This course analyzes how particular communities’ and subject’s way of thinking and perceiving is formed in particular periods and how they can disintegrate or change direction by referring to linguistics, semiology, technologies of the self (Foucaultian sociology) and psychoanalysis. Basically the course provides a post-structuralist methodology for understanding the contingent nature of social forms, norms and ideologies.
Upon succesful completion of this course, a student will be able to
1. Understand and explain the most significant debates and discussions within the discipline of political theory from a multi-disciplinary perspective.
2. Discern the conflicting and inconsistent points within a given social and political current or a system of thought by detecting its contingent points.
3. Recognize the weak points of a given socio-political structure or a system of thought, which could make it, change, marginalize or disintegrate in time.
4. Gain an extensive insight about how people perceive political power and have a command of various parameters of the relationship between people and political power.
5. Develop a wider scope in exploring solutions for social and political problems.
6. Gain more insight, control and flexibility in managing personal and social relations.
7. Develop complex argumentation skills in speech and writing
Workload | Hrs |
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Case Study Analysis | 16 |