Course Information


Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
CONTEMPORARY KALAM PROBLEMS (ARABIC) İLH426 2 + 0 2.0 4.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Graduate Degree
Course Type Compulsory
Mode of delivery
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Goals To give general information about the subjects that have made a mark on the age we live. To enable the student to enlighten his / her mind about these issues. To give students the ability to answer questions that are likely to be directed
Course Content This course aims to evaluate the problems of kalam discipline like belief, environment, social life, politics and so on.
Learning Outcomes 1) The student recognizes the ways to solve the problems of contemporary kalam.
2) Student can establish cause and effect relationship between historical problems and current problems.
3) The student can comment on the solution of contemporary kalam problems.

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
1. Week Relationship between Religion and Sharia Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
2. Week Problematic Dimension of Qur'anic Conceptions Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
3. Week The Problem of Atheism Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
4. Week The Problem of Deism Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
5. Week The Problem of Agnosticism Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Colloquium
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
6. Week The Problem of Nihilism Lecture; Question Answer
Brainstorming
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
7. Week Intervention in Creation: Transhumanism - Artificial Intelligence Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
8. Week LGBTI+ in the Dilemma of Freedom - Morality Lecture; Question Answer
Brainstorming
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
9. Week Perceptions of Women and Feminism in Islam Lecture; Question Answer
Brainstorming
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
10. Week Conservatism - Islamism - Fundamentalism as the Ideologisation of Religion Lecture; Question Answer
Brainstorming
Problem Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
11. Week Relationship between Religion - Culture (Turkish Islam, Arab Islam, Iranian Islam) Lecture; Question Answer
Brainstorming
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
12. Week Islamophobia Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
13. Week Disaster - Catastrophe and Destiny Relationship Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
14. Week Violence - Terror and the Basic Doctrine of Religion Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)

Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
Ali Fuat Başgil, Din ve Laiklik
Şerif Mardin, Din ve İdeoloji;
W.M. Watt, Günümüzde İslam ve Hıristiyanlık; H. Arslan, İnsan Bilimlerine Prolegomena/Dil Gelenek ve Yorum;

ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week) 14 5
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening) 8 2
Homework 2 2
Presentation (Including Preparation Time) 2 2
Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.) 2 2
Midterm Exam 1 2
Final Exam 1 3
Time to prepare for Final Exam 2 2
Dönem Sonu Sınavı (DSS) 1 3
Total Workload
Total Workload / 30 (s)
ECTS Credit of the Course
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