Bayburt University Lifelong Learning Programme

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	Number of ECTS Credits
TR218.1B	Eastern and Western Thought	Elective	2	4	2

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

To learn western and eastern phylosophers.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Learning Outcomes

1	learn and compare philosphic and mystic developments in the East
2	learn the philosophic developments in the West
3	develop thinking
4	compare Turkısh thought and culture with others

Mode of Delivery

Normal Education

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Western philosophy and mystic thought. İslamic thought and Sufism, Buddhism, Hinduism İbni Sina, Farabi, İbni Haldun, Mevlana. Old Greek philosophy and Renaissance. New Ages Philosophy. Modernimse and Post modernism.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Basic bibliography, terminology problem.
2	Love aesthetics as the basis of eastern mentality, tevhid idea, mysticism and religious orders.
3	Love aesthetics as the basis of eastern mentality, tevhid idea, mysticism and religious orders.
4	Feridüddin Attar, Mantıkuttayr; Sühreverdi, Karıncaların Dili.The transformation of western mentality. Antiquities, Middle Ages, Scholastic mentality, Renaissance, formation of the individual and the bourgeoisie, Enlightenment, French Revolution, Industrial
5	Revolution, Information Age?
6	Revolution, Information Age?
7	Concept of Mimesis, Theory of Reflection
8	Concept of Mimesis, Theory of Reflection
9	The concept of mimesis in Muslim tradition.
10	Stylized and abstract art in the east and west, Hat and miniature analysis, compared with portrait, landscape and still life.
11	Degeneration of the tradition. Adventure of Westernization.
12	Targeted Western: Idea of Enlightenment, the comparison of paintings of Levni, Vanmour and Naqqash Osman; comparison of eastern and western mentality and art.
13	Orientalism.
14	The eastern world outside the Muslim world. Buddhism, Hinduism.
15	The eastern world outside the Muslim world. Confucianism.
16	End-of-term exam

Recommended or Required Reading

Koç, T. 2008; İslam Estetiği, İsam Yayınları, İstanbul.Ayvazoğlu, B. 1982; Aşk Estetiği, Birlik Yayınları, Ankara

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Midterm Examination	1	100
SUM		100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Final Examination	1	100
SUM		100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities		40
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities		60
SUM		100

Language of Instruction

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination	1	1	1
Final Examination	1	1	1
Question-Answer	1	10	10
Individual Study for Homework Problems	2	20	40
Homework	2	4	8
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			60

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