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POLS 612

Seminar in Social and Cultural Studies:

A graduate seminar that treats cultural studies from "below", through the critical philosophy and social theory that actually power its analyses, from Kant and Nietzsche through structuralism, Bourdieu, Adorno, Foucault, and actor-network theory. You read a dense weekly text, write short response papers (ten of them), and build toward a term project plus a final workshop presentation where participants bring in recent work the syllabus didn't cover. It assumes you can already handle theory at a serious level, and it's where political science students learn to do the kind of conceptual analysis that grounds later research on power, discourse, and modernity.

Kredi3ECTS5FakülteFaculty of Economics, Administrative, and Social SciencesBölümPolitical Science and Public AdministrationKoordinatörMehmet Nedim Karakayalı

→ STARS müfredatı (resmi syllabus)

Haftalık müfredat 14 hafta

Hafta 114–20 Eyl

Giriş: cultural studies'e eleştirel bakış

INTRODUCTION: This course is designed somewhat differently from most cultural studies courses. Focusing more on works in Critical Philosophy and Social Theory, it is more like an “underview” rather than an overview of Cultural Studies. And, seen from below, it would not be an exaggeration to say that what came to be called cultural studies in recent years essentially consists of critical analyses of cultural practices and representations. The ultimate aim of the course, therefore, can be summarized as understanding how these critical analyses are carried out.

cultural studiesCritical PhilosophySocial Theorycultural practices

Hafta 221–27 Eyl

Modern Sosyal Teori ve Cultural Studies'in Kökenleri

The Origins of Modern Social Theory and Cultural Studies - The Enlightenment, “Representation,” and Kant's Critical Method.

EnlightenmentrepresentationKantcritical method

Hafta 328 Eyl – 4 Eki

İdeoloji Kavramı ve Serüvenleri

The Concept of Ideology and its Vicissitudes.

ideologyvicissitudes

Hafta 45–11 Eki

Nietzsche ve modern değerlerin soykütüğü

Nietzsche and genealogy of modern values and institutions.

Nietzschegenealogymodern değerlerkurumlar

Hafta 512–18 Eki

Linguistic Turn, Structuralism ve Semiology

Linguistic Turn, Structuralism and Semiology.

Linguistic TurnStructuralismSemiology

Hafta 619–25 Eki

Bourdieu: yapısalcılığın ötesinde mi

Moving beyond Structuralism? Bourdieu on Habitus, Capital, Social Space, Reflexivity and the Logic of Practice.

habituscapitalsocial spacereflexivity

Hafta 726 Eki – 1 Kas

Modernliğin yeni sorunsalları: Adorno ve kültür endüstrisi

New Problematizations of Modernity in the Twentieth Century: Adorno on Enlightenment, Rationalization and Culture Industry.

AdornoEnlightenmentrationalizationculture industry

Hafta 82–8 Kas

Foucault: söylem, iktidar ve bilgi

Foucault on Discourse, Power and Knowledge.

Foucaultdiscoursepowerknowledge

Hafta 99–15 Kas

Panopticon ve biopower kavramları

Panopticon and Biopower.

Panopticonbiopower

Hafta 1016–22 Kas

Benlik teknolojileri ve pratikleri

Technologies and Practices of the Self

technologies of the selfpractices of the self

Hafta 1123–29 Kas

Yeni yönelimler: Actor-Network Theory

New Directions? Actor-Network Theory

Actor-Network Theory

Hafta 1230 Kas – 6 Ara

Genel Tekrar

Review

tekrar

Hafta 137–13 Ara

Katılımcı sunumları: güncel Cultural Studies

Workshop: Presentations by seminar participants. The choice of topics and texts is necessarily limited by time and energy considerations. To alleviate this limitation, in the final part of the course, the participants will have a chance to present and discuss topics that are not covered in the course outline, focusing on works published in the last few years in the field of Cultural Studies.

Cultural Studieskatılımcı sunumlarıson yıllardaki yayınlar

Hafta 1414–20 Ara

Workshop: seminer katılımcı sunumları

Workshop: Presentations by seminar participants.

katılımcı sunumlarıseminer

Değerlendirme 70% · 3 adım

30%

10%

Papers(s)/Reports Discussions, reflections and short presentations on seminar readings. 30%

Term project Critical Book Review 30%

Presentations Presentation of the Term-project 10%

en büyük tek kalem %30 · 18 dönem ortalaması 3.78 (204 öğrenci) nasıl hesaplanıyor

Önerilen kaynaklar 1 kitap

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Zorunlu

REQUIRED READINGS WILL BE AVAILABLE ON COURSE MOODLE SITE.

Bu dersi alınca · 4 öğrenme çıktısı

K2.Have command of fundamental concepts in Social and Behavioural Sciences and of relationships between concepts.Discussions, reflections and short presentations on seminar readings., Critical Book Review, Final:Take-home
S1.Analyse theoretical knowledge and evaluate its reflections in practice.Discussions, reflections and short presentations on seminar readings., Critical Book Review, Final:Take-home
L1.Evaluate the knowledge acquired in the field with a critical approach by investigating causal relationships.Discussions, reflections and short presentations on seminar readings., Critical Book Review, Final:Take-home
C1.Communicate the field-related knowledge and skills in writing and speaking.Discussions, reflections and short presentations on seminar readings., Presentation of the Term-project

Bilkent'in resmî syllabus'ünden. Sağdaki etiket o çıktının hangi değerlendirmeyle ölçüldüğünü söylüyor.

Ders notları · henüz yok

POLS 612 için defter ekibi henüz not yazmadı.

İlk dosyayı sen atarsan: not, slayt, geçmiş sınav, çözüm, cheat-sheet, ne varsa. defter ekibi öğrenci paylaşımlarından bu dersin notlarını yazar. Drive linki / PDF / ZIP, hepsi olur.

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Geçmiş GPA dağılımı 18 dönem · ort. 3.78

Dönem	Course CPA
2025-2026 Fall	3.84	1 sec · 19 öğr
2024-2025 Fall	3.91	1 sec · 10 öğr
2023-2024 Fall	3.95	1 sec · 7 öğr
2022-2023 Fall	3.65	1 sec · 14 öğr
2020-2021 Spring	3.66	1 sec · 13 öğr
2019-2020 Spring	3.95	1 sec · 12 öğr
2018-2019 Spring	3.73	1 sec · 8 öğr
2017-2018 Spring	3.80	1 sec · 8 öğr
2016-2017 Spring	3.76	1 sec · 10 öğr
2015-2016 Spring	3.93	1 sec · 10 öğr

Aggregate course GPA · Bilkent STARS'tan public data. Hoca-bazlı per-section detayı için STARS evaluation report →. Öğrenci anket cevapları KVKK kapsamında defter'de tutulmaz. Tüm derslerin ortalamaları →

Bu dönem · 2026-2027 Güz · 1 şube · 20 kontenjan

haftada 3 saat ders

Haftalık ızgarada 4 saat görünüyor, kayıt sistemi dersi 3 saat yazıyor. Aradaki 1 saat yedek saat: Bilkent programlarında derse genelde bir fazla saat ayrılır ve çoğu zaman kullanılmaz. Hangisinin düşeceği dönem başlayınca belli olur.

Nedim Karakayalı

Pzt10:30–12:20Çar15:30–17:20

kişilik

programıma ekle → CGPA'ya ekle kayıt tarihleri

Genelde sadece baharSon yıllarda 16 kez bahar döneminde açılmış, 5 kez güz.

⚠️ FZ engelleyen şartlar

In order to be eligible for taking the final exam, the simple average of a participant’s responses paper, research paper, and presentation grades should be no less than 35/100.

Hocalar 1 bu dönem · 1 geçmiş

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