ECTS - Seminar
Seminar (KAM600) Course Detail
| Course Name | Course Code | Season | Lecture Hours | Application Hours | Lab Hours | Credit | ECTS |
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| Seminar | KAM600 | 1. Semester | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Pre-requisite Course(s) |
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| N/A |
| Course Language | Turkish |
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| Course Type | Compulsory Departmental Courses |
| Course Level | Ph.D. |
| Mode of Delivery | Face To Face |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies | Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer. |
| Course Lecturer(s) |
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| Course Objectives | The aim of the course is to help graduate students to produce a dissertation proposal by the end of the course. |
| Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Content | Research methodologies; quantitative and qualitative strategies; statistics. |
Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies
| Week | Subjects | Preparation |
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| 1 | Introduction to course | |
| 2 | Discussion of research interests | |
| 3 | Finding a research topic, formulating a research question | |
| 4 | Discussion of research topic, research question, available data, receiving feedback | |
| 5 | How to write a dissertation proposal? | |
| 6 | Stages of dissertation proposal, significant points to be addressed in proposals | |
| 7 | Presetation and discussion of dissertation proposal drafts | |
| 8 | Presentation and discussion of dissertation proposal drafts | |
| 9 | Literature survey and review | |
| 10 | Discussion of literature review | |
| 11 | Components of methodology | |
| 12 | Presentation and discussion of methodologies | |
| 13 | Finalizing dissertation proposal, presentation of proposal, discussion and feedback | |
| 14 | Finalizing dissertation proposal, presentation of proposal, discussion and feedback | |
| 15 | Finalizing dissertation proposal, presentation of proposal, discussion and feedback |
Sources
| Course Book | 1. King, G., Keohane, R. O., & Verba, S. (1994). Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. |
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| 2. Brady, H., & Collier, D. (2004). Rethinking Social Inquiry. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield | |
| Other Sources | 3. Gerring, J. (2004). What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good for? The American Political Science Review, 98(2), 341-354. |
| 4. Mahoney, J. (2007) Qualitative Methodology and Comparative Politics. Comparative Political Studies, 40(2), 122-44. |
Evaluation System
| Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance/Participation | - | - |
| Laboratory | - | - |
| Application | - | - |
| Field Work | - | - |
| Special Course Internship | - | - |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | - | - |
| Homework Assignments | - | - |
| Presentation | - | - |
| Project | - | - |
| Report | - | - |
| Seminar | - | - |
| Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury | - | - |
| Final Exam/Final Jury | 1 | 100 |
| Toplam | 1 | 100 |
| Percentage of Semester Work | |
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| Percentage of Final Work | 100 |
| Total | 100 |
Course Category
| Core Courses | |
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| Major Area Courses | X |
| Supportive Courses | |
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | |
| Transferable Skill Courses |
The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications
| # | Program Qualifications / Competencies | Level of Contribution | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | It ensures that conceptual and theoretical knowledge and understanding of political science and public administration disciplines and methodological capacity are developed to produce new information in these disciplines. | X | ||||
| 2 | Develops an interdisciplinary perspective by mastering comprehensive knowledge and understanding in disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, history, etc. parallel to the disciplines of political science and public administration. | X | ||||
| 3 | It provides knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and methods and the development of a capacity to use this knowledge in thesis writing and other research. | X | ||||
| 4 | Develops a critical understanding of the acquired theoretical, methodological and interdisciplinary knowledge to follow and interpret debates in the field and to identify and eliminate existing problems and deficiencies in the literature. | X | ||||
| 5 | It enables the development of academic writing principles and skills required to write and publish a thesis that will contribute to the literature. | X | ||||
ECTS/Workload Table
| Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload |
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| Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) | 15 | 3 | 45 |
| Laboratory | |||
| Application | |||
| Special Course Internship | |||
| Field Work | |||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 15 | 3 | 45 |
| Presentation/Seminar Prepration | 4 | 5 | 20 |
| Project | |||
| Report | |||
| Homework Assignments | |||
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | |||
| Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury | |||
| Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury | 1 | 15 | 15 |
| Total Workload | 125 | ||