FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
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GEAR 211 | Course Introduction and Application Information
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Communication, Literature and Philosophy
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Code
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Semester
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Theory
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Application/Lab
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Local Credits
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ECTS
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GEAR 211
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Fall/Spring
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3
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0
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3
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5
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| Prerequisites |
None
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| Course Language |
English
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| Course Type |
Service Course
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| Course Level |
First Cycle
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| Course Objectives | This module aims to introduce students to analytic thinking and philosophizing via short readings and analysis of literary texts, art works, photography and cinema. |
| Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This course focuses on the historical trajectory of western philosophy in parallel to its relations particularly with literature and art, and generally with culture and communications. |
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Core Courses | |
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WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES
| Week | Subjects | Related Preparation |
| 1 | Presentation and an overview of the course, course organization, requirements and methods of evaluation. | |
| 2 | Essential Questions of Philosophy: Ancient Greece | Clerk, ‘Ancient Philosophy, in Kenny, 1-53 |
| 3 | Introduction to Philosophy of Modern Times | ‘Descartes to Kant’, in Kenny, 107-193 |
| 4 | Enlightenment, Modernity and Reason | Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose; ‘Descartes’ in Russell, 511-520, Umberto Eco, ‘The Return of the Middle Ages’ in Eco,Travels in Hyperreality, 59-86 |
| 5 | Modernity, Science, Progress and Dangers | Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. Descartes in Russell, 511-520 |
| 6 | Discussion on the Consequences of Modernization | 'Descartes to Kant' in Kenny, 107-193. |
| 7 | Consciousness, Identity and Freedom: Lord and Bondsman | Orhan Pamuk, The White Castle. ‘Hegel’ in Kenny 201 -206. |
| 8 | Discussion on Lord/Bondsman and East/West | Hegel’ in Kenny 201 -206. Hall, ‘The West and the Rest’ (Handout) |
| 9 | Ethics: Modern and Postmodern | Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment. ‘Kantian Morality’, in Kenny, 190-192; ‘Nietzsche’, in Kenny 216-221 |
| 10 | Modernity and Social Injustice | John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath Movie: Germinal ‘ Marx and the Young Hegelians’ & ‘Capitalism and its Discontents’, Kenny, 304-309. Russell, Ch. XXVII. Karl Marx |
| 11 | Modernity, Power, Bureaucracy and Surveillance | Franz Kafka ‘The Trial’ Movie ‘Kafka’ SEP ‘Weber’; SEP ‘Foucault’ (Handouts) |
| 12 | Rousseau: “Natural Man” and Degeneration | Joseph Conrad, ‘Heart of Darkness’ Movie ‘Apocalypse Now’ Quinton ‘Rousseau’ in Kenny 329-332 Freud, ‘Civilization and Its Discontents’ (Handout) |
| 13 | Existentialism | Albert Camus, The Stranger. Existentialism,SEP |
| 14 | Philosophy and Psyche | Franz Kafka ‘Metamorphosis’ Yusuf Atılgan ‘Anayurt Oteli’ & Movie Modules on Freud (Handout) Kenny, .’Sigmound Freud’, pp. 343-350. |
| 15 | Review of the Semester | |
| 16 | Revision |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins, The Big Questions: A Short Introduction to Philosophy. Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, Sir Anthony Kenny, An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) |
| Suggested Readings/Materials | Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose Orhan Pamuk, The White Castle Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment Franz Kafka ‘The Trial’ Joseph Conrad, ‘Heart of Darkness’ Franz Kafka ‘Metamorphosis’ Yusuf Atılgan ‘Anayurt Oteli’ Albert Camus, The Stranger John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath |
EVALUATION SYSTEM
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation |
1
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10
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| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments |
1
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30
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| Presentation / Jury | ||
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exams | ||
| Midterm |
2
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60
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| Final Exam | ||
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
3
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70
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| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
1
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30
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ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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| Theoretical Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) |
16
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3
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48
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| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours) |
16
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0
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| Study Hours Out of Class |
15
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5
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75
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| Field Work |
0
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| Quizzes / Studio Critiques |
0
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| Portfolio |
0
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| Homework / Assignments |
0
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| Presentation / Jury |
0
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| Project |
1
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20
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20
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| Seminar / Workshop |
0
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| Oral Exam |
0
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| Midterms |
2
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10
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20
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| Final Exam |
0
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| Total |
163
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COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP
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Program Competencies/Outcomes |
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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| 1 | To be able to use advanced, field-specific conceptual, theoretical, and practical knowledge acquired, |
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| 2 | To be able to analyze and research field-specific concepts and ideas and to interpret data individually or as a team using scientific methods, |
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| 3 | To be able to understand and use grammatical and semantic structures of the source and target languages, |
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| 4 | To be able to obtain information about social, cultural, and historical approaches within the source and target languages and to use this information for textual analysis and production, |
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| 5 | To be able to understand and interpret written and oral texts in the source language and to transfer these texts into the target language using a semantically and functionally appropriate language, |
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| 6 | To be able to produce creative translations and assess the translation products critically by defining the steps, strategies and problems in the translation process in the light of field-specific theoretical knowledge and skills acquired, |
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| 7 | To be able to transfer the theoretical knowledge and research skills within different areas of expertise to translational act, |
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| 8 | To be able to use computer-assisted translation tools and machine translation effectively at each step of the translation process, and to follow the theoretical and practical developments in these fields, |
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| 9 | To be able to gain awareness of the translator’s social role, job profile, and professional ethical values and to acquire workload management skills for individual or team work, |
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| 10 | To be able to access necessary sources to improve quality at each step of the translation process and to assess the target text in accordance with the quality objectives by using these sources, |
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| 11 | To be able to establish effective oral and written communication skills both in English and Turkish, to be able to speak a second foreign language at a good level, to be able to use a third foreign language at intermediate level, |
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| 12 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. |
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