SOC108 POLITICS AND SOCIETY
| Course Code: | 2320108 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 6.0 |
| Department: | Sociology |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
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| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The aim of this course is to introduce students main themes and issues in politics and its relation with society. It presents a descriptive account and conceptual framework of the themes and issues related to politics and society. The course will provide students with an introductory knowledge on politics, political ideologies, state, democracy, power, civil society, nations and nationalism, political parties, regime type, representation and elections, groups, interest groups, social movements and global governance.
Course Content
The aim of this course is to introduce students main themes and issues in politics and issues in politics and its relations with society. The course will provide students with an introductory knowledge on politics, political ideologies, state, democracy, power, civil society, nations and nationalism, political parties, regime type, representation and elections, groups, interest groups, social movements and global governance.
Course Learning Outcomes
The course will enable students to relate social and political issues, processes and interactions. The students are expected to have acquire a descriptive account and conceptual framework for the further study of issues related to social and political transformation, social and political change, state and non-state actors, civil society, nationalism, democratization and democracy?
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | To correlate sociology and other social sciences | ✔ | |||
| 2 | To interpret knowledge produced by society from a sociological perspective | ✔ | |||
| 3 | To renew and improve their accumulation by following up-to-date publications and research programs in their fields | ✔ | |||
| 4 | To be open to occupational novelties in order to understand social change | ✔ | |||
| 5 | To produce original solutions within and outside the discipline and in interdisciplinary levels | ✔ | |||
| 6 | To know and implement the ethics of sociological research | ✔ | |||
| 7 | To be aware of social, environmental, and economic effects in the areas where sociological approaches are appropriated | ✔ | |||
| 8 | To use and transfer the accumulation of sociological knowledge in an interdisciplinary way | ✔ | |||
| 9 | To understand social structures and dynamics by correlating the past, the present and the future | ✔ | |||
| 10 | To connect social theories of knowledge and social practices | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution