COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CRITIQUE OF CLASSICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IKT 5132 CRITIQUE OF CLASSICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Economics

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR ISMAIL MAZGIT

Offered to

Economics

Course Objective

Acquire theoretical basis for use in studies to be carried out in the field of political economy and to provide comprehension of the development of the historical and theoretical ideas of Marx and his followers that make basic critique of political economy. Then enable students to do a comparative analysis of the mainstream economics and opposite approaches.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to be able to criticize the main thesis of classical political economy
2   to be able to understand the basic theses of Marxist political economy
3   to be able to analyze the claims in the main texts
4   to be able to make an adequate seminar presentation on a topic within the scope of the course, writing an consistent and coherent essay accordance with the rules of academic writing and citation
5   to be able to communicate ethically and cognitively by participating in classroom discussions, make evidence-based argumentation, to defend their ideas in an effective manner
6   to be able to formulate and solve problems based on the theoretical foundations in the face of factual events

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Evaluation of the Classical Political Economics
2 Dialectical Method
3 Commodity and Value
4 Circulation and Money
5 Money and Capital
6 Evolution of Surplus-Money
7 Production of the absolute and relative surplus-value
8 Capital Accumulation
9 Capital Accumulation
10 Price, Profit and Profit Ratio
11 Rent
12 Salary/Wage
13 Labor-Value Theory
14 Alienation and commodity fetishism

Recomended or Required Reading

To be announced.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

During the 14-week course, each week, first half of the course will be devoted to instructor s lectures. Second half of the course there will be a discussion of the texts related to the subject. Reading assignments which are given each week will be discussed after a short presentation of a student. It is expected from each student to prepare a short summary related to the subject that each week reads, to make a consistent and comprehensive term work accordance with the rules of academic writing and citation on the subject that determined by the student and to present this work at the department seminar at the end of the semester or to send an abstract to an academic congress.

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 * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

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)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preperations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preperations for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preperations for midterm exam 1 20 20
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 131

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.142352
LO.2432
LO.33434
LO.4534
LO.54424
LO.62532