COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF TURKEY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CEK 2016 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF TURKEY COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR FARUK SAPANCALI

Offered to

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations
Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Course Objective

To research and discuss basic elements and properties of economic and social structure in Turkey in the process of historical development and in the context of the political and cultural developments.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To tell the concepts and theories of social structure and social change (1)
2   To discuss the factors that determine the economic and social structure of Turkey (1)
3   To examine comparatively Turkey's economic and social structure features in the historical process (1,2)
4   To analyze economic and political developments in Turkey in terms of the effects of social structure (1, 12)
5   To evaluate and discuss of the social, economic and political structure issues with the basic features in today's Turkey (1,12)

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Concepts of Social Structure
2 Principals of Social Structure in Turkey: The mode of Production In Ottoman Empire
3 Principals of Social Structure in Turkey: Struggle for National Independence
4 Principals of Social Structure in Turkey: Atatürk's Revolutions and the National Economy
5 The Features of the Economic and Social Structure in the First Years of the Republic
6 Applications of statism in the economy
7 Aftermath of the Second World War on Turkey
8 Midterm exam
9 Midterm exam
10 Transition to a Multi-Party System and Social Change in the Period of Democratic Party
11 Political, Social and Economic Developments, 1960-1980
12 1970 Crisis and the Change of Economic Policies After 1980
13 Change of Economic, Political and Social Structure After 1990
14 General Features of the Economic and Social Structure in Nowadays.

Recomended or Required Reading

Emre KONGAR: 21. Yüzyılda Türkiye. Remzi Kitapevi, Istanbul, 2006.

Memet ZENCIRKIRAN (ed): Dünden Bugüne Türkiye nin Toplumsal Yapısı. Nova yayınları, Ankara, 2006.

Yakup KEPENEK-Nurhan YENTÜRK: Türkiye Ekonomisi. Remzi Kitapevi, Istanbul, 2000.

Birsen GÖKÇE: Türkiye nin Toplumsal Yapısı ve Toplumsal Kurumlar. Savaş Yayınevi, Ankara, 1996.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

First of all explanation of the subject and issues by the teacher and at the end of course made an overall assessment and discussed with students.

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)

Tel: 4120355
faruk.sapancali@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Thursday, Wednesday , Tuesday 16:00/17:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparation for midterm exam 1 6 6
Preparation for final exam 1 9 9
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 5 60
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 113

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.11
LO.21
LO.311
LO.411
LO.511