SOC497 THE SECULARIZATION DEBATE:COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES AND CASE STUDIES
| Course Code: | 2320497 |
| 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: | Prof.Dr. AYŞEGÜL AYDINGÜN |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The question of secularism has become an issue of intense theoretical and political debate in recent decades. This is mostly due to a revival of religion as global fact. Recent developments such as fundamentalist upsurges (Islamic or Evangelical), the growing Muslim population in Western countries and the resurgence of religion in world affairs have put religion and secularism among the crucial issues for many Western and Eastern societies including Turkey. Thus, the issue of secularism has become a major research topic for sociologists.
Course Content
This course aims to acquaint students with the secularization debate. Enlightenment, secularizing effect of modernity, classical theories of secularization and recent approaches, different dimensions of secularization and Western secularisms will be critically analyzed. The development of secularism in different Western countries will be studied with a comparative perspective.
Course Learning Outcomes
The principal aim of this course is to acquaint students with the secularization debate, Enlightenment, secularizing effect of modernity, classical theories of secularization, recent theoretical approaches, different dimensions of secularization, Western secularisms and the study of different cases in the West.
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