Social and Political Studies
Course: Tourism
Structural unit: heohrafichnyi fakultet
Title
Social and Political Studies
Code
ННД.08
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2022/2023
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
2 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
To define and reveal the essence of current social and political problems, conflicts of modern society, their conditions and factors of occurrence and settlement; to analyze social and political phenomena. To interpret critically the information about socio-political phenomena and processes that is presented in mass conscience, publications in mass media and social networks, its validity from the point of view of modern sociology and political science.
Form of study
External form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
To know the main characteristics of the formation and development of society.
To be able to receive and interpret information about social processes, to understand the events taking place in modern society.
To have elementary skills of searching, critical selection and systematization of information of both applied and theoretical nature.
Course content
The discipline is to highlight the main achievements of global and domestic socio-behavioral and humanitarian knowledge. It reveals the principles and tendencies of functioning of social and political systems overall, state as a fundamental social and political institution, public organizations and political parties and their ideological foundations. Characteristics of traditional and (post)modern, democratic and non-democratic realities are compared.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Bzhezinskyi Z. Stratehichne bachennia: Ameryka i kryza svitovoi vlady / Per. z anhl. H. Leliv. L.: Litopys: 2012. 168 s.
Bohdan O. Shcho varto znaty pro sotsiolohiiu ta sotsialni doslidzhennia? Posibnyk-dovidnyk dlia hromadskykh aktyvistiv ta vsikh zatsikavlenykh / Olena Bohdan; konsultant-retsenzent Volodymyr Paniotto. K.: Dukh i Litera, 2015. 380 s.
Stan suchasnoho ukrainskoho suspilstva: tsyvilizatsiinyi vymir / Za nauk. red. M. O. Shulhy. K.: Instytut sotsiolohii NAN Ukrainy, 2017. 198 s.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, seminar, independent work
Assessment methods and criteria
Talks and discussions, analytical tasks, control work
Language of instruction
Ukrainian
Lecturers
This discipline is taught by the following teachers
Anna
Y.
Taschenko
Department Social Structures and Social Relations
Faculty of Sociology
Faculty of Sociology
Ivan
Pavlovich
Fedirko
Politology department
Faculty of Philosophy
Faculty of Philosophy
Departments
The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline
Department Social Structures and Social Relations
Faculty of Sociology
Politology department
Faculty of Philosophy