| 1 | Equipping students with information from resources and literature related to the course |
| 2 | Identifying communities under the minority status |
| 3 | Enabling students to comprehend the social, economic, cultural and legal conditions of non-Muslims in the Ottoman State |
| 4 | The western countries? role in the revolutions by non-Muslims (Armenian, Greek, Serbian, and other) |
| 5 | The role of the minorities in the collapse of the Ottoman State |
| 6 | Comprehending the political dimensions of the minorities problem |
| 7 | Comprehending the international dimensions of the minorities problem |
| 8 | Comprehending the current dimensions of the minorities problem |