ISTINYE UNIVERSITY BİLGİ PAKETİ / DERS KATALOĞU
| International Relations (English) | |||||
| Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 | ||
Course Introduction and Application Information
| Course Code: | UNI322 | ||||
| Course Name: | Critical Reading In Philosophical Texts | ||||
| Semester: | Spring | ||||
| Course Credits: |
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| Language of instruction: | English | ||||
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| Does the Course Require Work Experience?: | No | ||||
| Type of course: | University Elective | ||||
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| Mode of Delivery: | E-Learning | ||||
| Course Coordinator: | Dr. Öğr. Üy. İBRAHİM EYLEM DOĞAN | ||||
| Course Lecturer(s): | İBRAHİM EYLEM DOĞAN | ||||
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Course Objective and Content
| Course Objectives: | This course aims to improve students’ abilities in philosophical reading, thinking, and writing. |
| Course Content: | This course aims to improve the skills of reading philosophical texts in a critical perspective, conducting philosophical research and writing argumentative philosophical texts. Seminal texts in philosophy will be selected and read along with the class. Emphasis will be given to the textual material and issues in reading and understanding. An overview of the following will be provided: The nature of the text, specificity of philosophical texts, text and context, issues in translation, interpretation and understanding. |
Learning Outcomes
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The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) Students will learn to read critically philosophical texts. 2) Students will learn to interpret a philosophical text by placing it in its relevant contexts. 3) Students will learn to reconstruct and critically examine the claims made by the text. 4) Students will learn to think critically about major philosophical problems. 5) Students will become familiar with the discussions about some of the major philosophical issues throughout the history of philosophy. |
Course Flow Plan
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| 1) | Introduction and Conceptual Framework | - |
| 2) | Spinoza 1 | Selections from Tractatus Theologico-Politicus |
| 3) | Spinoza 2 | Selections from Tractatus Theologico-Politicus |
| 4) | Spinoza 3 | Selections from Tractatus Theologico-Politicus |
| 5) | Spinoza 4 | Selections from Tractatus Theologico-Politicus |
| 6) | Nietzsche 1 | Selections from Beyond Good and Evil |
| 7) | Nietzsche 2 | Selections from Beyond Good and Evil |
| 8) | Midterm Exam | |
| 9) | Nietzsche 3 | Selections from Genealogy of Morals |
| 10) | Nietzsche 4 | Selections from Genealogy of Morals |
| 11) | Scheler 1 | Selections from Ressentiment |
| 12) | Scheler 2 | Selections from Ressentiment |
| 13) | Scheler 3 | Selections from Ressentiment |
| 14) | Scheler 4 | Selections from Ressentiment |
Sources
| Course Notes / Textbooks: | -Benedict de Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus -Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Genealogy of Morals -Friedrich Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals -Max Scheler, Ressentiment |
| References: | -Benedict de Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus -Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Genealogy of Morals -Friedrich Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals -Max Scheler, Ressentiment |
Course - Program Learning Outcome Relationship
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| 1) Has knowledge about basic theoretical debates in the field of International Relations. | |||||||||||
| 2) Defines contemporary developments, approaches and basic concepts in the field of International Relations at national and international level. | |||||||||||
| 3) Relates the interaction of the Department of International Relations with other social sciences (history, political science, law, economy). | |||||||||||
| 4) Gains knowledge and skills to evaluate and discuss the events in an interdisciplinary dimension, and analyze the political, social and economic problems encountered in national and international contexts within a certain conceptual framework. | |||||||||||
| 5) Using social sciences methods, can conduct research and follow the field. | |||||||||||
| 6) Uses leadership characteristics with awareness of teamwork. | |||||||||||
| 7) Can design and prepare scientific projects such as projects, reports, articles and theses with their own or others with uses qualitative and quantitative research techniques. | |||||||||||
| 8) Develops behavior according to ethics and social values and evaluates what they have learned by deciding what he/she needs and critically question the information has acquired. | |||||||||||
| 9) Transmits the opinions, thoughts and solutions in the field of International Relations to the related persons and institutions in written and orally. | |||||||||||
| 10) Follows the developments in the field and communicates with colleagues by using a foreign language at least at the level of European Language Portfolio B1. | |||||||||||
| 11) Uses information and communication technologies together with computer software at the advanced level of European Computer Driving License required by the field. | |||||||||||
Course - Learning Outcome Relationship
| No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Average | 3 Highest |
| Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
| 1) | Has knowledge about basic theoretical debates in the field of International Relations. | |
| 2) | Defines contemporary developments, approaches and basic concepts in the field of International Relations at national and international level. | |
| 3) | Relates the interaction of the Department of International Relations with other social sciences (history, political science, law, economy). | |
| 4) | Gains knowledge and skills to evaluate and discuss the events in an interdisciplinary dimension, and analyze the political, social and economic problems encountered in national and international contexts within a certain conceptual framework. | |
| 5) | Using social sciences methods, can conduct research and follow the field. | |
| 6) | Uses leadership characteristics with awareness of teamwork. | |
| 7) | Can design and prepare scientific projects such as projects, reports, articles and theses with their own or others with uses qualitative and quantitative research techniques. | |
| 8) | Develops behavior according to ethics and social values and evaluates what they have learned by deciding what he/she needs and critically question the information has acquired. | |
| 9) | Transmits the opinions, thoughts and solutions in the field of International Relations to the related persons and institutions in written and orally. | |
| 10) | Follows the developments in the field and communicates with colleagues by using a foreign language at least at the level of European Language Portfolio B1. | |
| 11) | Uses information and communication technologies together with computer software at the advanced level of European Computer Driving License required by the field. |
Assessment & Grading
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Midterms | 1 | % 40 |
| Final | 1 | % 60 |
| total | % 100 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 40 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 60 | |
| total | % 100 | |