Course Information

Course Title	Code	Semester	L+U Hour	Credits	ECTS
POLITICS	ZAUL1104	2. Semester	2 + 0	2.0	5.0

Prerequisites

None

Language of Instruction
Course Level	Bachelor's Degree
Course Type	Compulsory
Mode of delivery
Course Coordinator
Instructors
Assistants
Goals	This course will introduce the limits of Political Science as a discipline and aims to explain the relationship with other social science disciplines . This course aims to introduce the concepts of politics, power and authority and disclosure of the relationship with the concept of communication disciplines. This course is designed to equip students in communication sciences in political science formation. By interpreting the course will analyze society and politics aims to provide basic conceptual background. Students can evaluate the historical and the modern state with a sociological perspective .
Course Content	Different meanings and elements of politics , the place of academic organization , feudalism, absolute regimes , the characteristics of the modern state , the nation-state and nationalism understanding .
Learning Outcomes	1) Distinguishes different meanings of Politics 2) Recognize the basic concepts of political science. 3) Defines the concept of the state in terms of different approaches. 4) Defines the difference between absolute, feudal and constitutional government management .

Week	Topics	Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques	Study Materials
1. Week	Different meanings and elements of politics
2. Week	Place of Political Science in the academic organization
3. Week	Approaches commonly employed in Political Science
4. Week	Social and political developments that allow the formation of the modern state: Feudalism
5. Week	Social and political developments that allow the formation of the modern state: Dirigisme
6. Week	Modern state properties which wrought in the social relations of capitalist.
7. Week	Modern state properties which wrought in the social relations of capitalist.
8. Week	Sovereignty and constitutional form of the liberal state
9. Week	Sovereignty and constitutional form of the liberal state
10. Week	Understanding of the nation-state and nationalism
11. Week	Understanding of the nation-state and nationalism
12. Week	The foundations of the modern state and the welfare states legitimacy.
13. Week	The foundations of the modern state and the welfare states legitimacy.
14. Week	Evaluation

Recommended Sources

Beck, Ulrich, Siyasallığın İcadı, İletişim, İstanbul, 1999

Kapani, Münci, Politika Bilimine Giriş, Bilgi Yay., Ankara.

Kışlalı, Ahmet Taner, Siyaset Bilimi, İmge, Ankara.

Poggi, Gianfranco, Modern Devletin Gelişimi: Sosyolojik Bir Yaklaşım, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, İstanbul.

Event	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week)	14	3	42
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening)	14	3	42
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)	1	10	10
Midterm Exam	1	1	1
Time to prepare for Midterm Exam	1	10	10
Final Exam	1	1	1
Time to prepare for Final Exam	1	20	20
Total Workload
Total Workload / 30 (s)
ECTS Credit of the Course			30