Courses in English – Winter Semester 2014/2015

Institute of Sociology

Erasmus+ coordinator: Michał Wanke, MA, michal.wanke@uni.opole.pl Please enroll in the courses here: http://socjologia.uni.opole.pl/courses (click ENROLL in the right upper corner of the page).

• Arts Management and Entrepreneurship Michał Wanke 2 ECTS code: KZ-02-08-000036 some Mondays, 4.30pm – 6.00om, hall 114 & e-learning
• Basic Concepts in Sociology Borys Cymbrowski 4 ECTS code: 02.06-S- EPSJA Tuesday, 2pm – 3.30om, hall 119 (every week)
• Basics of Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis (CAQDA) Michał Wanke 3 ECTS code: 02.06-S-PAD- CAQDA Friday, 1.00pm – 2.30pm, lab. 16 (every week)
• Contemporary Concepts in Sociology and Social Sciences Michał Wanke 2 ECTS code: 02.06-S-BSWP-JANG Monday, 12.15pm – 1.45pm, hall 114 (every week)
• Facebook and the Likes: Critical Approach to Social Media Michał Wanke 2 ECTS code: KZ-02-08-000028 Monday, 4.30 pm – 6.00 pm (every week in November and December)
• Political Sociology Robert Geisler 3ECTS code: 02.06-S-BSWP-WSP Friday, 10.00am – 11.30am, hall 119 (every week)
• Social Function of Architecture Katarzyna Hładec 3 ECTS code: 02.06-S-KKW- 1 Tuesday, 5.30pm – 7.00pm, hall 120 (every week)
• Sociology of Individuals Borys Cymbrowski 3 ECTS code: 02.06-S-BSWP-WSP Thursday, 2.45pm – 3.45pm, hall 119 (every week)
• Statistics 2 Michał Wanke 5 ECTS code: 02.06-S-S-2 Monday, 2.00pm – 3.30pm, hall 103 (every week)
• Theater, Ritual and Interaction Katarzyna Hładec 3 ECTS code: 02.06-S-KKW- 1 Tuesday, 4.00pm – 5.30pm, hall 120 (every week)
• Quantitative Analysis 5 ECTS

Institute of Englsih

Erasmus+ coordinator: Ewa PIECHURSKA-KUCIEL, PhD, UO Prof. epiech@uni.opole.pl

Learning Strategies

The course offers the opportunity to improve the selected techniques and strategies of effective learning on the academic level, by activation the reflection process.

•  evaluation: 
• ECTS: 3
• Component Code:
• lecturer: Małgorzata Adams-Tukiendorf, PhD
• department: English

Sociolinguistics of English-Speaking Countries

The aim of the courses is to familiarize students with elements of English syntax, and introduce elements of sociolinguistics. Syntactic descriptions focus on constituent analysis of English phrases as well as personal and impersonal constructions. Constituent analysis is supplemented with diachronic tendencies in the development of the English syntax

•  evaluation: 
• ECTS: 3
• Component Code: 1.2.5-D1-S
• lecturer: Jolanta Szymańska, PhD
• Institute: English

Film Studies

Courses in this module are devoted to specific issues and detailed research in Media Studies and Film Studies in the context of previous courses on theory and methodology of Cultural Studies and Communication Studies.

•  evaluation: 
• ECTS: 3
• Component Code: 1.2.5-D1-KF2
• lecturer: Stankomir Nicieja, PhD
• Institute: English

Media Representations of Race and Gender in Media

The course introduces the most significant information and issues related to the theory of representations of sex, gender and race in the cinema and the electronic media.

•  evaluation: 
• ECTS: 3
• Component Code: 1.2.5-D1-KRS
• lecturer: S. Nicieja, PhD
• Institute: English

Media Studies

Courses in this module are devoted to specific issues and detailed research in Media Studies and Film Studies in the context of previous courses on theory and methodology of Cultural Studies and Communication Studies.

•  evaluation: 
• ECTS: 3
• Component Code: 1.2.5-D1-KM2
• lecturer: Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska, PhD
• Institute: English

Language in Society and Culture

The course contrasts the dominant 20th century view of language as autonomous, that is, an arbitrary and rule-based sign system, with a newly emerging view of language as non-autonomous, that is, a constantly transformed reservoir of meaning-making resources that constitute society and culture

•  evaluation: 
• ECTS: 5
• Component Code: 1.2.2-D1-LSC
• lecturer: Professor Jan Zalewski
• department: English

Descriptive Grammar of English With Elements of Historical Gramamr-Phonology

The aim of the courses is to familiarize students with fundamental concepts and theories relevant to the study of language and phonology. The courses introduce basic units of phonological analysis (phonemes), their systematic description and classification as well as phonological processes. Moreover, some elements of historical grammar which show the development of phonology from a diachronic perspective are introduced.

•  evaluation: 
• ECTS: 3
• Component Code: 1.2.5-D1-GOF
• lecturer: Przemysław Wilk, PhD
• department: English

History of Birtish and Irish Literture 1

The module covers information concerning British and Irish literature in the 19th century and information referring to ways of interpreting fiction (based on Anglophonic prose texts).

•  evaluation: 
• ECTS: 3
• Component Code:
• lecturer: Marlena Marciniak, PhD
• department: English

Communication Theories and Semiotics

The course introduces the students to a variety of theories and models of communication and to various perspectives that can be taken when studying public communication. The theories are related to disciplinary priorities and evolving research orientations, of which only some can be appropriated in a philological approach. One such theoretical and methodological perspective is semiotics, which is presented in more detail.

•  evaluation: 
• ECTS: 5
• Component Code: 1.2.2-D1-CTS
• lecturer: Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska, PhD
• Institute: English

Grammar and Style 1

The module is designed to raise students’ language fluency and proficiency (B1 level according to the criteria suggested by CEFR for languages) as regards: – understanding of spoken and written texts, broadening the range of vocabulary, – spontaneous speaking, including sufficient fluency and precision, – flexible and situationally appropriate usage of language in speaking and writing, including grammatical correctness and stylistic appropriateness, – appropriate usage of mechanisms of text organization and structuring.

•  evaluation:
• ECTS: 3
• Component Code: 1.2.2-D1-CEGSI
• lecturer: Jolanta Szymańska, PhD
• department: English

Culture and Contemporary World

The course is a practical introduction to culture as an object of academic study. It looks at the interdisciplinarity of Cultural Studies and the evolution of research orientations. It shows how cultural forms and practices can be analysed, evaluated and explained in the context of various theoretical models (e.g., psychological, sociological, anthropological ). It introduces students to terminology and conceptual framework of Cultural Studies.

•  evaluation: 
• ECTS: 3
• Component Code: 1.2.5-D1-KKS
• lecturer: Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska, PhD
• department: English

Speaking and Writing 1

The task of the module is to raise student`s language fluency to level C1 (according to the criteria suggested by CEFR for languages) in regards to: – understanding of the exacting texts carrying the hidden meaning, – spontaneous speaking including sufficient fluency and precision, – correct usage of rules of pronunciation and intonation, – elastic usage of the language in speaking and writing for general purposes, – correct creation of detailed and relatively complex texts in the form suitable with the content, – controlled usage of the mechanisms of text organization

•  evaluation: 
• ECTS: 2
• Component Code: 1.2.5-D1-SJMP1
• lecturer: Jarosław Mihułka, PhD
• department:English

Language in Society and Culture

The course contrasts the dominant 20th century view of language as autonomous, that is, an arbitrary and rule-based sign system, with a newly emerging view of language as non-autonomous, that is, a constantly transformed reservoir of meaning-making resources that constitute society and culture

•  evaluation: 
• ECTS: 5
• Component Code: 1.2.2-D1-LSC
• lecturer: Professor Jan Zalewski
• department: English

 Reading and Listening 1

The task of the module is to raise student`s language fluency to level C1 (according to the criteria suggested by CEFR for languages) in regards to: – understanding of the exacting texts carrying the hidden meaning, -spontaneous speaking including sufficient fluency and precision, – elastic usage of the language in speaking and writing for general purposes, – correct creation of detailed and relatively complex texts in the form suitable with the content, – controlled usage of the mechanisms of text organization, sound pronunciation in English

•  evaluation: 
• ECTS: 2
• Component Code: 1.2.5-D1-SJC1
• lecturer: Marlena Marciniak, PhD
• department: English

phonetics 1

The task of the module is to raise student`s language fluency to level C1 (according to the criteria suggested by CEFR for languages) in regards to: – understanding of the exacting texts carrying the hidden meaning, – spontaneous speaking including sufficient fluency and precision, – elastic usage of the language in speaking and writing for general purposes, – correct creation of detailed and relatively complex texts in the form suitable with the content, – controlled usage of the mechanisms of text organization, – sound pronunciation in English.

•  evaluation: 
• ECTS: 2
• Component Code: 1.2.5-D1-F1
• lecturer: Elżbieta Szymańska-Czaplak, PhD
• department: English

Social communication

This course is intended to acquaint students with the basic facts and concepts of social communication in a wide spectrum of social life. Students are to acquire the ability to look at social phenomena in a broader social perspective. Emphasis on the media is to develop in students the ability to analyze communication in the mass media and conscious life in the information society. The aim is to understand the functioning of civil society, as the society in which communication fulfills an essential role.

•  evaluation: 
• ECTS: 4
• Component Code: 1.2.2-D1-SC
• lecturer: Grzegorz Omelan, MA
• department: English

Learning Stragegies

The course offers the opportunity to improve the selected techniques and strategies of effective learning on the academic level, by activation the reflection process.

•  evaluation: 
• ECTS: 3
• Component Code: 1.2.5-D1-S4
• lecturer: Małgorzata Adams-Tukiendorf, PhD
• department: English

Introduction to Literary Studies

The module is devoted to general information concerning literary studies (basic concepts and strategies), and the history of English literature from its beginnings to the end of the 18th century.

•  evaluation: 
• ECTS: 3
• Coponent Code: 1.2.5-D1-WZ
• lecturer: Stankomir Nicieja, PhD
• department: English

Introduction to Linguistics

The aim of the courses is to familiarize students with fundamental concepts and theories relevant to the study of language and phonology. The courses introduce basic units of phonological analysis (phonemes), their systematic description and classification as well as phonological processes. Moreover, some elements of historical grammar which show the development of phonology from a diachronic perspective are introduced.

•  evaluation:
• ECTS: 3
• Component Code: 1.2.5-D1-WS
• lecturer: Tomasz Sutarzewicz, MA
• department: English

Speaking 1

The task of the module is to raise student`s language fluency to level C1 (according to the criteria suggested by CEFR for languages) in regards to: – understanding of the exacting texts carrying the hidden meaning, – spontaneous speaking including sufficient fluency and precision, – elastic usage of the language in speaking and writing for general purposes, – correct creation of detailed and relatively complex texts in the form suitable with the content, – controlled usage of the mechanisms of text organization, – sound pronunciation in English.

•  evaluation: 
• ECTS: 2
• component code: 1.2.5-D1-SJM1
• lecturer: Tadzio Lewandowski, PhD
• department:English