Iğdır University Lifelong Learning Programme

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	Number of ECTS Credits
130300106100	HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHTS	Compulsory	3	6	2

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

The objective of this course is to analyze political thoughts which have been produced in Western world following Ancient Greek political thought and from French Revolution to the end of 19th century.In this framework, concepts such as liberalism, democracy and emergence of socialism will be taken into consideration in terms of modernity.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Cem DOĞAN

Learning Outcomes

1	The individuals who are major in their field and experienced are being grown as dependent on main principles of Republic of Turkey and convenient for the main aims of Turkish national education system.
2	They will achieve some behaviour such as being open-minded while doing scientific investigations, being suspicious and delaying decisions in the situation of having no complete proof, and they can maintain their studies with patience and care.
3	They will apply the modern methods writing and investigating history by being loyal to scientific ethical rules.
4	By learning other disciplines which can be an assist to science of history, they will benefit from the branches which will help them in their investigations and studies.
5	S/he understands the importance of the Ancient Greek political thought on way to interpret modern world.
6	S/he considers effects of Roman political thought and Christian political thought on western political thought.
7	S/he analyzes how the concepts such as justice, power, liberty and equality are discussed by different thinkers and from the side of different ideologies.
8	S/he analyzes the conditions which paved way for the emergence of totalitarian ideologies such as fascism and national socialism; then s/he knows about the historical backround of anarchosyndicalism and social state.

Mode of Delivery

Daytime Class

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

The concepts of state, power, human nature, justice, equality and liberty from Ancient Greek to Medieval Age in terms of social contract; French Revolution, Reactions to Revolution, Utopian Socialism and Marxism, Anarchism, Anarchosyndicalism, Fascism and National Socialism, Social State.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Introduction: Purpose of the course and course schedule	Reading, explanation and discussion
2	Political Thought in Antiquity I (Sophists and Socrates)	Reading, explanation and discussion
3	Political Thought in Antiquity II (Plato and Aristoteles)	Reading, explanation and discussion
4	Political Thought in the Middle Ages (Thomas Acquinas and Ibn-i Khaldun)	Reading, explanation and discussion
5	Political Thought in the Modern Era I (Machiavelli, Morus, Bodin and Bossiet)	Reading, explanation and discussion
6	Political Thought in the Modern Era II (Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Sieyes)	Reading, explanation and discussion
7	Political Thought in Contemporary Age I (Reactions to French Revolution)	Reading, explanation and discussion
8	Midterm Exam
9	Political Thought in Contemporary Age II (Liberalism and Democracy)	Reading, explanation and discussion
10	Political Thought in Contemporary Age III (Socialism: Before and After Marx)	Reading, explanation and discussion
11	Political Thought in Contemporary Age IV (Anarchism and Revolutionary Syndicalism)	Reading, explanation and discussion
12	Political Thought in Contemporary Age V (Fascism and National Socialism)	Reading, explanation and discussion
13	Social State	Reading, explanation and discussion
14	Liberalism Again: Rawls, Hayek and Nozick	Reading, explanation and discussion

Recommended or Required Reading

GÖZE, Ayferi (2000), Siyasal Düşünceler ve Yönetimler, Beta Yayınları, İstanbul. ARNHART, Larry (2004), Siyasi Düşünce Tarihi: Platon´dan Rawls´a, Adres Yayınları, Ankara. TANNENBAUM,Donald ve David Schultz (2005), Siyasi Düşünce Tarihi: Filozoflar ve Fikirleri, Adres Yayınları, Ankara.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Midterm Examination	1	100
SUM		100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Final Examination	1	100
SUM		100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities		40
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities		60
SUM		100

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination	1	1	1
Final Examination	1	2	2
Attending Lectures	13	2	26
Self Study	13	1	13
Individual Study for Mid term Examination	1	9	9
Individual Study for Final Examination	1	10	10
Reading	7	2	14
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			75

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