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FACULTY OF ECONOMICS & ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES / IR415 - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS

Code: IR415 Course Title: MIGRATION STUDIES Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 3
Year/Semester of Study 4 / Fall Semester
Level of Course 1st Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer ALİ FUAT BİROL (afuatbirol@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
This course aims to explain international refugee law, Turkey's foreign and asylum law, basic issues such as migrant and refugee policy of the state.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 1. Become conversant in the key questions, theoretical approaches, and core concepts of immigration including, citizenship, borders, community, nation, identity, subjectivity, multiculturalism, asylum seeker, and refugee. PO-2 Has sufficient knowledge and awareness about globalization and intercultural communication, human rights, social justice and respect for differences.
PO-4 Has a command of the basic concepts in the fields of history, sociology, economics and law at a level to do interdisciplinary work.
PO-7 Has the ability to both interpret events with critical and analytical thinking and to produce solutions to problems with scientific approaches.
LO-2 2. Know how to use these concepts in order to interpret and discern the implications of key events in contemporary politics, and to engage with those events PO-2 Has sufficient knowledge and awareness about globalization and intercultural communication, human rights, social justice and respect for differences.
PO-4 Has a command of the basic concepts in the fields of history, sociology, economics and law at a level to do interdisciplinary work.
PO-6 Has the skills to analyse theoretical knowledge about International Relations and its sub-branches (international economy, international politics, international law, international organizations, international security, history of diplomacy, foreign policy, etc.) and to evaluate their global and regional reflections, to define problems and to offer solutions.
PO-7 Has the ability to both interpret events with critical and analytical thinking and to produce solutions to problems with scientific approaches.
LO-3 have developed the ability to analyze, articulate, and discuss the issues and questions of immigration and develop a perspective that allow a realization of how the issue of immigration is related to our daily practices and judgements PO-2 Has sufficient knowledge and awareness about globalization and intercultural communication, human rights, social justice and respect for differences.
PO-3 Has basic information about the main actors of international relations and the rules of the international system.
PO-4 Has a command of the basic concepts in the fields of history, sociology, economics and law at a level to do interdisciplinary work.
PO-6 Has the skills to analyse theoretical knowledge about International Relations and its sub-branches (international economy, international politics, international law, international organizations, international security, history of diplomacy, foreign policy, etc.) and to evaluate their global and regional reflections, to define problems and to offer solutions.
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
This course aims to explain international refugee law, Turkey's foreign and asylum law, basic issues such as migrant and refugee policy of the state.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Introduction
2 Migration and Migration Models
3 Social, Political, and Economic Effects of Migration and Mobility
4 International Migration, Population Mobility, and Refugees
5 Migration and Identity
6 Migration and Politics
7 Review for The Mİd-Term Exam
8 mid-term exam
9 Globalization and Migration -1
10 Globalization and Migration -2
11 History of Migration in Turkey -1
12 History of Migration in Turkey -2
13 International Migration and Terrorism -1
14 International Migration and Terrorism -2
15 Preparation for Final Examination
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Peter Scholten, Introduction to Migration Studies
Required Course instruments and materials
Textbook

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 1 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 1 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 14 42
Outside Class
       a) Reading 2 8 16
       b) Search in internet/Library 0
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 0
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 3 4 12
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 3 6 18
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 90