Course contents:

• The course consists of introductory lectures   and four thematic parts: 1) War and conflict - preventing violence; 2 Abolishing  modern slavery; 3) Environment – harm prevention; 4) Development – ending suffering

Global Health and Development (GHD)-ohjelman järjestämä kurssi, jonka toteuttavat julkisoikeus ja politiikan tutkimus.

This course aims to develop your understanding of business ethics and how organisations follow the code of ethics in their daily operations. The course is designed to provide insights into ethical theories and tools for developing ethical business practices along with your own exploration of ethical decision making and how to develop ethical leadership. However, the part of learning is developing an appreciation of your own aptitude and commitment for becoming an ethical professional.

After completing the course, students will understand the unique characteristics of American legislative politics and the role of Congress in it, as well as understand how Congress can affect American foreign policy. Student will have a sound understanding of the evolution of modern Congress, electoral politics, congressional rules and procedures and Congress' role in forming American foreign policy, including the use of American military power. Transatlantic implications of congressional foreign policy power will also be introduced. Instead of a final exam, students will introduce a bill currently under congressional consideration and present it at the end seminar.

Structure:

• Dual nature of Congress
• Evolution of modern Congress and the constitution
• Electoral politics, campaigning and gerrymandering
• How Congress works: decision making and formal/informal rules and procedures
• Congress, the President and American foreign policy
• War powers and cases Syria and Libya
• Congress as a part of foreign policy decision making: transatlantic implications

Email registration by 1 September essential

Recommended year of study: 2. year, autumn (for degree programme students)
Recommended complementary course: KATJOS42 Service Management

1. Design thinking

2. Business model Canvas as a visualisation tool

3. Famous start-ups – from an idea to a great business

4. Create your own start-up idea

5. Investment and crowdfunding

6. How to monetize a start-up idea?

7. Why so many start-ups fail? The biggest mistakes and consequences

8. How to prepare a great pitch.

9. Start-up competition

Teacher: Ing. Richard Bednár, PhD., University of Economics in Bratislava, Faculty of Business Management

Further Information

The course consists of:

Lectures (10 hours, attendance in every lecture is required)

Home assignment given by the teacher

Enrolment:

First 30 students will be taken in to the course. Priority will be given to the degree and exchange students of the School of Management.

Compulsory and binding enrolment by email to business.school@uta.fi during Fri 04.09.- Tue 08.09.2015

Inform your name, home university and student number of UTA (if you already have it).

You can take this course as a single course with 2 ects.  You can also use this course as a complementary part for the book exam KATSTA16 Readings in Entrepreneurship 5 ECTS. This lecture course will compensate one book (of the two books). You will do this lecture course and an electronic exam of KATSTA16 but you only need to study and answer the exam questions of one book. Doing this alternative you will get 5 ects and in your transcript there will be registered the KATSTA16 course (not JKKYETA14). If you do "How to build your own start-up company" course as a part of KATSTA16 course (book exam), you must take the electronic exam by 31.7.2016.

This course is organized in the form of Tampere Russia Club which is a forum that brings together visiting lecturers representing the academia, public sector organisations, businesses, NGOs, etc. Students taking part in the course play an active part in organising the meetings of the Club. Together with the responsible teacher, they plan and run the programme of the seminar, chair lectures, advertise the events and write reflective posts to the course blog.

The course is compulsory for the students of the RES Master's Programme. Other students wishing to take part in the course must sign-up by 14.9. (anni.kangas@uta.fi).

This course brings key concepts in International Relations into a dialogue with events and dynamics in Russian and European relations. We will familiarize ourselves with concepts such as integration, empire, foreign policy, globalization, hegemony, human rights, levels of analysis, nationalism, peace and war, power, sovereignty, territoriality, and borders.

The course is compulsory for RES Master's Programme students. Other students should sign-up by 3.9. (anni.kangas@uta.fi).

Participation in team work. Students are to develop a concept for the purposes’ of commercialisation and establishing an actual business model/project. Collaboration with other teams, taking part in the coaching events, and finally presenting the results in a public event are required.

Enrollment periods

Autumn 2015: 16.8.–7.9.2015
Spring 2016: 18.–31.1.2016

For further information, please contact Demola staff: http://tampere.demola.net/about#contact.

Demola contact persons at the School of Management

Administrative studies: University Lecturer Markus Laine, Professor Harri Laihonen
Business studies: University Lecturer Janne Ruohonen, University Lecturer Kari Lohivesi
Politics: University Lecturer Elina Kestilä-Kekkonen

Students will be working together in groups throughout the course, thus you should have enough time for it in your timetable.

KATVAA11 Business Ethics (5 ECTS) course (or corresponding studies) is a compulsory preceding course. Please notice, that it has to be completed before the beginning of course KATVAA12.

The course relies heavily on each student’s active participation in working with real life cases.
- The theoretical background of Business ideas and Business models.
- Different types of business models and business logic’s.
- Drafting one’s Business model toolkit through preparation of presentations of selected cases.
- Evaluation of one’s own learning and skills development in a final report.The course relies heavily on each student’s active participation in working with real life cases.
- The theoretical background of Business ideas and Business models.
- Different types of business models and business logic’s.
- Drafting one’s Business model toolkit through preparation of presentations of selected cases.
- Evaluation of one’s own learning and skills development in a final report.

The course is lectured in English in Fall during Period I and in Finnish in Spring during Period IV.

Englanniksi syyslukukauden II periodilla ja suomeksi kevätlukukauden IV periodilla.

This course focuses on the interaction of small and great powers in Northern Europe, bilateral and multilateral political dynamics as well as on dynamics of change and continuity in Finnish-Russian relations and EU-Russian relations.

It is commonly argued that the European Union suffers from a democratic deficit. Yet both academics and politicians are divided about both the existence of such deficit and about ways of addressing it. Drawing on a wide range of recent publications, the course examines various dimensions of the alleged democratic deficit from lack of citizen engagement to scenarios of genuine supranational democracy.

Email registration by 12 October essential

First course exam: Tue Dec 1 at 9-12 in Pinni B1096

The written exam based on lectures and literature shared in Moodle will take Place in electronic exam system. Exam opens 27 November after the last lecture (time reservation needed) and will be open until 29 April. There will be no exam/lecture 3 December. Only the students accepted to the course might do the exam.

Ethical theories and the concepts of business ethics; Ethical decision-making; Tools for developing business ethics practices.

No pre-registration is required, you enrol to course by signing in course page at Moodle: "KATVAA11 Business Ethics (independent assignment and exam)".

Detailed instructions for completing the course are in Moodle (learning2.uta.fi).

See also course description in the Curricula Guide 2015–2018

Both the lecture exam and the book exam need to be passed before receiving credit for this course.

Lectures and reading (Rosas-Armati) are examined together. You can use a dictionary in the lecture-exam.

A separate web-based book exam (Craig-DeBurca) will be organized during 21.1.2016 - 21.3.2016. See instructions for web-based book exam: https://tenttis.uta.fi/login/index.php?lang=en_utf8 

Suomenkielistä sähköistä kirjatenttiä oli mahdollista suorittaa vielä syksyn 2015 ajan (10.12.2015 saakka). Suoritusmahdollisuus on päättynyt.

Upon completing the course, the students can analyse the political economy of energy transitions across several established and emerging powers in wider Europe and Asia. The students also develop advanced knowledge of one such emerging actor. The students discern the resource based, financial, institutional and other dimensions underpinning the political economy of energy transitions in Europe and Asia, including several EU countries, Russia, China, Japan and others.

Registration by email to Anna Oksa (anna.matilda.oksa (at) uta.fi) by 31 January 2016.

The course is web-based.

Registration in December 2015, starting 1st of December. See

Please note: Preceding studies

• KATVAA11 Business Ethics (5 ECTS) course (or corresponding studies) is a compulsory preceding course. You can complete Business Ethics course as independent study before or during KATVAA14 course. You will receive a grade for KATVAA14 course only after completing Business Ethics course or showing proof of corresponding studies.
• KATVAA12 Responsible Business and Social Accounting (5 ECTS) a recommended preceding course.

Applying to the KATVAA14 course:

Maximum of 25 students will be selected for the course. In order to apply for the course, the student is required to enrol latest 15.12. and write a motivation letter (1–2 pages) and send it to the course teacher latest 17.12.2015 by email (Anna.L.Heikkinen (a) uta.fi). The motivation letter should include the following:

1. Name, email and university.
2. Background and previous studies. Please briefly describe your study background (discipline, major and minor subjects) and previous studies related to corporate responsibility / sustainability (course names and level of studies). Please state whether you have completed KATVAA11 Business Ethics course, will complete it as independent study in Spring 2016, or have completed corresponding studies previously.
3. Motivation and commitment. Please describe why you are interested in and committed to completing this course. You can also discuss your expectations and learning objectives for the course.

The course critically examines the underlying structural and institutional causes of the Euro crisis. After completion, students will have a better understanding of the basic features of economic governance under the Economic and Monetary Union and the governance reforms implemented during the euro crisis. Students will be able to orient current developments within an appropriate historical context and understand the limitations this history imposes on the contemporary policy landscape.

Email registration by January 11 essential

UniPID course

Course Dates: 04.01.2016 - 22.04.2016
Registration Dates: 01.12.2015 - 21.12.2015

See course homepage for registration.

The course critically examines the underlying structural and institutional causes of the Euro crisis. After completion, students will have a better understanding of the basic features of economic governance under the Economic and Monetary Union and the governance reforms implemented during the euro crisis. Students will be able to orient current developments within an appropriate historical context and understand the limitations this history imposes on the contemporary policy landscape.

Email registration by January 11 essential

Please note that the schedule is subject to changes

Note! No teaching on weeks 5 (starting 1 Feb) and 8 (starting 22 Feb)!

Upon the completion of this course, the student understands how gender and sexuality shape different levels of global politics, from the mundane individual lives to the high politics within and between states. The student recognizes the multiple meanings of gender and sexuality, and understands how they are reproduced in different contexts from the local to the global and from the micro to the macro. The student will be familiar with literatures of feminist International Relations (IR), as well as the nexus and potential dialogue between IR and Gender Studies more generally.

The themes to be discussed during the lectures include:

• Introduction to feminist study of international relations
• Feminist security studies and the body
• Feminist international political economy and the body
• Queer and crip global politics

Following the lectures, each of the themes will be discussed in a respective seminar with analytical excercises where students learn to examine and unpack the ways the theoretical conceptions unfold in the micro level. Here, different cultural and popular cultural artefacts, from films to literature to art are utilized as the basis of the discussion.

The course consists of lectures, 4 x 2 hours (8hrs) and seminars, 4 x 4 hrs (16hrs).

The completion of the course requires active participation in the lectures/seminars, and completing the required exercises on the Moodle platform.

Please note: Preceding studies

• KATVAA11 Business Ethics (5 ECTS) course (or corresponding studies) is a compulsory preceding course. You can complete Business Ethics course as independent study before or during KATVAA13 course. You will receive a grade for KATVAA13 course only after completing Business Ethics course or showing proof of corresponding studies.

This course explores parliaments and new forms of citizen participation. After the course, the students have developed a critical viewpoint about the debate between traditional forms of representative democracy and newer alternative participatory mechanisms. Moreover, they acquire comprehensive knowledge of recent parliamentary reforms and democratic innovations to promote more direct or qualitative channels of civic involvement. From enhancing digital engagement and public consultation of legislative bills to experimenting with deliberative forums or embracing citizens initiatives, students can identify how contemporary parliaments try to reach out the people and assess the impact and limitations of such initiatives.

Email registration by 19 February essential

The global geo-political context of terrorism and war is analysed with the central focus directed to the evolution of global terrorism and the forms it has taken in the post-WWII and post-Cold War era. Terrorism is one of many challenges to the sovereign power of nation-states and the most pressing of the political problems associated with this ‘global crisis’ of terrorism will be evaluated. Students explore this challenge essentially through themes inclusive of terror organizations/movements and their development, the complex relationship between terrorism groups and insurgency movements, and the response of modern nation-states and the international community to various types of terrorist organizations. Students apply critical reasoning to complex issues through independent and collaborative research.

The course content will be drawn from but not restricted to:

1. Discussions of the socio-political origin of terrorism as a means of achieving certain ends.
2. The conceptual understanding of different types of terrorist organizations and movements including differences and similarities in sacred and secular terror and the various ideological justifications that have been employed to sanction armed insurgency and terror.
3. Case studies of specific terrorist and insurgency movements in South/South Asia, Middle East and Europe.
4. The public policy response to terror including most significantly the US response to 9/11.
5. The relationship between terrorist organizations and the mass media.
6. The relationship between national liberation struggles and terrorist organizations.

Email registration by 1 March essential