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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
FEL 7037	VAROLUŞÇU FILOZOFLAR	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	5

Offered By

PHILOSOPHY, NON-THESIS (Evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR REŞAT LEVENT AYSEVER

Offered to

PHILOSOPHY, NON-THESIS (Evening)

Course Objective

The course objectives is to raise and lead arguments on the philosophers and writers that are the sources and representers of existentialist philosophy, such as Augustin, Aquinas, Pascal, Montaigne, Spinoza, Fichte, Dostoyevsky, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Jaspers, Marcel, Sartre, Kafka and Camus. The concepts essential to existentialist philosophy will be studied by the help of masterpieces of the major existentialist thinkers.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	By the end of this course students will be able to comprehend the existentialist philosophy that has an important place in the twentieth century philosophy.
2	know how individual existence of human is deepened by existentialist philosophy.
3	hold discussions on basic works of philosophers that are founders and representers of existentialism.
4	understand and convey to others the solutions about the question of human existence.
5	investigate how existentialism manifolds the meaning of life by literary works and convey to others these new meanings in a way that strengthen the vital forces of humanity.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	Origin of the concept of existence
2	Kierkegaard s philosophy of existence
3	The contribution of Nietzsche s conception of life to the philosophy of existence.
4	Heidegger s interpretation of Nietzsche
5	Heidegger s interpretation of Nietzsche
6	Heidegger s interpretation of Nietzsche
7	Being authentic and being inauthentic
8	Mid-term exam
9	Sartre s defence of existentialism
10	Sartre s defence of existentialism
11	Difference between Heidegger s and Sartre s existentialism.
12	Argument between Sartre and Camus
13	Philosophical interpretation of the novel Nausea
14	Philosophical interpretation of the novel Plague

Recomended or Required Reading

Brod, Max (2000) Kafka da Inanç ve Umutsuzluk, çev. Kamuran Şipal, Istanbul: Cem Yayınevi.
Erhat, Azra (2002) Mitoloji Sözlüğü, Istanbul: Remzi Kitabevi
Heckmann, Wolfhart und Lotter, Konrad (2004) Lexikon der Ästhetik, München: Verlag C.H.Beck.
Heidegger, M., (1996). Wegmarken, Gesamtausgabe, I.Abteilung: Veröffentlichte Schriften 1910-1976, Band 9, Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann.
Heidegger, Martin (2004) Varlık ve Zaman, Sein und Zeit, çev. Aziz Yardımlı, Istanbul: Idea Yayınevi.
Heidegger, Martin (1996) Nedir Bu Felsefe , Çev: Ali Irgat, Istanbul: AFA Yayınları.
Heidegger, Martin (1991), Nietzsche, Volume I: The Will to Power as Art, Volume II: The Eternal Recurrence of the Same, Volume III: The Will to Power as Knowledge and as Metaphysics, Ing. Çev. David Farrell Krell, Volume IV: Nihilism, Ing. Çev: Frank A. Capuzzi, San Francisco: Harper.
Jameson, Fredric (1991) Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Durham: Duke University Press.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

See "Assessment Methods" and "ECTS Table"

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

LO 1-3 will be evaluated by his/her presentation
LO 4-5 will be evaluated by the assignment of the student and by the questions that will be asked in midterm and final exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. %70 attendance is required.
2. The participation in midterm and final exams will be considered in grading.
3. The participation in presentation activity will be considered in grading.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Doç. Dr. Metin Bal
0232 301 94 11
metin.bal@deu.edu.tr
http://www.metinbal.net

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures	6	3	18
Preparation for midterm exam	1	5	5
Preparation for final exam	1	10	10
Preparing assignments	1	10	10
Preparing presentations	1	10	10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures	13	5	65
Final	1	3	3
Midterm	1	3	3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			124

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO	PO.1	PO.2	PO.3	PO.4	PO.5	PO.6	PO.7	PO.8	PO.9	PO.10	PO.11	PO.12	PO.13	PO.14	PO.15
LO.1	5	4		5		5	5		4	5	4		5		5
LO.2		5	4	4		4		5	5		5	4	4	5
LO.3	4	5	5		5		5	4		4	5	5		4	5
LO.4	5				4		4	5
LO.5			5	5	4	5			5	5		4	5	5	4

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Description of Individual Course Units

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Level of Course Unit

Course Coordinator

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Course Objective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

Recomended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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