Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Lisans Programı

Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Lisans Programı

Ders Planı

Ders Kodu	Ders Adi	( Teorik - Pratik ) Kredi
1.Yıl - Güz Dönemi
GEP1005	History of Civilization I	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ECON1161	Mathematics I	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ENG1003	Communications Skills & Academic Writing I	( 3 - 0 ) 3
LAW1001	Introduction to Law I	( 3 - 0 ) 3
TLL1021	Turkish Lang. & Literature I	( 2 - 0 ) 2
ECON1211	Introduction to Economics I	( 3 - 0 ) 3
1.Yıl - Bahar Dönemi
ECON1212	Introduction to Economics-II	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ENG1004	Communication Skills & Academic Reporting II	( 3 - 0 ) 3
LAW1002	Introduction to Law II	( 3 - 0 ) 3
TLL1022	Turkish Lang. & Literature II	( 2 - 0 ) 2
ECON1162	Mathematics II	( 3 - 0 ) 3
GEP1006	History of Civilization II	( 3 - 0 ) 3
2.Yıl - Güz Dönemi
POLS2353	Introduction to Sociology	( 3 - 0 ) 3
	GE Elective	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ECON2061	Statistics I	( 3 - 0 ) 3
HIST3051	Atatürk's Principles and History of Turkish Republic I	( 2 - 0 ) 2
POLS2351	Introduction to Political Science	( 3 - 0 ) 3
	Restricted Elective	( 3 - 0 ) 3
	Restricted Elective	( 3 - 0 ) 3
2.Yıl Bahar Dönemi
ECON2062	Statistics II and SPSS	( 3 - 0 ) 3
POLS2352	Introduction to Comparative Politics	( 3 - 0 ) 3
POLS2412	Introduction to International Relations	( 3 - 0 ) 3
	GE Elective	( 3 - 0 ) 3
HIST3052	Atatürk's Principles and History of Turkish Republic II	( 2 - 0 ) 2
	Restricted Elective	( 3 - 0 ) 3
	Restricted Elective	( 3 - 0 ) 3
3.Yıl - Güz Dönemi
	Restricted Elective	( 3 - 0 ) 3
POLS3351	Introduction Turkish Politics	( 3 - 0 ) 3
POLS3481	Political Sociology	( 3 - 0 ) 3
POLS3315	Political Thought I	( 3 - 0 ) 3
POLS3413	Turkish Foreign Policy	( 3 - 0 ) 3
	GE Elective	( 3 - 0 ) 3
3.Yıl Bahar Dönemi
POLS3316	Political Thought II	( 3 - 0 ) 3
POLS3416	Diplomatic History	( 3 - 0 ) 3
	GE Elective	( 3 - 0 ) 3
POLS3410	Theories of International Relations	( 3 - 0 ) 3
POLS3232	Research Methods	( 3 - 0 ) 3
	Restricted Elective	( 3 - 0 ) 3
4.Yıl - Güz Dönemi
	Restricted Elective	( 3 - 0 ) 3
POLS4421	Foreign Policy Analysis	( 3 - 0 ) 3
	Restricted Elective	( 3 - 0 ) 3
POLS4401	International Political Economy	( 3 - 0 ) 3
POLS4311	Poltical Ideologies	( 3 - 0 ) 3
4.Yıl Bahar Dönemi
POLS4532	Political Behavior	( 3 - 0 ) 3
	Restricted Elective	( 3 - 0 ) 3
	Restricted Elective	( 3 - 0 ) 3
POLS4418	International Organizations	( 3 - 0 ) 3
POLS4412	Current Issues in World Politics	( 3 - 0 ) 3

Ders Listesi

Ders Tanımları

POLS2346

Conflict Management Theory and Practice

Theories regarding conflict prevention, conflict resolution, and post-conflict peace building through examining case studies will be examined.

POLS2351

Introduction to Political Science

This course is an introduction to the study of politics with special emphasis on the basic fields and concepts of political science. Topics to be taken up include definition of politics, political theory, political systems, political ideologies, state, nation, democracy, political culture, representation, party systems, machinery of government and policy process.

POLS2352

Introduction to Comparative Politics

This course provides a systematic study and comparison of political systems. It examines not only the difference but also similarities among these systems.

POLS2353

Introduction to Sociology

Sociology is about the study of society as any introductory textbook will tell you and as such, it deals with people. Sociology is concerned with how people are socialized, how they live (in families, cities, states, etc.), how they interact, how they associate, how they mobilize, how they are governed and how they are divided. This course introduces sociological concepts and issues such as socialization, social control, modernity and social change, stratification, and gender. It also introduces important thinkers who have thought about these issues.

POLS2354

Theory and Practice in Diplomacy

This course will focus on the main principals of international relations and the intricacies of diplomacy

POLS2412

Introduction to International Relations

This course overviews the key terms, concepts and topics of international relations, with the aim of helping the students to acquire the basic tools in order to better understand both history and current events in world politics. The course examines such issues as the major theories of International Relations, international systems, state and non-state actors, foreign policy and decision making,

POLS2422

Gender, Politics and Society

This course aims to explore the concepts and models through which sexual difference is produced and understood. In addition, the course aims to consider a number of different theoretical approaches to the relationship between the biological/physical body and its social and political meaning and to analyse the relationship between gender and other aspects of social and cultural experience. In this course we will look at notions of masculinity and femininity, theories of embodiment,

POLS2451

Approaches to Political Science

An introductory course to the main approaches to the study of Political Science. The course focuses on the exploration of the main concepts that Political Scientists utilize to make sense of political phenomena. The course also includes an elementary survey of political science research methods including comparative historical methods, rational choice approaches, and interpretive methods.

POLS2452

Global City : Istanbul

The aim of the course is to form a basis on the newly emerging issues on Istanbul as a “global city”. Rather than focusing on social and demographical aspects, the course will intensify the cultural, economical and political significance of the city on the global sphere. For this purpose the introduction on the theoretical approaches on global cities will construct the background for discussion. Subsequently the course will submit the literature on the Istanbul’s changing position

POLS3232

Research Methods

This course is designed to give the students an understanding of the meaning and stages of scientific inquiry and the relationship between theory and empirical data. After a discussion of the major concepts of social scientific research, the course will tackle the thorny issues involved in designing research. A basic review of statistics will be followed by a review of various methods of data collection.

POLS3315

Political Thought I

What is politics and how does relate to living together in a politically ordered society? This course explores the nature and meaning of politics, political community and political knowledge through the historical experience of Greek city-state, the republican and imperial traditions of Rome, and the relationship between religion and politics up until the birth of the modern state.

POLS3316

Political Thought II

This course focuses on the emergence and characteristics of modern politics and the modern state. We shall explore the development and the various facets of the modern state through the writings of such major thinkers as Niccolo Macchiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Edmund Burke, Friederich Hegel and Karl Marx.

POLS3351

Introduction Turkish Politics

The course aims at providing students with a basic understanding of he historical background, structure, actors, ideology and dynamics of Turkish politics. It is composed of three parts as Part I introduces the major analytical approaches to the study of Turkish politics. Part II focuses on Turkish political development from the founding of the Republic until the 1990s. Part III takes up issues related to the consolidation of democracy in Turkey.

POLS3356

Environmental Politics

Environmental politics is a fairly new but quickly growing field as debates about environmental degradation have intensified. Environmentalists are concerned about pollution, conservation, ecosystem, destruction, natural resource depletion, and global warming which threaten our planet and future life on earth. State structures, the capitalist world economy, environmental organizations and social movements and their interaction in a global geography all affect the politics of the environment.

POLS3361

Issue in Turkish Politics

The course surveys the key contested concepts that help make sense of contemporary Turkish politics, as well as the historical visions constituted by different political formations around these key concepts. The course explores first how certain concepts are understood in political theory and then how they are employed in Turkish politics. Key concepts and debates formed around them that we survey include democracy,

POLS3410

Theories of International Relations

Survey of the classical theories of International Relations, such as Realpolitik, Idealpolitik and Marxism, as well as more contemporary theories such as hegemonic stability theory and critical theory.

POLS3413

Turkish Foreign Policy

This course is a survey of the important milestones in Turkish Foreign policy since the Lausanne Treaty with special emphasis on Turkey’s bid to the EU membership, and the Cyprus conflict. This course is a survey of the important milestones in Turkish Foreign policy since the Lausanne Treaty with special emphasis on Turkey’s bid to the EU membership, and the Cyprus conflict.

POLS3416

Diplomatic History

The purpose of the course to is to focus on the history and analysis of inter-state relations from the French Revolution to our day.

POLS3422

Latin American Politics: Regime Dynamics and Institutions

Historical overview and a general map of politics in Latin America. Emphasis will be on the evolution of political regime dynamics (democracy and authoritarianism), constitutional frameworks (presidentialism versus parliamentarism), electoral/party systems, main political ideologies, and different policies of economic development.

POLS3481

Political Sociology

Political sociology is concerned with, above all, power relations in the social, political, and economic spheres. As such, we deal with different centers of power, both within the national unit and transnationally. This course introduces you to state structures, class structures and global structures. We will cover concepts such as power, representation, association, social capital, citizenship, collective action and issues such as state development, democratization, ‘old’ and ‘new’ social movements, and global networks.

POLS3511

Social Change and Social Structure in Turkey

The main objective of the course is to construct an awareness and familiarity about the major social features of contemporary Turkish society among the students. Submitting the foremost academic discussions on the dynamics of social change will form a basis for further argumentations on the sociological analysis of the Turkish social structure. For this intention the course will begin with introducing the mainstream theoretical approaches on social change and social structure.

POLS3513

Turkish Greek Relations

This course is built around the notion that only by understanding the past can we make sense of the present and hope to improve the future. Accordingly, it seeks to provide a balanced account of past and present Turkish-Greek relations. It will begin by looking at the experience of co-habitation under Ottoman rule. It will then trace the rise of Greek and Turkish nationalisms which culminated in wars of independence. The evolution of relations over the twentieth-century from the

POLS3612

International Migration

This course will mainly focus on the recent discussions on the international migration literature with special reference to Turkey. In recent decades, the globalization has resulted in new population movements which can be defined as “irregular migration”, including growing numbers of refugees and asylum seekers. Thus, international migration has become one of the most important topics in politics and international relations.

POLS3614

Globalization and International Organizations

The purpose of this course is to develop student’s theoretical knowledge of globalization and international organizations through lectures, dicussions, readings and written assignments. They will also have the opportunity to proactively consider the agenda of the 21st century, the effects of globalization and the role of international organizations. In general the course will help to enhance decision making capabilities in today’s world.

POLS4311

Poltical Ideologies

Ideologies originated in the modern era. The focus of this course is the study of this ideological age through the analysis of ideologies that have had a shaping impact on our world. We shall, therefore, explore the meaning, the assumptions and the core themes of liberalism, conservatism, socialism, nationalism fascism, religious fundamentalism and democracy in a comparative context.

POLS4344

Comparative Democratization

Competing models and approaches to democratization. Causal factors in the transitions to democratic regimes and breakdowns of democracy.

POLS4401

International Political Economy

POLS 4401 International Political Economy This course maps the important concepts and issues of international economics in relation to political processes. It also examines the influence of economic transactions among the nation-states, nation-states trans-national companies, among the trans-national companies themselves.

POLS4412

Current Issues in World Politics

This course aims to familiarize you with contemporary debates and issues on the world scene. First, debates around globalization are presented as globalization has become an overarching concept which finds its way into all discussions of world politics. In this course, we analyze states, supranational organizations, and transnational actors, which all play a role in world politics, in interaction with each other. Also, we study world politics in terms of seminal issues which not only shape politics but also affect our lives. Some of these issues include security which has become crucial in the post-9/11 context, environmental degradation which gets worse by the day, and global inequality.

POLS4418

International Organizations

An introduction to international organizations. The role of the international organizations within the current world is very significant to understand, better the dynamics of the discipline of International Relations, taking the complex interdependence of the world politics into account. The basic structures, policies and histories of the main international organizations, including the UN, the EU, the NATO, the OSCE, the CoE, will be discussed.

POLS4421

Foreign Policy Analysis

This course focuses on theories of foreign policy analysis. Case studies are utilized in explaining the concepts and tools of foreign policy analysis. Real life cases will be used in order to cross-fertilize theory and practice in foreign policy making.

POLS4431

South and Eastern European Politics

This course deals with the political transformation of the Southern, Central and Eastern European countries and their democratisation experiences. It surveys the variations in consolidation trajectories and comparison of democratisation experiences of the Southern (Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal) and Central and Eastern European countries, such as the Balkans, Poland, and Hungary. Three important developments affected these regions in recent decades;

POLS4432

Politics and Government in Central Asia

Society, state and government in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

POLS4442

Politics and Cinema

Selected political issues and problems as seen through the lenses of movie directors. Critical appraisal of cinema as a medium for political commentary.

POLS4485

Politics of Development

POLS 4485 Politics of Development The question of why a small part of the world can provide high incomes, security benefits, healthcare, good education, clean water, safe housing, internet access, and political participation for its citizens while the rest of the world has to fight poverty, disease, debt, unemployment and insecure jobs, shoddy construction and limited political access has been the long-standing concern of the study of development.

POLS4511

Issue in Turkish Diplomacy

The course will begin with a brief introduction to diplomacy which is the method of conducting international relations. Afterwards we will study some basic issues in the post II World War Turkish diplomacy like, Turkey’s efforts in developing political, economic, and security relations with the West and some regional problems like, Cyprus, Middle East and the Caucasus. The course aims to give the student a broad vision of Turkey’s standing in the world.

POLS4521

Politics of Oil and Energy

This course addresses issues of spatial politics concerning oil and energy. The curriculum moves on from oil era to global peak oil period and finally transcends international politics of alternative energies (mainly natural gas, nuclear and renewables) to bring out complex interdependencies of inter-state and supra-state foreign relations comprising states, firms, host countries, home countries, international institutions and organizations.

POLS4532

Political Behavior

POLS 4532 Political Behavior This course examines the determinants and consequences of political behavior –defined as politically relevant sentiments, choices and attitudes of individuals and groups- starting with explanations offered by the classical theory but with emphasis on contemporary theories.

POLS4994

Seminar in Turkish Politics

This seminar is designed for students who plan to pursue their studies in political science and international relations at the graduate level aiming to get masters and doctoral degrees. The basic purpose of the seminar is to have each student to do research and to prepare papers on topics that center around the main theme of the seminar that will be jointly decided by the instructor and the members of the seminar.

POLS5001

American Foreign Policy

This course is designed to offer students the opportunity to learn American foreign policy processes. The course will combine conventional lectures with interactive learning within relevant institutions, organizations, research centers and think tanks situated in Washington. Students will deepen their knowledge by experiencing presidential institutions, forign affairs, bureaucracy and the Congress.

POLS5002

Japanese Business World and Political Culture

Japanese Business World and Political Culture course is a master course consisting of series of lectures and an 8-day field trip to Japan - Tokyo. During this trip students will have the chance to confront the theoretical knowledge gained at the lectures with the real picture of Japan. They will take part in the meetings with Japanese government officials, businessmen and women representing the biggest Japanese corporations, and with academics from leading Japanese universities. They will also participate in cultural excursions and visit important monuments. The course will cover important topics on the economic and political structure of Japan as well as its social and cultural dynamics. The series of lectures give the students relevant and comprehensive information on: the Japan's political system, social structure, business world, business culture, economic and industrial development, educational system and Japanese-Turkish relations in both political and business dimension.

POLS5003

American Government

The course introduces the Fundamentals of American government with a particular focus on legal framework, major institutions and domestic political processes. Different from other programs; the course is held in Washington to enable students to visit government institutions, organizations, research centers and think tanks as to intersect their theoretical framework with strategic processes.

POLS5004

Middleeast Politics

The Middle East politics course is a master course consisting of series of lectures on the Middle East, its political dynamics and an 10-day field trip to Isreal and Palestine. During this trip students will have the chance to use their theoretical knowledge gained at the lectures in practical analysis of the region. They will take part in the meetings with Isreali government and military officials, strategists, politicians, NGOs representatives, academics and analysts from leading Israeli universities. They will also participate in cultural excursions and visit important monuments. The main topics of this course are: Overview of the Middle East region; Brief history of the Middle East; Different political systems in the Middle East; Regional and Extra-Regional Powers; The role of religion in Middle East politics; Security issues in the Middle East; Arab-Isreali Conflict; Isreal-Palestine Issue; Isreali-Turkish Relations; The US and the Middle East; Turkey's role in the Middle East Region; Balance of power in the Middle East region.

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