Course Information

Semester	Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	T+P+L	Credit	Number of ECTS Credits
4	SRE202	Social Responsibility And Ethics (Fakülte Ortak)	3+0+0	3	6

Course Details

Language of Instruction	English
Level of Course Unit	Bachelor's Degree
Department / Program	Political Science and İnternational Relations (English)
Mode of Delivery	Face to Face
Type of Course Unit	Compulsory
Objectives of the Course	This course aims at providing students the opportunity to reason about right and wrong conduct, to assess moral beliefs and practices, and to apply that knowledge to make a positive difference in the community and the world.
Course Content	This course is an interdisciplinary and interactive introduction to ethics and the social responsibility. The material covered is intended to help prepare students to recognize and manage ethical issues as they arise and to help them formulate their own standards of integrity and professionalism.
Course Methods and Techniques	Readings, discussions, conducting and presenting projects of social responsibility.
Prerequisites and co-requisities	None
Course Coordinator	None
Name of Lecturers	Asist Prof. Ahmet Özcan
Assistants	None
Work Placement(s)	No

Recommended or Required Reading

Resources	Shafer-Landau, Russ (ed.), Ethical Theory: An Anthology (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).

	Shafer-Landau, Russ (ed.), Ethical Theory: An Anthology (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).

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Course Category

Social Sciences

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Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Activities are given in detail in the section of "Assessment Methods and Criteria" and "Workload Calculation"

Assessment Methods and Criteria

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration	Total Work Load
Course Duration	14	3	42
Hours for off-the-c.r.stud	14	3	42
Assignments	4	6	24
Mid-terms	1	20	20
Final examination	1	20	20
Total Work Load			Number of ECTS Credits 6 148

Course Learning Outcomes: Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

No	Learning Outcomes
1	Identifying moral questions as a distinct type of question about right and wrong conduct,
2	Defending one’s own attitudes and beliefs towards key societal moral issues,
3	Identifying the various types of ethical theories and the methods of moral reasoning associated with them
4	Designing and implementing a project that addresses a community need, explaining and defending the importance of that project from a moral standpoint.
5	Applying moral reasoning to concrete ethical problems in their social context, showing an awareness of the competing values at stake and the implications of the moral decision.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Topics	Materials
1	Introduction	Shafer-Landau, Russ (ed.), Ethical Theory: An Anthology (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).
2	Categorial Moral Reasoning (I)	Kant, “God and Immortality as Postulates of Pure Practical Reason”
3	Categorial Moral Reasoning (II)	Kant, “Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals”
4	Consequentialist Moral Reasoning (I)	Mill, “Utilitarianism”
5	Consequentialist Moral Reasoning (II)	Mill, “Hedonism”
6	General Overview	Shafer-Landau, Russ (ed.), Ethical Theory: An Anthology (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).
7	Midterm	Shafer-Landau, Russ (ed.), Ethical Theory: An Anthology (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).
8	Libertarianism (I)	Nozick, “The Experience Machine”
9	Libertarianism (II)	Nozick, “The Rationalist of Side Constraints”
10	Contractarianism	Rawls, “A Theory of Justice”
11	Relativism and Voluntarism (I)	Nietzsche, “The Genealogy of the Morals”
12	Relativism and Voluntarism (II)	Nietzsche, “The Genealogy of the Morals”
13	General Overview	Shafer-Landau, Russ (ed.), Ethical Theory: An Anthology (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).
14	Final	Shafer-Landau, Russ (ed.), Ethical Theory: An Anthology (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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