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MULTICULTURALISM COURSE IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Code Name of the Course Unit Semester In-Class Hours (T+P) Credit ECTS Credit
SOS444 MULTICULTURALISM 5 3 3 5

Objectives and Contents

Objectives: This course aims to enable students to develop an understanding about multicultural citizenship and the co-existing with different cultures and to focus on their appearance in today's societies. It is aimed that the students will gain a broad perspective on citizenship understanding in a globalizing world.
Content: Contents of the course include; the meaning and historical view of multiculturalism concept, the reason why multiculturalism concept is important today, coexistence, the foundations of acceptance or exclusion of different identities and races in the society, citizenship concept and approaches to the reinterpretation of this concept within the framework of multiculturalism, views of multicultural citizenship in the world and what is the situation in Turkey.