COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOCIAL POLITICS I

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CEK 2005 SOCIAL POLITICS I COMPULSORY 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR TIJEN ERDUT

Offered to

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations
Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Course Objective

This course aims to ensure that students know the multidiscipline and interdisciplinary character of social politics, associate the development of social politics to social change process, and realize the parties contribute to policy-making and the methods of policy-making.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To describe the capitalist economic system and the social problem
2   To recognise social politics is not limited with the protection of the most vulnerable people
3   To demonstrate the development of social politics in economic/technological, social, politic/ideological and legal contexts
4   To analyse social problems
5   To generalise inadequacy of individual solutions and necessity of social solutions for social problems

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The concept of social politics
2 The conditions of the emergence of social politics
3 The ideologies had effect on the emergence of social politics
4 The conditions of the emergence of welfare state
5 Economic and social order in welfare state
6 Political and legal order in welfare state
7 The conditions of the emergence of workfare state
8 Mid term
9 Mid term
10 Economic order in workfare state
11 Social order in workfare state
12 Political order in workfare state
13 Legal order in workfare state
14 Trade unions and social politics

Recomended or Required Reading

Ömer Zühtü ALTAN; Sosyal Politika Dersleri. Anadolu Üniversitesi Yayınları, No. 1592, Eskişehir, 2004.

Sami GÜVEN; Sosyal Politikanın Temelleri. Ezgi Kitabevi, Bursa, 2001.

Meryem KORAY; Sosyal Politika. Imge Kitabevi, Ankara, 2008.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Class participation
Examinations

Assessment Methods

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


*** 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)

tijen.erdut@deu.edu.tr
420 20293

Office Hours

Monday: 14.00 17.00
Wednesday : 14.00 17.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 6 6
Preparation for final exam 1 9 9
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 7 84
Final 1 10 10
Midterm 1 10 10
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 158

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.111
LO.211
LO.3111
LO.411114
LO.51111