Emotional history of People's Poland

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Course ID:	3500-FAK-LIC-EMHIS
Erasmus code / ISCED:	14.2 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. / (0314) Sociology and cultural studies The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Emotional history of People's Poland
Name in Polish:	Emocjonalna historia Polski Ludowej
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Sociology
Course groups:
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:	elective courses
Prerequisites (description):	(in Polish) Moduł Media i komunikacja
Mode:	Remote learning
Short description:	Emotional Poland has many faces: terrible, but also cheerful, and generally bored. The lecture will be an attempt to approximate the most important emotions of the time.
Full description:	The six most important emotions: joy, anxiety, anger, surprise, disgust and fear were rarely the subject of historical research. Usually psychologists, psychiatrists, sociologists, poets talk about emotions. The lecture will be an attempt to approximate the most important social emotions and manifestations in the period of People's Poland. Speech will be about fear of power and war panics, social anger and frequent periods of boredom.
Bibliography:	Joanna Bourke, Fear. A cultural history, London 2006; Jean Delumeau, Strach w kulturze Zachodu XIV – XVIII w., Warszawa 1986; F Andrzej Friszke, Losy państwa i narodu 1939–1989, Warszawa 2003; Antoni Kępiński, Lęk, Warszawa 1995; Keith Oatley Keith, Jennifer M. Jenkins, Zrozumieć emocje, Warszawa 2003; Vladimir Shlapentokh Vladimir, Fear in Contemporary Society. Its Negative and Positive Effects, New York 2006; Jonathan H. Turner, Socjologia emocji, Warszawa 2009.
Learning outcomes:	After passing the course student: - is conscious of existence of different ways of organizing societies in the past and the present - is aware of social differences and existence of social inequalities, as well as their impact on lives of individuals and functioning of the social groups - understands the social nature of relations between individuals, groups and social institutions - has the ability to use basic theoretical categories in describing social changes in contemporary societies - can describe the role of culture in functioning of an individual and the society
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	To complete the course students should attend the lecture and pass the final test. More than three unexcused absences constitute truancy.

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