DESCRIPTION OF COURSE UNIT

1. Course unit title Code

Ethnicity, Multiculturalism and Globalization

2. Name of lecturer(s) Coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Vladislav Sotirovi Department(s) Institute of Political Sciences Faculty of Politics and Management Mykolas Romeris University

3. Cycle of course unit First 4. Mode of delivery Class room 5. Prerequisites: Study requirements Co-requisites: No co-requisites Year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered Autumn/Spring Language of instruction English Level of course unit Bachelor Type of course unit Free optional

Basic knowledge on theoretical approaches of ethnic identity, national grouping, multicultural civic society and globalization 6.

Recommended optional programme components No recommended optional programme components 7. Number of ECTS credits allocated 6 ECTS 8. Purpose of the course unit: programme competences to be developed Course content: This course examines historical, structural and global processes and critically assesses meanings of democracy, freedoms and civil society, multiethnicity and multiculturalism and problems of their practical application. Critique of the old and common heroic myth that only unitary ethnolinguistic state can save the nation will help students to understand and examine how myths can produce constant obstacle to the establishment and maintenance of pluralistic democratic world. Discussions on the right to national identity and the right of minorities to participate in the decision-making institutions will enable to research and identify the complex problems of managing public affairs in conformity with the constitution and the laws. The course will suggest rethinking the traditional understanding of nation state and civil society and introduce globalization as challenge and historical novelty in contemporary world. Students workload 162 hrs Contact work hours 128 hrs Independent work hours 34 hrs

The purpose/aims of the course are: 1. To provide theoretical knowledge and skills for students to understand, investigate and critically evaluate complexities of and interconnections

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among ethnic identity (name of group, symbols, cultural artifacts and cultural heritage), phenomenon of multiculturalism in plural national, linguistic and religious societies, and aspects of globalization. 2. To provide knowledge on the main concepts, namely, ethnic identity, national grouping, multicultural civic society and globalization. 3. To teach methods analyzing contemporary global development and train necessary skills to understand, investigate and critically evaluate complexities of and interconnections among ethnic identity (name of group, symbols, cultural artifacts and cultural heritage), phenomenon of multiculturalism in plural national, linguistic and religious societies, and aspects of globalization. Learning outcomes of the programme Students will be able to receive knowledge within a common education framework of humanitarian and social sciences Students will be able to analyze and try to solve problems in contemporary policy of building up a multicultural society at the time of globalization and multiple identities Students will be able to disseminate their received knowledge and trained skills Learning outcomes of the course unit To be able to understand notion and characteristics of ethnicity, concepts of multicultural society and the phenomenon of the process of globalization To be able to present and discuss scientific research results upon studies on ethnicity, multiculturalism and globalization. By analyzing the phenomenon of globalization to be able to explain how this process was historically going on and what are the results with the future perspectives To be able to analyze a case study by individual or group work To be able to choose an adequate research strategy and methods Teaching and learning methods Assessment methods

Problem learning

Control work

Case studies

Written exam

Learning and organization of the work by electronic means (moodle)

Group or individual presentation

To be able to do case study and political problem analyze To be able to criticize an opponents view within a framework of tolerance and competence Co-operative learning method Group or individual presentation

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9. Course contents Contact work hours and planned learning activities Training exercises Laboratory work Independent work hours and tasks

Consultations

Topics Lectures

All contact work hours Independent work hours

1. Ethnicity, nation and nationalism Theoretical concepts of ethnicity, nation, state and nationalism with critical overview. Models of state formation and nationbuilding with historical overview. 2. Language and group identity Linguistic basis, concepts and models of group identity and national state formation. Two types of ethnolinguistic dispersions in the mixed ethnolinguistic communities. Linguistic differences in vernacular and literal language as group unifying and segregation roles. 3. Concept of multicultural society Theories about multiculturalism and multicultural concept of society with critical overview. Multicultural vs. unicultural concepts of society. 4. Private and public domains in plural multicultural societies Characteristics and differences between unitary and plural societies. Concepts of plural society and multicultural coexistence. Functions of private and public domains in plural multicultural society. Different policies and results of minority integration. 5. Individual/group identity and citizenship in multicultural societies Historical overview of the concepts of citizenship from the Greek antique polis city-states up today. Notion of homo politicus, citizenship and multicultural society in modern world. The ethnolinguistic, ethno-cultural and ethnoconfessional minoritys right protection. 6. Understanding globalization Theories about globalization and their critical approaches. Practical and popular understanding of the process of globalization and its results. The roots of antiglobalization movement, its programme and results.

10

Internship

Seminars

Tasks

18

Reading scientific literature

10

18

Reading scientific literature

12

18

Reading scientific literature

12

18

Reading scientific literature

10

18

Reading scientific literature Watching material video

10

18

Reading scientific literature Watching video material

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7. Global democracy for the global world Theoretical model of cosmopolitan democratic political system in the globalized world and its practical possibilities to be established and maintained. Processes of globalization and their impact on meanings of ethnicity, citizenship and multicultural society. Overall 10. Assessment strategy

10

10

20

Reading scientific literature

74

54

128

34

Weighting percentage 40%

Written exam (integral test to check theoretical and practical knowledge)

Period or date of assessment Session period

Assessment criteria

Class room work during the seminars

40%

Semester period

Individual self-work during the semester period

20%

Semester period

The test consists of open and closed questions (varying difficulties, from understanding to evaluation), each question is worth one point. Assessment: 5: Excellent knowledge and skills. 45-50% of correct answers. 4: Good knowledge and skills; may be minor errors. 35-44% of correct answers. 3: Average knowledge and skills; there are errors. 25-34% of correct answers. 2: Knowledge and skills are below average; there are (basic) errors. 15-24% of correct answers. 1: Knowledge and skills to satisfy the minimum requirements; lots of errors. 5-14% of correct answers. 0: Does not meet minimum requirements. 0-4% of correct answers. Assessment: The structure of presentation (evaluation criteria: clear and consistent layout (introduction, body and conclusion)) up to 1 point; Conceptualism of presentation (evaluation criteria: complete and reasonable disclosure of the chosen topic) up to 2 points; Failure to deliver presentation - 0 points. 20% - to actively and constructively participate in discussions, to answer questions, to formulate problems and issues, to provide critical comments; 10% - to participate in the debate, to answer to frequently asked questions; 0% - almost does not participate in the discussion or spent more than 1/3 of the seminars.

11. Required reading 1. 2. 3. 4. Anderson G., Examples of Globalization: An Excursion to the Dark Side of Our New World Order , Gary Anderson, 2014. Chirico J., Globalization: Prospects and Problems, Los AngelesLondonNew DelhiSingaporeWashington D.C.: SAGE Publications, Inc. , 2014. Crowder G., Theories of Multiculturalism: An Introduction , CambridgeMalden, MA: Polity Press, 2013. Healey F. J., Diversity and Society: Rice, Ethnicity, and Gender, Los AngelesLondonNew DelhiSingaporeWashington D.C.: SAGE Publications, Inc. , 2014.

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Recommended reading Andersen L. M., Collins H. P., Race, Class & Gender: An Anthropology, Cengage Learning, 2012. Anderson B., Imagined Communities, New York: Verso, 2006. Clark I., The Post Cold War Order: The Spoils of Peace, Oxford, 2001. Comaroff L. J., Comaroff J., Ethnicity, Inc., Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. Cornell S., Hartmann D., Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World, Thousand OaksLondonNew Delhi: Pine Forge Press, 2007. Crawford Y. (ed.), The Rising Tide of Cultural Pluralism, Madison, 1993. Cvyjet J. M., Howard-Hamilton F. M., Cooper L. D. (eds.), Multiculturalism on Campus: Theories, Models and Practicies for Understanding Diversity and Creating Inclusion , Sterling, Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2011. Eriksen H. T., Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives, New York: Pluto Press, 2010. Gellner E., Nations and Nationalism, Paris, 1989. Guibernau M., Rex J. (eds.), The Ethnicity: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Migration: Reader, Cornwall: Polity Press, 1997. Healey F. J., Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Class: The Sociology of Group Conflict and Change , Los AngelesLondonNew DelhiSingaporeWashington D.C.: SAGE Publications, Inc. , 2012. Hebron L., Stack Jr. J., Globalization, Pearson, 2010. Horton J. (ed.), Liberalism, Multiculturalism and Toleration, London, 1993. Jenkins R., Rethinking Ethnicity, London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2008. Kymlicka W., The Rights of Minority Cultures, Oxford, 2000. LaVeist A. Th., Isaac A. L. (eds.), Race, Ethnicity, and Health: A Public Health Reader , San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2013. Lechner J. F., Boli J. (eds.), The Globalization Reader, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 2012. Lone A. M., Ethnicity and Cultural Assimilation at Cross Roads with the Case of Kashmiri Pathans , CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. May S., Sleeter E. Ch. (eds.), Critical Multiculturalism: Theory and Praxis, London: Routledge, 2010. Miller D., On Nationality, Oxford, 1995. Modood T., Multiculturalism, CambridgeMalden, MA: Polity Press, 2013. Murphy M. Multiculturalism: A Critical Introduction, LondonNew York: Routledge, 2012. Osterhammel J., Petersson P. N., Globalization: A Short History, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2005. Peter Hough, Understanding Global Security, LondonNew York: Routledge, 2004. Prins G., The Heart of War: On Power, Conflict and Obligation in the Twenty-first Century, LondonNew York, 2002.

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Rattansi A., Multiculturalism: A Very Short Introduction , OxfordNew York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Ritzer G., Globalization: The Essentials, Oxford: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2011. Rowntree L., Lewis M., Price M., Wyckoff W., Globalization and Diversity: Geography of a Changing World, Printice Hall, 2013. Sigler J., Minority Rights: A Comparative Analysis, Westport, 1983. Smith A., The Ethnic Origins of Nations, Oxford, 1986. Sparke M., Introducing Globalization: Ties, Tensions, and Uneven Integration , Oxford: WileyBlackwell, 2013. Steger B. M., Globalization: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Steinberg Sh. (ed.), Diversity and Multiculturalism: A Reader, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2009. Walby S., Globalization and Inequalities: Complexity and Contested Modernitie, London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2009. Zinn B. M., Eitzen D. S., Globalization: The Transformation of Social Worlds, Cengage Learning, 2011.

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