Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Course Catalogue

Information Of Programmes

TOURISM RESEARCH INSTITUTE / TR537 - TOURISM GUIDING (MASTER)

Code: TR537 Course Title: ANATOLIAN PHILOSOPHERS Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 5
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Fall Semester
Level of Course 2nd Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department TOURISM GUIDING (MASTER)
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer MERAL BÜYÜKKURU (mbuyukkuru@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
This course aims to enable students to deeply understand the intellectual heritage of Anatolia and to use this heritage in their own academic and personal development.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 PO-6 Understand, analyze and interpret the cultures, history, religions, and the art of the civilisations that have lived in Turkey.
Examination
Presentation
LO-2 PO-6 Understand, analyze and interpret the cultures, history, religions, and the art of the civilisations that have lived in Turkey.
Examination
Presentation
LO-3 PO-11 Analyze, critically interpret and evaluate the knowledge and skills they have gained.
Examination
Presentation
LO-4 PO-6 Understand, analyze and interpret the cultures, history, religions, and the art of the civilisations that have lived in Turkey.
PO-7 Describe, synthesize, analyze, interpret and evaluate data and information professionally.
Examination
Presentation
LO-5 PO-6 Understand, analyze and interpret the cultures, history, religions, and the art of the civilisations that have lived in Turkey.
PO-7 Describe, synthesize, analyze, interpret and evaluate data and information professionally.
Examination
Presentation
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
This course includes the works and ideas of important philosophers, poets and writers who grew up in Anatolia.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Narration Method Course Purpose, Scope and Method
2 Discussion Method Narration Method Individual Study Method Ancient Anatolian Philosophy and Philosophical Movements
3 Discussion Method Narration Method Individual Study Method Ionian Philosophy I (Thoughts of Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes)
4 Discussion Method Narration Method Individual Study Method Ionian Philosophy II (Thoughts of Heraclitus and Parmenides)
5 Discussion Method Narration Method Individual Study Method Pre-Socratic Anatolian Philosophers (Pythagoras and Zeno)
6 Discussion Method Narration Method Individual Study Method Anatolian Philosophers of the Classical Period (Plato and Aristotle)
7 Discussion Method Narration Method Individual Study Method Hellenistic Period Anatolian Philosophy (Stoicism and Epicurus)
8 mid-term exam
9 Discussion Method Narration Method Individual Study Method Roman Period and Late Antiquity (Plotinus and Neoplatonism)
10 Discussion Method Narration Method Individual Study Method The Effect of Islamic Philosophy on Anatolia (Farabi and Ibn Sina)
11 Discussion Method Narration Method Individual Study Method Anatolian Philosophers of the Seljuk Period (Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi and Hacı Bektaş Veli)
12 Discussion Method Narration Method Individual Study Method Ottoman Era Philosophy
13 Discussion Method Narration Method Individual Study Method Modern Period Anatolian Philosophers (Ziya Gökalp and Turkish Nationalism)
14 Discussion Method Narration Method Individual Study Method Philosophy of the Republican Era
15 Discussion Method Narration Method General Evaluation and Discussions
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 "Antik Çağ Anadolu Felsefesi" - Ahmet Arslan
2 "Felsefe Tarihi" (4 Cilt) - Ahmet Cevizci
3 "Presocratic Philosophers" - G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, M. Schofield
4 "Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics" - A. A. Long
5 "Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi: Hayatı, Eserleri ve Felsefesi" - Abdülbaki Gölpınarlı
6 "İslam Felsefesi Tarihi" - Macit Gökberk
7 "Osmanlı Düşünce Dünyası ve Felsefe" - Bekir Karlığa
Required Course instruments and materials
Book, projection device.

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 1 20
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation 12 1 20
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 2 11 22
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 2 7 14
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 2 7 14
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 150