1	Course Title:	POSTMODERN SOCIETY
2	Course Code:	SSY4061
3	Type of Course:	Optional
4	Level of Course:	First Cycle
5	Year of Study:	4
6	Semester:	7
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	5
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	2
9	Practice (hour/week) :	0
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	Turkish
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Dr. Ögr. Üyesi Erhan KUÇLU
16	Course Lecturers:
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyoloji Bölümü 16059 Görükle / Bursa Tel: 0224 294 18 41 E-mail: ikeskin@uludag.edu.tr
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	This course aims to inform acteristics of Eastern - Western knowledge, theories about the process of modernity-postmodernity, terms of modern-postmodern, modernity-postmodernity, colonialism- postcolonialism, orientalism, multiculturalism.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development

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Learning Outcomes:

1 Learns comparing modernism-postmodernism.; 2 Learns the terms about the comparing modernism-postmodernism.; 3 Learns postmodernist theories.;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	General definition of modernism and postmodernism and the relation between of them.
2	Historical and political conditions of postmodernism.
3	Roots of postmodernist theories in the modern thought and age of enlightenment.
4	Relation between poststructuralism and postmodernism.
5	Critique of reason and subjectivism.
6	Theory, narrative and righteousness.
7	Postmodern language + Midterm
8	Essentialism/ anti-essentialism.
9	Causality/ anti-causality
10	Deconstruction
11	Intersubjectivity
12	Pervading of modernism, discussions of postmodernism as a new phase.
13	Consequences of postmodernism in sociology, potentials of a postmodern sociology.
14	General evaluation

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	Akay, Ali Postmodernizm, L& M Yayınları, İstanbul, 2005. Harvey, David Postmodernliğin Durumu, Metis Yayınları, İstanbul, 2003. Sarup, Madan Post-Yapisalcilik ve Postmodernizm, Bilim ve Sanat Yayinlari, Ankara, 2004. Megill, Allan Aşırılığın Peygamberleri, Say Yayınları, İstanbul, 2012.
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	1	40
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	0	0
Final Exam	1	60
Total	2	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		40
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		60
Total		100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course
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ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

Activites	NUMBER	TIME [Hour]	Total WorkLoad [Hour]
Theoretical	14	2	28
Practicals/Labs	0	0	0
Self Study and Preparation	14	3	42
Homeworks, Performances	0	10	30
Projects	2	10	20
Field Studies	0	0	0
Midtermexams	1	15	15
Others	0	0	0
Final Exams	1	15	15
Total WorkLoad			150
Total workload/ 30 hr			5
ECTS Credit of the Course			5

26	CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS
PQ1 PQ2 PQ3 PQ4 PQ5 PQ6 PQ7 PQ8 PQ9 PQ10 PQ11 PQ12 LO1 4 4 3 4 3 4 3 4 5 4 5 4 LO2 3 5 3 3 3 4 5 5 5 3 2 3 LO3 3 5 3 3 5 3 5 5 4 5 3 3

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High