SOC529 MIGRATION & ETHNICITY IN EURASIAN SOCIETIES
| Course Code: | 2320529 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Sociology |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. AYŞEGÜL AYDINGÜN |
| Offered Semester: | Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The course will discuss ethnic identity among other identities; the relationship between ethnicity/ethnic identity and culture/cultural identity; the relationship between migration, ethnicity and transnationality; the interaction between dominant cultures and minority groups, and its impact on ethnic identity in the context of the history and geography of forced migration in the USSR.
Specific deported groups in Soviet and post-Soviet borderlands such as the Meskhetian Turks, Crimean Tatars, Chechens, Ingush, Karachais and Balkars will be studied. The course will not only cover the “punished peoples” forcibly moved under the Stalinist regime but also the Russians. Soviet Ethnos Theory and Soviet nationality policy will be critically examined to better understand the Soviet regime and the case of the groups specified above.
Course Content
The aim of this course is to scrutinize the relationship between identity, ethnicity, migration and culture; the interaction between dominant cultures and minority groups and its impact on ethnic identity formation in Eurasian studies. Case studies for this course come from groups such as the Crimean Tartars, Meskhetian (Ahiska) Turks, Soviet Germans, Soviet Jews and the Russians. In addition to the western theories of ethnicity, the Soviet ethnos theory and the Soviet nationality policy are critically examined to analyze the groups specified above.
Course Learning Outcomes
The principal aim of this course is to acquaint students with the relationship between identity, ethnicity, migration and culture in the post-Soviet space.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | To correlate sociology and other social sciences | ✔ | |||
| 2 | To interpret knowledge produced by society from a sociological perspective | ✔ | |||
| 3 | To renew and improve their accumulation by following up-to-date publications and research programs | ✔ | |||
| 4 | To be open to occupational novelties in order to understand social change | ✔ | |||
| 5 | To produce original solutions within and outside the discipline and in interdisciplinary levels | ✔ | |||
| 6 | To know and implement the ethics of sociological research | ✔ | |||
| 7 | To be aware of social, environmental, and economic effects in the areas where sociological approaches are appropriated | ✔ | |||
| 8 | To use and transfer the accumulation of sociological knowledge in an interdisciplinary way | ✔ | |||
| 9 | To understand social structures and dynamics by correlating the past, the present and the future | ✔ | |||
| 10 | To connect social theories of knowledge and social practices | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution