1	Course Title:	POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM
2	Course Code:	ULI5121
3	Type of Course:	Optional
4	Level of Course:	Second Cycle
5	Year of Study:	1
6	Semester:	1
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	3
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:	Yrd.Doç.Dr. SEZGİN KAYA
16	Course Lecturers:
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	Aims to understand terorism, which has held a primary position both in national and international security agendas of countries, as a form of political violence and to have an academic information about its ethnic and religious roots
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development

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Learning Outcomes:

1 To be able to learn the concepts of political violence, terror, and terorism; 2 To be able to understand terrorism as security issue in all aspects; 3 To be able to have information about the international aspect of the war on terrorism; 4 To be able to analyze relations between ethnic conflicts and terorism; 5 To be able to have an elaborate picture on motivational terrorism as a global concept;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	History and the Root of Political Violence
2	Terrorism as a Type of Political Violence
3	Reasons and Types of Terrorism
4	Being Ethnic and Ethnic Clashes
5	Ethnic Terrorism and Its Examples
6	Religious Radicalism and Fundamentalism
7	Religiously- motivated Terrorism
8	Ideological Terrorism and Its Examples
9	Terrorism and Organized Crimes
10	Terrorism and the Problem of the Spread of WMDs
11	International Cooperation and the Future of the War on Terrorism
12	Turkey's War on Terrorism
13	Strategy of the USA on the War on Terrorism
14	European Perspective on the War on Terrorism

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	0	0
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	0	0
Final Exam	1	100
Total	1	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		0
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		100
Total		100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course
Information

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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	2	28
Homeworks, Performances	0	0	0
Projects	0	0	0
Field Studies	0	0	0
Midtermexams	0	0	0
Others	0	0	0
Final Exams	1	40	40
Total WorkLoad			96
Total workload/ 30 hr			3,2
ECTS Credit of the Course			3

26	CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS
PQ1 PQ2 PQ3 PQ4 PQ5 PQ6 PQ7 PQ8 PQ9 PQ10 LO1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LO2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LO3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LO4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LO5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High