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Code - Course Title Course Type Laboratory + Practice ECTS
GZT340 - The Capability Approach and Human Development VI. SEMESTER 3 +0 5.0
Language of Instruction İngilizce
Course Type Area Elective Courses
Course Instructor(s) DOÇ. DR. MUSTAFA ONUR ARUN
Mode of Delivery The mode of delivery of this course is face to face
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Prerequisites There is no pre- or co-requisite for this course
Courses Recomended Theories of Social Justice
Recommended Resources Alkire, S. (2002). “Dimensions of Human Development”, World Development, Vol: 30 (2), pp: 181-205.Alkire, S. (2005). “Why the Capability Approach”, Journal of Human Development, Vol: 6 (1), pp: 115-33.Deneulin, S. and Shahani, L. (2009) (Eds.). Introduction to the Human Development and the Capability Approach. Earthscan.Nussbaum, M. (2011). Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.Robeyns, I. (2005). “The Capability Approach: A Theoretical Survey”, Journal of Human Development, Vol: 6 (1), pp: 93-114.Sen, A. K. (1987). Commodities and Capabilities, Third Edition (1999), Oxford University Press, Delhi.Sen, A. K. (1992). Inequality Reexamined, Oxford University Press.Sen, A. K. (1999). Development as Freedom, Knopf Borzoi Books.
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Weeks Learning Outcomes Topics Teaching Methods
Week - 1 Introduction to the Course Content, Lecturing and Grading Policies
Week - 2 Wealth of Nations and Welfare of Nations
Week - 3 The Human Development Paradigm
Week - 4 The Capability Approach as a Normative Framework for Welfare
Week - 5 Foundational Concepts I: Means and Ends
Week - 6 Foundational Concepts II: Functionings and Conversion Factors
Week - 7 Foundational Concepts III: Capability, Freedom, and Agency
Week - 8 Operationalisation of the Capability Approach: A Three-Dimensional Analyses
Week - 9 The Capability Approach to Social Justice
Week - 10 The Capability Approach to Poverty and Deprivation
Week - 11 The Capability Approach to Gender Inequalities
Week - 12 The Capability Approach in Evaluating Disadvantages in Türkiye
Week - 13 Capabilities and Conceptualisations of the Good Life
Week - 14 Human Development in Türkiye

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