Scientific Image of the World

Course: Belarusian language and literature, Ukrainian language and literature, English language

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
Scientific Image of the World
Code
ННД.06
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
3 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
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. 
Form of study
Prerequisites and co-requisites
As a result of the study of previous educational disciplines, the student should have elementary ideas about the general properties and regularities of the nature that surrounds a person. As a result of studying the academic discipline, the student must: Know: 1.1. the main stages of the development of science and the corresponding historical scientific pictures of the world; 1.2. the main directions of the modern scientific revolution; 1.3. worldview consequences of modern physical, cosmological, biological concepts. Be able: 2.1. distinguish between scientific, non-scientific and non-scientific images of the world; 2.2. use modern scientific and philosophical terminology for the general description of the natural world; 2.3. to use general theoretical and methodological principles in scientific activity.
Course content
The course "Scientific image of the world" consists of one content part. The educational discipline is designed to acquaint students of the humanities faculties of the University with the history of the emergence and development of science in society, the achievements of its individual branches. This discipline should contribute to the formation in students of a modern scientific outlook, without which it is difficult to imagine the civilization of the 21st century.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. M. V. Vysotskyi, I. S. Kolomiets, V. V. Nikonova, O. V. Pylypovskyi, E. A. Slyusar Workshop on the course "Scientific Image of the World" Handbook for teachers and students. Kyiv, 2021. 200 p. 2. S.M. Yezhov. "Scientific image of the world" Study guide for teachers and students. Kyiv, 2017. 126 p. 3. V. Nikonova. Handbook of the course "Scientific image of the world". Kyiv: 2018. 56 p. 4. Hawking S. The shortest history of time / S. Hawking, L. Mlodinov; trans. from English I. Andrushchenko. Kharkiv: 2016. 160 p. 5. S. Hawking. Great plan / S. Hawking, L. Mlodinov; trans. from English M. Klymchuk. Kharkiv: 2018. 208 p. 6. Tyson, N. D. Astrophysics for those who value time / Neil deGrasse Tyson; trans. from English Kyiv: KM-Books, 2018. 200 p. 7. Kaku, M. Physics of the future / Mitio Kaku; trans. from English 4th edition Litopis, 2013. 432 p.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Methods: lecture, independent work 1)  Current tests 2)  Presentation 3)  Modular control
Assessment methods and criteria
1) Current tests (6 per module) – 42 points / 72 points per module (7 points / 12 points for one test); 2) Presentation (1 per module) – 8 points / 12 points per module; 3) Modular control (test) (1 per module) – 10 points / 16 points per test. The overall grade for the semester is the sum of the marks for the learning outcomes of the discipline (maximum 84 points) and the marks for the modular control work (maximum 16 points) and is a maximum of 100 points. 
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

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