Northen Europe in the Viking times

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Course ID:	3101-DW0033-OG
Erasmus code / ISCED:	08.4 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0222) History and archaeology The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Northen Europe in the Viking times
Name in Polish:	Europa północna w dobie Wikingów
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Archeology
Course groups:	(in Polish) Wykłady ogólnoinstytutowe General university courses General university courses General university courses in the humanities
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	general courses
Short description:	The lecture will cover basic information about history and archaeological data the lands situated around the Baltic Sea. The topic points would be concerned the cultural and economical situation in Scandinavia during the Viking Age (8th/9th - 11th/12th cc.). The lecture also offers the listeners wide spectrum of relations the Scandinavians with other ethnic groups settled in this region of Europe: Slavs, Balts and Baltic Finns.
Full description:	The lecture will cover basic information about history and archaeological data the lands situated around the Baltic Sea. The topic points would be concerned the cultural and economical situation in Scandinavia during the Viking Age (8th/9th - 11th/12th cc.). The lecture also offers the listeners wide spectrum of relations the Scandinavians with other ethnic groups settled in this region of Europe: Slavs, Balts and Baltic Finns.
Bibliography:	H. Clarke, D. Wilson (eds), Wikingowie, Warszawa 1998 W.W. Fitzhugh, E.I. Ward (eds), Vikings. The North Atlantic Saga, Washington-London 2000 M. Foote, D. Wilson, Wikingowie, Warszawa 1975 J. Graham-Campbell, The Viking World, London 1991 L. Leciejewicz, Normanowie, Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków 1979
Learning outcomes:	After two semesters of the lectures the participants of the course should be educated in all problems pointed above (see: Basic information) on the elementary level. Most of the information presented during the lecture will come from the diffused literature, printed in several languages. But many of them students should be able to find in added literature, presented to them after the end of the bigger units of the lecture.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	The course will be ended by an exam (written, test) which cover whole knowledge presented on the lectures

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