Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Társadalomtudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- TÁTK Kisebbségszociológia Tanszék
- Kód
- EKIP12.1
- Cím
- Current minority issues 1
- Tervezett félév
- Tavaszi
- Meghirdetve
- 2023/24/2
- ECTS
- 5
- Nyelv
- en
- Oktatás célja
- Learning Outcomes The course aims also to sensitize students to minority issues in Europe, allowing them to arrive at new theoretical and practical conclusions. By the end of the semester the aim is for students to: • Understand and be able to critically analyze fundamental theoretical questions and debates involved in the analysis of national and other minorities, systemic and institutional (positive)discrimination in Europe; • Critically evaluate the understanding of current minorities issues in Europe by analyzing diverse readings and reviewing journal articles and books. • Develop better understandings of national/autochthonous minorities and majorities relations, religious, and other minorities’ issues; critique and challenge the historical and situated systems for the protection of minorities which do not work in practice, offer new solutions. • Document experience reading and understanding the course content, including how and why students’ perspectives might have been reaffirmed or changed. • Learn strategies to think critically about solutions to current racial and ethnic problems and document your thoughts in a proposal. • Improve students’ oral presentation skills by actively participating in class and sharing your reflections and thoughts. • Improve students’ writing skills by documenting your thoughts/reflections with attention to academic and professional standards.
- Tantárgy tartalma
- Course Description Often national minorities find themselves in a vulnerable position, be it as an effect of socioeconomic underdevelopment, social or geographic peripherality, stereotyping, nationalism, racism, or a combination of these and other factors. In the context of the retreat of the welfare state – especially pronounced in the former socialist states – there is a need to understand the socioeconomic impact on national minority groups, whether in terms of their participation in public life, access to mother-tongue educational services, or their loss of identity. Thus, the course will focus on socioeconomic inequalities of national minority groups, understanding the prospects and limits of policies promoting equality of opportunity, the effectiveness of inclusion policies in education, and examining the barriers to achieving social justice for national minority groups are central themes in the course. Through several case studies, the course also provides a critical and timely review of contemporary developments in European minority-majority relations. It combines analysis, commentary, and documentation concerning legal aspects protecting minorities, education rights, identity development through mixedness, and current conflict management affecting minorities in Europe. Course schedule and tasks Week I: Introductory: orientation and goal of the course; Concepts, categories, theoretical approach to national and racial minorities in Europe Obligatory reading: Kymlicka, W. (2001), ‘Western political theory and ethnic relations in Eastern Europe’, in W. Kymlicka & M. Opalski (eds.), Can Liberal Pluralism Be Exported? Western Political Theory and Ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe (pp. 13-106). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Recommended reading: Andjelic, N. (2019). Some Political, Security and Legal Challenges: Dilemmas of Minority Issues in Europe. Forum za sigurnosne studije 3(3): 138-166. Week II: Political Theory and Ethnic Relations in Europe: Current Debates Obligatory reading: Kymlicka, W. (2001), ‘Western political theory and ethnic relations in Eastern Europe’, in W. Kymlicka & M. Opalski (eds.), Can Liberal Pluralism Be Exported? Western Political Theory and Ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe (pp. 13-106). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Obligatory reading: Week III: National minorities, nationalizing states and external national homelands Brubaker, R. (1996). National minorities, nationalizing states, and external national homelands in the New Europe. In Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe (pp. 55-76). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511558764.004 Recommended reading: Malešević, S. (2011). The chimera of national identity. Nations and nationalism, 17(2): 272-290. Week IV: The Minority Safepack Initiative Obligatory reading: Crepaz, K. (2020). The Minority Safepack Initiative: A European Participatory Process Supporting Cultural Diversity. European Yearbook of Minority Issues, 17: 23-47. Week V: Midterm essay-based test on the readings and class discussion Film presentation: Asszonyok lázadása [Women's rebellion] (Director: István Kovács), 72 minutes documentary Week VI: Ethnic minority education: benefits and downfalls Obligatory reading: Lendák-Kabók, K., Popov, S. & Lendák, I. (2020), The Educational Migration of Sub-state Ethnic Minorities on the Outskirts of the EU: A Case Study of Serbia, Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics, 6 (2): 130–153. Recommended reading: Mandić, M., & Rácz, K. (2022). Learning the language of social environment: the case of Hungarian in Vojvodina (Serbia). Current Issues in Language Planning, (online first) Mansikka, J. E. and Holm, G. (2011) Teaching minority students within minority schools: Teachers’ conceptions of multicultural education in Swedish‐speaking schools in Finland. Intercultural Education, 22(2): 133–144. https://doi.org/10.1080/14675986.2011.567071 Week VII: Intermarriages and the minority identity preservation Obligatory reading: Brubaker, R., Feischmidt, M., Fox, J., & Grancea, L. (2018). Nationalist politics and everyday ethnicity in a Transylvanian town. NJ: Princeton University Press (Chapter 10). Recommended reading: Kiss, T. (2018). Assimilation and Boundary Reinforcement: Ethnic Exogamy and Socialization in Ethnically Mixed Families. In: Kiss, T., Székely, I. G., Toró, T., Bárdi, N. and Horváth, I. (eds.) Unequal Accommodation of Minority Rights (pp. 459-500).Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Week VIII: In-class PPT presentation of final projects Week IX: In-class PPT presentation of final projects Week X: Minority as a lifestyle – Impacts of a best-practice case of minority-majority accommodation on minority identification and minority life (Guest lecture by prof. Martin Klatt - European Centre for Minority Issues/University of Southern Denmark) Week XII: In-class PPT presentation of final projects. Week XIII: Final essay-based test on the readings and class discussion since Midterm Closing event: Film presentation: Quo Vadis Aida? (Director: Jasmila Žbanić)
- Számonkérés és értékelés
- Course Requirements Class participation is mandatory. Week by week students must read selected literature on the field, and in class there is a joined discussion of it. In midterm an in-class essay must be written. The short essay questions are connected to the mandatory readings and the class discussions during the first part of the seminar. In the final exam a second in-class essay must be written. The short essay questions are connected to the mandatory readings and the class discussions during the second part of the seminar. In addition, students must write a short research essay (10 pages) based on small individual research on a chosen problem which is connected to the topic of the seminar (the topics will be discussed in class). Deadline of the final essay to deliver is a week before the end of the course. Parallel, students must make a short (maximum 4-5 slides) PPT based on the results of their research and must present it in class. Assessment (100% of the final grade). Detailed description of the assignment specifying grading criteria – i.e. on what basis will be the grade/points for this assignment awarded. • o Active participation in the lectures – 15 % • o Midterm test – 20 %. • o Final test – 20 %. • o Project presentation – 15 %. • o Final essay – 30%
- Irodalomjegyzék
- Course schedule and tasks Week I (15th of Feb): Introductory: orientation and goal of the course; Concepts, categories, theoretical approach to national and racial minorities in Europe Obligatory reading: Kymlicka, W. (2001), ‘Western political theory and ethnic relations in Eastern Europe’, in W. Kymlicka & M. Opalski (eds.), Can Liberal Pluralism Be Exported? Western Political Theory and Ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe (pp. 13-106). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Recommended reading: Andjelic, N. (2019). Some Political, Security and Legal Challenges: Dilemmas of Minority Issues in Europe. Forum za sigurnosne studije 3(3): 138-166. Week II (22nd of Feb): Political Theory and Ethnic Relations in Europe: Current Debates Obligatory reading: Kymlicka, W. (2001), ‘Western political theory and ethnic relations in Eastern Europe’, in W. Kymlicka & M. Opalski (eds.), Can Liberal Pluralism Be Exported? Western Political Theory and Ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe (pp. 13-106). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Obligatory reading: Week III (29th of Feb): National minorities, nationalizing states and external national homelands Brubaker, R. (1996). National minorities, nationalizing states, and external national homelands in the New Europe. In Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe (pp. 55-76). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511558764.004 Recommended reading: Malešević, S. (2011). The chimera of national identity. Nations and nationalism, 17(2): 272-290. Week IV(7th of March): The Minority Safepack Initiative Obligatory reading: Crepaz, K. (2020). The Minority Safepack Initiative: A European Participatory Process Supporting Cultural Diversity. European Yearbook of Minority Issues, 17: 23-47. Week V (14th of March): Midterm essay-based test on the readings and class discussion Film presentation: Asszonyok lázadása [Women's rebellion] (Director: István Kovács), 72 minutes documentary Week VI (21st of March): Ethnic minority education: benefits and downfalls Obligatory reading: Lendák-Kabók, K., Popov, S. & Lendák, I. (2020), The Educational Migration of Sub-state Ethnic Minorities on the Outskirts of the EU: A Case Study of Serbia, Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics, 6 (2): 130–153. Recommended reading: Mandić, M., & Rácz, K. (2022). Learning the language of social environment: the case of Hungarian in Vojvodina (Serbia). Current Issues in Language Planning, (online first) Mansikka, J. E. and Holm, G. (2011) Teaching minority students within minority schools: Teachers’ conceptions of multicultural education in Swedish‐speaking schools in Finland. Intercultural Education, 22(2): 133–144. https://doi.org/10.1080/14675986.2011.567071 Week VII (4th of April): Intermarriages and the minority identity preservation Obligatory reading: Brubaker, R., Feischmidt, M., Fox, J., & Grancea, L. (2018). Nationalist politics and everyday ethnicity in a Transylvanian town. NJ: Princeton University Press (Chapter 10). Recommended reading: Kiss, T. (2018). Assimilation and Boundary Reinforcement: Ethnic Exogamy and Socialization in Ethnically Mixed Families. In: Kiss, T., Székely, I. G., Toró, T., Bárdi, N. and Horváth, I. (eds.) Unequal Accommodation of Minority Rights (pp. 459-500).Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Week VIII (11th of April): Ethnic Minorities and the Multicultural University Guest Lecture by Szabolcs László, Institute of History, HUN-REN, Budapest Reading: Culic, I. (2019). Neoliberalism Meets Minority Nationalism: The Politics of Hungarian Higher Education in Romania. East European Politics and Societies, 33(2), 357-377. https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325418790364 Optional readings: Brubaker, Rogers; Feischmidt, Margit; Fox, Jon; Grancea, Liana. Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006. Csergő, Zsuzsa. Talk of the Nation: Language and Conflict in Romania and Slovakia. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2007. Horváth, István. “Perceptions of multiculturalism.” International Journal of Education Law and Policy. Special Issue: Romania. 1 September (2004): 33-62. Kántor, Zoltán. “Nationalizing Minorities and Homeland Politics.” In Nationalism and Contested Identities: Case Studies on Romanians and Hungarians, eds. Trencsényi, Petrescu, Iordachi, 249-274. Budapest-Iași: Regio Books-Polirom, 2001. Smith, David J. "Framing the National Question in Central and Eastern Europe: A Quadratic Nexus?" Global Review of Ethnopolitics 2.1 (2002): 3-16. Week IX (18th of April): End-of-term essay-based test on the readings and class discussion Week X(25th of April): In-class PPT presentation of final projects Week XII (9th of May) : Open Guest Lecture – prof. Miri Song, University of Kent Week XIII: Final essay-based test on the readings and class discussion since Midterm Closing event: Film presentation: Quo Vadis Aida? (Director: Jasmila Žbanić)