SUİ336

Nationalism and Minorities

Faculty \ Department
School of Economics and Administrative Sciences \ Political Science and International Relations
Course Credit
ECTS Credit
Course Type
Instructional Language
3
6
Elective
English
Prerequisites
-
Programs that can take the course
The course is elective for students of the Department of Political Science and International Relations and also of other departments.
Course Description
Designed specifically for students in the Department of Political Science and International Relations, this course includes the formation of the nationalist phenomenon, its historical process, and the conceptual development of time-space with an interdisciplinary approach in social sciences.
Textbook and / or References
Umut Özkırımlı, Theories of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction [2nd ed.], Palgrave, 2010, 257 s.
Baskın Oran, Etnik ve Dinsel Azınlıklar, İstanbul: Literatür, 2018, 496 sf.
Gofman, Daniel, “Ottomans Millets in the Early Seventeenth Century”, New Perspectives on Turkey, Fall 1994, 135-158. [24 p.]
Braude, Benjamin. “Foundation Myths of the Millet System,” in Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire: The Functioning of a Plural Society, vol. 1, New York and London: Holmes and Meier Publishers, 1982, 69-88.
Roudometof, From millet to greek nation, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 16, 1998, 11-36.
R.H. Davison, Turkish Attitudes Concerning Christian-Muslim Equality in the Nineteenth Century, The American Historical Review, 1954, 59/4, 844-864.
Course Objectives
The course focuses on various nationalist movements in the direction of case studies, it is evaluated through today's nation state, multiculturalism and other subjects in the global, national and regional contexts.
Course Outcomes
1. They will understand that the problems between dominant nationalisms and minorities are mutual.
2. Students will understand that the tension between [minority] rights and politics [nationalism] is inevitable.
Tentative Course Plan
Week 1: Definitions, Theories, Concepts,
Week 2: Discourses and Debates on Nationalism
Week 3: Nationalism Theories I : Primordialist
Week 4: Nationalism Theories II : Constructionalist
Week 5: Nationalism Theories III : New approaches
Week 6: Vize
Week 7: Minority Rights and Minority Movements
Week 8: Ottoman Millet system
Week 9: Ottoman Emergence of Minorities
Week 10: Minorities in Turkey VS Turkish/Muslim Minorities in other states
Week 11: General Evaluation
Week 11: General Evaluation
Tentative Assesment Methods
• Midterm % 35
• Final % 35
• Participation % 10
• Presentation % 20
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Course Outcome
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