Lesson plan / INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL SCIENCES

Lesson Information

Course Credit 3.0
Course ECTS Credit 4.0
Teaching Language of Instruction Türkçe
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course Compulsory
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience? Z
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Purpose and Content

The aim of the course The objective of this course is to explain the above-mentioned issues that political science deals with. It therefore aims to provide the students with the necessary knowledge to understand and evaluate political phenomena.
Course Content Scientific approach, methodology and basic concepts of the course, historical stages that political science has gone through, the materialisation of the politics in the society through the institutions. Democracy as a governance model, actors that allow policy-making will be evaluated.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Political Science basic concepts and methods
2Stages of Turkish Political Thought
3Stages of World Political Thought
4Society and politics
5Political Institutions
6Democracy
7Political Actors
8Ideology and Politics
9MIDTERM
10Political Systems
11Political Culture
12Election Systems
13Political Economy
14International Relations and Foreign Policy

Resources

Davut DURSUN, Siyaset Bilimi, Beta, Istanbul, 2010.
Ali Öztekin, Siyaset Bilimine Giriş, Siyasal Yayınevi, Ankara, 2010.
Münci Kapani, Politika Bilimine Giriş , Bilgi, 2012, Ankara.