Course Title : Intercultural and Inter-Religious Communication
Code		Course Type	Regular Semester	Lecture (hours/week)	Seminar (hours/week)	Lab (hours/week)	Credits	ECTS
COM 416-1		B	2	3	0	0	3.00	6
Lecturer and Office Hours
Teaching Assistant and Office Hours
Language				Albanian
Course Level
Description		Interreligious and Intercultural Communication is a field that aims to study the way individuals from different cultural origins are trying to communicate. Moreover in this course emerges strong bond that intercultural and interfaith communication with the national psychology of different nations, traditions and values, mentality and religious beliefs of any society. Intercultural and interreligious communication is a combination of the scope of anthropology, cultural studies, psychology, sociology and communication. This field has moved towards the treatment of interethnic relations, and to the study of communication strategies, used by populations with common culture.
Objectives		This course will help students to: • Understand that intercultural and interfaith communication is one of the main relationships of different societies and nations. • To realize that within our reality pan communication is the most important issues of Albanian ethnicity and nation. Also, the movements of society after year 1990 brings into central focus the recognition of self and others. • To understand that respect and maintainance of a dialogue with the other, in the sense of an individual or group that upholds the values of other religions and religious is the key to avoid being locked inside inclosive cultural obsessions.
Course Outline
Week	Topics
1	Intercultural and Interreligious Communication Concepts
2	Culture and Communication . Barriers to intercultural communication : Ethnocentrism , Stereotype , Prejudice , Discrimination , Multiculturalism Policy
3	Cultural and social identities . Development of minority identity . Majority identity development . Multicultural identity . Living
4	Europe and Islam
5	The nation state and the Nation of Culture
6	National character , national identity and nationalism
7	The image in Intercultural Communication
8	Midterm Exam
9	Globalized Islam : between nationalism and parliamentarism : banalization of Islamist movements , individualization of religion . Secularization and religious coexistence .
10	Gülen : dialogue, tolerance and modernity according to Fethullah Gülen .
11	Religion and Albania at the time of socialist realism , the road to interfaith dialogue today in Albania .
12	Albanian Culture in the challenges of globalization
13	Public diplomacy : Theories and Concepts . Albanian public diplomacy
14	Media and its role in the preservation of religious and ethnic harmony .
15	Examples of contemporary reality and the role of young generations in the multi-religious albanian society.
16	Final Exam
Prerequisites
Textbook
Other References
Laboratory Work
Computer Usage
Other
Learning Outcomes and Competences
1	Knowing the area of intercultural and interreligious communication
2	Recognition and analysis of interreligious and intercultural conflicts
3	.Knowledge of Albanian culture and its challenges in the context of globalization
Course Evaluation Methods
In-term studies						Quantity	Percentage
Midterms						1	30
Quizzes						0	0
Projects						0	0
Term Projects						1	20
Laboratory						0	0
Attendance						0	0
Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade							50
Contribution of final examination to overall grade							50
Total							100
ECTS (Allocated Based on Student) Workload
Activities					Quantity	Duration (hours)	Total Workload (hours)
Course Duration (Including the exam week : 16 x Total course hours)					16	3	48
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)					14	6	84
Assignments					1	0	0
Midterms					1	8	8
Final examination					1	10	10
Other					0	0	0
Total Work Load							150
Total Work Load / 25 (hours)							6
ECTS							6

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