Controversies over the Forms of Government: the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Europe

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Course ID:	4018-SEM57N-CLASS
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:	Controversies over the Forms of Government: the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Europe
Name in Polish:	"Ideowe i materialne aspekty życia społecznego" - seminarium główne
Organizational unit:	Faculty of "Artes Liberales"
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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:	obligatory courses
Prerequisites (description):	(in Polish) Przedmiot dla osób rozpoczynających studia w roku akademickim 2016
Short description:	The leading idea of the seminar is looking into the political system of old Poland using comparison with the political and social concepts of the modern Europe and the governmental institutions rooted in them. The seminar is provided by three teachers: the historian, the historian of ideas and the sociologist of politics. The reading list comprises classics of political philosophy, historical sources, contemporary academic articles and considerations, and old and new writings.
Full description:	The leading idea of the seminar is looking into the political system of old Poland using comparison with the political and social concepts of the modern Europe and the governmental institutions rooted in them. The seminar is provided by three teachers: the historian, the historian of ideas and the sociologist of politics. The reading list comprises classics of political philosophy, historical sources, contemporary academic articles and considerations, and old and new writings. The full list will be given in September. A list of topics: I. Balance and Imbalance of Powers 1. The monarchia mixta: Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas 2. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the English eyes: A relation of the state of Polonia 3. Anarchy – an endemic feature of Poles? Samuel Zborowski from the point of view of J.M. Rymkiewicz II. State and Church 4. Hero or traitor? The saint Stanisław’s affair 5. The state-church relationship: Thomas Aquinas, Hobbes 6. Tolerance: Locke, the Warsaw Confederation III. The Sovereign Power 7. The absolute power: Bodin, Hobbes 8. The Danish royal law of the 1665: the limitations of absolute power 9. The phantom state: The first Commonwealth in the perspective of Jan Sowa IV. The Limitations of the Power 10. The limitation of the sovereign power: Locke, Montesquieu 11. The limitation of the sovereign power: the Swedish bureaucratic state in 17th century V. Republic – the New Reading of the Old Antic Pattern 12. The antic and modern republic: Cicero, the Venetian model 13. The state as an enterprise: the centre and periphery of the power 14. Poland as a democracy of the periphery? VI. The Empire and its Expansion 15. The idea of the Empire: Dante, Marsilius of Padua 16. The Polish imperial adventures: „Kolęda moskiewska” of Paweł Palczowski 17. Benefactors or victims? The successor nations of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth VII. The Practices of the Modern Republic 18. Republic – the political nation: Rousseau 19. The political nation during reconstruction: The Constitution of May 3, 1791 20. Polish traditions of self-organizing: confederations and county councils 21. The almost modern societal self-organization: the struggle over the Polish schools on the turn of the 20th century. VIII. The Society on the Left Bank of Elbe and its Peculiarities 22. Folwark: the curse to the Polish history? 23. Walerian Nekanda-Trepka: the first Polish sociologist IX. The Balance of the Interests 24. Representation: The Federalists 25. Modernity and individualism
Bibliography:	The full list will be given in September
Learning outcomes:	- K_W02- Comprehensive understanding of the terminology of the humanities and social scienses and knows how to use it - K_W08-having good organized knowledge on the main trends in philosophical and social thought in a historical and contemporary perspective - K_W14-comprehensive and in depth knowing of methods of analysis in cultural studies, history, social studies and philosophy in a historical perspective - K_U11-analysing written and oral academic texts in Polish and in one of the “congress” languages - K_U13-preparing written and oral presentations accounting for the level and needs of the audience - K_K03-understanding the dynamics of scientific, cultural and social development and keeping up with new research methods and paradigms - K_K08-understanding the importance of Europe’s cultural diversity and heritage
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	A paper, presentations, participation in discussions. A paper (ca 20 pages) on a subject connected to the main themes of the seminar or the bachelor thesis – 50% of the final mark; presentations – 25%, class activities – 25%

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