Lectures 36 h + exam (3 credit points);
essay seminar 8 h ERS/CBU; Tallinn 8 h; 8 h Jyväskylä; (5 credit points).

Essay seminars are to be held during the II period.

Compensations:

KVPOA4 Wiener - Diez (3 credit points) + Vogt - Maier (2 credit points)

Bachelor of Social Sciences programme: KVPIB8A1 Wiener - Diez (3 credit points) + Vogt - Maier (2 credit points) or VALIB8C1 Hooghe - Marks and Scharpf.

ERS/CBU local studies.

Different approaches to Russia from the point of view of research: History, Culture and Literature, Sociology. Obligatory course for those who intend to make Russian Studies Programme.

The introduction course will address topics such as:

- An overview to the Russian history

- Periodisation of history in Russia and the Soviet Union

- Modernisation emphases of the state Mythmaking and propaganda in history

- Continuum in Soviet and Russian history

- Use of Past in the Soviet Union/Russia

- The legacy of the Soviet Union

- Key concepts of Russian cultural identity

- symbolic world of Russianness

- aspects of cultural history - cultural studies

- "New Man and Woman" - building a new Soviet man: kul'turnost'

- new Russian popular culture

- Russia's transition to a market economy, including the legacy of the Soviet economic system, the shadow economy and new forms of blat;

- Women in Russia, particularly their roles in business and the family

- Russia's transition to democracy, including presidential power, centralization and possibly state-media relations;

- How Russians have coped with the transition in daily life, for example facing changes in the workplace, economic insecurity and the growing gap between rich and poor (e.g. the "new Russians" versus the elderly poor).

Enrollment via NettiOpsu

IR Master's thesis seminar I-II KVPOS4A-B or ERS/CBU Master's Thesis seminar.

Lectures and exam (2 ECTS) + book exam (3 ECTS). In addition to the lectures, students can choose to take an exam on Sakwa, Richard (2008), Russian Politics and Society, London, Routledge (4th ed.)

Compensations:

IR KVPOS3,

ERS13

Bachelor of Social Sciences programme: KVPIB7A1 World Politics,

Russian Studies: RSTA4 Society and Politics.

The course focuses on Putinism as a distinct phenomenon of political ideology and practice.

No previous knowledge of the Russian language is required. The course is set around studying prepared texts, through which the main areas of the grammar will be covered. Active participation and production are the main goals of the course. The teaching language will be English. Students of any discipline are welcome. Those who already have knowledge of Russian language can participate courses at the Slavonic philology.

This course is for those who have never studied Russian before but think it would be a fun at least to try. The aim is to learn the Russian alphabet, to acquire fundamental vocabulary of 500-800 lexical units, to achieve basic skills in pronunciation and grammar, to study everyday communicative situations. This means that after studying Russian for one semester you will be able not only to read simple texts (names of the streets, signs, ads, short newspaper articles, etc.), but also to understand some spoken language, and even to communicate in everyday life situations.

Of course you heard many times, that Russian is a very difficult language with an alphabet nobody can learn, with lots of grammar forms nobody can understand, and hundreds of rules with thousands of exceptions nobody can remember. You have a chance to see for yourself whether is it true or maybe a slight exaggeration...

PLEASE NOTE:

Course book (available, for example, in the Juvenes book store after 15.08.2009): Karavanova N. B. (2008) Survival Russian: a Course in Conversational Russian. Moscow.

Enrollment via NettiOpsu

No previous knowledge of the Russian language is required. The course is set around studying prepared texts, through which the main areas of the grammar will be covered. Active participation and production are the main goals of the course. The teaching language will be English. Students of any discipline are welcome. Those who already have knowledge of Russian language can participate courses at the Slavonic philology.

This course is for those who have never studied Russian before but think it would be a fun at least to try. The aim is to learn the Russian alphabet, to acquire fundamental vocabulary of 500-800 lexical units, to achieve basic skills in pronunciation and grammar, to study everyday communicative situations. This means that after studying Russian for one semester you will be able not only to read simple texts (names of the streets, signs, ads, short newspaper articles, etc.), but also to understand some spoken language, and even to communicate in everyday life situations.

Of course you heard many times, that Russian is a very difficult language with an alphabet nobody can learn, with lots of grammar forms nobody can understand, and hundreds of rules with thousands of exceptions nobody can remember. You have a chance to see for yourself whether is it true or maybe a slight exaggeration...

PLEASE NOTE:

Course book (available, for example, in the Juvenes book store after 15.08.2009): Karavanova N. B. (2008) Survival Russian: a Course in Conversational Russian. Moscow.

Enrollment via NettiOpsu

Objectives: To provide the student with a general understanding of empirical research methods and resarch process in social sciences. The student learns the basics of doing empirical research and learns to understand the significance of research questions and research frame as well as aspects related to choosing certain data and techniques of analysis. The student learns how one can approach the same phenomenon with various research methods and how those methods and approaches produce different kind of information. The module provides the student with basic abilties to understand empirical research conducted with various methods, to evaluate the methodological choices and research results.

Modes of Study: In English: book exam on
Gilbert (ed.), Researching Social Life. Sage, Second edition,  2001. (reprinted 2003).

The book exam is available in the Electronic Exam Service: https://tenttis.uta.fi/login/index.php?lang=en_utf8 (see under ISSS/ Sociology). The exam is open until 16.11.2009.

Compensates IR KVPOS3 2-5 ECTS, ERS23 or 2 ECTS from Bachelor of Social Sciences programme: KVPIB7A1 World Politics.

The seminar part  has been cancelled and can be compensated for by individual essay  writing or literature exam.

26.10.

12-15 Media and Society (Kaarle Nordenstreng & Jukka Pietiläinen)

2.11.

12-15  Media Systems in Europe (Kaarle Nordenstreng & Jukka Pietiläinen)

9.11.

12-15 European Broadcasting Policy (Greg Lowe)

16.11.

14-16 Finnish and Scandinavian Media (Jyrki Jyrkiäinen)

23.11.

12-15 Russian Media History (Dmitry Strovsky)

30.11.           

12-15 Current Russian Media (Sergey Gryzunov)

7.12.             

12-15 Russian Media in Western View (Jukka Pietiläinen)

Workshop only for CBU students, possibly some ERS students.

Compensations:
KVPOS3 Aalto's or Prozorov's or Scott's book (only lecture)
or
ERS4
or
Bachelor of Social Sciences programme: KVPIB8A1 European Integration Coudenhove-Kalergi and Vogt-Mayer's books.

Lectures and write at home exam (2 ECTS) + book exam (10 ECTS).

Compensations in IR: KVPOS2 or KVPOS3, or in ERS17 Major Theoretical and Methodologcal Orientations in IR: Introduction

The course presents a disciplinary history of International Relations from its inception to the present, focusing on the major theoretical and methodological debates in the discipline. We shall analyze the development of the discipline in terms of key debates, focusing on ontological foundations, epistemological principles and methodological orientations. The course will cover the realist-idealist debate of the 1920s-1950s, the traditionalist-behavioralist debate of the 1950s-1970s, the 'interparadigm debate' of the 1970s-1980s and the fourth, 'post-positivist' debate of the 1990s. The course concludes with the discussion of the current state of the discipline and its relation to the wider debates in pilosophy and social sciences.

Lectures and write at home exam (2 ECTS) + book exam (10 ECTS).

Compensations in IR: KVPOS2 or KVPOS3, or in ERS17 Major Theoretical and Methodologcal Orientations in IR: Introduction

The course presents a disciplinary history of International Relations from its inception to the present, focusing on the major theoretical and methodological debates in the discipline. We shall analyze the development of the discipline in terms of key debates, focusing on ontological foundations, epistemological principles and methodological orientations. The course will cover the realist-idealist debate of the 1920s-1950s, the traditionalist-behavioralist debate of the 1950s-1970s, the 'interparadigm debate' of the 1970s-1980s and the fourth, 'post-positivist' debate of the 1990s. The course concludes with the discussion of the current state of the discipline and its relation to the wider debates in pilosophy and social sciences.

Enrollment via NettiOpsu

Enrollment via NettiOpsu

Students of the Master's degree programmes on Political Communication and in Global Governance and World Culture can use this course as part of their "Joint Studies".

Students of the Master's degree Programme in European and Russian Studies majoring in Journalism and Mass Communication can use this course as part of their "Other ERS studies"

1/ COURSE OBJECTIVE:

The objective of the course is to gain a critical understanding of the role national and international media (newspapers, radio, television, online, blogs, citizens' journalism) play in promoting discord and tension, as well as peace and reconciliation, in a range of societies in conflict or just emerging from war.

2/ COURSE DESCRIPTION:

The course looks critically at how different types of media work towards peace and reconciliation, or the opposite, in four settings: Afghanistan, Rwanda, Cambodia and Nepal. The lecturer, as a journalist or as UN official, has direct experience of all four countries. The sessions will attempt to track recent conflict and post-conflict cases in the chosen examples through the eyes of both national and foreign media and critically examine how and why their outputs and actions contribute to ongoing peace or actually promote and worsen the conflict.

The sessions will begin with a broad discussion on what is meant by `nation building´ and where journalism fits into such a concept. Many local journalists I worked with in South Africa saw `sunshine journalism´as political affirmation of the new post-apartheid dispensation. But this was often at the expense of ethics. Ethically-sound journalism means rigorous reporting and editing, putting politicians on the spot, exposing injustice, demanding accountability from elected representatives, and the like. But does such an approach always lead to national reconciliation?

The course gives an overview of statistics, its importance and use in different fields of science. Basic statistical concepts and descriptive statistics are introduced, as well as an elementary introduction to estimation and hypothesis testing is given. An introduction to a statistical software package is also included.

This course is intended primarily for the students of the Bachelor's and Master's programmes of the ISSS (International School of Social Sciences).

Enrolment on the course has ended.

Will be organised in connection to the CBU Summer School in May 2010 in Petrozavodsk.

This course has been post-poned until spring 2011.

Will be organised in connection to the CBU Summer School in May 2010 in Petrozavodsk.

Examination date to be announced later.

Lectures and book exam (2 ECTS) + essay writing (3 ECTS). In addition to the lectures, all students are expected to take a book exam on Prozorov Sergei (2006), Understanding conflict between Russia and the EU. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. The 5 ECTS option also includes essay writing (the choice of the topic should be confirmed with the teacher in charge).