PSIR108 ISSUES IN GLOBAL POLITICS
| Course Code: | 3540108 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 6.0 |
| Department: | Political Science and International Relations |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assist.Prof.Dr DEFNE GÖNENÇ |
| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
This course will introduce you to these diverse global topics in order to enhance your understanding of these issues, their roots, and their consequences. It will be an openly interdisciplinary course of a wide range of global issues, ranging from political problems to economic and social ones. The main themes addressed in the course are the following:
- Global Peace and Security
- Global Economy
- Other Global Issues
- Global Actors and Globalization
One of the goals of this course is for you to develop a sensibility to interdisciplinary methods and analytical skills. All issues will be examined from different perspectives, and you will integrate and reconcile these various views.
Course Content
The aim of this course is to introduce the students to main issues in international relations discipline and provide a general framework for understanding the processes of globalisation and the changing meanings of governance and order. The impact of globalisation on different structures and processes of world politics, including security, political economy, international organisations, nationalism, environment, gender and culture will be the main focus of this course.
Course Learning Outcomes
- to define the basic international relations concepts
- to distinguish between basic international relations approaches, i.e. realism, liberalism, and marxism
- to understand and distinguish between different levels of analysis in international relations
- to understand and distinguish between different actors of international relations
- to comprehend major threats to global peace (war, terrorism, civil conflicts, human rights abuses, etc.) and the concept of "human security"
- to describe the changes in the international economic order and their effects on advanced countries vs. developing countries
- to understand global inequalities and their impact
- to describe global social problems, like environmental and health problems, with their different effects on advanced and developing countries
- to describe what globalization is with its multiple aspects and multiple effects and the role of global actors in the globalization process
- to evaluate the global trends of the last few decades and to make wise guesses about what the future of the international system be like
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Having academic knowledge in Political Science and International relations disciplines | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Developing an interdisciplinary perspective incorporating other areas of the social sciences as well | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Being capable of evaluating political, economic and social matters at local, national and international levels | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Being capable of making sense of, follow and analyze political, economic and social events | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Being sensitive to global, environmental and social problems | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Developing a critical mind capable of making constructive criticisms, open to lifelong learning, researching, inquiring, questioning and problems solving | ✔ | |||
| 7 | Being capable of individual work, entrepreneur, good time management and able to actively take part in group work for common purposes | ✔ | |||
| 8 | Having effective communication skills in Turkish and English languages | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Being capable of using communication technologies in reaching to information and organizing and presenting this information in a systematic way | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution