Courses offered for ISSC field of study in the academic year 2023/2024 (grupa przedmiotów zdefiniowana przez Wydział "Artes Liberales")

• Konwersatorium - 30 godzin

The purpose of the course is to provide students with a broad overview about history, political developments, identity, culture, heritage and society of the Central and Eastern Europe.

• Wykład monograficzny - 30 godzin

This lecture-based course is designed as an English language proposal for both foreign and Polish students – Doctoral Schools students, MA and BA students of Kolegium "Artes Liberales" and Faculty of "Artes Liberales", and as a general university course - all the students of the University (“ogun”).

Course’s authorial core are lectures designed by prof. dr hab. Jolanta Sujecka, dr Maciej Falski, and dr hab. Michał Moch, Associate Professor of IMOC PAS, in relation to their research work on the Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, the Balkans as well as the area of the Mediterranean, Middle East and Northern Africa, as well as the Arab world.

• 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.

• Proseminarium - 30 godzin

The seminar will prepare students for writing and defending their master's thesis.

• Ćwiczenia - 240 godzin

Intensive Italian language course – B1-B2 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.

• Ćwiczenia - 120 godzin

Intensive Spanish language course B2/B2+ 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 Spanish culture, history, and politics in Spanish.

• Warsztaty - 45 godzin

This course aims to develop a deeper understanding of selected challenges that we are/will be facing. This will be achieved through a series of interlinked activities: independent work by students (based on a list of suggested readings), a series of debates (possibly formatted as an Oxford Debate) which will provide a forum for exchanging ideas and arguments, and short essays aimed at summarising particular issues.

• Seminarium - 60 godzin

The main topic of the seminar will be social and economic change. The topic, broad in itself, will be addressed in an interdisciplinary manner from a variety of perspectives, ranging from historical, sociological and anthropological, to economic ones. We will track down the roots of globalization processes and ask about the impact of changes on governments, societies, economies, environments and climate.

• Wykład - 30 godzin

The course discusses the encounter between the Indigenous People of the Americas – with a focus on the Nahua people of Mesoamerica and the Quechua people of the Andean region – and the Europeans – particularly the Spanish empire – which started in the 16th century and whose outcomes continue to shape the world we live in. Although the first several lectures will be dedicated to presenting an overview of the precolonial history and culture of Mesoamerica and the Andean region, as well as the history of the onset of the Spanish colonization, the main focus of the course will be on the cultural impact of the encounter. In particular, the topic which will be explored during the classes is the conceptualization of the Other, and of oneself, in the circumstances brought about by the encounter, and in the framework of the European Christian, Mesoamerican and Andean religious, philosophical and political worldviews.

• 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 qualitative interviews (IDI or 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.

• Konwersatorium - 30 godzin

The course is an introduction to Minority and Indigenous rights, with a particular focus on their implementation. Participants will explore legal instruments to preserve linguistic and cultural heritage and protect communities at risk of marginalization.

• 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

The aim of the seminar is to deepen and improve the students’ communicative competence in Spanish at the B1 level within the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and to get acquainted with Spanish culture, history and geography.

• 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.