Kocaeli University / European Credit Transfer System (ECTS)

Name of Lecturer(s)

Associate Prof. Dr. Zafer YILDIRIM

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

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1) Recognize ancient Greek philosophers and their works.
2) Recognize major thinkers of mediaval age.
3) Recognize thinkers of early modern and modern periods.
4) Recognize thinkers from Platon to 19. century.
5) Recognize socialist thinkers.

Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

		Program Competencies
		1	2	3	4	5	6
Learning Outcomes
	1	High	High	Middle	High	Middle	Middle
	2	Middle	Middle	High	Middle	High	High
	3	Middle	High	Middle	Middle	High	High
	4	Middle	Middle	Middle	Middle	Middle	Middle
	5	High	High	Middle	High	High	High

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Not Required

Course Contents

The course covers following topics: development of political philosophy in ancient Greece; philosophers of nature; Sophists, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cynicism, Epicureanism, Stoicism, Polybius, Cicero, Seneca, Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory, Gelasius, theory of two swords, John of Salisbury, Thomas Aquinas, John of Paris, Marsilio of Padua, William of Occam, Martin Luther, Jean Calvin, Münzer; Nicholo Machiavelli, Jean Bodin, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Burke, Hegel, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx and modern political thinkers.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Midterm Examination to Course Grade	20%
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade	80%
Total	100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)