SOC426 SOCIOLOGY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
| Course Code: | 2320426 |
| 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 |
| Course Coordinator: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. AYŞE İDİL AYBARS |
| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
Students will comprehend the European Union (EU) from a sociological perspective.
Course Content
The objective of the course is to examine the European Union (EU) from a sociological perspective. The course focuses on the institutional structures, governance methods, policies and politics of the EU, as well as the processes of social change it induces in national structures and actors. European integration, European institutions and policies, social foundations of the EU, European citizenship and identity, European socio-economic model, Europeanization, European enlargement and EU-Turkey relations are approached with a view to questioning the mainstream assumptions on the EU developed by political science, international relations and comparative political economy.
Course Learning Outcomes
1. Students will make sense of the social reality of the EU and its impacts on European societies.
2. Students will locate the institutional structures, governance methods, policies and politics of the EU.
3. Students will identify the processes of social change induced by the EU in national structures and actors.
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