| Course Name |
Contemporary Debates in Global Politics
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Code
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Semester
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Theory
(hour/week) |
Application/Lab
(hour/week) |
Local Credits
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ECTS
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PSIR 504
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Fall/Spring
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3
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0
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3
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7.5
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| Prerequisites |
None
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| Course Language |
English
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| Course Type |
Elective
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| Course Level |
-
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| Course Objectives | |
| Course Description |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Content |
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Core Courses | |
| Major Area Courses | ||
| Supportive Courses | ||
| Media and Management Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Related Preparation |
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Tocqueville on the theory and practice of French Revolution | Tocqueville, The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2011), 1-27; 76-124. |
| 3 | Tocqueville on the theory and practice of French Revolution | Tocqueville, The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2011), 127-185. |
| 4 | Arendt on Revolution I: Constitutio Libertatis | Arendt, On Revolution, (Penguin Books, 1963), 141-178, 179-214. |
| 5 | Arendt on Revolution II: The Revolutionary Tradition and Its Lost Treasure | Arendt, On Revolution, (Penguin Books, 1963), 215-281. |
| 6 | Paper Submission I | TAKE-HOME |
| 7 | The Meaning and Justification of Civil Disobedience: Thoreau and Rawls | 1. Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience”, in Hugo Adam Bodau, Civil Disobedience in Focus (Routledge, 1991), 28-48. 2. John Rawls, “Definiton and Justification of Civil Disobedience”, in Hugo Adam Bodau, Civil Disobedience in Focus (Routledge, 1991), 103-121. |
| 8 | Civil Disobedience as Public Freedom: Hannah Arendt | “Civil Disobedience” Crises of the Republic (Harcourt & Brace, 1969), 49-102. |
| 9 | State Sovereignty: Carl Schmitt | Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political (The University of Chicago Press, 1996), 19-79. |
| 10 | Genocide as a Crime Against Humanity: Raphael Lemkin | 1. Raphael Lemkin, “Genocide” Axis Rule in Occupied Europe (The Lawbook Exchange, 2008), 79-95. 2. William Schabas and Samantha Power, “Introduction to the First and Second Editions” Axis Rule in Occupied Europe (The Lawbook Exchange, 2008), vii-xxiii. 3. Seyla Benhabib, “International Law and Human Plurality in the Shadow of Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt and Raphael Lemkin” Seyla Benhabib (ed), Politics in Dark Times (Cambridge University Press, 2010), 219-246. 4. The United Nation’s Genocide Convention, 1948. |
| 11 | Cosmopolitanism | Seyla Benhabib, Another Cosmopolitanism (Oxford University Press, 2006), 13-80. |
| 12 | Secularism and Constitutional Democracy | 1. Jürgen Habermas, “Pre-political Foundations of the Democratic Constitutional State” The Dialectics of Secularization: On Reason and Religion (Ignatius Press, 2006), 19-52. 2. Jürgen Habermas, “What is meant by a ‘Post-Secular Society’?: A Discussion on Islam in Europe” Europe: The Faltering Project (Polity, 2009), 59-77. |
| 13 | Political Ecology | 1) Jane Bennett “Political Ecologies”, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Duke University Press, 2010), 94-109. 2) Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, The Shock of the Anthroposcene (Verso, 2016), 1-30. |
| 14 | Documentary Film & Discussion | Documentary: The Watchers of the Sky |
| 15 | Paper Submission II and Review of the Semester | |
| 16 | Final Exam |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | |
| Suggested Readings/Materials |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation |
1
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20
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| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Homework / Assignments |
2
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30
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| Presentation / Jury |
2
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30
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| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exams | ||
| Midterm | ||
| Final Exam |
1
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20
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| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 4 |
70 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 |
30 |
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Theoretical Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) |
16
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3
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48
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| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) |
16
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| Study Hours Out of Class |
12
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8
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| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Homework / Assignments |
2
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15
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| Presentation / Jury |
2
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15
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| Project | |||
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | |||
| Final Exam |
1
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21
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| Total |
225
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Program Competencies/Outcomes |
* Contribution Level
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5 |
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| 1 | To improve theoretical and conceptual proficiencies on Political Science and International Relations and to ultimately deepen and develop intellectual interest | |||||
| 2 | To evaluate the relationships between factors in the field of Political Science and International Relations such as structures, actors, institutions and culture in a critical perspective | |||||
| 3 | To provide advanced competences to determine and question the theoretical and emprical gaps in Political Science and International Relations literature | |||||
| 4 | To identify the political and cultual conditions that generate discrimination mechanisms based on race, ethnic groups, gender and religion at national and international levels | |||||
| 5 | To provide competences to develop original arguments in order to fill the gaps in Political Science and International Relations literature | |||||
| 6 | To determine, collect, resolve, and interpret the data that would measure the theories and concepts as variables by using scientific research methods in Political Science and International Relations field | |||||
| 7 | To use confidently the terms and concepts of Political Science and International Relations | |||||
| 8 | To communicate systematically, in written, oral, and visual forms, contemporary developments in Political Science and International Relations to groups inside and outside the said discipline | |||||
| 9 | To take responsibility in an individual capacity and as part of a team in generating solutions to unexpected problems that arise in relation to politics in daily life | |||||
| 10 | To develop projects determining the institutional and political instruments for management of domestic and international conflicts | |||||
| 11 | To prepare an orginal thesis/term project about Political Science and International Relations in accordance with scentific criteria | |||||
| 12 | To design and carry out a scientific research project in the field of Political Science and International Relations | |||||
| 13 | To have ethical, social and scientific values in the stages throughout the processes of collecting, interpreting, disseminating and implementing data relevant to Political Science and International Relations | |||||
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