Kocaeli University / European Credit Transfer System (ECTS)

Name of Lecturer(s)

Assistant Prof. Dr. Hasan YAZICI

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1) Students who have successfully completed the program will gain the following skills and competencies related to global and local conditions:
2) Ability to understand and analyze in the light of theoretical frameworks of global and local conditions in terms of advanced, advanced knowledge, practice, and a sociological perspective
3) Ability to compare and write political, social and economic relations developed through literature review, research abilities, seminar report, exams and articles dealt with through data analysis
4) The ability to understand, define and critically approach the main social factors behind global and local problems and debates, to gain presentation skills through seminar presentations during the post-graduate education, to improve the ability of students to engage in academic and intellectual debate
5) Ability to apply information to current events and to evaluate systematically and consistently an analytical view of political events.

Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

		Program Competencies
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Learning Outcomes
	1	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High
	2	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High
	3	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High
	4	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High
	5	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Not Required

Course Contents

Derte will examine many theoretical, fundamental issues and applications in the global and local sociology. From an interdisciplinary perspective, current and strategic issues, problems and needs will be discussed, based on postgraduate studies and basic theoretical sources. The focus of the course is on the basic requirements, needs and objectives. Students will be given the opportunity to conduct research on the basic aspects of life in any way and obtain comprehensive knowledge, power and confidence among the disciplines to interpret and evaluate the findings. Based on the social, political and economic dynamics and processes, based on the conditions, flexible and selected basic concepts extending to work on the current issues of well-established theoretical knowledge will be applied and development studies.

Weekly Schedule

1) Promotion
2) Global village, culture shock
3) Freedom, equality, race, slavery, death penalty
4) Health, population growth, birth, life expectancy, old age, death
5) Marriage, marriage style, weak family, contraceptive use, prostitution, adults infected with HIV/AIDS, women's power, housework
6) Soft authoritarianism, planned welfare
7) Exam
8) Advanced technology, change, modernism, progress, information revolution
9) Economic development, income inequality, the situation of workers in agriculture and service sectors, child labor
10) Global view of Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism
11) Media, global view of illiteracy, language
12) Political freedoms organizations
13) Internet users, rural-urban divide
14) General evaluation

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Discussion
4) Group Study
5) Brain Storming
6) Self Study
7) Problem Solving

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Midterm Examination to Course Grade	30%
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade	70%
Total	100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)