Facultyof International and Political Studies;wintersemester2013/2014
Listofcourses (details listed below):
American Welfare State
Basics of Effective Communication and Presentation
British Society and Culture
Consumer Behaviour
Contemporary Political and Media Satire
DDR, BRD und Deutschland nach 1945
Economics
Effective Communication and Presentation
Feminist Literature and Philosophy
Feminist Methodology: Interdisciplinary Methods in Women’s Studies
Feminist Theory: Between Difference and Diversity
Foreign Language Spanish
Fundamentals of Management
Gender & Academic and Creative Writing
Gender Representations in Advertising
Globalisation and Regionalisation
Global Markets
Historia y politica de los movimientos insurgents en America Latina
History of International Relations
International Financial Markets
International Marketing
International Marketing Communication
International Protection of Human Rights
International Security
International Social Policy
Intersectionality and Audience Analysis in the Feminist Classroom, Part 2
Introduction to International Marketing Communications
Introduction to the USA
Introduction to US History
Marketing Management
Methodology of Social Sciences and Humanities
Minorities in the USA
Political and Economic Geography
Political Cinema
Political Marketing
Political systems
Principles of Marketing
Public and non-profit marketing
Science of State
Social psychology
Statistics
Strategic Management
The Body in the Feminist Theory and Practice
Theory of International Relations
The Promised Land: Immigrants and Minorities in the United States
War and Imperialism: Feminist and Postcolonial Perspectives on Nationalism
Women’s Movements World-wide
Course title /American Welfare State
Form* / DLevel of course / Master's Degree
Year/semester / 2013/2014 winter semester
ECTS / 3 (+2)
Language of instruction / English
No. of hours / 30
Course content / n/a
Assessment scheme / n/a
Lecturer / Kaja Zapędowska-Kling, MA
Contact /
USOS code / 1300-D2S0067
Literature / n/a
Field of study/ programme / n/a
*L – lecture,T-tutorial,D – discussionclass,Lab – laboratory.
Course title /Basics of Effective Communication and Presentation
Form* / DLevel of course / Bachelor's Degree
Year/semester / 2013/2014 winter semester
ECTS / 5 (+2)
Language of instruction / English
No. of hours / 30
Course content / n/a
Assessment scheme / n/a
Lecturer / Dr Marta Hereźniak
Contact /
USOS code / 1300-D1S0044
Literature / n/a
Field of study/ programme / n/a
*L – lecture,T-tutorial,D – discussionclass,Lab – laboratory.
Course title /British Society and Culture
Form* / LLevel of course / Bachelor's Degree
Year/semester / 2013/2014winter semester
ECTS / 4 (+2)
Language of instruction / English
No. of hours / 30
Course content / The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the basic knowledge about Britain and the Commonwealth, with social and cultural features of the British community from contemporary and historical perspective. During the course we will examine cultural products, but also and predominantly beliefs, conventions, philosophy, styles identifiable with the Commonwealth culture. The topics include the concept of tradition, understood as the awareness of both history and geography, British Empire, institutions, government, political and economic systems, the issues of multiculturalism, racism, gender and ethnicity, “high” and pop culture, media
Assessment scheme / n/a
Lecturer / Dr Izabella Penier
Contact / Dr Izabella Penier
USOS code / 1300-FJ37DX
Literature / n/a
Field of study/ programme / n/a
*L – lecture,T-tutorial,D – discussionclass,Lab – laboratory.
Course title /Consumer Behaviour
Form* / DLevel of course / Master's Degree
Year/semester / 2013/2014 winter semester
ECTS / 3 (+2)
Language of instruction / English
No. of hours / 30
Course content / Consumer behaviour will be analized from the perspective of individual’s behaviour (psychology) and group behaviour (sociology) Students acquire knowledge and abilities driving behaviours of modern consumers and are able to apply professional terminology. Critial analysis of marketing messages and strategies form the point of view of their effectiveness on shaping consumer behaviour will be practiced.
Effects of teaching:
The students:
- understand the mechanism and factors influencing behaviour of contemporary consumers;
- are aware of how consumer behaviour influences modern marketing activities;
- apply professional terminology related to marketing and consumer behaviour.
The students acquire:
- the ability to identify mechanisms driving consumer behaviour;
- the ability to analyze and evaluate marketing messages and their effectiveness in shaping buyer behaviour;
- the ability to apply sociological and psychological concepts to interpret consumer behaviour.
The students:
- utilize the knowledge and abilities acquired during the course to master their professional behaviour in the international environment.
1. Introduction to consumer research - origins and applications
a. Characteristics of a consumer society
b. The new consumer - challenges for modern companies
c. Researching consumer behaviour
d. Consumer segmentation
2.Consumer as an individual
a. Consumer motivation
b. Personality
c. Perception
d. Learning process
e. Attitudes: formation and change
3.Consumer as a part of the society
a. Reference groups and family influences
b. Social class
c. Culture
d. Cross-cultural perspective on consumer behaviour
4.Decision making process
a. Opinion leadership
b. Diffusion and adoption of innovations
c. Levels and models of decision making
Assessment scheme / Test, active in-class participation, group project
Lecturer / Dr Marta Hereźniak
Contact /
USOS code / 1300-D2S0011
Literature / 1. L. Schiffman, L. Kanuk, Consumer Behavior, Prentice Hall, Saddle River 2007;
2. L. Rudnicki, Zachowania konsumentów na rynku, PWE, Warszawa 2012.
3. M.R. Solomon, G. Bomossy, S. Askegaard, M.K. Hogg, Consumer Behaviour. A European Perspective, Prentice Hall, Harlow 2010.
Selected articles from specialist magazines
Field of study/ programme / n/a
*L – lecture,T-tutorial,D – discussionclass,Lab – laboratory.
Course title /Contemporary Political and Media Satire
Form* / DLevel of course / Master's Degree
Year/semester / 2013/2014 winter semester
ECTS / 3(+2)
Language of instruction / English
No. of hours / 30
Course content / n/a
Assessment scheme / n/a
Lecturer / Prof. Matthew Chambers
Contact / Prof. Matthew Chambers
USOS code / 1300-D2S0068
Literature / n/a
Field of study/ programme / n/a
*L – lecture,T-tutorial,D – discussionclass,Lab – laboratory.
Course title /DDR, BRD und Deutschland nach 1945 - Ausgewählte Probleme
Form* / LLevel of course / Master's Degree
Year/semester / 2013/2014 winter semester
ECTS / 4(+2)
Language of instruction / German
No. of hours / 30
Course content / n/a
Assessment scheme / n/a
Lecturer / Dr Ernest Kuczyński
Contact /
USOS code / 1300-D2W0025
Literature / n/a
Field of study/ programme / n/a
*L – lecture,T-tutorial,D – discussionclass,Lab – laboratory.
Course title /Economics
Form* / L+TLevel of course / Bachelor's Degree
Year/semester / 2013/2014 winter semester
ECTS / 4 (+2)
Language of instruction / English
No. of hours / 30+15
Course content / This course should empower students to engage in applying theoretically analysis to important economics questions. Moreover, the course should expose them to the current issues of the area, as well as give them an understanding of the tools needed to undertake further research in that area. Student should understand basic economic concepts, and be able to reason logically about key economic issues, especially: market theory, consumer theory and theory of the firm, GDP growth, unemployment, inflation, the effect of government policies or broadly speaking other problems connected with macro scale of the economy.
I. Supply and demand
1. Analysis of a market
2. Demand, law of demand, changes in demand, shift factors in demand
3. Supply, supply in the long run and short run, changes in supply, shift factors in supply
4. Equilibrium of supply and demand
5. Elasticity of demand
6. Elasticity and slope, determinants of elasticity, elasticity and revenue
7. Income elasticity, cross-elasticity, elasticity of supply
II. Consumer theory
1. The fundamental principle of consumer demand theory, budget constraint line
2. The marginal utility approach, marginal utility, diminishing marginal utility
3. Problems with the utility approach, the preference approach
4. Indifference curves
5. Consumer optimal choice
III. Theory of the firm
1. Benefits, production and costs
2. Measuring benefits, marginal benefit
3. Production and supply
4. Production function, marginal productivity, the law of diminishing marginal productivity, average and marginal productivity
5. Costs theory
6. Fixed and variable cost, average cost, marginal cost, marginal cost and supply, maximization of profits
7. Shutting down and bankruptcy
8. Long run average cost, returns to scale
9. The competitive firm, short run and long run equilibrium
IV. Monopoly
1. Monopoly demand
2. Marginal revenue
3. Demand and marginal revenue
4. Monopoly profit maximization
5. Monopoly inefficiency
6. Natural monopoly
V. Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand
1. GDP measurement.
2. Analysis of a market The aggregate demand (AD) curve. The aggregate supply (AS) curve.
3. The long run aggregate supply curve and short run AS curve.
4. Explanations of upward sloping short run aggregate supply curve. Sticky wages (Keynesian) model.
5. Investments multiplier.
VI. Fiscal Policy
1. Discretionary fiscal policy.
2. Tax policy, deficits and debt.
3. The automatic stabilisers.
4. Fiscal policy rules
VII. Monetary policy
1. The Demand for money. Functions of money.
2. The speculative theory of money demand: demand for money as a safe asset.
3. Precautionary theory of money demand: costs of illiquidity.
4. The modern quantity theory of money.
5. The Supply of money. The monetary base and the money supply. The money multiplier model.
6. Control of the central bank over the money supply: open market operations, reserve requirements, discount rate, foreign exchange market interventions. Sterilisation.
7. The public sector deficit and high powered money.
VIII. Unemployment
1. The types and causes of unemployment: frictional, structural and classical (or real wage) unemployment. Policies to reduce unemployment.
2. Phillips curves.
3. The Beveridge curve approach to unemployment
4. Unions and wage-setting arrangements.
IX. Inflation
1. Main inflation theories.
2. Inflation and Phillips curves.
3. The costs of expected inflation: “shoe-leader” costs, menu costs, tax distortions.
4. The costs of unexpected inflation: redistribution of wealth between debtors and creditors, redistribution of incomes between those, who get fixed income (in nominal terms) and others, uncertainty about relative prices.
X. The Neoclassical (Solow) Growth Model
1. Stylized facts of economic growth. Factors of economic growth, Solow residual.
2. Assumptions of the Solow model. Derivation of the capital accumulation equation for the model with labour augmenting technological progress. Steady state. Conditions that guarantees existence, uniqueness and stability
3. Comparative statics (predictions of the model): changes in saving rate, in population growth rate and the rate of technical progress.
4. The golden rule of capital accumulation.
XI. International Trade
1. Balance of payments.
2. Exchange rates and levels of economic integration in Europe
Assessment scheme / Written exam
Lecturer / Dr Radosław Piwowarski, mgr Katarzyna Piłat
Contact / Dr Radosław Piwowarski ,
mgr Katarzyna Piłat
USOS code / 1300-D1PX102
Literature / 1. Mankiw N. , M. Taylor (2006), Microeconomics, Thomson Learning; First Edition edition.
2. Blanchard O. (2000), Macroeconomics, MIT Press.
Field of study/ programme / n/a
*L – lecture,T-tutorial,D – discussionclass,Lab – laboratory.
Course title /Effective Communication and Presentation
Form* / LLevel of course / Bachelor
Year/semester / 2013/2014 winter semester
ECTS / 4 (+2)
Language of instruction / English
No. of hours / 30
Course content / n/a
Assessment scheme / n/a
Lecturer / Dr Marta Hereźniak
Contact /
USOS code / 1300-FJ51DS
Literature / n/a
Field of study/ programme / n/a
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title / Feminist Literature and PhilosophyForm* / D
Level of course / graduate (master’s)
Year/semester / 2013/2014 winter semester
ECTS / 5+2
Language of instruction / English
No. of hours / 30
Course content / This course introduces students to 1) the concept and content of feminist philosophy and 2) diversity and richness of feminist literature. It focuses on the feminist critique and appropriation of the traditional western philosophy and presents the richness of the philosophical concepts engendered and introduced by feminist scholars. By concentrating on the selected literary productions, by widely recognized feminist writers, the course highlights the affirmative power of feminist literature simultaneously emphasizing its significant epistemological and ethical implications. The main aim of this course is to get students acquainted with the specificity of feminist philosophy and literature. Students learn to understand the feminist negotiations with the traditional philosophical canon, but also are introduced to the uniqueness of the feminist philosophical concepts and approaches. The focus put on the feminist literary history and literary production aims at presenting the particularities of feminist writing, but also the ways feminist philosophy gets internalized and generated through the feminist writing practices.
Assessment scheme / 1. Student’s Active Class Participation= 20%
2. Student’s Presentations = 30%
3. Student’s Creative Presentation= 50%
Lecturer / Dr. Małgorzata Myk
Contact
USOS code / 1300-A227VGm
Literature / 1.MoiraGatens, “The Feminist Critique of Philosophy”, in:Feminism and Philosophy. Perspectives on Difference and Equality (BloomingtonIndianapolis:IndianaUniversityPress 1991)
2.Sonia Kruks, “Existentialism and Phenomenology”, in: Alison M Jaggar and Iris Marion Young (eds), A Companion to Feminist Philosophy (Blackwell Publishing 2000)
3.Elizabeth Wright (ed.), Feminism and Psychoanalysis. A Critical Dictionary (Oxford/Cambridge: Blackwell 1992) Entries on: “The Body”, “Essentialism”, “The Subject”
4.Linda Alcoff, “Cultural Feminism versus Poststructuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory”, in: Signs, vol. 13 (3), 1998
5.Adrian Parr (ed.), The Deleuze Dictionary. (Edinburgh: EdinburghUniversity Press 2005) Entries on: “Becoming”, “Body”, “Creative Transformation”, “Desire”, “Singularity”
6.Alison Jaggar, “Feminist Ethics”, in: Becker, L., (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Ethics (New York: Routledge 2/e 2001)
7.Ann Oakley, “A Brief History of Gender”, in: Who Is Afraid of Feminism? Seeing through the Backlash (London: Penguin Books 1997)
8.Christine Delphi, “Rethinking sex and gender”, in: Women’s Studies International Forum, 16, no.1, 1993
9.Rosi Braidotti, “Becoming Woman, or Sexual Difference Revisited”, in: Metamorphoses. Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming (Cambridge/Oxford:Polity Press/Blackwell Publishers 2002)
10.Rosi Braidotti, “Meta(l)morphoses: the Becoming-Machine”, in: Metamorphoses. Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming (Cambridge/Oxford:Polity Press/Blackwell Publishers 2002)
11.Laura Esquirel, Like Water for Chocolate (New York: Anchor Books 1995)
12.Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body (London: Vintage Books 2001)
13.Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (London: Penguin Books 1992)
Field of study/ programme / International Gender Studies
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title /Feminist Methodology: Interdisciplinary Methods in Women’s Studies
Form* / DLevel of course / graduate (master’s)
Year/semester / 2013/2014 winter semester
ECTS / 10+2
Language of instruction / English
No. of hours / 60
Course content / The course is designed as an overview of different methodologies used within the field of women’s/gender studies. It focuses also on the issues of knowledge and aims at discussing the most important methodological questions: How we know things? How truth is determined? Can we talk about any universal truths? – to name just a few. Feminists increasingly came to feel that existing social theory and research inevitably marginalized women’s ways of understanding the world plus the postcolonial debate made explicit the exclusion of minority voices in science, history, and arts. That is why the course explores also the issues of epistemology (or rather epistemologies) from the perspective of both feminist and postcolonial thinkers. The term “feminist epistemology”, as obviously related to methodological issues, marks the uneasy alliance of feminism and philosophy. The term has been used variously to refer to women’s “ways of knowing”, “women’s experience” or “women’s knowledge”. That is why epistemology is very closely connected to the issue of methodologies used within the field of interdisciplinary gender studies. The course follows the American classification of feminist epistemologies/methodologies worked out by Sandra Harding (feminist empiricism, standpoint theory, and postmodernism), but also takes into account some un-American voices.
The aim of this course is to familiarize students with different feminist approaches to the problems that have vexed traditional methodology and epistemology. The objective of the course is to critically discuss the issues of the nature of knowledge, objectivity, explanation, and understanding as well as feminist ways of making knowledge and doing research. The course also aims at supplying the students with the most basic and important methodological and theoretical tools to make an analysis within the field of gender studies.
Assessment scheme / Presentation and critical examination of a selected topic (40%).
Final quiz in a form of open questions testing student’s knowledge of feminist methodologies as well as abilities to use them in practice (30%).
Active participation in class discussion on the basis of the readings for the course (30%).
Lecturer / Dr. Dorota Golanska
Contact /
USOS code / 1300-A222VGm
Literature /
- Alessandra Tenesini, “Varieties of Epistemology.” In A. Tenesini, An Introduction to Feminist Epistemologies. Blackwell: Oxford 1999, pp. 3-37.
- Alessandra Tenesini, “Feminism and ‘Malestream’ Epistemology.” In A. Tenesini, An Introduction to Feminist Epistemologies. Blackwell: Oxford 1999, pp. 38-65.
- Alessandra Tenesini, “Feminism and Science.” In A. Tenesini, An Introduction to Feminist Epistemologies. Blackwell: Oxford 1999, pp. 3-37.
- Glossary entries: Post-colonial theory, Postfeminism, Post-industrial, Postmodernism, Poststructuralism from “A Glossary of Feminist Theory.” Sonya Andermahr and Terry Lovell. Arnold: London 1997.
- Chris Weedon, “Subjects” in Mary Eagleton, A Concise Companion to Feminist Theory. Blackwell: Oxford 2003: 111-132.
- Caroline Ramazanoglu, “Choices and Decisions. Doing a Feminist Research Project” in Feminist Methodology. Challenges and Choices. Sage: London 2002: 145-164.
- Shulamit Reinharz, “The Principle of Feminist Research, a Matter of Debate” in Ellen Messer-Davidow, Disciplining Feminism. From Social Activism to Academic Discourse. Duke University Press: Durham 2002: 423-437.
- Jackie Stacey, “Feminist Theory: Capital F, Capital T” in Victoria Robinson and Diane Richardson, Introducing Women’s Studies. Feminist Theory and Practice. MacMillan: Basingstoke 1997: 54-76.
- Rosi Braidotti, “Feminist Philosophies” in Mary Eagleton, A Concise Companion to Feminist Theory. Blackwell: Oxford 2003: 195-214.
- Anne Cranny-Francis , Wendy Waring, Pan Stavropoulos and Joan Kirkby (eds.) “Ways of Thinking” in Gender Studies: Terms and Debates. Palgrave: New York 2003: 42-88.
- Anne Cranny-Francis , Wendy Waring, Pan Stavropoulos and Joan Kirkby (eds.) “Ways of Reading” in Gender Studies: Terms and Debates. Palgrave: New York 2003: 89-138.
- Patricia Hill Collins “Toward an Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology” in P. Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought. Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Routledge: New York/London 1991, pp. 201-220.
- Chandra T. Mohanty, “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses.”
In C. T. Mohanty, A. Russo and L. Torres (eds.), Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. Indiana University Press: Bloomington, In. 1991, pp. 51-80. - Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, “The Intersection of Race and Gender.” In K. Crenshaw, N. Gotanda, G. Peller and K. Thomas (eds.), Critical Race Theory, The Key Writings, that formed the Movement, The New Press: New York 1995, pp. 357-383.
- Liz Stanley, “On Auto/biography in Sociology” Sociology 27, 1 (1993): pp. 41-52.
- Liz Stanley, “Is There a Feminist Auto/biography?” In The Auto/biographical I. The Theory and Practice of Feminist Auto/biography, Manchester: Manchester University Press 1992, pp. 240-156.
- Ruth Frankenberg, “Introduction: Points of Origin, Points of Departure.” In R. Frankenberg, The Social Construction of Whiteness: White Women Race Matters. Routledge: New York/London 1993, pp. 1-22.
- Marjorie Devault, “Personal Writing in Social Research. Issues of Production and Interpretation” In Reflexivity & Voice, Rosanna Hertz (ed.), Thousand Oaks: Sage 1997, pp. 216-228.
- Avtar Brah, “Introduction” In Cartographies of Diaspora, London: Routledge 1996, pp.1-16.
- Ien And, On Not Speaking Chinese. Living Between Asian and the West, London: Routledge 2001, pp. 21-36.
Field of study/ programme / International Gender Studies
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other