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INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES / UGT-531 - ULUSLARARASI GÜVENLİK VE TERÖRİZM ANABİLİM DALI

Code: UGT-531 Course Title: TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME AND TERRORISM Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 6
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Fall Semester
Level of Course 2nd Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department ULUSLARARASI GÜVENLİK VE TERÖRİZM ANABİLİM DALI
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer MUSTAFA ARSLAN (m.arslan@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
To examine the phenomenon of Transnational Organized Crime and Terrorism and the similarities, differences, convergences and cooperations between these phenomena.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 can distinguish the cases of organized crime and terrorism. PO-1 Can interpret international security and terrorism issues from theoretical and conceptual perspectives.
 		Examination
LO-2 can explain the threat posed by organized crime to financial resources for terrorism PO-3 reanalyzes all time the concept of security, which can gain new meanings within the changing international system, in the spheres of global power struggles.
 		Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Organized crime, terrorism, the factors that provide cross-border qualifications for these phenomena, the characteristics of these crime types, their aims, the forms of rapprochement, the theories to explain this rapprochement are examined.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Differences between organized crime and mafia concepts Discussion Method Narration Method
2 Efforts to define organized crime Discussion Method Narration Method
3 Factors that create and expand organized crime Discussion Method Narration Method
4 Characteristic features of organized crime Discussion Method Narration Method
5 Crime types of organized crime organizations Discussion Method Narration Method
6 Factors that transformed organized crime into trans-national Discussion Method Narration Method
7 Differences between organized crime and terrorism Discussion Method Narration Method
8 mid-term exam
9 Rapprochement forms of organized crime groups and terrorist organizations Discussion Method Narration Method
10 Factors leading organized crime groups into rapprochement Discussion Method Narration Method
11 Relationship between organized crime and corruption Discussion Method Narration Method
12 Organized crime, national and international security Discussion Method Narration Method
13 Money laundering methods Discussion Method Narration Method
14 Combat against organized crime and terrorism Discussion Method Narration Method
15 International initiatives to combat organized crime and terrorism Discussion Method Narration Method
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Oğuzhan Ömer Demir ve Bahadır Küçükuysal (Ed.) (). Sınıraşan Organize Suçlar Adalet Yayınevi
2 Mahmut Cengiz, Küreselleşmenin Karanlık Noktası Organize Suçlar, Adalet Yayınevi
3 Gus Martin, Terörizm Kavramlar ve Kuramlar, ADRES YAYINLARI
4 DAVID SOUTHWELL, ORGANİZE SUÇ TARİHİ , Kırmızı Kedi Yayınları,
Required Course instruments and materials
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 14 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 3 14 42
       b) Search in internet/Library 4 14 56
       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 5 3 15
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 9 3 27
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 184