Modern mass consciousness in East and Central European countries

General data

Course ID:	3620-MMCECE-SP-OG
Erasmus code / ISCED:	(unknown) / (unknown)
Course title:	Modern mass consciousness in East and Central European countries
Name in Polish:	Modern mass consciousness in East and Central European countries
Organizational unit:	Studies in Eastern Europe
Course groups:	(in Polish) Przedmioty ogólnouniwersyteckie Studium Europy Wschodniej Courses in foreign languages General university courses General university courses in the social sciences
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:	English
Type of course:	general courses
Mode:	Remote learning
Short description:	This course of lectures will represent newest trends in mass consciousness of nations of Eastern and Central Europe, will be explained essence and reasons of changes. Course is a peculiar training of interpretation and understanding of changing, which taking place in mentality of nations living in this region. Special attention is focused on such topics as dynamics of ranking of leaders countries, changing of orientations from eastern to western vector, volatility of economical mood and processes of the creation national identity. Also important topic will be pecularities of the public opinion in the electoral periods. In this course will be analyzed most interesting cases of presidents election in the countries of region.
Full description:	Scientific apparatus for public opinion researches. The notion of rating. Main definitions – types of ratings (electoral ratings, approval ratings, positive/negative ratings, closed/opened ratings, pair ratings, etc) Culture of usage of sociological information. How not to be “a monkey” in sociological data games. Ratings pictures of main polituical personalities of the region. Country-by-country cases of personal ratings’ dynamics Main electoral campaigns in the region and around the worl during last yers (Zelenski,Trump,Lukashenko, Pashinian, Duda, etc) Belarus’ case of 2020 peaceful protests Kazakhstan case of 2022 Specifics of national identity in East European Countries Radical changes in geo-political orientations in East European countries Ups and downs of national leaders Vladimir Zelenski presidential campaign as radically new phenomena in political technologies of work with mass consciousness Main predictor of social tension – economical mood of the nation. Media-coverage of electoral campaigns Quantitative and qualitative sociological research.
Learning outcomes:	(in Polish) Zgodne z opisem przedmiotu
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	(in Polish) Egzamin pisemny Obecność studenta na zajęciach

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