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Introduction to Diplomacy

Angel Reyna — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:58:23 +0000

Course Name	Introduction to Diplomacy
Course Code	IRS311
Description	How to become a diplomat? How to understand the functioning of foreign service? Who are the most important players in diplomacy? To what extent has diplomacy changed over the past two centuries and in what principal ways? Can one theorize diplomacy independently of diplomatic practice? To what extent have changes in technology affected diplomatic processes? Diplomacy is the subject of constant change. Diplomatic methods have undergone important changes since the adoption of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. The course will therefore aim at dealing with some of the main task of diplomacy – ceremonial protocol and visits, organization of diplomatic service, Vienna conventions on diplomatic and consular relations, information and communication, public diplomacy, negotiations, intercultural differences etc. in order to provide benchmarks and to highlight aspects that have been noted as a part of development of diplomacy.
Learning Outcomes	Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: – Have a good command of presentation, communication and negotiations skills. – Know basic rules of a functioning of the foreign service, diplomatic protocol and negotiations – Understand important changes of diplomacy in contemporary world. – Extract essential information from a compilation of documents. – Play the role of diplomats who have to deal with a given issue taken from real life situation. – Lead and engage in discussion with peers.
School	School of International Relations and Diplomacy (IRD)
Level	Bachelor
Number of credits (US / ECTS)	3 US / 6 ECTS

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Psychology of Human Cooperation

Andrew Flach — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:12:41 +0000

Course Name	Psychology of Human Cooperation
Course Code	PSY 325 / PSY 525
Description	Cooperation is necessary to solve many of our pressing challenges – including depletion of natural resources, managing the COVID-19 pandemic, and effective policy making. By studying the psychological processes underlying cooperation we gain knowledge that can help us create environments and institutions which will be more successful in tackling the societal challenges. The main goal of the course is to introduce students to the psychological processes of human cooperation. This course draws on theories and empirical findings from social, cognitive and developmental psychology, and behavioral economics.
Learning Outcomes	Upon completion of this course, students will gain knowledge and various skills and will be able to: *Knowledge* – Demonstrate understanding of basic terminology, concepts and principles of humanof the human cooperation. – Recognize that human cooperation has multiple layers. – Understand how scientists accumulate scientific knowledge about human cooperation through discovery, confirmation, and correction. – Understand how psychology is applied to improving various areas including prosocial behavior and inter- and intra-group cooperation. *Information literacy skills* – Use Google Scholar to identify the relevant scientific articles for their questions about human cooperation. – Evaluate popular and scholarly sources and their contents for answering questions about human cooperation. *Collaboration and Communication skills* – To communicate and collaborate with their classmates in a group research project. *Competence* – Apply a basic understanding of human cooperation in practice.
School	The School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Level	Bachelor Required / GEC
Number of credits (US / ECTS)	3 US / 6 ECTS

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Psychoanalysis and Society

Andrew Flach — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 08:34:32 +0000

Course Name	Psychoanalysis and Society
Course Code	PSY 365/PSY 565
Description	What is the relation between psyche and society? This course seeks to understand crucial contemporary and historical from the perspective of a socially informed depth psychology. The social is needed to contextualize the psyche but equally any explanation which leaves out a deep nuanced study of human subjectivity will be impoverished and unable to account for the richness of the reality investigated. The course explores this terrain from a multiplicity of psychodynamic perspectives, juxtaposing the stark reality of history and culture with various psychoanalytic tools for understanding. Competing intellectual traditions are not decided for and against but are seen as mutually enriching. Each individual is encouraged to take a stand on the issues involved and develop their own unique perspective. Students will use the course reader as well as other books, films, and academic materials for their study and research.
Learning Outcomes	Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: – Demonstrate abilities to apply definitions and main concepts of different psychological theories to explain and interpret different aspects of the environmental crisis. – Think theoretically and experientially about the clinical practice of ecotherapy. – Provide evidence of their abilities to analyze, synthesize and evaluate the studied material through active participation in class. – Compare and contrast differences between psychological theories, outline the limits and controversies individual theories imply when describing the same phenomena. – Demonstrate their in-depth familiarity with theories’ conceptual frameworks, and ability to apply those in interpretation of an ecological/environmental phenomena of choice. – Demonstrate and defend their individual critical evaluation and critically review other fellow students’ positions. – Show active pursuit of in-depth discussions in seminars, ability to lead a class debate on a topic of choice, and demonstrate attainment of interpretive psychoanalytic perspectives applicable not just to the realm of ecology/nature but also phenomena ranging from culture, politics and psychology to psychopathology and the media.
School	The School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Level	Bachelor/Master’s
Number of credits (US / ECTS)	3 US / 6 ECTS

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Reporting II

Jeta — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 21:59:09 +0000

Course Name	Reporting II
Course Code	JRN201
Description	Coming soon…
Learning Outcomes	Coming soon…
School	The School of Journalism, Media & Visual Arts (SJMVA)
Level	Bachelor / Master
Number of credits (US / ECTS)	3 US / 6 ECTS

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Elementary Spanish II

Marko Colic — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 16:37:18 +0000

Course Name	Elementary Spanish II
Course Code	SPA200
Description	The purpose of this course is to provide students with the necessary tools in order to communicate in written and oral form and to complete the level A1.2 of Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). This course has been designed for false beginners in Spanish. The programme main objectives are to: −Promote the development of students’ communicative competence of oral and written Spanish. −Develop students’ intercultural competence and understanding of Spanish-speaking world.
Learning Outcomes	Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: – Understand and use very elementary vocabulary and phrases to satisfy basic needs; – Interact using everyday expressions in basic formal and informal situations; – Understand and fill in basic forms, as well as understand and write short texts such as postcards or letters; – Interact with others in a simple manner provided a sympathetic speech partner who, speak slowly and clearly and is prepared to help; – Understand and use information about free time activities such as travels or invitations to go out; – Interact in a city exchanging information about urban spaces and services and directions (location, distance and time); – Understand simple menus and ordering in restaurant and bars; – Provide and gather information about the activities of their own free time and others; – Understand signs, posters and signs in hotels, restaurants, bars and shops.
School	The School of International Relations and Diplomacy (IRD)
Level	Bachelor / Master
Number of credits (US / ECTS)	3 US / 6 ECTS
Prerequisites	SPA100

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Elementary Spanish I

Marko Colic — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 16:35:29 +0000

Course Name	Elementary Spanish I
Course Code	SPA100
Description	The purpose of this course is to provide students with the necessary tools in order to communicate in written and oral form and to complete the level A1.1 of Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). This course has been designed for absolute beginners in Spanish. The course main objectives are to: −Introduce students to the language of the Spanish speaking countries; −Promote the development of students’ communicative competence of oral and written Spanish; −Develop students’ intercultural competence and understanding.
Learning Outcomes	Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: – Understand and use very elementary vocabulary and phrases to satisfy basic needs; – Interact using everyday expressions in basic formal and informal situations; – Introduce themselves and others and provide personal information such as nationality, age and preferences; – Understand and fill in basic forms, as well as understand and write short texts such as postcards or letters; – Interact with others in a simple manner provided a sympathetic speech partner who, speak slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.
School	The School of International Relations and Diplomacy (IRD)
Level	Bachelor / Master
Number of credits (US / ECTS)	3 US / 6 ECTS

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ADVANCED SEMINAR ON ALTERNATIVE CULTURE: UNDERSTANDING FANDOM

Marko Colic — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 16:30:04 +0000

Course Name	ADVANCED SEMINAR ON ALTERNATIVE CULTURE: UNDERSTANDING FANDOM
Course Code	SOC478 / SOC578
Description	This course explores fandom, particularly media fandom. In a world suffused in popular culture, fans are those who have invested themselves most heavily in enjoying and making meaning from popular culture. Why do they? Are they just weird, just different from us? Or is it simply a more intense expression of how we all make meaning from culture? Drawing on some of the seminal theorists of fan studies (including Michel de Certeau, Pierre Bourdieu, Camille Bacon-Smith, John Fiske, Henry Jenkins, Matt Hills, and D. W. Winnicott), this course seeks to understand fans as meaning-makers as they watch, play, write, create, blog, form communities and hierarchies, even quasi-religions, to understand the object of their fan-desire.
Learning Outcomes	Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: – demonstrate a good grasp of the theoretical concepts associated with the study of media fan subcultures, – articulate his or her own ideas about what drives fandom, – demonstrate an ability to reflect on his or her own fandom.
School	The School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Level	Bachelor / Master
Number of credits (US / ECTS)	3 US / 6 ECTS

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Twentieth Century Social Theory

Marko Colic — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 16:28:33 +0000

Course Name	Twentieth Century Social Theory
Course Code	SOC400 / SOC500
Description	In this course we will be chronologically exploring some of the key thinkers in continental European social philosophy & social theory and placing them in their socio-historical context. In the first half of the term we will trace the origins & backgrounds of European social philosophy in the thought of such philosophers as Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud and Heidegger. We will move on to an assessment of how the cataclysms of the First & Second World Wars affected European social thinkers (Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, Hannah Arendt), considering the shift in European social thought from a German to a French axis in the postwar period, and the attempts to deconstruct, revise, and even supersede Enlightenment accounts of rationality, autonomy, and society. In this second half we will be considering the works of the following thinkers: Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jean Baudrillard, Jurgen Habermas, Niklas Luhmann, Zygmunt Bauman and Judith Butler. (Along the way, other supplemental theorists will be discussed, such as Max Weber, Karl Popper, Isaiah Berlin, Charles Taylor, Peter Sloterdijk, Slavoj Zizek, just to name a few.)
Learning Outcomes	Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: – Understand the Enlightenment basis of European social philosophy from Kant through Hegel, coming to an understanding of how later thinkers amplified, revised, critiqued, and diverged from their thought; – Understand the key contemporary thinkers of European social philosophy in the late 20th and early 21st centuries; – Understand how European social philosophers reflected the socio-historical epochs that gave rise to their thought, from the French Revolution 1789 through the Velvet Revolution (1989), and from 9/11 to the present; – Critically think through a variety of complex theories, and relate those theories to social issues.
School	The School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Level	Bachelor / Master
Number of credits (US / ECTS)	3 US / 6 ECTS
Prerequisites	SOC200

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Sociology and the Family

Marko Colic — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 16:26:50 +0000

Course Name	Sociology and the Family
Course Code	SOC381 / SOC581
Description	This course examines one of the most important social institutions in our society, the family – a basic unit of society. It is an introduction to the study of the social and cultural foundations of family, its historical development, changing structures and functions; the interaction of marriage and parenthood. The course aims to enable students to understand and deal with different life situations and new challenges that are shaping the family and marriage issues in contemporary society.
Learning Outcomes	Upon successfully completing this course the student will be able to – Understand key concepts of the institution of family and marriage; – Understand major theoretical and methodological perspectives; – Develop an ability to analyze a problem, synthesize an analytic discussion, present and justify an analysis orally and respond to criticism and queries raised by fellow students and the course tutor; – Explain human behavior from a sociological perspective in the context of marriage and family and be able to assess them in the context of their own setting; – Demonstrate the appropriate level of competence in written expression as demanded by the discipline and as expected of an undergraduate student; Demonstrate the appropriate level of competence in library research as demanded by the discipline and as expected of an undergraduate student.
School	The School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Level	Bachelor / Master
Number of credits (US / ECTS)	3 US / 6 ECTS
Prerequisites	SOC100

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POPULAR CULTURE & MEDIA THEORY

Marko Colic — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 16:24:25 +0000

Course Name	POPULAR CULTURE & MEDIA THEORY
Course Code	SOC370
Description	Songs, TV shows, movies, and magazines form much of the world we live in, our environment. But what do they all mean? We need to understand that, because popular culture and media influence us all. This course will introduce you to scholars who have thought about these issues, and to their very different answers about what the popular culture and media are, and how best to understand them. We humans enjoy making meanings and sharing them with others. And these meanings have a lot of power to influence us, sometimes in ways we don’t even notice. What is the best way to understand popular culture and the media? This course will introduce you to several thinkers – some philosophers, some psychologists (at least one), some anthropologists, and others – who have thought long and hard about the media and popular culture. They have different answers about what is culture and media, how do they make meaning, what is the best ways to interpret their messages? And what do these theories tell us about what it means to be human, what is really real? If these kinds of questions interest you, and you would like know more about the media and popular culture and what it all means, then this course is for you.
Learning Outcomes	Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: – Identify terms associated with various theories of culture and media. – Articulate the various theories in his or her own words. – Apply the various theories to popular culture works, that is, to analyze popular culture and media from various theoretical perspectives.
School	The School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Level	Bachelor
Number of credits (US / ECTS)	3 US / 6 ECTS

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