Course Descriptions
Course Name / Course Code
Hours
Credit
ECTS
Ethics and Society
HSS354
The basic theories of philosophy of morality and political philosophy. The foundations of value judgements, actions and choices. The relationship of morality with reason and emotion. The problem of free will and determinism. Universalism, relativism, objectivism and subjectivism in Ethics. Normative theories in ethics: Eudaimonism, hedonism, utilitarianism, altruism, egoism. The capitalism-communism antagonism and theories of socialism. Issues in Applied Ethics such as suicide, euthanasia, abortion, genetic engineering, animal rights, environmental problems and armament. The theories of philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Proudhon, Nietzsche and Marx on morality and politics.
( 3 + 0 + 0 )
3
6
AKTS
6Kredi
3Saatler
(3 + 0 + 0 )Literature Texts
HSS355
The reading, study and analysis of a selected text in world literature. A selected text from one of the authors such as Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Hugo, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Hemingway, Elliot, Emerson, Poe, Lawrence, Wilde, Orwell, Stendhal, Zola, Balzac, Flaubert, Gide, Mann, Hesse, Heine, Kafka, Camus, Sartre, Kazantzakis.
( 3 + 0 + 0 )
3
6
AKTS
6Kredi
3Saatler
(3 + 0 + 0 )Cultural Studies
HSS220
Definition of 'text'. Study and analyses of texts from literature, fine, visual and performative arts, architecture, commercials, TV, politics, and also body language. Argumentation techniques and methods.
( 3 + 0 + 0 )
3
6
AKTS
6Kredi
3Saatler
(3 + 0 + 0 )Philosophy of Art
HSS353
The basic theories of the Philosophy of Art. The definition and structure of art. The foundations of aesthetic judgements. The relationship between aesthetic judgements with reason and emotion. The concepts of beauty and ugliness, order and chaos, harmony and disharmony. Universalism, relativism, objectivism and subjectivism in Aesthetics. The relationship between aesthetic judgements and the structure of the mind. The theories of philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on art.
( 3 + 0 + 0 )
3
6
AKTS
6Kredi
3Saatler
(3 + 0 + 0 )Computer Literacy
IT105
Computer Literacy
( 0 + 0 + 0 )
1
2
AKTS
2Kredi
1Saatler
(0 + 0 + 0 )History of Science and Technology
STS303
The development of science and technology from the Enlightenment to the present; the Industrial Revolution, the emergence of engineering. Interdependency of science and technology. The development of medical sciences and information technologies. Science and technology in the Ottoman Empire and in Turkey in the context of global developments.
( 3 + 0 + 0 )
3
6
AKTS
6Kredi
3Saatler
(3 + 0 + 0 )Philosophy of Science
STS304
The relationship between knowledge and science. The characteristics of scientific knowledge and theories. The problem of demarcation. The distinction between science and pseudo-science. Scientific method. Observation and experimentation. Models of scientific explanation. The principle of causality. Types of inferences: Induction and deduction. Truth, falsity and validity. The distinction between fact and fiction. Falsifiability, verifiability, empirical testability, cognitive meaning. Scientific revolutions and transformations. Theories of paradigm and progressive research programmes.
( 3 + 0 + 0 )
3
7
AKTS
7Kredi
3Saatler
(3 + 0 + 0 )Sociology of Science and Technology
STS306
Social construction of science and technology. Sociological aspects of science and technology. Ethnographic studies of scientific work. Ethical aspects of scientific and technological change. Technologies and everyday life.
( 3 + 0 + 0 )
3
6
AKTS
6Kredi
3Saatler
(3 + 0 + 0 )Complementary Elective-V
HSS-C-V
Complementary Elective-V
( 3 + 0 + 0 )
3
5
AKTS
5Kredi
3Saatler
(3 + 0 + 0 )Complementary Elective-VI
HSS-C-VI
Complementary Elective-VI
( 3 + 0 + 0 )
3
5
AKTS
5Kredi
3Saatler
(3 + 0 + 0 )