Course: Politology

Structural unit: Faculty of Philosophy

Title
Code
ВБ 7.1
Module type
Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
6 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
1. To understand the subject area, ethical and legal principles of professional activity. 8. To be able to use the basic categorical-conceptual and analytical-research apparatus of modern political science. 10. To be able to describe, explain and evaluate political processes and phenomena in different historical, social, cultural and ideological contexts. 13. To be able to analyze public policy at the local, national, European and global levels. 14. To apply theories and methods of applied political science, political communications, special political science disciplines in professional activities.
Form of study
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. Know the structure and functions of the political system of society, its main institutions (state, political parties, NGOs, local governments, media), patterns of functioning of the system as a whole and its institutions, basic ideas and concepts of foreign and domestic history of political student, basics of sociology and psychology. 2. To be able on the basis of knowledge about the political system of society, its institutions, the laws of their functioning, to navigate in political processes, political life of specific countries. 3. Have basic skills in research and information management; critical attitude and forecasting regarding political events and phenomena; use of foreign language professional political information sources.
Course content
Ethnopolitics as a science and academic discipline. Modern theories of ethnicity, nation, ethno and nation-genesis. Ethno-national forms of human existence. Ethnopolitics as a component of politics. National and multinational states. Ethnic minorities as subjects and objects of ethnopolitics. Ethnic component of political regimes. Nationalism as an ideological, political and social phenomenon. National idea and ethnopolitical myth. Ethnopolitical conflicts. Ethnopolitics in modern Ukraine
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Antonyuk O.V. Osnovy etnopolityky: Navch. posib. dlya stud. vyshch. navch. zakl. – K.: MAUP, 2005. – 432 s. Yevtukh V.B., Troshchynsʹkyy V.P., Halushko K.YU. ta in. Etnosotsiolohiya: terminy ta ponyattya. Navch. pos. – K.: Vyd. UANNP «Feniks», 2003. – 280 s. Kartunov O.V. Vstup do etnopolitolohiyi: Naukovo-navchalʹnyy posibnyk. – K.: «Firma «Krok»», 1999. – 300 s. Kasʹyanov H.V. Teoriyi natsiyi ta natsionalizmu. – K.: Lybidʹ, 1999. – 352 s. Korshuk R.M. Etnopolitolohiya: Navchalʹnyy posibnyk. K.:Alerta, 2011. – 200 s.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, seminars, independent work
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral reports, discussions, presentation of independent research, review of sources with analytical commentary. Criteria. The following are subject to assessment in seminars: the level of knowledge and completeness of disclosure of the issue in oral reports; activity in discussing issues and argumentation of one's own position in discussions; use of additional sources in preparing the report; ability to critically analyze ideas and statements presented for discussion; meaningful content of the presentation material and its free and interesting presentation. Criteria for evaluating independent work (essays, analytical research) are the presence of independent, scientifically sound commentary (with reference to the main and additional literature for the course), the formulation of opinions using professional terminology and compliance with deadlines for independent work
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Roman Mykolayovych Korshuk
Department of Political Sciences
Faculty of Philosophy

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of Political Sciences
Faculty of Philosophy