Socio-Political Studies

Course: Translation from Portuguese and English

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
Socio-Political Studies
Code
ННД.06
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
6 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
2
Learning outcomes
PLO 2. Process information effectively: collect relevant information from a variety of sources, including professional literature and electronic databases, critically analyse and interpret it, organize, classify and systematize it. PLO 3. Organize self-learning and self-education process. PLO 4. Understand the fundamental principles of human, nature and society genesis. PLO 5. Collaborate with colleagues, representatives of other cultures and religions, supporters of different political views, etc.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
Before starting this course, students should know the main stages and characteristics of the socio-political process; be able to collect and interpret information about political phenomena and socio-political processes and events; have elementary skills of scientific research and management information; critical thinking and ability to forecast political, economic, cultural events and phenomena.
Course content
The subject of the academic discipline is the functioning and development of modern society, politics and power, human interaction with social and political institutions, special characteristics of modern Ukrainian society in a comparative context. The task is to form students' skills of critical analysis and explain socio-political phenomena and processes, their presentation in mass media, everyday consciousness and in theoretical generalizations based on modern sociological and political knowledge. To develop knowledge about the peculiarities of functioning and development of modern social and political systems, their structural elements and social consequences, social and political problems of modern society. To form knowledge and ideas about the main socio-cultural and political characteristics modern Ukrainian society in regional and national dimensions, about social and political problems and ways of their regulation, in particular in the conditions of European and Euro-Atlantic integration.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Ґіденс Е. Соціологія. Київ : Основи,1999. 2. Кузьменко Т. М. Соціологія: навч. посіб. Київ : Центр учбової літератури, 2010. 3. Політологічний енциклопедичний словник / В. Б. Авер’янов, І. В. Алєксєєнко, С. С. Андрєєв та ін. К., 2004. 4. Політологія: підручник для студентів вищих навчальних закладів / За ред. Цвиха В. Ф., Батрименк О. В. Київ : ВПЦ «Київський університет», 2010. 5. Соціологічні виміри громадянського суспільства в Україні / за наук. ред. О. Резніка. Київ : Ін-тут соціології НАН України, 2019. 6. Українське суспільство: моніторинг соціальних змін. Випуск 6 (20). К.: Інститут соціології НАН України, 2019. 517 с. Повний список рекомендованої літератури наведено в РПНД.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, seminars, consultations, individual work
Assessment methods and criteria
Assessment is carried out according to a system that provides a two-level evaluation of the learned material, in particular, evaluation of theoretical training making up 40% of the total grade, and evaluation of practical training, which makes up 60% of the total grade. Assessment of semester work: - semester evaluation (1st part): 1. Work in seminars during the semester - 4 points/3 points for one answer. 2. Test (20 questions for 0.5 points each): in the form of a test with closed alternatives - 6-10 points - semester assessment (2nd part): 1. Oral report (group presentation of project results): 9-15 points for one project; 2. Individual research work (referential and analytical review of the source, analytical discussion): 6-10 points for one work: 3. Test (20 test questions for 0.5 points each): 6-10 points.
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

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