This course aims to analyze culture and its impact on political ideas, events, institutions and processes. This impact has been studied in different ways by different scholars and this course plans to display this divergence as well. After making a general introduction to the relationship between culture and politics, the course will deal with concepts that are central to this relationship such as popular culture, social capital and civic culture. Not only these concepts but also different approaches to them will be discussed in this course. In the second part of the course, the significance of culture in the most sensitive political discussions on national culture, secularism and rights will be analyzed.
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Special Requisite(s)
Instructor(s)
Course Assistant(s)
Schedule
Office Hour(s)
Teaching Methods and Techniques
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Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Introduction to the course
Lecture
2. Week
What is Political Culture?
Lecture, Discussion
3. Week
Civic culture
Lecture, Discussion
4. Week
Popular culture and politics
Lecture, Discussion
5. Week
Multiculturalism
Lecture, Discussion
6. Week
National culture, transnationalism and politics
Lecture, Discussion
7. Week
Social Capital
Lecture, Discussion
8. Week
Midterm Week
Midterm Week
9. Week
Midterm Week
Midterm Week
10. Week
Culture and social movements
Lecture, Discussion
11. Week
Relationship between religion and state
Lecture, Discussion
12. Week
Secularism
Lecture, Discussion
13. Week
Presentations
Presentation
14. Week
Review
Lecture, Discussion
15. Week
Final Exam
Final Exam
16. Week
Final Exam
Final Exam
17. Week
Final Exam
Final Exam
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations
3
45
Final Exam
1
55
Program Outcomes
PO-1
To identify and use theoretical and practical knowledge in International Relations.
PO-2
To express ideas and assessments about contemporary debates in International Relations.
PO-3
To acknowledge ethical and scientific responsibilities of data collection, evaluation and publication.
PO-4
To monitor and interpret published studies in International Relations.
PO-5
To use a second language at an intermediate level.
PO-6
To analyze, compare and relate different local, regional and global developments in International Relations.
PO-7
To analyze, compare and relate International Relations with theories and practices of different associate departments and their sub-fields and to offer suggestions by combining these fields.
PO-8
To present substantial knowledge for various public, private and academic career positions.
PO-9
To analyze the emergence and functions of prominent regional and local actors and to make future projections about their actions.
PO-10
To theoretically and practically examine different events and facts in International Relations and Foreign Policy and to interpret their past, present, and future through a scientific perspective.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
To discuss several concepts that are also central to fully follow daily politics
LO-2
To evaluate the major concepts and theories of political culture discussions
LO-3
To recognize the fact that the same concept or theory in political science can be approached in different ways
LO-4
To use theoretical information in evaluating the recent political developments
LO-5
To recognize that political science is not limited to institutional discussions and is related to developments and dynamics in society
