Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Course Catalogue

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FACULTY OF ECONOMICS & ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES / KMY 427 - PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Code: KMY 427 Course Title: WOMAN AND POLITICS 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 LEYLA KAHRAMAN (lkahraman@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
The aim of this course is to develop an understanding towards the subject.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Can suggest various solutions for the equal representation of woman in the political life analyzing gender dimension of the political representation. 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;
Examination
LO-2 Will be able to describe the multiplicity of feminism as a theoretical and practical activitiy and to proceed towards a clear and distinc conception through a critical view within that multiplicity. 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-3 Will be able to recognize the philosophical background of the social, historical and political manifestations of gender. 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-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 Can 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-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
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
This course is designed to provide the students with an alternative reading of Turkish political thought structured on the category of woman. The conceptual boundaries of the course is drawn mainly with reference to debates related to citizenship, equality, liberty, justice, labor and democracy. The course will cover an analysis of the woman image constructed by different currents of thought and thinkers from a comparative perspective. The major topics of the course can be summarized as follows: Political thought and woman: methodological debates; gender policies during the early Republican era; The theme of woman in leftists/socialist and liberal currents of thought; Islam and woman; woman from a nationalistic perspective.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Scope, subjects, sources, method and requirements of the course. Lecture.
2 Look at the political field in terms of gender Lecture.
3 Politics and Women: Theoretical Introduction Lecture.
4 Requests for Political Participation of Women and the Feminist Movements Lecture.
5 Political Participation of Women in Decision Making Processes Lecture.
6 Religion, Women and Politics in Public Spaces Lecture.
7 Level of Women's Political Representation Lecture.
8 mid-term exam
9 Parliamentary Representation and Patronage Lecture.
10 Women's Labor and Economic Policies Lecture.
11 Participation of Women in Politics: Case of Latin America Lecture.
12 Political Reasons for the under-representation of women Lecture.Lecture.
13 Qualitative Dimensions of Women's Representation in Politics
14 Women's Political Representation: The Case of Turkey Lecture.
15 What Happens Women's Political Subject? Solutions Lecture.
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Mary Lyndon Shaley & Carole Pateman (ed.). (1991) Feminist Interpretation of Political Theory. The Pennsylvania University Press, University Park, Pennsylvania.
2 Durakbaşa, Ayşe.(2000) Halide Edip: Türk Modernleşmesi ve Feminism. İstanbul: İletişim
3 Elshtain, Jean Bethke. (1986) Meditations on Modern Political Thought. University park: The Pennsylvania State University Press
4 Georgina Waylen and others (2013), The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics,Oxford Publications.
5 BERKTAY, Fatmagül (2003),Tarihin Cinsiyeti, İstanbul: Metis Yayınevi.
6 Berktay, Fatmagül (1998), Cumhuriyet'in 75 yıllık Serüvenine Kadınlar Açısından Bakmak," 75 Yılda Kadınlar ve Erkekler, Ayşe Berktay Hacımirzaoğlu (der.), İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yayınları.
7 ÇAKIR, Serpil (2014), Erkek Kulübünde Siyaset, İstanbul: Versus Yayınları.
Required Course instruments and materials
Books, articles, films and documentaries.

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 2 14 28
       b) Search in internet/Library 0
       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 0
mid-term exam 2 7 14
Own study for final exam 1 1 1
final exam 2 14 28
1 1 1
0
Total work load; 114