PSI 103 POLITICAL SCIENCE I

(2022-2023 Fall Semester)

 

 

                                                                                      Prof.Dr.Tanel Demirel

Department of Political Science and International Relations

                                                                                            Çankaya University

 

            AIM

           

This course aims to acquaint students with the essential concepts of politics, basic political institutions and political processes. In so doing, it purports to develop students’ analytical capabilities as well as familiarizing them with critical thinking.

 

In our department “Political Science” course are divided into two, each offered in different semesters. PSI 103 Political Science I) is the first part of the course. PSI 104 Political Science II which will be given in the spring term is the continuation of the  PSI 103.

 

 

            COURSE MATERIAL

           

There is no single textbook to be advised. You MUST READ “KEY NOTES for PSI 103”  which you can find in photocopy room. (Its Turkish translation is also available).  If you were to follow only one  textbook it should be Andrew Heywood, Politics, fifth edition New York, Macmillan, 2019. I advise you to look at Heywood’s Key Concepts in Politics and International Relations (2015) as well.  Both books are also avaliable in Turkish. Following are some of helpful texts that you might also consult; Thomas M. Magstadt, Understanding Politics-Ideas, Institutions, and Issues, eight edition, Wadsworth, Belmont, 2009); Roskin, M. G and R. L. Cord, Political Science:  An Introduction, 12^th edition (New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2012) (JA 71.P625); Atilla Yayla, Siyaset Bilimi, Ankara, Adres, 2015;  Gökhan Atılgan and E. Attila Aytekin’s Siyaset Bilimi –Kavramlar, Ä°deolojiler, Disiplinler Arası Ä°liÅŸkiler, (Ankara, Yordam, 2014)  is also a useful book.  

 

 

COURSE ATTENDANCE & EVALUATION

 

 

There will be two mid-term (25+25) a final exam (50 p).

 

 

COURSE OUTLINE

 

NATURE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (2 weeks)

 

DEFINING POLITICS (1 weeks)

 

STATE   (3 weeks)

           

AIM OF POLITICS: LIBERALS AND THE OTHERS (1 week)

 

ANALYZING THE POLITICS: SOME TIPS (1 week)

 

A NOTE ON THE ADVENT OF THE MODERNITY & MODERN AGE (2 weeks)

 

STATE BUILDING, NATION- BUILDING AND NATIONALISM

IN WESTERN EUROPE (3 weeks)