POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES
- Course
- INRE554 - POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES
- Department
- International Relations - English - Master
- Course Type
- Course
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 3
- ECTS
- 0
- T+P+L
- 3 + 0 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- -
- Prerequisite
- -
- Keywords
- -
Course Description
This course aims at familiarizing master students with the idea of politics in the philosophical context. Philosophers who dealt with the concept of the politics from past to modern times will be studied during the course. In the second phase of the course modern ideologies: Liberalism, Socialism, Marxism, Conservatism, Fascism and Nationalism will be analyzed on the left-right spectrum. Later on contemporary ideologies suh as feminism, ecologism, religious fundementalism, post-modernism, post-colonialism and post-structuralism will be highlighted in relation with and as a critic to the modern political ideologies.
POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES
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Course outcomes
- 01 (5) At the end of this course the students can able to evaluate political theory through multiideological perspectives
- 02 (3) The students will gain the skills to evaluate Political Ideologies in a historical perspective.
- 03 (2) This course identifies the differences between left wing and right wing political ideologies.
- 04 Solo Taxonomy Weight: 5+3+2=10:3 3.33
Course Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction to Political Ideologies |
| Week 2 | Nationalism |
| Week 3 | Globalization |
| Week 4 | Soverignty in Globalization: Empire as the New World Order |
| Week 5 | Capitalism |
| Week 6 | Socialism-Social Democracy |
| Week 7 | Conservatism |
| Week 8 | Liberalism |
| Week 9 | Populism |
| Week 10 | Marxism |
| Week 11 | Anarchism |
| Week 12 | Fascism |
| Week 13 | Islamic Political Ideologies |
| Week 14 | African Political Ideologies |
| Week 15 | Postructuralism and Ideology |
Reference Books & Course Materials
- 01 Lyman Tower Sargent, Contemporary Political Theory: A Comparative Analysis, Wandsworth Cengage Learning, 2009
- 02 Micheal Freeden, Lyman Sargent, Marc Stears, The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies, Oxford Unıversity Press, 2013.
- 03 Andrew Heywood, Political Ideologies: An Introduction, Palgrave Mcmillan, 2016 (English and Turkish versions)
Learning Outcomes
- L01 The course will provide students with basic tools for reading and understanding primary texts in political philosophy.
- L02 the course aims to familiarize the students with the terms of contemporary debates about politics.
- L03 to emphasize the importance of thinking theoretically about politics and iR..
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