SOC457 CULTURE, IDENTITY &POST-COLONIAL THEOR
| Course Code: | 2320457 |
| 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: | Assist.Prof.Dr BARIŞ MÜCEN |
| Offered Semester: | Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
This seminar course will have you discuss major works in postcolonial theory. In these discussions, we will have a double aim: on the one hand, to reconsider major social theories you have read so far from a critical perspective, on the other hand, to understand and analyze the formation and reproduction of global and local hierarchical structures from this critical standpoint.
Course Content
This course will focus on the strategies by which demarcations between self and other and corollary distinctions between First World-Third World, West-East and masculine-feminine are deployed in various cultural and political discourses. The emergent and contested dimensions of modern, gendered, national and cultural identities will be examined through post-colonial theorists such as Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Edward Said, Frantz Fanon.
Course Learning Outcomes
Student, who passed the course satisfactorily will be able to:
- make sense of the history of global inequalities to understand the present world.
- discuss the limits of understanding the social worlds through the categories such as east/west, first world/third world, modern/traditional.
- point out the limits of the Eurocentric formations of the analytical concepts that have been influential in sociological studies.
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