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Course Information

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

Prerequisite Courses
Course Level	Undergraduate
Mode of delivery	Face-to-face
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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

Lesson Plan (Weekly Topics)

Week	Topics/Applications	Method
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

*Midterm and final exam dates are not specified in the 14-week course operation plan. Midterm and final exam dates are held on the dates specified in the academic calendar with the decision of the University Senate.

Recommended Sources

Ders Kitabı veya Notu	Ders Kitabı veya Ders Notu bulunmamaktadır.
Diğer Kaynaklar	Mehmet Ali Ağaoğulları (ed.), Batı'da Siyasi Düşünceler Tarihi, İstanbul, İletişim, 2018