COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CULTURE AND RELIGION IN PEACE BUILDING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IAÇ 5035 CULTURE AND RELIGION IN PEACE BUILDING ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Conflict Resolution (English)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR RECEP YAPAREL

Offered to

Conflict Resolution (English)

Course Objective

Today, one of the most challenging problems of the humankind is, to learn how to live together on earth. Cultural, national, racial, ethnical and religious diversities have always been parts of reality. Moreover, increasing interdependency to each other, forces individuals, societies and nations to think about how to live together and develop behavioural skills with the help of appropriate believes, values and attitudes.
Aim of this course is to enrich the student's consideration of how to live together in peace and escalating their level of consciousness, by the light of the information mentioned above.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Understanding concepts of culture, religion and peacebuilding
2   Realizing the relationship between "belief and values" -which shape the social life- and "culture and religion"
3   Producing ideas about principles of living in peace
4   Comprehending the importance of interdependency in life.
5   Developing individual skills which are necessary to build peace culture. (forgiving, establishing a dialogue, accommodating differences)

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Explaining the concept of peacebuilding
2 Influential factors in peacebuilding process (culture and religion)
3 Concept of peace culture and related values.
4 Theorical approaches about peacebuilding
5 Problems caused by cultural and religious diversity in peace building process
6 Analysis of the interdependency concept
7 Relationship between interdependency principle and General System Theory
8 Midterm
9 Relations between peacebuilding and conflict resolution
10 Intergroup relations and process of peacebuilding
11 Contribution of Contact Theory to understand peacebuilding process
12 Conflict resolution between religious groups
13 Analysis of Emotional Climate concept
14 Educative approach to peacebuilding process (educational models of peacebuilding)

Recomended or Required Reading

To be announced.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Face to Face

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + STT * 0.20 + FIN* 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Students are graded based on their scores in midterm, homework, final and contribution to the lecture.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

recep.yaparel@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

by appointment

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 1,5 20
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 30 30
Preparation for final exam 1 40 40
Preparing assignments 2 10 20
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 140

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8
LO.155322
LO.243552
LO.345553
LO.442255
LO.5355545

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