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Examining how social ideas are expressed through and portrayed in works of the creative imagination. A selection of literary texts, films, visual representations, and/or essays that speak to a particular social issue or set of interrelated social issues. A variety of themes, such as feminism, globalization, migration, environmentalism, post-colonialism and nationalism. Developing students’ competencies in: written and oral communication skills; creativity and scepticism; and critical thinking.

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Examinaton of the definition of the ‘Other’, starting with the widespread description of the term as the processes by which social groups create boundaries and distinctions, often demonizing, dehumanizing, romanticizing, or exoticizing those who do not fit into their society. Exploring the notions of the Other represented in literature to canvas a human fascination with the foreign and the unknown, unlimited by time, place, or cultural context. Focusing on the ways of perception of the Other in socio-cultural, political, religious, geographic, ethnic, gendered, or racial terms in different cultures or time periods. Exploring human identity in relation to the Otherness of the monstrous, the animal, and the super-, sub-, or extra-human.

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1515945842258{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”ASIU104″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”ART AND INNOVATION” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Interdisciplinary study of connections between art/design and politics, science, psychology, literature, music. Creative thinking activities.  Innovative design studio. Role of images in propaganda, advertising. Impact of masterpieces in society. Visual perception, gestalt, color theory, drawing as a way of thinking, form and function, poetics of space, collaboration, artistic research. Fluxus, public art, information arts, kinetic sculpture, environmental art.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”ASIU107″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”LANDMARKS OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Introducing students a select group of significant monuments in world art and architecture and present the unique aesthetic, cultural and historical issues that frame them; presenting the main methods to analyze and interpret artworks produced in different media. A different time period and culture each week, as wide-ranging as 20th century Europe and America, Safavid Persia, Medieval Europe, Ancient Greece, etc.  Social factors in the creation process of artworks, and how the specific cultural context of the artworks influences our reading and understanding of them.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1515945842258{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1515945815718{padding-right: 10px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”ASIU109″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”ART OF MUSIC AND MOVEMENT IN THE 20TH CENTURY” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ google_fonts=”font_family:Source%20Sans%20Pro%3A200%2C200italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_column_text]An exploration of the aesthetic concepts of the 20th century musical composition and dance choreography, the arts of creating/organizing sounds and movements.  Possible relationships-both diverging and converging-between these two disciplines when brought together on stage in traditional or contemporary inter-disciplinary artistic forms such as dance-musical, music-drama, opera, digital multi-media performance. Considering parallel developments in other artistic fields such as painting, sculpture and cinema. Testing and challenging the boundaries between sound and movement, as well as those investigating the tripartite relation between sound, movement and image. Critical discussions on Aesthetics, Modernity&Postmodernity, High&Low Art, Orientalism&Self-Orientalism, the nature of art and creativity, autonomy of artistic disciplines as well as blurring of boundaries.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”ASIU111″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”FILM GENRE” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ google_fonts=”font_family:Source%20Sans%20Pro%3A200%2C200italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_column_text]Some of the many questions, concerns and misconceptions raised by the study of film through genre: What is genre? Are film genres a marketing tool, a by-product of journalism or a fundamental way of understanding and discussing motion pictures? Is there such a thing as a `genre film? or is no movie immune to genre criticism? What are the generic tropes associated with certain genres? Can a film belong to more than one genre? Does a film?s genre stay the same over time? Does a genre-based view expand or delimit our conception of a motion picture?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1515945842258{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1515945815718{padding-right: 10px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”ASIU116″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”BODIES IN LITERATURE” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ google_fonts=”font_family:Source%20Sans%20Pro%3A200%2C200italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_column_text]Offers a broad introduction to the growing corpus of literature on the body. Draws on novels, theatrical plays and films across a range of cultural locations and over a broad chronological span from the Renaissance to the present. Considers the ways in which bodily representations reflect social and political attitudes about class, race, gender, and sexuality, and how these attitudes change across different historical periods. Explores the politics of bodily representation in a historicist way and provides a basic introduction to key literary periods.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”ASIU118″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”DESIGN THINKING” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ google_fonts=”font_family:Source%20Sans%20Pro%3A200%2C200italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_column_text]Exploring the innovation and creative processes through interdisciplinary work and research structures. Understanding design problems independent from their disciplinary boundaries. Gaining an integrative understanding of innovation based on human-centered design.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1515945842258{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”ASIU122″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”NEW MUSIC TRENDS : 20th CENTURY AND AFTER” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ google_fonts=”font_family:Source%20Sans%20Pro%3A200%2C200italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_column_text]An introduction to the major composers, works and the aesthetic trends of the 20th century music and later. Developing new ways of listening by getting exposed to various examples of “new music”. Discussions on topics as aesthetics, modernity and postmodernity, dialectics of harmony and dissonance, noise and politics, open work, musical time, temporality and process etc. will be held along with assigned readings.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1516204934380{background-color: #e57373 !important;}”][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”ECON” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1517468565306{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fcore.ku.edu.tr%2Fportfolio-item%2Fecon%2F|title:ECON||”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1515945842258{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1515945815718{padding-right: 10px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”ECON100″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS ” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Economic reasoning; basic concepts and processes in microeconomics and macroeconomics; identification and discussion of current economic issues covered in popular economics publications.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1516204959142{background-color: #8caedc !important;}”][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”EQUR” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1517468607154{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fcore.ku.edu.tr%2Fportfolio-item%2Fequr%2F|title:EQUR||”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1515945842258{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1515945815718{padding-right: 10px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”EQUR101″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”QUANTITATIVE REASONING USING COMPUTERS” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]

Effective assessment of data by applying statistics and computing techniques. Introduction of major data descriptors. Applying spreadsheet tools to facilitate data analysis and consequent decision making. Introduction to flowcharts and algorithms. Algorithmic reasoning for computer programming. Emerging information and computing technologies and the future of computing.

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Examination of concepts such as law, justice and fairness; relationship between law, religion, morals and ethics; natural law and the law of nature; theories of ethical reasoning: utiliarianism, egoism, relativism, deontology; justice as a theory of ethical reasoning, normative ethics and Greek philosophy; modern ethics and postmodern ethics, ethics and science; understanding the legal concepts of rights, duties, personality and their ethical dimensions.

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”ETHC105″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”ETHICS AND EVERYDAY LIFE” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Understanding how we experience freedom, justice, equality, rights, good&evil, judgments, and discrimination in our everyday life from the corner of a grocery store to a doctor’s office, to a court-house or to a class at the university. Analyzing the various ways of ethical reasoning already happening in our everyday interactions in order to enrich and sometimes to challenge the philosophical theories of ethics. Analyzing the already existing theories of ethical reasoning in the history of philosophy to challenge our at times non-reasoning habits. Connections between theory and practice in everyday life through very open discussion of everyday examples in connection to our readings of ethical reasoning from Plato, Aristotle, Mill, Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Sartre, Arendt, De Beauvior, etc.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1515945842258{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1515945815718{padding-right: 10px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”ETHC107″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”SEXISM AND DISCRIMINATION” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Investigation of sexism, discrimination and gender equality from an interdisciplinary perspective to explore various aspects of “women’s human rights” from historical, legal, philosophical as well as sociological perspectives. Examination of  concepts such as sex, gender, oppression, equality, equity, justice, intersectionality, cultural relativism and rights.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”ETHC108″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”WHY BE GOOD?” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The case for acting ethically rather than unethically. Explores the motivations behind ethical actions, the status of ethical ‘truths’, and the relationship (if any) between an ethical life and a happy life. Examines research on ethical behavior from disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1515945842258{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”ETHC109″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]A growing area of philosophy focusing on issues about the value of nature and other living beings and our responsibility towards them.  Primary questions dealing with issues of moral responsibility of human beings towards other life forms and on the relative value of nature.  Various topics focus on economic and technological development, pollution, the preservation of species, and the uses and abuses of life.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1515945815718{padding-right: 10px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”ETHC113″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”A QUEST FOR ETHICAL FOUNDATIONS” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]A historical introduction to ethical reasoning in order to develop skills to examine our lives. Recognition of the principal problems of ethics in a variety of works. Reading, thinking and writing critically about ethical issues and problems. Examination of  theory of knowledge, origins of ethics, ethical responsibility and critiques of ethical theories under the guidance of  Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant and Nietzsche.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1516205345846{background-color: #cedc38 !important;}”][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”HUMS” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1517468646823{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fcore.ku.edu.tr%2Fportfolio-item%2Fhums%2F|title:HUMS||”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1515945842258{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”HUMS104″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”SEA ROUTES: CIVILZATIONS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The history, archaeology, art and architecture of societies and civilizations of the Mediterranean region from the prehistory until the 15th century AD. Focusing on the examination, discussion and analysis of the art, architecture, history and religion of various civilizations in Anatolia, Near East, the Levant, Northern Africa, Greece and western Mediterranean countries. Some basic questions such as exchange, continuity and discontinuity, trade, migration, traditions and innovations.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1515945815718{padding-right: 10px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”HUMS105″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”FAITH AND POWER: EXPLORING THE WORLD MIDDLE AGES” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Introduction to the key issues in the cultural history of Europe, Near Eastern Mediterranean, Eurasia and Americas from the 5th century A.D. to the 15th century, emphasis on aspects, which have contributed to our modern cultures. Various sources, methods of analysis of history, society, religion and art of medieval cultures as well as their mutual relationships and connections. Focusing on the Byzantine world and Medieval Europe, the rise and spreading of Islamic civilizations, the developments in Eurasian and Mesoamerican civilizations before the 15th century.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1515945842258{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1515945815718{padding-right: 10px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”HUMS116″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”CURIOSITY” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]An interdisciplinary inquiry into historical, theoretical and practical questions on curiosity in philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, education, evolution, and artificial intelligence. Definitions of curiosity and its different forms; how curiosity relates to awareness of ignorance, asking questions, knowledge, truth, understanding, exploration, inquiry, discovery, invention, creativity etc. Ethical, moral, and normative questions on curiosity. Curiosity as a value, a virtue and a vice.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”HUMS120″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”TRUTH AND POLITICS” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]An examination of the relationships between truth and power through the history of  philosophy from the Greeks to the 20th century. Assessment of the relations between knowledge and political authority through the examination of key texts from Plato, Descartes, Kant, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Marx, etc. Contextualized elucidation of various models of government through their reliance on philosophical and theological worldviews. Examination of the political implication of scientific and philosophical developments.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1515945842258{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1515945815718{padding-right: 10px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”HUMS125″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”EMPIRES OF THE STEPPES: ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF EURASIAN EMPIRES” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Examines the material culture of nomadic empires that emerged from the Eurasian steppe from antiquity to the early modern era. Thought of as bow-wielding warriors on horseback, tribal groups such as the Scythians, Huns, Turks, Mongols and Timurids encountered and came to rule many cities from ancient Greece to China. Studies the art and architecture of steppe cultures and assesses the dynamics between nomadic and settled civilizations.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”HUMS129″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”CRITICAL THINKING” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]An introduction of the distinction between an argument and merely a set of sentences. An examination of the distinction between good cases and bad cases of reasoning. In depth study of some of the basic distinctions between different types of reasoning.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1515945842258{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”HUMS130″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHOLOGY” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]An introduction to key aspects of the History of Science and Technology from ancient times to today. Investigating the changing relationship between culture and science and technology, and traces the history of ideas from antiquity to the modern day such as experimentation, the scientific method, a heliocentric solar system, and various ways of measuring and understanding time.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”HUMS131″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”HISTORY, POWER AND PEOPLE” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Examining the world history, politics and society between the 17th century and the early 21th century. Focusing on both chief themes such as nation-states, citizenship, hegemony, colonization, migration and liberalism and major events such as French Revolution, the spread of westernization, the rivalries of the Great Powers, World War I, the spread of Americanization, the rise of Communism, and the spread of globalization. Recourse to a variety of historical, sociological, philosophical sources, the writings of major thinkers to films, photos and cartoons.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1515945842258{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”HUMS132″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”ILLUSION : WHEN APPEARANCES DECEIVE” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]An interdisciplinary exploration of how appearances mislead us and strategies for responding to deceptive appearances. Issues to be discussed include: how illusion and hallucination challenge the assumption that perception gives us knowledge of external reality; how theory colors scientific observation; how purveyors of ”fake news” manipulate appearances; and how we can avoid these varieties of perceptual error as individuals, researchers, and citizens. Drawing widely on resources from philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1516205317333{background-color: #9e89c0 !important;}”][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”SCIE” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1517468692672{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fcore.ku.edu.tr%2Fportfolio-item%2Fscie%2F|title:SCIE||”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1515945842258{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1515945815718{padding-right: 10px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”SCIE102″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”INTRODUCTION TO ECOLOGY” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Introduction to the science of ecology including the physical, chemical and biological processes, and interactions that influence the distribution and abundance of organisms. Fundamental principles and concepts of ecology across multiple levels of organization: individual organism, population, community, ecosystem, and landscape. Global climate/biome structure and distribution, population structure and growth, community diversity, species interactions, evolution, energy flow, nutrient cycling, succession, molecular ecology, and human influences on ecosystems.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”SCIE103″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=” LIFE SCIENCES” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]General overview of living organisms. Selected topics on the control of cellular mechanisms. Gene technology and evolution.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1515945842258{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1515945815718{padding-right: 10px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”SCIE106″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”THE FASCINATING NATURE OF LIGHT” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Does light behave as waves or particles? How does light interact with atoms? What is special about the speed of light? The revolutionary theories of light that have emerged over the recent centuries.  Topics include a historical survey of the milestones and pioneers, wave nature of light, photons, quantum theory, Einstein?s relativity theories, and interaction of light with atoms.  Lasers, fiber optics, and other technological applications based on light.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”SCIE108″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”WORLD OF CHEMISTRY” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Chemical facts; matter and energy; nucleus, atom and periodic law; chemical bonding; chemical reactions; polymers. The impact of scientific methods and chemical discoveries on our standard of living. Understanding contemporary issues related to atmosphere, hydrosphere, air and water pollution; global warming and renewable energy; recycling.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1516205332165{background-color: #0bbcd4 !important;}”][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”SOSC” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1515952161098{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1515945842258{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”SOSC102″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”CULTURE AND SOCIETY” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Introduction of main themes of discussion within the field of sociology of culture, focusing on four selected themes: 1) culture and domination; 2) culture and signification, 3) culture and practice, 4) cultural continuity and discontinuity. A good mix of theoretical and empirical orientations, with examples from both the Turkish context and around the world in order to understand how symbols, language, conceptual structures, forms of knowledge and forms of power interact to create meaning in our lives.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”SOSC104″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND RELATIONSHIPS” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Family relations; social relations; social influence; group behavior;  socio-cognitive development and relational influences; behavior in organizations.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1515945842258{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”SOSC111″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”STUDIES IN POPULAR CULTURE” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]An introduction to a scholarly study of popular culture, with the overall objective of illustrating how pop culture influences our attitudes and worldviews. Dissecting a variety of pop culture texts such as cartoons, children’s literature, youtube videos, commercials, advertisements, websites, music videos, television, film and news broadcasts.  Focusing on icons and imagery which address a global dimension of pop culture. Culture through a variety of more specific critical lenses (such as gender, class, race and ethnicity, sexuality, and  beauty).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”SOSC118″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”ENCOUNTERS WITH GLOBALIZATION” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The meaning of globalization; the global economic order; globalization, development and inequality, the global financial crisis of 2008; the future of the global trading order; globalization and new insecurities: migration, terrorism and environmental challenges; emerging powers; the rise of China and the new Russia-China axis; Turkey in a shifting global context; the future of the European Union in the post-Brexit era; the future of American leadership; challenges to liberal democracy and the liberal international order[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1515945842258{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”SOSC105″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”MIGRATION & GLOBALIZATION” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Present realities of contemporary global migration in the context of social sciences. Critical analysis of the social problems such as social mobility, poverty, gender and education, inequality and citizenship as they relate to migration. Understanding the basic methods used for analysing migration related issues. Exploring fundamental consequences of migration for shaping social relations at local and global levels. Examination of social forces within the contexts of migration and migrant integration.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”SOSC110″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:rgba(0%2C0%2C0%2C0.9)” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”STATE AND SOCIETY” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23353638″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]An introductory exploration of state-society relations from an interdisciplinary perspective. Focusing on the questions of  what the state is, what the society is, and what  the relationship  between the two is? The concept of citizenship and how the state relates to citizens through security forces, juridical system, social welfare, education, religion and culture. Working with  examples from history, Turkey and other countries.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section]