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11111

COURSE INTRODUCTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

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Course Name
Code
Semester
Theory
(hour/week)
Application/Lab
(hour/week)
Local Credits
ECTS
Fall/Spring
Prerequisites
None
Course Language
Course Type
Elective
Course Level
-
Mode of Delivery -
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course
Course Coordinator -
Course Lecturer(s)
Assistant(s) -
Course Objectives
Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • will be able to think critically and creatively about key ethical and political concepts and questions.
  • be able to assess the promises, possibilities and malaises of modernity.
  • be able to discuss central classical and contemporary issues in political theory and practice from a variety of angles.
  • be able to evaluate critically the political and philosophical foundations of Europe and modernity.
  • be able to participate in group work in a dialogical way through presentations and class discussion
  • have kKnowledge of key ethical and political concepts and questions
Course Description

 



Course Category

 Core Courses
Major Area Courses
X
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

 

WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

Week Subjects Required Materials
1 Modernity: Limits, Possibilities, Tensions Marshall Bermann, “Introduction: Modernity—Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”, All That is Solid Melts into Air: Experience of Modernity, (Penguin Books, 1988), p. 15-36.
2 Modernity: Limits, Possibilities, Tensions Charles Taylor, “Three Malaises” The Malaise of Modernity, (House of Anansi Press, 1991), p. 1-12. Jane Bennett, “Modernity and Its Critics”, Anne Phillips, Bonnie Honig and John Dryzek (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory (Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 211-224.
3 Immanuel Kant: Critical Philosophy, Enlightenment and Politics Immanuel Kant, “Introduction”, Paul Carus (ed.), Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, (The Open Court Publishing Company, 1912), p. 1-12. Immanuel Kant, “An answer to the question: What is enlightenment? (1784)”, Mary J. Gregor (ed.), Immanuel Kant Practical Philosophy, (Cambridge University Press, 1999), p. 11-22.
4 Karl Marx: “Is Anti-Capitalist Modernity Possible?” Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, Robert Tucker (ed.), The Marx-Engels Reader (W. W. Norton and Company, 1978), p. 70-101. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology, (Prometheus Books, 1998), p. 29-62.
5 Friedrich Nizetzsche: Breaking the Idols with the Hammer Friedrich Nietzsche, “Twilight of the Idols”, Aaron Ridley & Judith Norman (ed.), The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols and Other Writings, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), p. 162- 176. Friedrich Nietzsche, “On the Genealogy of Morals”, Walter Kaufmann (ed.), On the Genealogy of Morals, Ecce Homo, (Vintage Books, 1989), p. 24-56.
6 TAKE-HOME EXAM I
7 Martin Heidegger: Critique of Traditional Metaphysics and Questioning Technology Martin Heidegger, “Introduction to ‘What is Metaphysics?’”, William McNeill (ed.), Pathmarks, trans. by. Walter Kaufmann, (Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 277-290.
8 Martin Heidegger: Critique of Traditional Metaphysics and Questioning Technology Martin Heidegger, “The Question Concerning Technology”, David Farrell Krell (ed.), Basic Writings from Being and Time (1927) to The Task of Thinking (1964), (HarperCollins Publishers, 1993), p. 307-341.
9 Max Horkheimer: Critical Theory and End of Reason Max Horkheimer, “Critical Theory and Traditional Theory”, Critical Theory: Selected Essays, trans. by Matthew J. O’Connell, (Continuum, 2002), p. 188-252.
10 Max Horkheimer: Critical Theory and End of Reason Max Horkheimer, “Means and Ends”, Eclipse of Reason, (Oxford University Press, 1947), p. 3-57. Max Horkheimer & Theodor W. Adorno, “The Concept of Enlightenment”, Gunzelin. S. Noerr (ed.), Dialectic of Enlightenment, (Stanford University Press, 2002), p. 1-34.
11 TAKE-HOME EXAM II
12 Herbert Marcuse: One Dimensional Society and the New Forms of Control Herbert Marcuse, “The New Forms of Control”, One Dimensional Man, (Routledge, 2007), p. 3-20. Herbert Marcuse, “Some Social Implications of Modern Technology”, Andrew Arato & Eike Gebhardt (ed.), Essential Frankfurt School Reader, (The Continuum Publishing, 1998), p. 138-162. Claus Offe, “Technology and One-Dimensionality: A Version of the Technocracy Thesis?”, Robert Pippin, Andrew Feenberg, Charles P. Webel (ed.), Marcuse: Critical Theory and The Promise of Utopia, trans. by Anne-Marie Feenberg, (Bergin & Garvey Publishers, 1988), p. 215-224.
13 Andrew Feenberg: Rethinking Modernism, Technology and Democracy Andrew Feenberg, Alternative Modernity: The Technical Turn in Philosophy and Social Theory, (University of California Press, 1995), p. 1-15. Andrew Feenberg, Questioning Technology, (Routledge, 1999), p. 1-17.
14 A Debate on Enlightenment between Jürgen Habermas and Michel Foucault Michel Foucault, “What is Enlightenment?”, Paul Rabinow (ed.), Foucault Reader, (Pantheon Books, 1984), p. 32-50. Jürgen Habermas, “”Modernity: An Unfinished Project”, Maurizio Passerin d'Entreves & Seyla Benhabib (ed.), Habermas and The Unfinished Project of Modernity: Critical Essays on The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, (MIT Press, 1997), p. 38-55.
15 Review of the Semester  
16 Review of the Semester  
Course Notes/Textbooks Works written below.
Suggested Readings/Materials

 

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities Number Weigthing
Participation
1
20
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
Presentation / Jury
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterm
2
40
Final Exam
1
40
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade
60
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade
40
Total

ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

Semester Activities Number Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours
(Including exam week: 16 x total hours)
16
3
48
Laboratory / Application Hours
(Including exam week: 16 x total hours)
16
Study Hours Out of Class
12
3
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
Presentation / Jury
1
25
Project
28
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterms
2
25
Final Exams
1
    Total
159

 

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP

#
 Program Competencies/Outcomes
* Contribution Level
1
2
3
4
5
1 To be able to use the advanced theoretical and practical knowledge that the graduates have acquired in the areas of international relations X
2 To be able to examine, interpret data and assess concepts and ideas with the scientific methods in the area of international relations/political science X
3 To take the responsibility as a group team member and as an individual to solve unforeseen and multidimensional problems that are unforeseen in practice X
4 To be able to recognize regional and global issues/problems, and to be able to develop solutions based on research and scientific evidence X
5 To be able to assess the acquired knowledge and skills in the area of international relations/political science critically and to detect learning requirements and to guide learning. X
6 To be able to inform authorities and institutions in the area of international relations; to be able to transfer ideas and proposals supported by quantitative and qualitative data about the problems verbally and in writing to experts and nonexperts. X
7 To be able to interpret theoretical debates regarding relations among factors in global politics such as structures, institutions and culture, to be able to pinpoint the continuities and changes of main dynamics of international relations, X
8 To be able to distinguish the differences between the classical and contemporary theories and to assess their relationship, X
9 To be able to make use of other disciplines that international relations are based upon (political science, law, economics, sociology, psychology, etc.) and to have the basic knowledge of these disciplines. X
10 To be able to keep abreast of current news on international relations, learn a foreign language and to communicate with one’s peers (European language portfolio global scale, level B1) X
11 To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently
12 To have ethical, social and scientific values in the stages throughout the processes of collecting, interpreting, disseminating and implementing data related to international relations. X
13 To be able to improve the acquired knowledge, skills and qualifications for personal and social reasons X

*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest

 

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