Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences · Political Science and International Relations (English) · Undergraduate
ECTS: 5 T+P+L: 3+0+0 Compulsory
Coordinator: Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Ömer TAŞGETİREN
Course Objective
This course aims at analyzing the political philosophers who have contributed to certain political paradigm
Course Content
This course will start from Machiavelli who is generally accepted to be the beginner of modern political thought and then it will follow authoritarian, democratic, socialist, liberal and conservative philosophers
Required Resources
Donald Tannenbaum, Inventors of ideas: introduction to western political philosophy. Cengage Learning, 2012.
Cohen M. eds. 2018. Princeton Readings in Political Thought: Essential Texts from Plato to Populism. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Getting information about the main paradigm of the modern political thought
- Learning about the basic ideas of the philosophers who have contributed to the modern political thought
- Learning diverse perspectives developed in modern political theory
- Analyzing the agenda under the framework of diverse political thinking
Core Area Distribution
(22) Humanities%100
Teaching Methods
ExpressionQuestion-AnswerDiscussionExercise and PracticeSelf study
Assessment & Evaluation
HomeworkProject / DesignTesting (Essay / Tests: True-Falls, multiple-choice, short answer, matching)
ECTS / Workload
| Activity | Quantity | Duration (h) | Total Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (Including Exam Week) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Out of Class Study Period | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Midterm | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Quiz | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| Assignment | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Practice | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Final | 1 | 25 | 25 |
Course Schedule
| Week | Subject | Preparation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Course introduction | Sylabus |
| 2 | Niccolo Machiavelli | Related readings from teh textbook |
| 3 | Theory of the Social Contract I: Thomas Hobbes | Related readings from the textbooks |
| 4 | Theory of the Social Contract II: John Locke | Related readings from the textbooks |
| 5 | Theory of the Social Contract III: Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Related readings from the textbooks |
| 6 | Feminist Political Thought: Mary Wollstonecraft | Related readings from the textbooks |
| 7 | Midterm Revision Lecture | Related readings from the textbooks |
| 8 | Midterm Examination | Midterm Examination |
| 9 | The Rise of Liberalism: John Stuart Mill | Related readings from the textbooks |
| 10 | Reactions to Liberalism I: Edmund Burke | Related readings from the textbooks |
| 11 | Reactions to Liberalism II: Georg W. F. Hegel | Related readings from the textbooks |
| 12 | Reactions to Liberalism III: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels | Related readings from the textbooks |
| 13 | Reactions to Liberalism IV: Friedrich Nietzsche | Related readings from the textbooks |
| 14 | Course Overview and Final Revision Lecture | Related readings from the textbooks |
| 15 | Final Exams | Final Exams |
| 16 | Resit Exams | Resit Exams |