1	Course Title:	INTRODUCTION TO ECOLOGICAL SOCIOLOGY
2	Course Code:	SSY1076
3	Type of Course:	Compulsory
4	Level of Course:	First Cycle
5	Year of Study:	1
6	Semester:	2
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	5
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	2
9	Practice (hour/week) :	0
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:	None
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	Turkish
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Dr. Ögr. Üyesi ENES BATTAL KESKİN
16	Course Lecturers:	Prof. Dr. Hüsamettin ARSLAN
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyoloji Bölümü Tel:0224-294-18-41 E-posta:harslan56@gmail.com
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	To recognize the living environment and its problem.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development

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Learning Outcomes:

1 Recognition of environment and nature; 2 understand the relationship between environment and society; 3 Understand the environment and natüre transformation; 4 learning the approach to enviromentand nature; 5 gain the enviromental sensitivity;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	What is ecology? Basic concepts
2	Historical background of human-nature relationship
3	From hunter-gatherer societies to industrial societies: human-nature relationship
4	The evolution of the idea of the nature: from living natüre to mechanical nature
5	“Nature”, “Environment” and SocialTheory
6	The role of the environment historically in social theory-
7	The uses of natüre and the nonhuman world in social theory: pre-Enlightenment and Enlightenment accounts
8	Social theory in Twentieth-centruyandnonhumanworld
9	Right-wing approaches to environmental policies
10	Left-wing approaches to environmental policies
11	Gender, the nonhuman World and social thought
12	The environment and economic thought
13	Risk, environment and postmodernism
14	Bacis approaches, solutions and proposals to ecological problems

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	Bookchin, Murray, Ekolojik Bir Topluma Doğru, Sümer, 2014; Kovel, Joel, Doğanın Düşmanı/ Kapitalizmin Sonu mu, Dünyanın Sonu mu?, Metis, 2005; Giddens, Anthony, İklim Değişikliği Siyaseti!, Phoenix, 2013; Ponting, Clive, Dünyanın Yeşil Tarihi & Çevre ve Büyük Uygarlıkların Dönüşümü, Sabancı Üniversitesi, 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
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	16	6	96
Homeworks, Performances	0	0	0
Projects	0	0	0
Field Studies	0	0	0
Midtermexams	1	12	12
Others	0	0	0
Final Exams	1	20	20
Total WorkLoad			156
Total workload/ 30 hr			5,2
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 2 3 4 1 2 5 5 5 5 3 LO2 5 4 2 3 5 2 3 5 5 5 4 4 LO3 4 5 2 2 3 2 3 4 4 5 5 3 LO4 4 5 2 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 4 LO5 0 0 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