ECTS - Modern, Modernity and Modernization

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Modern, Modernity and Modernization (KAM625) Course Detail

Course Name Course Code Season Lecture Hours Application Hours Lab Hours Credit ECTS
Modern, Modernity and Modernization KAM625 Area Elective 3 0 0 3 5
Pre-requisite Course(s)
N/A
Course Language Turkish
Course Type Elective Courses
Course Level Ph.D.
Mode of Delivery Face To Face
Learning and Teaching Strategies Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
  • Asst. Prof. Dr. Korhan Mühürcüoğlu
Course Assistants
Course Objectives This is an elective PhD course that focuses on the concept of modern with regard to its historical development, first in Western and Central Europe and then in non-Western societies. The course also takes wider theoretical discussions and debates over the concept of modern into consideration.
Course Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • Acquire conceptual knowledge of the historical development of the concept of modern, first in the Western and Central Europe and then outside the Europe.
  • Acquire information about the modernization debates in Europe.
  • Understand the discussions about concepts such as secularization and progress, which are closely related to the modernization.
  • Acquire knowledge about non-Western modernities/modernization processes and the relevant discussions on these processes.
Course Content The concept of modern with regard to its historical development, first in Western and Central Europe and then in non-Western societies; wider theoretical discussions and debates over the concept of modern.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week Subjects Preparation
1 Introduction to Course
2 The Concept of Modern (I) Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays (New York: Phaidon, 1995).
3 The Concept of Modern (II) 1.) Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity (London: Verso, 2010). 2.) Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006).
4 The Italian Renaissance and the Birth of the Individual Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (New York: Phaidon, 1995).
5 Early Enlightenment Period and Secularisation Benedict de Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
6 The Enlightenment and the Idea of Progress Immanuel Kant, “What is Enlightenment?”, Political Writings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
7 Midterm
8 Non-Western Modernities 1.) Edward Said, Orientalism (London: Vintage, 1979). 2.) Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (London: Vintage, 1994).
9 Eurocentrism and the Concept of Modern Samir Amin, Eurocentrism (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2009).
10 Colonisation, De-Colonization and the Problem of Modernity 1.) Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (New York: Grove Press, 2008). 2.) Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (New York: Grove Press, 2004).
11 Modernity and the Nation-State 1.) Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communites: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 2006). 2.) Daryush Shayegan, Cultural Schizophrenia: Islamic Societies Confronting the West (New York: Syracuse University Press, 1997).
12 Modernity and the Sense of “Belatedness” 1.) Gregory Jusdanis, Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture: Inventing National Literature (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991).
13 The Problem of Modernity in Turkey (I) Alev Çınar, Modernity, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey: Bodies, Places, and Time (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005).
14 The Problem of Modernity in Turkey (II) Nilüfer Göle, Modern Mahrem: Medeniyet ve Örtünme (İstanbul: Metis, 2019).
15 Overview of The Course

Sources

Course Book 1. Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays (New York: Phaidon, 1995).
2. Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity (London: Verso, 2010).
3. Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006).
4. Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (New York: Phaidon, 1995).
5. Benedict de Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
6. Immanuel Kant, “What is Enlightenment?”, Political Writings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
7. Edward Said, Orientalism (London: Vintage, 1979).
8. Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (London: Vintage, 1994).
9. Samir Amin, Eurocentrism (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2009).
10. Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (New York: Grove Press, 2008).
11. Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (New York: Grove Press, 2004).
12. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communites: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 2006).
13. Daryush Shayegan, Cultural Schizophrenia: Islamic Societies Confronting the West (New York: Syracuse University Press, 1997).
14. Gregory Jusdanis, Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture: Inventing National Literature (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991).
15. Alev Çınar, Modernity, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey: Bodies, Places, and Time (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005).
16. Nilüfer Göle, Modern Mahrem: Medeniyet ve Örtünme (İstanbul: Metis, 2019).

Evaluation System

Requirements Number Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation 15 20
Laboratory - -
Application - -
Field Work - -
Special Course Internship - -
Quizzes/Studio Critics - -
Homework Assignments 1 40
Presentation - -
Project - -
Report - -
Seminar - -
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury 1 40
Final Exam/Final Jury - -
Toplam 17 100
Percentage of Semester Work
Percentage of Final Work 100
Total 100

Course Category

Core Courses X
Major Area Courses
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications

# Program Qualifications / Competencies Level of Contribution
1 2 3 4 5
1 Improving knowledge and understanding of the disciplines political science and public administration so as to enable the Ph. D. candidates to produce new knowledge on these disciplines.
2 Improving knowledge and understanding in the parallel disciplines of sociology, anthropology, history etc. to create a multi-disciplinary perspective of the field of study.
3 Introducing and improving knowledge and skills of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and methods so as to create a capacity to utilize them in researches in the field of political science and public administration.
4 Enabling the Ph. D. candidates to utilize their thoretical, methodological, and multi-disciplinary knowledge so as to critically understand the discussions in those fields, and to understand the gaps in the literature concerned.
5 Improving academic writing skills so as to enable the Ph. D. candidates to write their dissertations or research papers in a suitable manner.

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities Number Duration (Hours) Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) 15 3 45
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class 15 4 60
Presentation/Seminar Prepration
Project
Report
Homework Assignments 1 10 10
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury 1 10 10
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury
Total Workload 125