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    This document provides information about a course on Turkish culture and civilization offered in the fall of 2013. The course will explore Turkey's identity at the intersection of East and West, modern and traditional, secular and religious. Students will examine perspectives on Turkey as a Westernized secular state, and contrast this with an understanding of its diverse social, ethnic, religious, and immigrant groups. Topics covered include education, politics, relations with the EU, Arab world, and US, as well as literature, music, Islam, everyday life, traditions, and food. The course fulfills multicultural and humanities credit requirements.

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    This document provides information about a course on Turkish culture and civilization offered in the fall of 2013. The course will explore Turkey's identity at the intersection of East and West, modern and traditional, secular and religious. Students will examine perspectives on Turkey as a Westernized secular state, and contrast this with an understanding of its diverse social, ethnic, religious, and immigrant groups. Topics covered include education, politics, relations with the EU, Arab world, and US, as well as literature, music, Islam, everyday life, traditions, and food. The course fulfills multicultural and humanities credit requirements.

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    This document provides information about a course on Turkish culture and civilization offered in the fall of 2013. The course will explore Turkey's identity at the intersection of East and West, modern and traditional, secular and religious. Students will examine perspectives on Turkey as a Westernized secular state, and contrast this with an understanding of its diverse social, ethnic, religious, and immigrant groups. Topics covered include education, politics, relations with the EU, Arab world, and US, as well as literature, music, Islam, everyday life, traditions, and food. The course fulfills multicultural and humanities credit requirements.

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    Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics

    TUT 3003 Turkish Culture and Civilization Fall 2013

    Monday & Wednesday

    3:35 4:50 pm

    BEL 0030

    Dr. Arzu Gngr Leushuis [agungor@fsu.edu]

    Whoever you are, come!


    (Rumi, 13th-century Sufi mystic)

    And learn about Turkey!

    East or West, Asian or European, modern or traditional, secular or religious? These questions and paradoxes have shaped Turkish society and culture for many centuries, resulting in one of the most fascinating bridge cultures in the modern world. This course offers a comprehensive exploration of Turkish culture and society by foregrounding the manifold traditions and groups that have shaped it. On the one hand, this course critically examines the perspective of Turkey as a Westernized mono-religious but secular state created by the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatrk; on the other hand, it contrasts this image with an understanding of the manifold social, ethnic, religious, and immigrant groups and minorities that form the core

    of Turkeys multi-cultural diversity. It is from this dual framework that the class offers an in-depth exploration of contemporary Turkey, including topics such as education; public policy; its relation to the EU, the Arab World, and the US; its literary and musical heritage; Islam, religion, and spiritualism; and its everyday social life such as family traditions, rituals, popular mentalities, holidays, folklore, hospitality, and, last but not least, gastronomy.
    This course will fulfill Multicultural Credit "Y" Designation (Diversity in the Western Experience) as well as Liberal Arts Area IV Humanities credit

    Turkey, a bridge between East and West

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