COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND OIL

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
STR 5060 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND OIL ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Strategic Research

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR ISMAIL YAVUZ BÜLENT UĞRASIZ

Offered to

Strategic Research

Course Objective

Through having the knowledge of oil to learn the basic aim of the subject of international relations.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   How the oil was found and its history
2   Oil as a new energy source that brought a different dimension to the international relations
3   The development of oil companies and because of their power how they influence world politics.
4   Oil is at the global level how changed the states in the form of military and trade
5   How oil changed the Middle East Region
6   Strategic place of oil in the global level

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The foundation of oil and its use as an energy
2 The competition of oil companies and its reflections to the world politics
3 Where oil was found what happened politically in these regions
4 The role of oil in the Middle East region politically
5 The role of oil in the First World War
6 The role of oil in the Second World War
7 Competition for the oil at the global level
8 Actors in the arena of oil and energy
9 Problems that occurred because of the supply of oil
10 Oil and war in the bipolar world system
11 Hydrocarbon Age and Environmental pollution
12 Oil and its duration
13 Oil and world the dominant power
14 Oil as a weapon

Recomended or Required Reading

Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, New York, Simon &schuster Publications, 1990.
Necdet Pamir, Enerjinin Iktidarı, Istanbul, Hayykitap, 2015.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Recall of the topics of the last session.
Framing of the topics of the week
Presentation and teaching
Empirical case studies

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 * 0.30 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.50


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Assessment Criteria

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Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Examination dates should be specified in the course content given below. The examination dates can be changed later.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assis.Prof.Dr. Bülent Uğrasız, faculty of Letters, Department of American Culture and Literature, Room No. A-111, Phone Extension: 18652

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 6 84
Preparation for midterm exam 1 6 6
Preparation for final exam 1 6 6
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 144

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.1333
LO.2333
LO.3333
LO.4333
LO.5333
LO.6333

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