Courses in English – Summer Semester 2014/2015

Institute of Sociology

Erasmus+ coordinator: Michał Wanke, MA, michal.wanke@uni.opole.pl

Institute of Englsih

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

Faculty of Economics

Erasmus+ coordinator: Bartosz Fortuński, PhD, b.fortunski@uni.opole.pl

Faculty of Law and Administration

Erasmus+ coordinator: Joanna Ryszka, PhD, jryszka@uni.opole.pl

Institute of Political Science

Erasmus+ coordinator: Joanna Kulska, PhD, jkulska@uni.opole.pl

Institute of Psychology

Erasmus+ coordinator: Joanna Kulska, PhD, mszarz@uni.opole.pl

Institute of Philosophy

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

This is the list of all courses in social sciences & humanities (excluding philologies) available to join in summer semester of academic year 2014/15 at Opole University. The registration form will be available starting Friday, Feb 20, 4.00 pm. (You can see the link at the top, right.) Please mind the limits in number of students in each of the group. Some of the courses are part of the departmental offer and there are already Opole Uni students enrolled there and hence only a limited number of places is available. Some of the classes (i.e. with the students limit around 12-15) and the courses will open only if the class is complete. We advise students who want to improve their English skills to enroll to Practical English classes. The procedure is as follows:

Students browse the offer and decide which courses to join.
The registration starts on Friday, Feb 20, 4.00 pm.
The students fill in the registration course.
The courses with exceeded limit are taken out of the offer instantly and students can no longer register to them.
The registration closes on Thursday, Feb 26, 1.00 pm.
The students are notified about their choices – which are final and the list of their courses is sent to their coordinator for the further paperwork to be completed.
The academic teachers receive the students lists so it is impossible to switch the courses later.
If any changes will be required they should be consulted with all three parties involves: the organizers of the registration, the academic teachers and the departmental coordinators.
The courses start in March.

Should you have any questions, please email the coordinator of the registration, Michał Wanke (michal.wanke@uni.opole.pl). This is the first time we are organizing it this way and we kindly ask for your patience.

List of available courses

American Mass Culture

American Mass Culture – television, movies, music, video games, social media etc. – has been the most successful culture in the world. Course will be focused on reasons for global popularity of culture “made in USA” Students evaluation: Write 2 papers, each 1.000-1.200-words, PowerPoint presentation (min. 20 slides)

Sławomir Czapnik, PhD
Institute of Political Science
– department list –
ECTS: 4
schedule: Every Wednesday, 12.00-13.30, starting March 11
place: Collegium Civitas, room 212
no of students: 5

Communication as Critical Inquiry

The course in Communication as Critical Inquiry draws on students’ acquaintance with Critical Discourse Analysis ( specifically Module 12) and other qualitative critical research orientations and interpretive traditions in order to give students opportunities to apply their knowledge and analytic skills in practice of critical reading, reviewing and writing. Students evaluation: c lass participation including individual oral presentations about assigned reading (40%) three critical essay s (60%)

professor Paweł Marcinkiewicz
Institute of English
– departament list-
ECTS: 3
schedule: Wednesday, 14 – 15.30
place: Collegium Maius, room 207 A
no of students: 2

Co-operation knowledge and system change management for regional development

n/a Students evaluation: n/a

Monika Paradowska, PhD
Faculty of Economics
– department list-
ECTS: 3
schedule: Thursday, 10.50-12.20

Drugs: Users, Markets, Research

The course is designed as an introduction to the realms of psychoactive substances, the users, the markets and the social research on the topic. It covers the research on the users, the methods of social research of patterns of use and the illegal markets. Additionally, two sociological research projects are discussed in detail with some sample data to analyze in class regarding: marijuana users & online drug (and knowledge) markets. Students evaluation: Research project proposal on psychoactive substances use patterns.

Michał Wanke, MA
Institute of Sociology
– university list-
ECTS: 2
schedule: Monday, 6.00 pm – 7.30 pm (every week in March and April), room 120
no of students: 3

Economy & Society

The aim of the course “Economy & Society” is to analyze relationship between economy and society. There is assumption that economic activity is embedded in society, which means in historical context, cultural conditions, social structures. Economy is made by people with their knowledge, emotions, social ties and relationships, kinship and family relations, place of birth and their level of education. On the other hand economy results specific structures in society as labour division, social inequalities, entrepreneurial attitudes, leadership mode, cultural organization. During the course the following topics will be discuss: 1) Economy & sociology – classics 2) The origin and development of capitalism 3) Production in pre-, modern and postmodern society 4) Exchange – market as institution 5) Consumption society 6) E-economy and information society 7) Labour division 8) State and economy /welfare state, workfare state, liberal state/ 9) Money and their role in society 10) Economic crises and results in society 11) Social economy 12) Family entrepreneurship 13) Transnational Corporations as social structures 14) Neoliberalism as ideology 15) Economic as social action Students evaluation: Requirements 1) Attendance and participation are required. 2) Student should read papers and be prepared for seminars. Seminars will be based on lecture and framing discussions questions. The aim is to encourage students to come to understanding of reading together. 3) Students should made short research project concerning relationship between economy and society under supervision of lecturer. Research should regards one of the topic concerning relationship between economy and society created individual by student. Research will be made used qualitative methods in social sciences, i.e. economic anthropology. 4) Results of the research will be written in final paper /approximately 10 pages/ and presented during last seminar (power point presentation)

professor Robert Geisler
Institute of Sociology
– university list –
ECTS: 8
schedule: Every Wednesday 11.30 am. – 13.00 starting Mar 4, 2015
place: Collegium Civitas, room 114
no of students: 12

EU Law

The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the basis of institutional system of the EU law and the concept of the internal market in the EU. Students evaluation: Attendance, active participation and preparation to a class ( awareness of the assigned documents, written exam

Joanna Ryszka, PhD, Jerzy Jendrośka, PhD
Faculty of Law and Administration
– department list –
ECTS: 4
schedule: Every Friday, 11.45 A.M -32P.M, room 1.15
place: Collegium Iuridicum
no of students: 10

EU institutional and Internal Market law

The aim of the course is to provide students with a basic knowledge and understanding of the institutional law of the European Union as well as certain areas of its substantive law, together with an understanding of their impact on the national legal orders of the Member States. The course focuses on the legal nature of the EU and its legal system, the functions of the EU institutions and their mutual interaction, the sources of EU law and the legislative process, the procedural law of the EU, including the judicial remedies available to institutions, Member States and private parties, as well as some of substantive areas of EU law, such as the free movement of goods and the concept of the internal market, as well as the protection of fundamental rights. Students evaluation: Attendance, active participation and preparation to a class (awareness of the assigned documents), written exam

Joanna Ryszka, PhD, Jerzy Jendrośka, PhD
Faculty of Law and Administration
– university list –
ECTS: 8
schedule: Every Friday, 11.45 A.M. – 2 P.M., room 1.15
place: Collegium Iuridicum
no of students: 15

European Union Governance

The European Union represents a unique form of political and economic entity experimenting with various methods of decision making, institutional innovations and policy mix. This extraordinary supranational organization requires in-depth analysis – which will be delivered by the course. Vital issues, present in the European debate will be studied, including the problem of democratic deficits, multi-level governance, hybrid type of EU’s institutional architecture combining both supra-national and inter-governmental logics, reforms and crisis of decision making process, etc. The specific Central and Eastern European perspective on EU governance stems from the fact that the CEE member states are still relatively new, inexperienced, and rooted in different political and civic culture. This specifics makes the CEE’s participation in the dynamic European integration process a fascinating object to be studied. RECOMMENDED READING: R. Riedel, European Union – hybrid political system. Multilevel governance as a compromise between intergovernmentalism and supranationalism, „Przegląd Socjologiczny” vol LVII/2, 2008, pp. 67-80 R. Riedel, T. Winzen, Legitimate Governance in the EU – Policy Recommendations, in: „De Doctrina Europea” 6/2009, p. 11-40 R. Riedel, The Sub-national Authorities in a Multi-level Governance Setting – the Silesian Case Study, in: Intercultural Dialog and Multi-level Governance in Europe. A Human Rights Based Approach. (ed.) Leonce Bekemans, Publishing House: P.I.E. Peter Lang, Bruksela 2012, pp. 263-276 Students evaluation: ACTIVE participation Presentation Semestral Paper

professor Rafał Riedel
Institute of Political Science
– department list –
ECTS: 4
schedule: Every Monday at 10.15 for 45 minutes, starting March 2nd.
place: Collegium Civitas, 212
no of students: 15

EUROscepticism – Research Seminar

The course will take advantage of the multi-national composition of the students in the classroom. It will allow the students to analyze the specific version Eurosceptic views in one country in relation to other variants of Euroscepticism present across Europe. The course will start with an overview of the most important works on the concept of Euroscepticism, following the positioning of Euroscpetic views on the monetary integration in Europe. The gravity point of the research seminar will focus on the the subject-approach to Euroscepticism. It will try to verify the most important factors determining the phenomenon. Special attention will be dedicated to the economic crisis (2007-2014) which is understood as an important contextual variable of Euroscepticism. All the above knowledge will constitute a foundation upon which the students will conceptualize their research designs and will conduct their own research. Students evaluation: Individual research work concluded with a presentation and a written assignment (semestral paper)

professor Rafał Riedel
Institute of Political Science
– university list –
ECTS: 8
schedule: Every Monday from 3 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. starting 2nd March 2015
place: Collegium Civitas
no of students: 15

English in Tourism – Practical English II

English for international tourism pre-intermediate (A2-B1) Units 3-6 (Visitor centres, Package tours, Hotels, Food and beverage) Students evaluation: Presentations, written homework, group work activities, vocabulary and grammar tests, skills tests

Elżbieta Szymańska-Czaplak, PhD
Faculty of Philology
– faculty of philology list –
ECTS: 4
schedule: every week 60 hours Tues 10.00-11.30, Fri 8.30-10.00 room 208 CM
place: Collegium Maius
no of students: 4

English in Tourism – Practical English II

English for international tourism intermediate (B1-B1+) Units 3-6 (Accommodation, Destinations, Things to do, Niche tourism) Students evaluation: Presentations, written homework, group work activities, vocabulary and grammar tests, skills tests

Elżbieta Szymańska-Czaplak, PhD
Faculty of Philology
– faculty of philology list –
ECTS: 4
schedule: every week 60 hours Tues 8.30-10.00, Fri 10.00-11.30 room 208 CM
place: Collegium Maius
no of students: 4

English in Tourism – Practical English 2

Elżbieta Szymańska-Czaplak, PhD
Faculty of Philology
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ECTS: 3
schedule: 60 hours 2 weeks classes, 2 weeks break group A starting 19.02-4.03 group B starting 5-18.03 3 times a week: Mon 10.00-11.30, Tues 11.30-13.00, Thur 12.00-15.00 all classes in 208 CM 4 students per each group
place: Collegium Maius
no of students: 4

English in Tourism – Practical English IV

English for international tourism pre-intermediate (A2-B1) Units 7-10 (Nature tourism, Air travel, Hotel operations, Marketing) Students evaluation: Presentations, written homework, group work activities, vocabulary and grammar tests, skills tests

Elżbieta Szymańska-Czaplak, PhD
Faculty of Philology
– faculty of philology list –
ECTS: 6
schedule: every week 60 hours Mon 13.00-14.30, Fri 13.00-14.30 room 208 CM
place: Collegium Maius
no of students: 4

English in Tourism – Practical English IV

English for international tourism intermediate (B1-B1+) Units 7-10 (Cultural tourism, Running a hotel, Customer service, Business travel) Students evaluation: Presentations, written homework, group work activities, vocabulary and grammar tests, skills tests

Elżbieta Szymańska-Czaplak, PhD
Faculty of Philology
– faculty of philology list –
ECTS: 6
schedule: every week 60 hours Mon 11.30-13.00, Fri 11.30-13.00 room 208 CM
place: Collegium Maius
no of students: 4

Facebook and the Likes: Critical Approach to Social Media

The course aims to critique the services and tools of so called Web 2.0 – basically ‘social media’ which are socially used as public spaces staying however in private hands of entrepreneurs. Corporate business tacitly assumes certain sociology of their services and academic sociology is challenged to deconstruct it. The aim of the course is to prepare the students to the sociological critique of the new media. Students evaluation: Blog entry on selected topic.

Michał Wanke, MA
Institute of Sociology
– university list –
2 ECTS
Monday, 4.30 pm – 6.00 pm (every week in March and April)
no of students: 3

Visual Socialogy

Visual sociology is about centrality of ‘the visual’ to the cultural construction of social life. Students will learn how to analyze and interpret images from a sociological perspective and practice fundamental skills of visual literacy. They will also learn how to put critical questions about the visual world around them.

evaluation: Active participation, individual presentation (photographic essay).
ECTS: 3
lecturer: Kamilla Biskupska, PhD
department: Institute of Sociology

Urban Socialogy

3ECTS

Foundations of sustainable development

n/a Students evaluation: n/a

Monika Paradowska, PhD
Faculty of Economics
– department list-
ECTS: 3
schedule: Thursday, 16.35-18.15

Global War on Terror

This course is for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of post-9/11 world and a clear sense of how international politics actually works. The most important issue are human consequences of the Global War on Terror (surveillance, torture, erosion of basic human rights) Students evaluation: PowerPoint presentation (min. 20 slides)

Sławomir Czapnik, PhD
Institute of Political Science
– university list –
ECTS: 8
schedule: Every Wednesday, 15.15-16.45
place: Collegium Civitas, room 203
no of students: 15

How To Train Your Dragon – Understanding and Taming European Union

European Union appears to be a weird creature located somewhere between an Alien and a Gremlin – at least to the majority of its inhabitants. This course allows to elaborate effective methods of understanding and domesticating this being. Students evaluation: Personal activity; PPT presentations and/or papers; attendance

Krzysztof Załucki, PhD; LL.M. Eur. (Munich)
Institute of Political Science
– university list –
ECTS: 8
schedule: Every other Tuesday, 3 P.M.-6 P.M. starting March 3.
place: Collegium Civitas
no of students: 15

Multiculturalism

The aim of the course is to discuss the philosophical dimension of multiculturalism, both as an idea and as a socio-political phenomenon that takes place nowadays in some countries (The US, Canada, Germany) and in some cultural traditions (liberalism). An important part of the course is the reflection on problems that are connected with multiculturalism, for example: cultural relativism, ethnocentrism, the role of religions, Americanization, and many others. The course is proposed by Dr habil. Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński from the Institute of Philosophy, whose texts – Axiological Universalism and Cultural Relativism, Santayana and the Problem of Americanization, and Richard Rorty’s Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Cultural Imperialism – may be some of the source texts.

evaluation:
ECTS: 8
Component Code: KZ-02-27-00033
lecturer: Professor Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński
Institute: Philosophy

POLITICS AND AESTHETICS (FILM, MUSIC, PAINTING, LITERATURE, PHOTO, BODY ART)

The aim of the course is to present the political aspects of aesthetic ideas that can be seen in different types of art, especially in film, music, painting, literature, and body art. The course is offered by Dr habil. Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński from the Institute of Philosophy, whose book Beyond Aesthetics and Politics (2013) may be one of the source texts.

evaluation:
ECTS: 9
Component Code: KZ-02-27-00035
lecturer: Professor Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński
Institute: Philosophy

TECHNOLOGIES OF THE SELF – #IDENTITY #SOCIALMEDIA #SOCIOLOGY

The aim of the course is to work through the phenomena of being oneself in the digital realms of mediated self-representation systems, such as social networks (e.g.: Facebook, Instagram). Students will employ both theoretical readings and auto-ethnographic writing, a form of self-tracking or recording (logging) and methods (visual) to develop a broad understanding of who – and most importantly HOW – we write ourselves into being through the digital-personal media.

evaluation:
ECTS: 8
Component Code: EN-02-08-TSISS
lecturer: Michał Wanke, MA
Institute: Sociology
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PUBLIC COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS

This course is designed to cover the importance of research and the critical step in developing a public relations initiative. Principles and Practices will reinforce the fundamentals of public relations and communications that were presented in Communications & Public Relations. The goal is to complete the course with an understanding of how and when to apply the different techniques and tools in the implementation of a public relations campaign. Broad topics will include written tactics, spoken tactics and visual tactics along with the internet and ‘new’ media.

evaluation:
ECTS: 5
Component Code: 1.2.2-D1-PCPR
lecturer: Professor I. Biernacka-Ligięza
Institute of English
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Liquid Modernity

4 ECTS

Politics and Aesthetics

8 ECTS

STATISTICS 1

The goal of the course is to introduce descriptive statistics to the students to the extent necessary for carrying out sociological research and interpreting its results.

evaluation:
ECTS: 4
Component Code: 02.06-S-S-1
lecturer: Michał Wanke, MA
Institute: Sociology
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