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

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.

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.

No registration for the course. The electronic exam is open 16.9.2015-31.7.2016. Please, register for the electronic exam: https://tenttis.uta.fi

Contents: Traditional budgeting; Alternative approaches; Beyond budgeting

Optional online exercises, and obligatory exam. For more information, see study guide

Once the students are accepted for the course, they are automatically linked to the online learning platform.

The examination takes place in offical examination days of the school of management:

1. Tuesday 17.11.2015 at 16-20 (Main Building D10ab)

2. Tuesday 15.12.2015 at 16-20 (Main Building D10ab)

Regarding exam, please enroll in Nettiopsu!

Decision on succesful course enrolments will be made on Monday 28.9.2015!

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.

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

This course is an introduction to the Finnish Political System and Finnish Political History. The main focus of the course is on the development of the Finnish Political System from 1809 until the 21st century. This course provides an overview of the Constitution, political decision making and elections, political participation, tripartite agreements and welfare.  After the course, students are expected to understand the key features of Finnish political history, the political system and society, as well as able to perceive the political position and national identity of Finland in a wider context: Scandinavia, Russia and the EU.

Enrolment is conducted at the first lecture.

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.

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

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.

Lecture: 20.10.

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.

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

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

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

This course provides an introduction and overview over the disciplines of political and critical discourse analysis. The course will focus on various approaches to political discourse analysis as a tool for analyzing power relations. There is no set single approach, as the field is quite porous. The related works of scholars will be made available for the students for reading, analysis, and reflection during the course.  After the course, the students are expected to better understand the various approaches to political discourse analysis and are better equipped to utilize these theories in their forthcoming work. The students will be more adept at spotting discursive practices in political speech and the media and evaluate possible underlying modes of argumentation.  The language of the course is English, so students are expected to be reasonably proficient in reading and writing academic texts in this language.

Enrolment via email to teacher responsible. Optimal group size is 20 students, so places on the course are limited. Enrolment prioritized for political science students, otherwise in order of registration.

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.

The course is web-based. The course area in Moodle (learning2.uta.fi) will be opened on Mon 25 Jan 2016. Enrolment takes place automatically after the acceptance to the course.

The course consists of written assignments based on the study materials, a final essay and peer-review.

Please register for the course in advance through NettiOpsu. Registration begins in December.

Recommended year of study: 1. year, spring (for degree programme students)

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.

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.

Registering by email to eero.palmujoki(at)uta.fi.

The course is web-based.

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

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

Context

At the April 2015 general election the Finnish Centre Party became the largest party for the third time in the last four general elections, a remarkable achievement for a former farmers’ party in a post-modern, post-Nokia society. Indeed, the Finnish Centre has boasted no less than four prime ministers over the course of the first decade and a half of the new millennium. Elsewhere in Northern Europe there are Centre Parties with a capital ‘C’ in Estonia, Norway and Sweden. All the Nordic Centre parties originated as class-based agrarian parties that changed their name in response to social structural change (industrialization and urbanization) in the period 1957-1965. The Estonian Centre Party is a more recent post-communist-era phenomenon (growing out of the revolutionary Popular Front) which took its name from the Swedish Centre. All the North European Centre Parties (except the non-EU Norwegian) work together in the ALDE (The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe) group in the European Parliament whilst the Nordic Centre Parties form part of the Centre Group in the inter-parliamentary consultative body, the Nordic Council.

Theoretical Focus

However, as Reuven Hazan has observed, “a Centre-label party need not be a centre or a middle party”. Accordingly, the course considers what sort of parties the North European Centre Parties are. How ‘central’ have these Centre Parties been – central in the sense of playing a central role in government-building, occupying a central position on the political spectrum and able to combine in coalition with parties both to the political left or right? The analytical starting point is the rather neglected notion of a ‘pivotal centre party’ (Keman 1994; 2010) and its close relative the ‘hinge centre party’. The literature (Abedi and Siaroff 2010) has tended the use these terms interchangeably but in this course it is argued that it is useful to retain a distinction between them. Other core course concepts include ‘party change’, the ‘catchall party’ and ‘legislative party system dynamics’.

The Empirical Body of the Course

Three measures of centrality are proposed: i) electoral dominance ii) ideological centrality iii) strategic coalitional centrality. These are then applied in turn to the four North European Centre Parties.

Lecture Schedule

19/1 Introduction. The Scandinavian Party System(s)

21/1 Analysing ‘party change’. From Farmyard to City Square

26/1 The Swedish Centre. From a policy-seeking to an office-seeking paty?

28/1 The Norwegian Centre. Forever a sing-interest party?

2/2 The Finnish Centre. A ‘genuine pivot party’?

4/2 Analysing ‘party system change’. Legislative party system realignment?

9/2 Are the Nordic Centre-label parties centrist parties?

11/2 Centre-label parties. A future?

Email registration by 11 January essential

UniPID course

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

See course homepage for registration.

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

KATVRP12 Introduction to risk management and insurance is a web-course that exploits learning2-platform. The course requires performance of weekly team assignments and two individual written exercises.

Attendance at Information Lecture (8 March) is compulsory.

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.

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.

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

I Orientation:

-Watching at least 2 video lectures of 2015 course recordings

- Watching a distinctive collection of videos on poverty

-Reading a book or 2-3 articles from the list given

-Participation in a web-debate at the Moodle site

II Process writing (see learning methods below: essay)

III Blog writing (see learning methods below: blog)

LEARNING METHODS

MOODLE:

Orientation part ends with Moodle discussion.

1) Student should form one sound question/argument and support it with 100 words argumentation

2) Student should give two different 50 word comments on the questions/arguments of the fellow students. One of those should be addressed on such question/argument that has not been commented or is an object of little discussion so far

Moodle will also be used for distributing papers and comments.

Moodle provides links to the video materials used at the course.

There will be a brief ‘multiple choice’ tests in each section making sure you have gained the key message from the video based material.

SEMINARS:

Each student must participate in two seminar sessions.

ESSAY:                                 

Each student prepares a 2000-word paper including 5-15 references on freely chosen topic on global poverty. The seminar session are held to produce ideas and comments that help everyone's writing process. Instructions will be given later.

BLOG:

In addition to commenting papers, within the mid-paper seminars about 5-6 best blog ideas (indicating instantly higher section-grades for these students) are chosen and 4-5 commentators for each of these are selected (good comments are valued). Blog posts go to the blog site of the program for Global Health and Development Writing at https://www.uta.fi/globalhealth.

I Orientation:

-Watching at least 2 video lectures of 2015 course recordings

- Watching a distinctive collection of videos on poverty

-Reading a book or 2-3 articles from the list given

-Participation in a web-debate at the Moodle site

II Process writing (see learning methods below: essay)

III Blog writing (see learning methods below: blog)

LEARNING METHODS

MOODLE:

Orientation part ends with Moodle discussion.

1) Student should form one sound question/argument and support it with 100 words argumentation

2) Student should give two different 50 word comments on the questions/arguments of the fellow students. One of those should be addressed on such question/argument that has not been commented or is an object of little discussion so far

Moodle will also be used for distributing papers and comments.

Moodle provides links to the video materials used at the course.

There will be a brief ‘multiple choice’ tests in each section making sure you have gained the key message from the video based material.

SEMINARS:

Each student must participate in two seminar sessions.

ESSAY:                                 

Each student prepares a 2000-word paper including 5-15 references on freely chosen topic on global poverty. The seminar session are held to produce ideas and comments that help everyone's writing process. Instructions will be given later.

BLOG:

In addition to commenting papers, within the mid-paper seminars about 5-6 best blog ideas (indicating instantly higher section-grades for these students) are chosen and 4-5 commentators for each of these are selected (good comments are valued). Blog posts go to the blog site of the program for Global Health and Development Writing at https://www.uta.fi/globalhealth.