1. Course title CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL SYSTEMS 2. Course code 3. Teaching methods seminar 4. Type of course Optional 5. Year of study, semester Spring or Autumn semester depending on the student s choice 6. Number of credits 7 7. level of course basic 11. Name of lecturer mgr Izabela Kapsa The theory of contemporary political systems. Review of political systems: United States of America,United Kingom, France, Spain. Transformation in Europe The political systems of contemporary world. Oral exam and active participation in seminars Politics UK, ed. Bill Jonem et al., Harlow: Pearson ed. 2001. Contemporary British politics, Coxall William Norman, New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2003. American politics, media and elections: contemporary international perspectives on U.S. presidency, foreign policy and political communication, ed. Tomasz Płudowski, Toruń: Collegium Civitas Press: Adam Marszałek 2005. The politics of contemporary Spain, Sebastian Balfour, Routledge 2005. The changing French Political System, Robert Elgie, Routledge 2005. Transformation, development and integration Belarus, Poland and Germany, ed. Anna Chmielak, B. Mazur, P. Pysz, Białystok 2003.
1. Course title DIE DEUTSCHE FRAGE NACH DEM ZWEITEN WELTKRIEG 2. Course code 3. Teaching methods Seminar or tutorial classes 4. Type of course Optional 5. Year of study, semester Spring semester 6. Number of credits 4 7. level of course basic 10. Language of instruction German 11. Name of lecturer dr Michał Kosman Deutsche Frage unterschiedliche Interpretationen des Begriffs BRD und DDR verschiedene Wege der politischen, wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung Die Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands aus deutscher und europäischer Sicht Die Außenpolitik vereinigten Deutschlands Active participation in seminars, oral exam H. Pötzsch, Deutsche Geschichte von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart: Die Entwicklung der beiden deutschen Staaten, München 1998. W.D. Gruner, Die deutsche Frage in Europa 1800 bis 1900, München 1993. Baring, Deutschland, was nun?, Berlin 1991. Baring, Im Anfang war Adenauer, München 1982. Ch. Hacke, Die Außenpolitik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Weltmacht wider Willen?, Berlin 1997 H. Haftendorn, Deutsche Außenpolitik zwischen Selbstbeschränkung und Selbstbehauptung: 1945-2000, Stuttgart 2001.
1. Course title GLOBALIZATION AND GLOBAL POLITICS 2. Course code 3. Teaching methods Seminar or tutorial classes 4. Type of course Optional 5. Year of study, semester Spring or Autumn semester depending on the student s choice 6. Number of credits 4 7. level of course basic 11. Name of lecturer dr Maria Ewa Szatlach International history (the historical context of globalization) Theories of world politics (realism, liberalism, Marxism,alternative approaches) International issues European integration Participation in seminars Baylis J., Smith S., The Globalization and World Politics, Oxford 2005. Doyle M., Ways of War and Peace, New York 1997. Hobsbawm E., Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991, London 1999. Hogan M. (ed.), The end of the Cold War Its Meaning and Implications, Cambridge 1992. Wallace H., Wallace W. (eds), Policy-making in the European Union, Oxford 2000.
1. Course title LOS MEDIOS DE COMUNICACION Y LA POLITICA (MEDIA AND POLITICS) 2. Course code 3. Teaching methods Lecture 4. Type of course Optional 5. Year of study, semester Autumn 6. Number of credits 5 7. level of course basic 8. Number of hours per week 1 9. Number of hours per semester 20 10. Language of instruction Spanish 11. Name of lecturer dr Radosław Sajna To demonstrate the complexity of relations between mass media and politics in different areas of the contemporary world (in regional, national and global context) Theoretical aspects of the political communication Mass media and politics in the regional context Mass media and politics in different countries of Europe and Latin America Global political debates and conflicts in the media Political journalism and Internet as a tool of political communication Test Raymund Riva Palacio: Manual para un nuevo periodismo, Mexico DF 2005. Mabel Morana, Horacio Machin: Marcha y America Latina, Pittsburgh 2003. Eric Louw: The Media and Political Process, London-Thousand Oaks-New Delhi 2005. Robert Hackett & Yuezhi Zhao: Democratizing Global Media. One World, Many Struggles, Oxford 2005. Radoslaw Sajna: artykuły opublikowane w czasopiśmie Świat Idei i Polityki, tom 5, 6 i 7, Bydgoszcz 2005-2006-2007.
1. Course title SELECTED PROBLEMS OF DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION AND CONSOLIDATION IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE 2. Course code 3. Teaching methods Reading course 4. Type of course Optional 5. Year of study, semester Spring semester 6. Number of credits 6 7. level of course basic 11. Name of lecturer dr Artur Lipiński Communism and post communism Conceptions of transition to democracy Consolidation of democracy Prerequisites of democratization Written exam Politics UK, ed. Bill Jonem et al., Harlow: Pearson ed. 2001. Contemporary british politics, Coxall William Norman, New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2003. American politics, media and elections: contemporary international perspectives on U.S. presidency, foreign policy and political communication, ed. Tomasz Płudowski, Toruń: Collegium Civitas Press: Adam Marszałek 2005. The politics of contemporary Spain, Sebastian Balfour, Routledge 2005. The changing French Political System, Robert Elgie, Routledge 2005. Transformation, development and integration Belarus, Poland and Germany, ed. Anna Chmielak, B. Mazur, P. Pysz, Białystok 2003.