Education Information System | Duzce University

Course Title	Code	Semester	L+U Hour	Credits	ECTS
History of Political Thought	POLS108	2. Semester	3 + 0	3.0	5.0

Prerequisites	None

Language of Instruction	English
Course Level	Undergraduate
Course Type
Mode of delivery	Face-to-face
Course Coordinator	Assoc. Prof. Dr. MEHMET ERTAN
Instructor(s)	MEHMET ERTAN
Assistants
Goals	Examination of development of political thought from ancient Greece to modern times.
Course Content	In this course, thinkers of Ancient Greek, Roman, Medieval and New Age; how the concepts such as state, power, democracy, human nature, justice, equality and freedom are handled by different thinkers in different periods will be examined
Learning Outcomes

Week	Topics	Learning Methods
1. Week	Political structure in ancient Greece
1. Week	Political structure in ancient Greece
2. Week	Ionian Philosophers
2. Week	Ionian Philosophers
3. Week	Plato
3. Week	Plato
4. Week	Aristotle
4. Week	Aristotle
5. Week	Political Thought in Roman Empire
5. Week	Political Thought in Roman Empire
6. Week	Political Thought in the Middle Age
6. Week	Political Thought in the Middle Age
7. Week	Renassiance and Reform
7. Week	Renassiance
8. Week	Reform
8. Week	Midterm
9. Week	Machiavelli
9. Week	Machiavelli
10. Week	The concept of sovereignity and Bodin
10. Week	The concept of sovereignity and Bodin
11. Week	Hobbes
11. Week	Hobbes
12. Week	Limited Power and Locke
12. Week	Limited Power and Locke
13. Week	The Seperation of Power and Montesquieu
13. Week	The Seperation of Power and Montesquieu
14. Week	National Sovereignity and Rousseau
14. Week	National Sovereignity and Rousseau

Mehmet Ali Ağaoğulları (ed.), Batı'da Siyasi Düşünceler Tarihi, İstanbul, İletişim, 2018