ECTS - Politics of Revolution
Politics of Revolution (KAM605) Course Detail
| Course Name | Course Code | Season | Lecture Hours | Application Hours | Lab Hours | Credit | ECTS |
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| Politics of Revolution | KAM605 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Pre-requisite Course(s) |
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| None |
| Course Language | Turkish |
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| Course Type | N/A |
| Course Level | Ph.D. |
| Mode of Delivery | Face To Face |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies | Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer, Project Design/Management. |
| Course Lecturer(s) |
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| Course Objectives | This course will examine the main approaches developed to understand the political revolutions that radically re-established society. In the light of these approaches, examples such as the French, American, Russian and Turkish revolutions will be discussed in terms of their origins, aims and political and social consequences. |
| Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Content | Theories of revolution; French Revolution; American Revolution; Russian Revolution; Turkish Revolution. |
Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies
| Week | Subjects | Preparation |
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| 1 | Introduction to the Course | |
| 2 | The Concept of Revolution | |
| 3 | Revolution and Reform | |
| 4 | Marxist Theory of Revolution (I) | |
| 5 | Marxist Theory of Revolution (II) | |
| 6 | Revolution: The Case of Russia | |
| 7 | Post-Marxism and Revolution | |
| 8 | Structural Revolution Theory (I) | |
| 9 | Structural Revolution Theory (II) | |
| 10 | Revolution in Contemporary Radical Political Thought: Foucault | |
| 11 | Revolution in Contemporary Radical Political Thought: Hardt and Negri | |
| 12 | Revolution in Contemporary Radical Political Thought: Laclau | |
| 13 | Revolution in Contemporary Radical Political Thought: Ranciere | |
| 14 | Term Project Presentations (I) | |
| 15 | Term Project Presentations (II) |
Sources
| Course Book | 1. Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. |
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| 2. Jack Goldstone, ed., Revolutions: Theoretical, Comparative and Historical Studies, 3rd. ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Cengage, 2008. | |
| 3. Stephen Walt, Revolution and War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996. | |
| 4. Charles Tilly and Sidney Tarrow, Contentious Politics. Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2007. | |
| 5. Edward Acton, ed. Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution. Edited by. Bloomsbury, 2001. | |
| 6. Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question | |
| 7. Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 | |
| 8. Karl Marx, The German Ideology | |
| 9. Friedrich Engels, Letters on Historical Materialism | |
| 10. Karl Marx, On Imperialism in India | |
| 11. Karl Marx, Manifesto of the Communist | |
| 12. Lenin, State and Revolution | |
| 13. Gramsci, Prison Notebooks | |
| 14. Michel Foucault, Panopticism | |
| 15. Michel Foucault, Truth and Power | |
| 16. Chantal Mouffe, Democratic Paradox | |
| 17. Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy | |
| 18. Ernesto Laclau, New Reflections on the revolutions of Our Time | |
| 19. Jacques Rancière, Hatred of Democracy | |
| 20. Micheal Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire |
Evaluation System
| Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance/Participation | 1 | 14 |
| Laboratory | - | - |
| Application | - | - |
| Field Work | - | - |
| Special Course Internship | - | - |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | - | - |
| Homework Assignments | 1 | 35 |
| Presentation | 1 | 16 |
| Project | - | - |
| Report | - | - |
| Seminar | - | - |
| Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury | - | - |
| Final Exam/Final Jury | 1 | 35 |
| Toplam | 4 | 100 |
| Percentage of Semester Work | 65 |
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| Percentage of Final Work | 35 |
| 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 | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | Improving knowledge and understanding of the disciplines political science and public administration so as to enable the Ph. D. candidates to produce new knowledge on these disciplines. | X | ||||
| 2 | Improving knowledge and understanding in the parallel disciplines of sociology, anthropology, history etc. to create a multi-disciplinary perspective of the field of study. | X | ||||
| 3 | Introducing and improving knowledge and skills of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and methods so as to create a capacity to utilize them in researches in the field of political science and public administration. | X | ||||
| 4 | Enabling the Ph. D. candidates to utilize their thoretical, methodological, and multi-disciplinary knowledge so as to critically understand the discussions in those fields, and to understand the gaps in the literature concerned. | X | ||||
| 5 | Improving academic writing skills so as to enable the Ph. D. candidates to write their dissertations or research papers in a suitable manner. | 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 | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Presentation/Seminar Prepration | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Project | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| Report | |||
| Homework Assignments | |||
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | |||
| Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury | |||
| Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury | |||
| Total Workload | 127 | ||