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Academic staff member responsible for the design of the course syllabus
(name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature)
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NA
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Lecturer (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address
and signature) and Office Hours:
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Reina Shehi
, Friday 10:00-12:00
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Second Lecturer(s) (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email
address and signature) and Office Hours:
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NA
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| Teaching Assistant(s) and Office Hours: |
NA
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| Language: |
English
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| Compulsory/Elective: |
Elective
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| Course Description: |
Language, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans is a master level course. The aim of this course is to explore the relations (or absence of relations) between nationalism and ethnic conflicts in different socio-political contexts within Balkans. This course is designed not only for developing a comparative theoretical approach to nationalism and ethnic conflict but also for attempting to make a collective enquiry into the emergence and transformation of the concepts of nation, nationalism, patriotism, ethnic identity and ethnic conflict in the Balkans through time. After finishing this course student will be able to analyze and understand the relationship among theoretical approaches to nationalism and ethnic conflict and their practical implication in different Balkan countries.
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| Course Objectives: |
The course offers an analysis of the concepts such as nation, nationality, ethnicity as old as modern in the history of the Balkan region. The course begins with a broad understanding to theoretical approaches that explain the linkage of these concepts, and then passes on to the theoretical implication in the Western Balkans case. Specifically, students get to know in more detail the cases of Bosnia and Kosovo, which are widely recognized as cases of acute conflicts.
The aim of this course is to explore the relations (or absence of relations) between nationalism and ethnic conflicts in different socio-political contexts within Balkans. This course is designed not only for developing a comparative theoretical approach to nationalism and ethnic conflict but also for attempting to make a collective enquiry into the emergence and transformation of the concepts of nation, nationalism, patriotism, ethnic identity and ethnic conflict in the Balkans through EU Integration Framework. After finishing this course student will be able to analyze and understand the relationship among theoretical approaches to nationalism and ethnic conflict and their practical implication in different Balkan countries.
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| Week |
Topics |
| 1 |
Historical Overview of Identity Politics in the Balkans |
| 2 |
Approaches to Understanding Ethnic Conflicts in the Western Balkan Region |
| 3 |
Religious Identity and Ethnic Conflict: A case study of Bosnian War |
| 4 |
Ethnic Identity and Conflict: Lessons from Kosovo |
| 5 |
Ethnic Conflicts and International Actions: Comparing Kosovo with Bosnia |
| 6 |
Ethnic Nationalism and Regional Security |
| 7 |
Ethnic Identity and Contemporary Challenges: EU Transformative Framework |
| 8 |
Midterm Week |
| 9 |
Rule of Law and Human Rights |
| 10 |
Democratic Politics and Institutions |
| 11 |
Security and Migration |
| 12 |
Peace Education |
| 13 |
Neighbors and Neighborhoods |
| 14 |
Reaching Regional Cooperation and Sustainable Peace |
| No |
Program Competencies |
Cont. |
| Master of Science in Political Science and International Relations Program |
| 1 |
Having and using advanced knowledge and comprehension supported by textbooks including actual knowledge in political sciences and international relations literature, materials and the other scientific resources. |
5 |
| 2 |
Analyzing data, ideas and concepts of current political issues and international relations, determining complex events and topics, making discussions and developing new suggestions in accordance with researches. |
5 |
| 3 |
Having knowledge and thought about actual topics and problems together with their historical, social and cultural aspects. |
5 |
| 4 |
Introducing those who are interested in politics and international events with the topics of Political Science and IR and teaching clearly the problems and the types of solutions. |
5 |
| 5 |
Improving skills of working together with the main social science disciplines and other disciplines which are related to Political Science and International Relations. |
4 |
| 6 |
Improving critical thinking and skills in making research independently. |
5 |
| 7 |
Developing solutions about the problems and conflicts which are common in national and international arena. |
5 |
| 8 |
Improving skills for leadership and research and analyze capacity of those who is responsible with national and international ones. |
3 |
| 9 |
Knowing any foreign language enough to communicate with colleagues and understand actual researches and articles. |
4 |
| 10 |
Gaining IT skills to use computer and technology) in order to reach actual knowledge. |
2 |
| 11 |
Gaining skills to follow societal, scientific and ethic values during collecting, interpreting, conducting of data related to social and political developments. |
5 |
| 12 |
Having consciousness about human rights and environment. |
5 |
| 13 |
Gaining the skills to follow actual developments and pursue long-life learning. |
5 |
