Courses provided by unit Faculty of "Artes Liberales"

• Seminar - 30 hours

(in Polish) Konwersatorium na temat klasyki kina hiszpańskiego. Próba analizy społeczeństwa hiszpańskiego i zmian w nim zachodzących w latach 50-60. XX wieku na podstawie najważniejszych obrazów kinematografii hiszpańskiej tego okresu.

• Seminar - 30 hours

(in Polish) Konwersatorium na temat udziału Polaków w hiszpańskiej Wojnie o Niepodległość w latach 1808-1813. W ramach tych zajęć poddane zostaną analizie porównawczej źródła polskie i hiszpańskie na temat ważnych z punktu widzenia historii Polski i Hiszpanii epizodów, takich jak szarża pod Somosierrą i oblężenia Saragossy.

• First cycle diploma seminar - 60 hours

(in Polish) Seminarium w języku hiszpańskim poświęcone dziedzictwu historycznemu, kulturze i polityce Hiszpanii oraz jej związkom z Polską. Umożliwia zdobycie szerokiej wiedzy na ten temat oraz osiągnięcie wysokiego poziomu języka hiszpańskiego.

• Seminar - 30 hours

This course is for advanced students who are already able to write papers in English and who wish to learn how to improve their texts by revising and editing them according to standards of international scholarship and publishing.

We will examine three aspects of academic writing in English. 1) Ethics – how to engage critically yet collegially with the writings of others and how to assure that one’s writing is truly one’s own, especially in light of available artificial-intelligence programs for generating prose. 2) Structure – how to articulate a clear, central argument in the paper’s title, abstract, and introduction, and how to support the argument with evidence in the body of the text. 3) English style – how to craft coherent paragraphs with lean, compelling sentences.

Each student should submit to the instructor a short paper before the first class meeting, one that has been written prior to the course and on which the student will focus in the semester.

• Classes - 60 hours

(in Polish) Zajęcia przeznaczone są dla studentów i doktorantów, którzy ukończyli podstawowy kurs języka nahuatl. Nahuatl, zwany popularnie azteckim, był i jest do dziś jednym z najważniejszych języków tubylczych obu Ameryk. Wyjątkowy pod względem objętości i zawartości korpus tekstów spisanych w nim między XVI a XVIII w. pozwala na systematyczne badania terminologii rozwijanej w zetknięciu z kulturą europejską oraz zmian zachodzących w języku pod wpływem kontaktu z hiszpańskim. Translatorium poświęcone jest tłumaczeniu i lekturze tekstów (w tym wcześniej niepublikowanych) należących do różnych gatunków. Na przykładzie konkretnych źródeł podejmuje problematykę przekazu międzykulturowego odzwierciedlonego w języku, indiańskich reakcji na obcość kulturową oraz strategii adaptacyjnych. Celem zajęć jest zarazem kontynuacja nauki nahuatl na poziomie zaawansowanym. Część zajęć poświęcona jest słuchaniu i tłumaczeniu nagrań i tekstów współczesnych oraz konwersacjom z udziałem rdzennych użytkowników.

• Seminar - 30 hours

The purpose of the course is to provide students with a broad overview about history, political developments, identity, culture, heritage and society of the Central and Eastern Europe.

• Seminar - 30 hours

Perhaps, each and every action of our everyday lives has as an economic aspect. How we manage our households, what we buy, how we use our time… The course aims at grasping how people use material world to provide for their living and maintain their social groups. How their economic actions are embedded in non-economic factors: values, ethnicity, religious beliefs, etc. Starting from classical case studies and theories, we will investigate a range of topics: work, production, debt, and – first of all – money. Money – be it a note, a plastic card, or a series of digits encoded on our bank account – serves as a key pointer to crucial factor of our social life: how we understand value and what we do with it.

The course will embrace perspectives of different disciplines: social anthropology, philosophy, economics and history.

• Seminar - 30 hours

“All societies live by fictions taken as real”, writes anthropologist Michael Taussig. This course explores how things are made to be taken as real, how they are granted the unquestionability and authority of fact as opposed to fiction; and how this ‘reality effect’ is achieved, and how it may get challenged. In other words, how what we accept as ‘real’ or ‘reality’ is socially, culturally, and symbolically produced.

The goal of this class is twofold: first, to begin to critically apprehend the conventions of producing the ‘reality effect’ that legitimizes some and delegitimizes other parts of social experience; and second, to trace the ways in which different strands of social theory have grappled with this problem.

• Monographic lecture - 30 hours

This lecture-based course is designed as an English language proposal for both foreign and Polish students – Doctoral Schools students, MA and BA students of Kolegium "Artes Liberales" and Faculty of "Artes Liberales", and as a general university course - all the students of the University (“ogun”).

Course’s authorial core are lectures designed by prof. dr hab. Jolanta Sujecka, dr Maciej Falski, and dr hab. Michał Moch, Associate Professor of IMOC PAS, in relation to their research work on the Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, the Balkans as well as the area of the Mediterranean, Middle East and Northern Africa, as well as the Arab world.

• Monographic lecture - 30 hours

This lecture-based course is designed as an English language proposal for both foreign and Polish students – Doctoral Schools students, MA and BA students of Kolegium "Artes Liberales" and Faculty of "Artes Liberales", and as a general university course - all the students of the University (“ogun”).

Course’s authorial core are lectures designed by prof. dr hab. Jolanta Sujecka, dr Maciej Falski, and dr hab. Michał Moch, Associate Professor of IMOC PAS, in relation to their research work on the Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, the Balkans as well as the area of the Mediterranean, Middle East and Northern Africa, as well as the Arab world.

• Participatory lecture - 30 hours

This course will take a multidisciplinary approach and analyze modern "international law" and "human rights" as these ideas developed over human history. We will explore current international and human rights regimes and look at them from historical, philosophical, anthropological, economic, ecological, and sociological perspectives. While the course will offer a solid grounding in understanding modern international architecture, it will equip you with an analysis of the underlying principles and ideas from the point of view of social and biological evolution, economics, and ecology, focusing on current controversies, debates, and contested theories.

• Seminar - 30 hours

The course is intended to work out a short history of Western-based capitalism and its main characteristics. It will focus on both an eagle-eye view on European history and a grassroots perspective of looking at social change from below by studying particular case studies. Particular emphasis will be placed on the formation of modern and late-modern European civilization – its foundations, expansions, and crises.

• Lecture - 30 hours

The lecture is to familiarize the audience with interdisciplinary research on complex systems, the functioning of which is related to the occurrence of the so-called systemic risk.

• Seminar - 30 hours

In cooperation with the Italian Scuola d’Arte Cinematografica Gian Maria Volonté cinematography school in Rome, this conversation course shall be dedicated to the contemporary Italian cinematography.

• Second cycle diploma seminar - 30 hours

The seminar will prepare students for writing and defending their master's thesis.