Classes offered for the first year of ISSC field of study in the academic year 2022/2023 (grupa przedmiotów zdefiniowana przez Wydział "Artes Liberales")

• Warsztaty - 45 godzin

This practical workshop will be devoted to the techniques of writing academic and journalistic texts, particularly to clearly formulating thoughts, the structure of various types of press and academic articles, and using sources appropriately. Students will be asked to write several short pieces in class or as home assignments and two several page long ones (one academic, one journalistic) as homework.

• Konwersatorium - 30 godzin

The course is intended to work out a short history of Western-based capitalism and its main characteristics. It will focus on both an eagle-eye view on European history and a grassroots perspective of looking at social change from below by studying particular case studies. Particular emphasis will be placed on the formation of modern and late-modern European civilization – its foundations, expansions, and crises.

• Wykład - 30 godzin

The lecture is to familiarize the audience with interdisciplinary research on complex systems, the functioning of which is related to the occurrence of the so-called systemic risk.

• Ćwiczenia - 240 godzin

Intensive Italian language course – A1-B1 level (according to the Common European Framework of References for Languages - CEFR). This culture and language class has an innovative structure, which allows students to learn about Italian culture, history, and politics in Italian.

• Seminarium badawcze - 60 godzin

This research seminar embraces different areas and methods of inquiry, from history, linguistics and anthropology to engaged and participatory forms of research. Its focus will be on the Indigenous cultures of the Americas and on ethnic/language minorities from Europe and other parts of the world. The seminar’s participants will actively engage in pursuing new studies, interpretations, understandings and uses of past and present realities in the multifaceted process of decolonization where the voices of Indigenous people and minority groups are often ignored. These voices have long been underrepresented and misrepresented not only in historical research but also in the cognate fields of anthropology, linguistics, sociology, and cultural or heritage studies. The participants will be encouraged to develop and present their own critical research relevant for multidisciplinary inquiry into history as well as (socio)linguistic and cultural studies, from within a decolonizing perspective.

• Wykład - 60 godzin

Lecture on history of Spain from pre-historic times till contemporaneousness. Main stress will be laid on term “Spain” and its evolution through the centuries.

• Konwersatorium - 60 godzin

The course introduces students to social science research methods. We will go through a wide range of basic research approaches, discuss their strengths and weaknesses, and see results of their practical application in various studies. The course participants will try to translate abstract concepts, such as discrimination, into concrete observable behaviours that can be recorded and analysed. They will face the difficulties of defining the study population and sample selection. They will learn to understand basic descriptive statistics. They will get acquainted with experiments, surveys, the ideas of field and desk research as well as with the basics quantitative and qualitative approaches. They will read results from in-depth interviews (IDI) and focus group interviews (FGI). The knowledge gained in the course will allow students to understand and critically assess results of social science research, results presented in public reports or claims made in the media.

• Warsztaty - 45 godzin

A comprehensive introduction to the research field of anthropology (either cultural or linguistic) is the aim of the course. Special attention will be paid to the problem of sociocultural and linguistic change.

This introduction will be twofold. On the one hand, students will have the opportunity to discover texts that are considered to be classical within the field. It will provide them with an insight into crucial problems and research questions of anthropology, but also get acquainted with its basic theoretical notions.

On the other hand, the participants of the course will learn the ethnographic fieldwork methods (participant observation, narrative interview, autobiographic interview), digital and analog tools used in anthropology, and the ethical aspects of conducting fieldwork. The skills will be acquired and used in practice within individual micro research projects.

• Warsztaty - 45 godzin

The aim of the course is to develop an understanding of the processes of communication and social participation in culturally diverse settings. We will focus especially on interactions in local communities where ethnic diversity, as a result of migration processes, proves an important characteristic. We will look at the potential difficulties to intercultural communication and analyse the barriers to involvement in social activities. We will also study possible actions aimed at building integrative and non-discriminatory encounters between diverse groups. The course will be interdisciplinary in character, drawing i.a. on studies in the fields of sociology, social and intercultural psychology, cultural and migration studies and human geography. Engagement in the course will empower students in their development of both analytical and practical skills in communicating across cultures as well as supporting participative social processes and designing inclusive social activities.

• Konwersatorium - 30 godzin

Spanish Literature and Social Change course offers instruction in history of ideas and culture from the perspective of literary texts in the context of Iberian Peninsula from the Enlightenment period to the current times. Its aim is twofold: trace a broad panorama of issues related to the history of ideas and culture from the 18th up to 21th century and analyse a short selection of ground-breaking and decisive social phenomena through the lenses of literary texts and with aid of visual art sources. In doing so, we will be able to see the history of the western part of the Mediterranean area as a response to the broader social and cultural processes in Europe and Western World. The key place in the classes will be given to literary and paraliterary texts understood from the perspective of cultural studies: as social artefact that are both a reflection and a place of negotiation of the key ideas and aesthetic currents in a given community.

• Wykład monograficzny - 30 godzin

The course is an introduction to crucial aspects of the history, culture, society, economy, and politics of contemporary Ukraine, as well as their international reception. Thus, it is a problem- rather than disciplinary-oriented.

The course has a unique form, designed to provide (multiple) Ukrainian and international perspectives on the aforementioned issues. Except for elements of lecture and seminar it includes meetings (mostly remote) with Ukrainian artists and scholars, students' presentations, preferably prepared in tandems. Due to the course’s character, Ukrainian students are heartily welcomed. Щиро запрошуємо студентів з України!

The ongoing war in Ukraine may influence the content of the course.

• Warsztaty - 45 godzin

Wilamowice is a town in southern Poland, where Wymysorys, an endangered Germanic language is used and revitalized. The proposed class has two basic objectives. Firstly, they are supposed to familiarize students with the language and culture of Wilamowice, which is being revitalized by the members of the local community, but for several years also a subject of interest and care of the staff of the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”. Secondly, they are to prepare course participants to undertake research and social initiatives in cooperation with local communities that are based on a partner, non-colonial relations.

The structure of the course is to help in achieving assumed goals. During the “classroom” part of the course, students will gain insight into the contexts of Wilamowice. At the end of the semester students will come to Wilamowice to conduct fieldwork (21 h, 3 working days) and carry out their own (micro)research projects in cooperation with members of the community.