Course Descriptions

Bu dersin amacı: Ahlaklı bir hayat nasıl tanımlanır? İyi ve erdemli birey kimdir? “İyi” ve “kötü”, “doğru” ve “yanlış” arasındaki çizgiyi kim belirler? İyi yurttaş kimdir? Bir yurttaş olarak, kadın/erkek olarak, toplum üyesi olarak hayatlarımızı nasıl yaşamamız gerekir? Modern birey kimdir? Teknoloji, ahlaki yargılarımızı nasıl etkiler? Etik, hukuk, ahlak ve kültürel alanları ilgilendiren bu tarz sorgulamaları günlük hayatımızda sıklıkla yapmaktayız. Bu ders, bu tür soruları tartışmak amacıyla birey ve yurttaş olmanın anlamlarına değinmekte; toplumsal hayatın düzenleyici bileşenlerini ahlak, hukuk, etik ve normlar ile ilişkilendirerek tartışmakta; birey ve iktidar arasındaki ilişkiyi devlet, toplumsal cinsiyet, aile, din ve gözetim gibi konular üzerinden ele almaktadır. Ayrıca, modernleşme kavramını merkeze alarak, değer yargılarının “evrensel” boyuttaki inşasını Doğu ve Batı kültürleri arasındaki iktidar ilişkileri bağlamında sorgulamaktadır.

The rise and evolution of the nation-state system, the operation of balance of power, deterrence, coercion, conflict, diplomacy, crisis management, and the role of international law and institutions in inter-state relations.

The dynamics that have evolved from the French Revolution through the collapse of the empires and the establishment of nation-states. The history of the 19th Century balance of power and the rise and course of conflicts leading to World War I.

Introduction to the use of statistics in economics and administrative science analysis. Basic statistical concepts used by social scientists. Displaying data. Measures of central tendency and variability. Frequency distributions. Normal distribution. Basic concepts of probability. Sampling distribution and hypothesis testing. One-sample hypothesis testing in social research.

Introduction to academic genres. Key figures in particular areas of academic life. Synthesizing different sources. Key scientific figure. Reading about and listening to a scientific process. Choosing and describing a scientific process in speech and writing. Reports of different research methods. Lab report or literature search. Passive voice, adverbial clauses and adjective clauses. Understanding and using key vocabulary from a particular domain.

The consequences of World War I and the international system between the two World Wars. The failure of the attempts to build a global security by the League of Nations; the "Great Depression" and the rise of fascism; developments leading to the disastrous World War II.

Fundamentals of law pertaining to its meaning, resources, norms and its raison d'etre. The rules of law, law-justice relations, resources of law, hierarchy of law norms, human rights, the rule of law, and comparison of different law systems. Differences between private law and public law.

Similarities and differences between various political systems. State-society relations, parliaments and governments, democratic institutions, policy making processes, political parties and party systems, electoral systems, central-local relations and political culture. A comparative survey of various Western, non-Western, democratic and authoritarian systems.

Introduction to theory-oriented research in political science. Research problems, research designs, qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques, data processing, data analysis. Interpretation of social science data with special emphasis on quantitative methods, and report writing on the basis of data analysis and findings.

Meaning and historical development of theory of international relations. Classification of main theories; emphasis on theories related to the changing structure of the world order and globalization.