turkey chronologically.
5   Being able to comment ideational origins of current political movements.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Advertisement of course and distribution of research issues
2 Ideational structure and political culture in Turkey
3 Early Period Turkish modernists: Namık Kemal. Socialist Thought in Turkey
4 Liberalism in Turkey and Prince Sabahattin
5 Positivism and Westernism: Abdullah Cevdet ve Celal Nuri
6 Nationalism and Turkism : Ziya Gökalp ve Yusuf Akçura
7 Constructivism: Peyami Safa, Ali Fuad Başgil, Remzi Oğuz Arık ve Nurettin Topçu
8 Midterm
9 Kadro Movement and Kemalism: Şevket Süreyya Aydemir
10 1960-1980 Era Turkish Left: Hikmet Kıvılcımlı, Behice Boran, Mehmet Ali Aybar
11 1960-1980 Era Turkish Left: Mihri Belli, Doğan Avcıoğlu
12 1960-1980 Era Turkish Right: Erol Güngör, Samiha Ayverdi, Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
13 Intellectuals: Hilmi Z. Ülken, Ahmet H.Tanpınar, Cemil Meriç, Sabahattin Eyupoğlu
14 Intellectuals: Hilmi Z. Ülken, Ahmet H.Tanpınar, Cemil Meriç, Sabahattin Eyupoğlu

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook:
Modern Türkiye de Siyasî Düşünce, Iletişim Yayınları (9 Cilt).
Helping Sources:
Elected productions of related thinkers

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The reading list will be given to students at the beginning of the course. The productions that are in the reading list will be discussed and tried to explain in the course. Students will prepare homework (this homework will involve an archival research) about one of these issues and will present it when the time comes. A documentary film about Turkish political history will be watched and discussed at the end of each course.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + STT* 0.40 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.40 + RST* 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Two exams will be examined about course knowledges and analysis of them. The events of Turkish political life which are in the documentary film will be included in the scope of course. Students homeworks will be assessed in term of academic rules and presentation quality

Assessment Criteria

The knowledges about political thought and political thinkers and analysis of them will be inspected with examinations.
It will be evaluated general information learned by presentation and homework whether it is used or not for examining chosen facts.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance of course, readings and attendance of course processing is important.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

levent.yilmaz@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 4 52
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 8 8
Preparing assignments 1 12 12
Preparing presentations 1 4 4
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 5 5
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 119

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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