Courses offered for ISSC field of study in the academic year 2024/2025 (grupa przedmiotów zdefiniowana przez Wydział "Artes Liberales")

• Wykład monograficzny - 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.

• Proseminarium - 30 godzin

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

• Konwersatorium - 30 godzin

The aim of the course is to 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.

• Ćwiczenia - 60 godzin

Spanish language course B1.1 level (according to the Common European Framework of References for Languages - CEFR). This culture and language class allows students to learn about the Spanish language in addition to a brief review of some elements connected with culture, history, and politics in Spanish.

• Wykład - 30 godzin

The course is intended to work out a risks related to environmental changes and its consequences for human activity including (forced) migration and conflicts. On the examples form different areas of the world including region of Mediterranean, it will show the multirelation between environmental, social, political, demographic and economic factors that increase risks of instability, poverty and exclusion or alternatives for mitigation and adaptation strategies. Particular emphasis will be placed on the relation between changes of the environment and migration.

• 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 15th 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 introduces Minority and Indigenous rights, focusing on their implementation. Participants will explore legal instruments to preserve linguistic and cultural heritage and protect communities at risk of marginalization.

• Konwersatorium - 30 godzin

The objective of the course is to provide students with an understanding of populism and its potential impact on democracy and social change in today’s global context. Students will learn about the nature and manifestations of populism, as well as engage in discussions on specific examples of populism prevalent in contemporary politics.

• Seminarium - 60 godzin

The course will provide students with an overview of contemporary theoretical and empirical debates on ‘risk’ in modern societies. The theoretical paradigms will range from the rational actor paradigm (RAP), through socio-cultural theories of risk (including “risk society”) to a philosophical paradigm. Attention will be focused upon the theoretical perspectives that inform empirical studies of risk perceptions and behaviours in regard to the following main topics: new technologies, migration, climate change, pandemics, socio-economic exclusion and other. Students will debate the political values and ethical concerns that inform contrasting economic, sociological, anthropological and philosophical accounts of ‘risk’.

• Konwersatorium - 30 godzin

A seminar on the culture of contemporary Spain in a form of seminar in Spanish language.

• 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 and students' news reports. 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, a town situated in southern Poland, houses the endangered Germanic language, Wymysorys. 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, for several years also supported by 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. In this edition of the course the issue of museums will be of special importance.

The course structure facilitates these goals. During the “classroom” part of the course, students will gain insight into the contexts of Wilamowice. The semester culminates in fieldwork (21 hours over 3 days) in Wilamowice, enabling students to conduct their participatory micro-research projects."