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Course Description Course Name : Interfaith Dialogue Course Code : ILS406 Course Type : Optional Level of Course : First Cycle Year of Study : 4 Course Semester : Spring (16 Weeks) ECTS : 2 Name of Lecturer(s) : Assoc.Prof.Dr. KADİR ALBAYRAK Learning Outcomes of the Course : Student will able to explain what is the interreligious dialog Student will able to comprehend how important interreligous dialog is today. Student will able to criticize researchs about interreligious dialog which are carried out in our country and other countries. Student will able to interpret emergence of interreligious dialog, historical process and nowadays situation of it. The importance of relious toleration Notice the dialogue activities of modern world and What is expected from the dialogue Student will able to advantegous and disadvantegous aspects of interreligious dialog. Student will able to evaluate how different world religions approach to dialogue with each other. Student will able to improve an original attitude on the basis of criticism of approachs to interreligious dialog. Mode of Delivery : Face-to-Face Prerequisites and Co-Prerequisites : None Recommended Optional Programme Components : None Aim(s) of Course : The aim is to help student to communicate with other religion’s members and to keep it up. Course Contents : Students will be challenged to develop a responsible view of the nature and significance of the concrete religious practices (beliefs and prayers) that are characteristic of the adherents of traditions other than their own. Thus the peace will be established among the country and the world alike and it´s aimed to improve respect the ´other´. Language of Instruction : Turkish Work Place : Classroom   Course Outline /Schedule (Weekly) Planned Learning Activities Week Subject Student's Preliminary Work Learning Activities and Teaching Methods 1 Definition of interreligious dialog, it’s importance To read related resources Lecture, Question-Answer, Discussion 2 Examples from researches which are about interreligious dialog To read related resources Lecture, Question-Answer, Discussion 3 Islam and Christianity&Judaism dialog in Prophet Muhammad’s period To read related resources Lecture, Question-Answer, Discussion 4 Islam and Christianity&Judaism dialog after Prophet Muhammad To read related resources Lecture, Question-Answer, Discussion 5 Relations among Muslim and Christian&Jewish in Ottoman Period To read related resources Lecture, Question-Answer, Discussion 6 Perception of dialog in divine religions To read related resources Lecture, Question-Answer, Discussion 7 Judaism and its attitude to other religions. To read related resources Lecture, Question-Answer, Discussion 8 Mid-term Exam review Written Exam 9 Christianity and its attitude to other religions. To read related resources Lecture, Question-Answer, Discussion 10 Islam and its attitude to other religions. To read related resources Lecture, Question-Answer, Discussion 11 Importance of dialog among Islam and Christianity&Judaism today To read related resources Lecture, Question-Answer, Discussion 12 Reasons which drived church to gather II. Vatican Council To read related resources Lecture, Question-Answer, Discussion 13 1962-65 II. Vatican Council and dialog view in Christian world To read related resources Lecture, Question-Answer, Discussion 14 Debate of wheter interreligious dialog is possible; what is the advantegous and disadvantegous aspects of interreligious dialog. To read related resources Lecture, Question-Answer, Discussion 15 Evaluation To read related resources Lecture, Question-Answer, Discussion 16/17 Final Exam review Written Exam   Required Course Resources Resource Type Resource Name Recommended Course Material(s)  İsmail R. Farukî (ed.), İbrahimî Dinlerin Diyalogu, (çev. Mesut Karaşahan), İstanbul 1993.  Cafer Sadık Doğru (ed), Islam ve Öteki, Kaknüs Yayınları,İstanbul.  Mustafa Alıcı, Kitab-ı Mukaddes ve Kur´ân-ı Kerim Işığında İslâm-Hıristiyan Diyalogu  Baki Adam, Yahudilik ve Hıristiyanlık Açısından Diğer Dinler, Pınar Yayınları, 2002.  W. Cantwell Smith, The Meaning and End of Religion, Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 1991.  Ömer Faruk Harman, “Hıristiyanların İslâm’a Bakışı”, Asrımızda Hıristiyan Müslüman Münasebetleri Required Course Material(s)  Fuat Aydın, Budanın Diğer Dinlere Bakaşı, Divan ilmi araştırmalar dergisi, sayı 16.   Assessment Methods and Assessment Criteria Semester/Year Assessments Number Contribution Percentage     Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 1 60     Homeworks/Projects/Others 1 40 Total 100 Rate of Semester/Year Assessments to Success 40   Final Assessments 100 Rate of Final Assessments to Success 60 Total 100   Contribution of the Course to Key Learning Outcomes # Key Learning Outcome Contribution* 1 Describes the main concepts, sources, principles, values, and philosophy of the Religion of Islam. 0 2 Explains the effects of the phenomenon of religion on the forming of structure, changing, and progression of the society and human being. 3 3 Explains the processes of the forming and developing of Islamic history and civilization. 0 4 Describes socio-cultural, religious, political, and economic structures of the Islamic societies. 0 5 Reads, explains, and interprets the main religious texts. 0 6 Reaches the true religious knowledge by using scientific methods and techniques, and evaluates and uses that knowledge. 0 7 Determines the main religious problems and produces some solutions according to modern needs. 1 8 Acquires knowledge and skills in the fields of Islamic history, culture, art, and literature. 0 9 Conveys the accumulations acquired to the religious field. 0 10 Classifies and examines the accumulation of knowledge and historical experience acquired in the history of Islamic sciences. 0 11 Expresses truly Islam in terms of belief, worship, moral and acts and procedures. 0 12 Realizes that religion, science, art, philosophy, and moral are mutually complementary elements and that they must be considered as a whole. 0 13 Respects the beliefs and the values attributed holiness, and supports the culture of coexisting. 5 14 Supports attitudes and acts fitted to the unifying, integrating and reconciling role of religious values in society. 5 15 Works in the fields of practical religious services, religious education and teaching. 0 16 Improves professional development, as well as interest in accordance with the capabilities of scientific, social, cultural and artistic fields constantly itself by identifying learning needs. 0 * Contribution levels are between 0 (not) and 5 (maximum).   Student Workload - ECTS Works Number Time (Hour) Total Workload (Hour) Course Related Works     Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) 14 2 28     Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) 14 1 14 Assesment Related Works     Homeworks, Projects, Others 1 2 2     Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 1 2 2     Final Exam 1 4 4 Total Workload: 50 Total Workload / 25 (h): 2 ECTS Credit: 2