SPL519 CITIZENSHIP: TURKISH EXPERIENCES
| Course Code: |
8390519 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
8.0 |
| Department: |
Social Policy |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Masters |
| Course Coordinator: |
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| Offered Semester: |
Fall Semesters. |
Course Content
This course aims to review the recent debate on citizenship by focusing on Turkish experiences. It is expected that analysing the process of citizenship development in Turkey and studying the practice and theoritical framwork of citizenship rights and duties will help to design sound social policies. the course will start with an introduction to the fundemantal concepts of citizenship and followed by the discussion of the liberal and publican (and communitarian) approaches to citizenship and its civil, political and social elements. the course will also examine the new modalities of ctizenship which have been proposedto redefine the extent and content of citizenship to include rights based on identity and difference. The second part of the course is reserved to Turkish experiences. Starting with the Ottoman legacy state formation and nation building in the Eraly Republican Period will be examined. then the developments in the post-1980 period and the current debates on citizenship in Turkey will be reviewed. The course will be finalzed by discussing the studies on sitizenship rights and duties in Turkey.
