Ordu University Lifelong Learning Programme

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	Number of ECTS Credits
SOS4012016138	MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM	Compulsory	4	7	4

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

This course covers discussion of emergence of modernization, theories of modernization and Turkish modernization experience from a critical point of view. Therefore, this course covers topics such as emergence of modernization from a historical point of view, social and historical conditions of modernization, modernization process, modernization processes of western societies, non-western societies and Turkey, early and late modernization theories, “modernization project,” orientalism. Especially modernization experience of Turkey and historical and theoretical problems of this experience will have been discussed in this class. Main teaching form of this course is seminar. Each student has to participate class discussions. The students also have to chose a given topic, prepare written homework and present it in the class.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Yrd. Doç. Dr. Erol BULUT

Learning Outcomes

1	Explain the meaning of modernity
2	Have known modernization processes.
3	Make analysis modernization processes in the western societies
4	Know and explain modernization theories.
5	Describe Turkish modernity and Western modernity on a comparative basis.

Mode of Delivery

Formal Education

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Emergence of modernization.
2	Modernization project and sociology as an agent of this project.
3	Early and late modernization theories, World System Theory, underdevelopment Theory, Dependency Theory, Orientalism.
4	Early and late modernization theories, World System Theory, underdevelopment Theory, Dependency Theory, Orientalism.
5	General view of Turkish modernization experience.
6	Haldun Gülalp, “Policies of Modernization and Islamist Politics in Turkey”
7	Nilüfer Göle, “Modernization and Islamist Identity
8	Midterm Exam
9	Ernest Gellner, “Karşılaştırmalı Perspektiften Türk Seçeneği,” Roger Oven, “Ortadoğu Perspektifinde Modernleşmeci Projeler,”
10	Ernest Gellner, “Karşılaştırmalı Perspektiften Türk Seçeneği,” Roger Oven, “Ortadoğu Perspektifinde Modernleşmeci Projeler,”
11	Joel Mignal, “Olgu ve Kurgunun Buluşma Zemini,”
12	Cavit Orhan Tütengil, Azgelişmişliğin Sosyolojisi.
13	Postmodernizm
14	Postmodernizm
15	Postmodernizm
16	Final

Recommended or Required Reading

Sezgin Kızılçelik, Potmodernizm Dedikleri, Saray Kitabevi, 1996. Tuna, Muammer ve diğ, (2011) Modern Toplumun İnşası (Tarihsel ve sosyolojik Bir Perspektif, Detay Yayıncılık, Ankara

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
SUM		0
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
SUM		0
Yarıyıl (Yıl) İçi Etkinlikleri		40
Yarıyıl (Yıl) Sonu Etkinlikleri		60
SUM		100

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination	1	2	2
Final Examination	1	2	2
Makeup Examination	1	2	2
Attending Lectures	14	1	14
Discussion	14	2	28
Self Study	14	4	56
Reading	14	2	28
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			132

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

	PO 1	PO 2	PO 3	PO 4	PO 5	PO 6	PO 7	PO 8	PO 9	PO 10	PO 11	PO 12	PO 13
LO1	5	5	5	3	5	3	5	5	5	3	5	5	5
LO2	5	5	5	3	5	3	5	5	5	3	5	5	5
LO3	5	5	5	3	5	3	5	5	5	3	5	5	5
LO4	5	5	5	3	5	3	5	5	5	3	5	5	5
LO5	5	5	5	3	5	3	5	5	5	3	5	5	5

* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High