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Politics and Religion. Middle East
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:2.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:30:27
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | PZK_040 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 5.00 | ECTS: | 7.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | International Politics | Target Audience: | Political Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Māris Andžāns | ||||||||
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| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
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| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 10 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 20 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 10 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 20 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 40 | ||||||||
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| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 2 | Lectures | 3.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 3 | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 4 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 5 | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 6 | Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 7 | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 8 | Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | ||||||
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| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
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| Bibliography | |||||||||
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| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Cleveland W.L., Bunton M. A History of the Modern Middle East. Westview Press, 2009 | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Lust, Ellen. ed., The Middle East, twelfth edition, Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2011 | ||||||||
| 2 | Lewis B. The Emergence of Modern Turkey. Oxford University Press, 2003 | ||||||||
| 3 | Resurgent Religion in Politics: the Martyr, the Convert and the Black Night of Apocalypse in Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, ed. By Michel P., Paze E., Brill, 2011 | ||||||||
| 4 | Rowe P.S. Religion and Global Politics. Toronto: Oxford University Press Canada, 2012 | ||||||||
| 5 | Tibi B. Political Islam, World Politics and Europe. Democratic Peace and Euro-Islam vs Global Jihad. Routledge, 2008 | ||||||||
