Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Course Catalogue

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FACULTY OF LETTERS & SCIENCE / FLS 301 - PHILOSOPHY

Code: FLS 301 Course Title: ETHICS Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 4
Year/Semester of Study 3 / Fall Semester
Level of Course 1st Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Compulsory
Department PHILOSOPHY
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer ABDURRAHİM YALÇIN (a.yalcin@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
Teaching the basic problems and concepts about ethics

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 can define the basic concepts of moral philosophy PO-1 Developing skills of analytic and synthetic thinking, reading and writing.
PO-3 Conducting research on, and developing methods in solving, philosophical problems treated in philosophical texts.
PO-8 Understanding, resolving and – if need be – manipulating singular problems confronted in sub-disciplines of philosophy.
Examination
LO-2 can explain the theories of morality PO-1 Developing skills of analytic and synthetic thinking, reading and writing.
PO-3 Conducting research on, and developing methods in solving, philosophical problems treated in philosophical texts.
PO-9 Communicating, through writing and speech, knowledge obtained, and suggestions made as to how to resolve confronted problems in a systematic and coherent way.
 		Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Ethics as a concept, Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Bentham and Mill
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Introduction to ethics Instruction and discussion
2 Definition of the concept of moral Instruction and discussion
3 Problems of ethics and its basic concepts Instruction and discussion
4 Basic approaches on ethics Instruction and discussion
5 Basic questions of ethics Instruction and discussion
6 Value and fact, features of values Instruction and discussion
7 Eudaimonism and hedonism Instruction and discussion
8 mid-term exam
9 Socrates, Cynics, Plato, Aristotle Instruction and discussion
10 Kant and deontology Instruction and discussion
11 Kant and deontology Instruction and discussion
12 Mill and Bentham's utilitarism Instruction and discussion
13 Ethics of Nietsche and Sartre Instruction and discussion
14 Postmodern ethics Instruction and discussion
15 General assesment Instruction and discussion
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Cevizci, A. (2008). Etiğe Giriş,İstanbul: Paradigma.
2 • Kuçuradi, İ. (1999). Etik, Ankara: Türkiye Felsefe Kurumu Yayınları.
3 • MacIntyre, A. (2001). Ethik’in Kısa Tarihi, çev. Hünler, H. ve Hünler, S. Z., İstanbul: Paradigma.
Required Course instruments and materials

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 2 14 28
       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 2 2 4
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 2 2 4
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 108