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Last Updated: 30/09/2026

Code - Course Title	Course Type	Laboratory + Practice	ECTS
TAR219U - Political Thought	I. SEMESTER	0 +0	5.0

Language of Instruction	İngilizce
Course Type	Required Courses
Course Instructor(s)	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Onur Arun
Mode of Delivery	Distance Education
Place of Delivery
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Prerequisites	There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.
Courses Recomended	ULI104U - Political Science
Recommended Resources	Arun, M. O. and Suğur, N. (2018). Political Thought, Eskişehir: Anadolu University Publication.
Work Placement	Not Applicable
Aims of the Course

Weeks	Learning Outcomes	Topics	Teaching Methods
Week - 1		This lecture is primarily dedicated to provide a broad information concerning fundamental perspectives in political thought
Week - 2		This lecture is primarily dedicated to provide a broad information concerning fundamental concepts in political thought
Week - 3		This lecture is primarily dedicated to provide a broad information concerning works and ideas of both Ancient Greece and Rome that played a foundational role in shaping modern political thoughts
Week - 4		This lecture is primarily dedicated to provide a broad information concerning medieval political thought in Islamic world through works and arguments of leading Islamic scholars
Week - 5		This lecture is primarily dedicated to provide necessary basic knowledge concerning leading ideas and scholars flourished during the Medieval Age of political philosophy
Week - 6		This lecture is primarily dedicated to provide necessary basic knowledge concerning leading ideas and scholars flourished during the Medieval Age of political philosophy
Week - 7		This week is allocated for the mid-term exam that covers up topics discussed beforehand
Week - 8		This week primarily aims to focus on foundational works of political figures such as Calvin, Bodin, Machiavelli ,Locke, More, Hobbes and Hume and explain how their ideas changed the course of political thought
Week - 9		This week primarily focuses on the Age of Enlightenment and political ideas emerged during this age
Week - 10		This week primarily focuses on the ideas shaped the period following the Age of Enlightenment such as works of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu, Alexis de Tocqueville
Week - 11		This week primarily focuses on the radical ideas that played influential role both in their own age and in the contemporary political thought, such as Marxism and Anarchism
Week - 12		This week primarily focuses on the central issue of political thought which is the idea of justice and provides a broad framework concerning the idea of justice in Ancient Greece and Rome
Week - 13		This week primarily focuses on the mainstream theories of social justice such as Utilitarianism, Libertarian Model, Rawlsian Model, and the capability approach to justice
Week - 14		This week is allocated for the final exam that covers up topics discussed during the semester

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Assessment Method and Passing Requirements
	Quamtity	Percentage (%)
1.Midterm Exam	1	30
Final Exam	1	70
Toplam (%)		100