ANTALYA BİLİM
UNIVERSITY
Course Information Package
| Code | Description |
|---|---|
| LO1 | Familiarize with the political ideas, and the intellectual contributions to our understanding of social and political life of some of the key thinkers from the antiquity to the modern age |
| LO2 | Take a historically grounded approach by considering how key political thinkers in history intellectually engaged with the particular social and political problems of their day |
| LO3 | Develop basic skills to understand the relevance of key political thinkers in history today |
| LO4 | Investigate how to situate key political ideas in history with regards to the proper relation of the individual to society and the state. |
| LO5 | Know how to situate key political ideas in history within a broader conversation about human condition, justice, liberty. |
| Week | Content |
|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction |
| 2 | The Greeks, or the Birth of Political Philosophy (I): Plato |
| 3 | The Greeks, or the Birth of Political Philosophy (II): Aristotle |
| 4 | From Polis to Cosmopolis: The Stoics & St. Augustine |
| 5 | From the Medieval Age to the Renaissance: St. Thomas & Niccolò Machiavelli |
| 6 | Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes |
| 7 | Civil Society: John Locke |
| 8 | Midterm Examination |
| 9 | The Social Contract: Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| 10 | The French Revolution and Its Critics: Edmund Burke & Alexis de Tocqueville |
| 11 | On Liberty and Liberalism: John Stuart Mill & Adam Smith |
| 12 | The Critical Thinker: Karl Marx and the Utopists |
| 13 | Crisis of Modernity and Existential Values: Friedrich Nietzsche & Søren Kierkegaard |
| 14 | The Disenchantment of the World and the Individual: Max Weber & Georg Simmel |
| 15 | Wrap-up Discussions |
| Activity | Count | Duration (Hours) | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 1 | 45.00 | 45.00 |
| Pre-Class Individual Study | 1 | 45.00 | 45.00 |
| Midterm Exam/Preparation | 1 | 40.00 | 40.00 |
| Final Exam/Preparation | 1 | 50.00 | 50.00 |
| Total Workload (Hours) | 180 | ||
| ECTS Credit (Workload / 25) | 6 | ||
| # | Assessment Type | Contribution (%) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Midterm Exam | %40 |
| 2 | Final Exam | %60 |
| TOTAL | %100 | |
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LO4
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LO5
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| # | Method Name | Description | Tools |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lecture (expository teaching), interactive discussion | Listening and taking notes. | Standard classroom technologies, multimedia tools (projector, computer, digital presentations) |
| 2 | Controversial Course | Listening and comprehension, critical thinking | Standard classroom technologies, multimedia tools, projector, computer, overhead projector |
| 3 | Problem Solving | * Analyzing physical and physiological problems using problem-solving techniques and developing appropriate solutions. |
