Social and Political Studies
Course: English Studies and Translation and Two Western European Languages”
Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
            Title
        
        
            Social and Political Studies
        
    
            Code
        
        
            ОК 14
        
    
            Module type 
        
        
            Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
        
    
            Educational cycle
        
        
            First
        
    
            Year of study when the component is delivered
        
        
            2021/2022
        
    
            Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
        
        
            7 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 analyze and interpret it, organize, classify and systematize it.
PLO 3. Organize own 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
        
        
            Prerequisites and co-requisites
        
        
            1. Knowledge of the main stages and characteristics of the socio-political process. 2. Skills of collecting and interpreting information on events and phenomena of politics, socio-political processes and events. 3. Basic skills of research and dealing with information; critical attitude towards and ability to forecast political, economic, socio-cultural events and phenomena. 4. Skills of group work and a public discussion. 5. Successful mastering of the course "Philosophy".
        
    
            Course content
        
        
            The purpose of the course is to form knowledge of features of the modern Ukrainian society, politics and government in a comparative context, of the specifics of sociological and political knowledge on the problems and trends of society, politics and government. The subject of study includes the main elements of social structure, social institutions, trends in social structure in modern Ukrainian society, features of the latest social phenomena inherent in modern societies caused by modernization and globalization, 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.
        
    
            Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
        
        
            Короткий оксфордський політичний словник. К., 2006. Кузьменко Т.М. Соціологія / Навчальний посібник. К., 2010. Політологічний енциклопедичний словник / В.Б. Авер’янов, І.В. Алєксєєнко, С.С. Андрєєв та ін.; В.П. Горбатенко (упоряд.), Ю.С. Шемшученко та ін. К., 2004. Політологія: відповіді на питання екзаменаційних білетів: Навчальний посібник / за ред. В.Ф. Цвиха. К., 2012. Політологія: підручник для студентів вищих навчальних закладів. / За ред. Цвиха В.Ф., Батрименка О.В. К., 2010. Соціологія: навч. посібник / За редакцією С.О. Макєєва. К., 1999. Спеціальні та галузеві соціології / За ред. В.Є.Пилипенка / Навч.посібник. К., 2004. Шляхтун П.П. Політологія: історія та теорія: Підручник. К., 2010.
        
    
            Planned learning activities and teaching methods
        
        
            Forms of study include lectures, seminars, consultations and students’ self-study. Teaching methods include answers at the seminars, analytical task on the topic given by the lecturer, report,  participation in the discussion, self-study (essay, analytical task, project presentation), test papers.
        
    
            Assessment methods and criteria
        
        
            Final score for the course constitutes a total of points for all forms of control and does not need any additional forms of assessment. Forms of the current control include the sum of marks for answers at the seminars (min 18 / max 30 points), analytical task on the topic given by the lecturer (min 9 / max 15 points), report (min 9 / max 15 points), participation in the discussion (min 6 / max 10 points), self-study (essay, analytical task, project presentation) (min 6 / max 10 points), test papers (min 12 / max 20 points). Students who did not manage to score 60 points during the term have to work for the classes and topics they missed. Final point correlation scale According to 100-point scale Mark according to national scale 60–100 Pass 0–59 Fail
        
    
            Language of instruction
        
        
            English
        
    Lecturers
This discipline is taught by the following teachers
                    Yaroslav
                    Serhiyovych
                    Teleshun
                
                
                    Politology department 
Faculty of Philosophy
            Faculty of Philosophy
                    Volodymyr
                    Anatoliyovych
                    Shelukhin
                
                
                     Department Social Structures and Social Relations 
Faculty of Sociology
            Faculty of Sociology
Departments
The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline
                        Politology department
                    
                    
                        Faculty of Philosophy 
                    
                
                         Department Social Structures and Social Relations
                    
                    
                        Faculty of Sociology