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FACULTY OF ECONOMICS & ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES / KMY 451 - PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Code: KMY 451 Course Title: CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THOUGHT Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 4
Year/Semester of Study 4 / Fall Semester
Level of Course 1st Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer GÖRKEM BİRİNCİ (gorkem@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
To orientate participants establishing critical ties with universal political debates since after French Revolution.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Will be able to identify different aspects of political facts and issues. PO-1 Upon successful completion of the program students: Learn essential theoretical and empirical concepts of the discipline’s main branches, Political Science, Administration Science, Urbanization and Environmental Problems and Legal Sciences and gain a perspective which is appropriate for creating solutions in this scope;
PO-2 Identify and compare concrete models of international and national public administration, determine problems and develop solution-oriented models;
PO-3 Analyze compenents of political, administrative and institutional systems, design institutional systems, and make operational the process of decision-making and coordination mechanisms which are effective for institutionalization;
PO-4 Gain ability to adaptate oneself to technologic innovations and use the maximum level of information technologies in order to make managerial decision-making and implementation process more efficient in terms of time and resources;
PO-7 Have a social behavior manner which consists of project preparation skill by taking active responsibility in individual and team work, self-confidence to express oneself easily in the face of community, motivation at high level;
Examination
LO-2 Will be able to interpret the contemporary world with the political ideologies. PO-1 Upon successful completion of the program students: Learn essential theoretical and empirical concepts of the discipline’s main branches, Political Science, Administration Science, Urbanization and Environmental Problems and Legal Sciences and gain a perspective which is appropriate for creating solutions in this scope;
PO-2 Identify and compare concrete models of international and national public administration, determine problems and develop solution-oriented models;
PO-3 Analyze compenents of political, administrative and institutional systems, design institutional systems, and make operational the process of decision-making and coordination mechanisms which are effective for institutionalization;
PO-5 Have ability to collect data, analyze and interpret the results via utilizing accumulation of information and interdisciplinary point of view while identifying and solving existing public administration problems;
PO-7 Have a social behavior manner which consists of project preparation skill by taking active responsibility in individual and team work, self-confidence to express oneself easily in the face of community, motivation at high level;
Examination
LO-3 Will be able to analyze the effects of political ideologies in the human life. PO-1 Upon successful completion of the program students: Learn essential theoretical and empirical concepts of the discipline’s main branches, Political Science, Administration Science, Urbanization and Environmental Problems and Legal Sciences and gain a perspective which is appropriate for creating solutions in this scope;
PO-3 Analyze compenents of political, administrative and institutional systems, design institutional systems, and make operational the process of decision-making and coordination mechanisms which are effective for institutionalization;
PO-5 Have ability to collect data, analyze and interpret the results via utilizing accumulation of information and interdisciplinary point of view while identifying and solving existing public administration problems;
PO-7 Have a social behavior manner which consists of project preparation skill by taking active responsibility in individual and team work, self-confidence to express oneself easily in the face of community, motivation at high level;
Examination
LO-4 Will be able to use abstract concepts with their concrete contents. PO-1 Upon successful completion of the program students: Learn essential theoretical and empirical concepts of the discipline’s main branches, Political Science, Administration Science, Urbanization and Environmental Problems and Legal Sciences and gain a perspective which is appropriate for creating solutions in this scope;
PO-2 Identify and compare concrete models of international and national public administration, determine problems and develop solution-oriented models;
PO-3 Analyze compenents of political, administrative and institutional systems, design institutional systems, and make operational the process of decision-making and coordination mechanisms which are effective for institutionalization;
PO-7 Have a social behavior manner which consists of project preparation skill by taking active responsibility in individual and team work, self-confidence to express oneself easily in the face of community, motivation at high level;
Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Modern political ideologies from 19th century till today and spesific thought schools which was founded in 20th century.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Scope, subjects, sources, method and requirements of the course. Lecture.
2 Debate on following questions: What is ideology? What is modernity? What is an ideology in modern sense; what are its characteristic? Lecture.
3 Vanguard of modern ideologies: Liberalism Lecture.
4 Nationalism as artefact and experience. Lecture.
5 Traditionalist reaction to modernity: Conservatism. Lecture.
6 Anti-authoritarian reaction to modernity: Anarchism. Lecture.
7 Anti-capitalist reaction to modernity: Marxism and socialism. Lecture.
8 mid-term exam
9 Revolution and Marxism in the 20th century. Lecture.
10 Feminism in the search of lost subject of revolutions. Lecture.
11 Fascist experiences in Europe. Lecture.
12 From fascism as a movement to fascism as an ideology. Lecture.
13 Frankfurt School: Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse. Lecture.
14 Poststructuralist thought and Michel Foucault. Lecture.
15 Postmodernism and politics in postmodern times. Lecture.
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Örs, H. Birsen (der.) (2010), 19. Yüzyıldan 20. Yüzyıla Modern Siyasal İdeolojiler, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, İstanbul
2 Vergin, Nur (2008), Siyasetin Sosyolojisi, Doğan Kitapçılık, İstanbul
Required Course instruments and materials
Specified books and articles.

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 1 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 1 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 14 42
Outside Class
       a) Reading 1 14 14
       b) Search in internet/Library 1 14 14
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 0
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 1 14 14
mid-term exam 1 14 14
Own study for final exam 1 14 14
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 113