COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MODERNITY AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
STR 5028 MODERNITY AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Strategic Research

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR AYŞEN UYSAL

Offered to

Strategic Research

Course Objective

Modernity, Violence and Politics critically examines th violent conflict: including war, genocide, state violence and terrorism; and conflict resolution. This degree explores the origins and the consequences of violence, and considers how conflict is memorialised. Drawing on philosophy, history and cultural politics you will learn about the war on terror, humanitarian intervention, the cold war and the two world wars.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Critically investigates forms of violent conflict - most notably war, genocide, state violence and terrorism - as well as conflict resolution in the modern world.
2   Explore the origins of violence and the consequences for those involved directly.
3   Study how conflict is represented, memorialised and imagined, after the conflict has ended
4   Study critical traditions, exploring the historical, cultural and philosophical origins of the west and critically assessing the promises of enlightenment.
5   Have the ability to ask questions on philosophical and theoretical issues, and produce answers through modern and critical understanding.
6   Deliver elaborate and well articulated presentations of research findings to demonstrate a proficiency in presentation skills.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction
2 Violence and Civilization
3 Structural Violence
4 Spaces of Terror, Cultures and Violence
5 The pre-histories of Violence
6 War and History
7 Violence and Religion
8 Violence and Religion
9 Religion, Power, Identity and Violence
10 Violence and Sovereignity
11 Identity, Ethnicity, Community and Violence
12 Modernity and the Holocaust
13 Genocides
14 General overview

Recomended or Required Reading

To be announced.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, term paper and presentation

Assessment Methods

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

To be announced.

Assessment Criteria

1- Students will foster a sustained and critical reflection on social violence, history and humanity.
2- Students will explore of of social orders through time and their practices and moral economies of permissible and impermissible violence.
3- Students will examine on different conceptions of violence will be explored such as symbolic, structural, and everyday violence, along with their intersections with the many ambivalent meanings of civilization.
4- Students will use library and internet resources academically

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. Attending at least 70% of lectures is mandatory.
2. Plagiarism of any type will result in disciplinary action.
3. Students are expected to read the assigned material prior to class and to participate in class discussions.
4. Students will make presentations on topics distributed by the instructor.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ayşen Uysal
aysen.uysal@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Reading 14 2 28
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 152

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.144
LO.2
LO.34
LO.4
LO.5
LO.6

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