XENOPHOBIA AND ISLAMOPHOBIA

PSIR568

Course Code: PSIR568
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 10

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Master's Degree Without Thesis

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Professor Menderes Çınar

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

Develop a different perspective and question current events with a different view.
Learn a global perspective from case studies.
Comprehend the societies', politics', education's, media's responsibility in hostile and phobic behavior.
Make their own self assessment and self criticism and realize a change of behavior via this view to "difference".

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

No recommended optional programme components.

Course Description

Generally in Europe, particularly in the world, while it seems like the universal "high" values are on a rise, especially after the attacks on 11th September 2001 xenophobia (fear from the foreign people, seeing them as enemies) and Islamophobia (fear from Muslims, seeing them as enemies) are increasing. In this course the impacts of Samuel Huntington's thesis of "the clash of civilizations" will be covered. Especially, how and why xenophobia and Islamophobia have been increasing in European Union will be analyzed and the studies conducted for preventing this rise will be assessed.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Definitions - What is Xenophobia? What is Islamophobia?
2^nd Week	Theoretical Basics: Realism, Liberalism and Constructivism
3^rd Week	The Responsibility of Politics I: The Rise of the Radical Right
4^th Week	The Responsibility of Politics II: The Acquiescence and Radicalization of the Center Right
5^th Week	The Responsibility of Politics III: The Problems of the Left
6^th Week	The Responsibility of Global Politics
7^th Week	The Effects of September 11: Before and After September 11
8^th Week	The Responsibility of Eduction: The View of Education Systems to the "Different"
9^th Week	The Responsibility of Media: The View of Media to the "Different"
10^th Week	Case Study I: The United States of America and Xenophobia and Islamophobia
11^th Week	Case Study II: The European Union and Xenophobia and Islamophobia
12^th Week	Case Study III: Xenophobia and Islamophobia in Globap Perspective
13^th Week	Case Study IV: Xenophobia and Islamophobia / or Phobia against other Religions in Turkey
14^th Week	Endeavors and Counter Efforts to Diminish Xenophobia and Islamophobia

Recommended or Required Reading

David Gowland, Richard Dunphy and Charlotte Lythe, The European Mosaic, Third Edition, London: Prentice Hall, 2006.
Maggie Ibrahim: The Securitization of Migration: A Racial Discourse, International Migration Vol. 43 (5) 2005.
Sara Silvestri, "EU Relations with Islam in the Context of the EMP's Cultural Dialogue", Mediterranean Politics, Vol. 10, No. 3, November 2005.
Jack G. Shaheen, "Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People", Annals, AAPSS, 588, July 2003.
Enes Karic, "Is "Euro-Islam' a Myth, Challenge or a Real Opportunity for Muslims and Europe", Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2002.
Mustafa Malik, "Islam in Europe: Quest for a Paradigm", Middle East Policy, Vol. 8, No. 2, June 2001.
Tiziana Sforza, "The Islamic invasion", cafebabel - The European Magazine, 31.10.2005.
Tim Bale, "Cinderella and Her Ugly Sisters: The Mainstream and Extreme Right in Europe's Bipolarising Party Systems", West European Politics, Vol. 26, No. 3, July 2003.
Ole Waever, Securitization and Desecuritization, in: Ronnie Lipschutz (Ed.), On Security,. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
Liz Fekete, "Enlightened fundamentalism Immigration, feminism and the Right", Race & Class, Vol. 48, No. 1, 2006.
Angus Roxburgh, Preachers of Hate: The Rise by Stealth of the Far Right, London: Gibson Square Books, 2002.
Julie Waterson, "Far right. Beating the Bigots", Socialist Review, Issue 272, March 2003.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Discussion
Questions/Answers
Presentation
Other

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Assignment	3	40
Project	1	30
Total(%)		70
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		70
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		30
Total(%)		100

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work	14	4	56
Preparation for Final exam	1	52	52
Course hours	14	3	42
Preparation for Midterm exam
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam	1	3	3
Homework	3	35	105
Project	1	50	50
Total Work Load			308
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			10.26
ECTS Credit of the Course			10

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

	LO1	LO2	LO3	LO4
K1	X	X	X	X
K2			X
K3
K4	X	X	X
K5
K6	X		X	X
K7		X		X
K8	X			X