LFCOR Orientation (2 ECTS) consists of:

1) General Orientation Course for International Students (not compulsory for Finnish students)

2) Introduction to Academic Culture and Degree Studies (not compulsory for Finnish students)

3) Orientation to studying in the Degree Programme and personal study planning (1 ECTS) (compulsory for all LFC students).

Orientation: Tuesday 29.8. at 9.15-12.00, place: Pinni A 3111.

Personal study planning (HOPS): Wednesday 20.9. at 10.15-12.00, place: Linna K110

4) Basics of Information Literacy (1 ECTS) (compulsory for all LFC students). This course is taught by the university library and it will introduce the student to the printed and electronic library materials, and provide the student with a grasp of information retrieval, use and assessment of information, and good ethical practices in the academia. There are a pre-assignment, 3 x 2 hour workshops and online assignments related to each workshop in the course. You can participate in one of the six identical groups arranged in the 1 period. Please, see more information and registration for the course from here: http://www.uta.fi/kirjasto/en/courses/basicsofil.html  

This course is an advanced introductory course to the themes and concepts of the Master's Degree Programme in Leadership for Change. Leadership and change dynamics are examined in relation to topical events and processes. The course uses a multidisciplinary approach and interactive learning methods in close cooperation with businesses and public sector organisations. The course is taught by academic experts and visiting practitioners.

The “Key Concept Lectures” equip students with conceptual tools for analyzing organizational and societal change. At the “LFC Lectures” visiting practitioners discuss change dynamics from the perspective of their organizations.

Master's seminar includes one mandatory information retrival training session (2 hours) arranged by Tampere University Library. Please, take part of either Group A or Group B:                                              

Wednesday 4.4.2018 at 14–16, place: Linna building, 3rd floor, room 3022 (Elina), Information retrieval training (Group A)                                                               
Wednesday 11.4.2018 at 14 –16, place: Linna building, 3rd floor, room 3022 (Elina), Information retrieval training (Group B)                                                          

This module is made up of class sessions including group work (20 hours), as well as independent out of class tasks (61 hours). The module will be two periods long and will take place in the autumn semester of the first year of the master’s degree programme.

Tuesdays at 12-14

places for max. 10 master level exchange students. Priority is given to exchange students of faculty of management.

After completing the course, students will understand the unique characteristics of American political system and the role of Congress in it, as well as understand the limits of presidential power in American foreign policy. Students will have a sound understanding of the evolution of American foreign policy institutions and legislative-executive relationship in forming American foreign policy, including the use of American military power. The course will focus on American post-World War II foreign and security policy, and special attention will be paid to American post-9/11 foreign policy and the effects of partisan polarization and domestic politics to legislative-executive relations.

This module consist of lectures, independent reading and a miniconference organized at the very end of the module. Each lecture is dedicated to a particular approach to International Political Economy as an academic field of study. The students are required to familiarize themselves with a set of required pre-readings before coming to the lecture. At the lectures, the relevance of IPE as a field of study is illustrated in the context of contemporary issues within the global economy: international trade agreements, the rise of the BRICS, labor migration, privatization of health care, transformation of the welfare state, etc. The students write an essay on one of these topics and present their essays at a conference organized at the end of the course.

Lectures, independent reading, essay writing and a closing conference with student presentations.

BOOK EXAM (optional study mode for POMLFCS1 Democratic Decision-Making)

Electronic exam is open in I-IV periods: 4.9.2017-27.05.2018. Please, register for the electronic exam using the code POLVOA31 Political Institutions and Processes: https://tenttis.uta.fi

BOOK EXAM (Optional study mode for POMLFCS2 European Integration and Disintegration)

Electronic exam is open in I-IV periods: 4.9.2017-27.05.2018. Please, register for the electronic exam using the code POLKVS32 Advanced European Integration Studies: https://tenttis.uta.fi

BOOK EXAM. Optional study mode for POMLFCS3 Trends in Global Politics

Electronic exam is open in I-IV periods: 4.9.2017-27.05.2018. Please, register for the electronic exam using the code POLKVS31 The Study of World Politics: https://tenttis.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 2017: 4.9.-17.9.2017
Spring 2018: 23.2.-8.3.2018

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

Demola contact persons at the Faculty of Management

Administrative studies: University Lecturer Markus Laine, Professor Harri Laihonen
Business studies: University Lecturer Janne Ruohonen, University Lecturer Jarna Kulmala, Researcher Malla Mattila, Professor Anna Heikkinen
Politics: Professor Pami Aalto

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.

This course is also available for independent study in periods II-IV.

This course is centered on finding political scenarios and debates in fictive texts. Politics is an integral part of many fictive texts, and often used to reflect real world issues, debates, and political scenarios. Many seminal works of science fiction, for example, extrapolate political issues like authoritarianism, surveillance, loss of privacy, ecologism, pacifism, militarism, and so on into contexts where they can be addressed in ways less suited for traditional political science. Indeed, these works often comment on the issues of their time through fiction.

During the course the students will receive weekly readings for analysis and reflection. After the course, the students are expected to better understand how politics can be presented in fiction, and how these fictional politics can be used to make sense of actual political events. The students will be more adept at spotting political scenarios and reconstructing them in various contexts. 

The language of the course is English, so students are expected to be reasonably proficient in reading and writing academic texts in this language. English degree programme students can join students of Political Science on the course for a richer mutual understanding of disciplines and the texts.

Enrollment via email to teacher responsible. Students admitted in order of registering, but political science students prioritized. Optimal group size is 20 students. Deadline for enrollment is 06.09.2017.

Active participation in the seminars, topical presentation in seminar, and essay (9-12 pages) for 5 ECTS.

Indicative Lecture Content 

September 26:  1966. If a Woman Says ‘Perhaps’: The Great Political ‘Seduction’ and Rafael Paasio gets the Centre Party into Bed

Virolainen quotes Lenin but Einari Karvetti is unhappy. The Popular Front years; the ‘liberation of middle beer’; farm amalgamation and the exodus to Sweden and the ‘deep south’. The passing of agrarian Finland? Ämmänsaari 1968; Eero Raittisen ‘vanha holvikirkko’; SALT talks: the US and USSR negotiate whether to negotiate in Helsinki (and Vienna!). Podgorny’s visit and the Soviet’s failure to recognise Finnish neutrality.

October 3: 1970: The Finnish ship sails away from the Nordic Common Market

The ‘V’ linja: Väätäinen, Vasala, Viren and Vennamo. Did Veikko Vennamo really sink Nordek? The electoral ‘earthquake’ and the start of populism as a ‘family business’; Irwin Goodman; the Haukivuori relay; and Kekkonen takes to the television to roast the Communists. TUPO.

October 10: 1977: Why did superman fail to get the job?

The multiple aspects of Finlandisation: patronage, censorship and self-censorship. Westerholm forces a presidential election. The ‘midsummer bomb’ and ‘yleiset syyt’. Did the Kremlin really keep the Conservatives in opposition? Veikko and Manu in Jäähalli. Ilkityö in Kotka. Kekkonen rejects a Soviet approach for joint military ‘manoeuvres’

October 24: 1987 What was in the safe?

Manu and the ladybirds in Vaasa. The ‘Aids election’. Koivisto versus Väyrynen and a non-socialist coalition. From red-green to red-blue cabinets; Schism on the radical left: DEVA, Esko-Juhani Tennilä and the road to Vasemmistoliitto. Gorbachev recognises Finnish neutrality. Esko Almgren’s version of events.

October 31: 1992 Finland at 75: the ‘Kannuksen Kennedy’, a Nieminen gold and the ‘pulla index’

Did Nokia save Finland? From the depths of recession to ‘kännykä Suomi’.  The new liturgy: neutrality is replaced by ‘military nonalignment and a credible national defence’. Soft and hard security. Salolainen flops; Sundqvist implodes and so on to Lipponen

November 7: 1994 The EU Referendum, the ‘no butters’ and guess who?

As I said to Jacques Delors! Esko Aho and the airport taxi. Olli Rehn’s parents; the Estonian ferry disaster; Korhonen and Kainuun Sanomat; cocktails on the Royal Yacht Brittania. The Greens and ‘kyllä, mutta’; LFAs.

November 14: 1998 Onpa kiihkeä kosinta: the Centre beats the competition to sign a former ‘Miss Finland’

Tanja Karpela, celebrity candidates and the increasing mediatisation of politics. Finland becomes a founder-member of EMU and VL has a new chair. Why were ‘rainbow coalitions’ necessary? Uosukainen and her ‘water bed’.

November 21: 2000. What’s the most common word in the Finnish language? Answer: Kekkonen

The new Finnish constitution coincides with the centenary of Kekkonen’s birth. The end of semi-presidential government? The Kekkonen legacy. The first female Finnish president. Johannes Virolainen dies at 86. Iraqgate and the end of the social democratic hegemony

November 28: 2012 Finland According to Paavo Väyrynen: A Prophet in the Wilderness?

Neutrality (the Väyrynen version); Euroscepticism and the post-referendum filibuster; the Nordic Community; the minister, MEP and founder of the Citizens’ Party. Why Väyrynen has been good for Finland! Soini and the Social Democrats

December 5: Finland at 100: Independence, For What, So What?

Why, exactly, should we celebrate on December 6? What is the measure of the Finnish achievement? How independent has Finland really been? Punainen viiva. When electoral turnout is below 1907, how ‘well’ is Finnish democracy? How independent is Finland today? Aalto- Saara not Alvar; Tom of Finland; Vesa-Matti Loiri; the ‘Finland brand’. A marsalkka beer?

Email registration essential by September 20, 2017.

We see and hear about globalization all the time: in the media, in statements by politicians, and buzzing around our social networks. We have a broad sense that politics, cultures, people, and organizations are all connected around the world. Yet, most people are hard-pressed to define what, precisely, globalization means. This course provides students with the basis for making sense of globalization and transnational connections in the contemporary world. It will go beyond popular, political and media rhetoric about globalization, and build a basis for students to gain a critical understanding of transnational connectivity. We will understand how events and forces outside national borders inform local trends, by examining global aspects of politics, policies, economics, environment, migration, history, popular culture, and religion. To do this, the course will unpack the three major social theoretic perspectives on making sense of globalization in these areas of modern life, with a spotlight on the emerging, cutting-edge, World Society Theory. We will also focus on the global-local interface: on how the local becomes global and how the global in turn, shapes what we think about as entirely local. By the end of the course, students will be able to describe how globalization impacts their own life, and to apply social theories of globalization to an empirical case of their interest.

In order to be able to participate in the course, students are required to complete either
(a) the lectures (5 ECTS), or (b) the lectures plus seminars (10 ECTS). It is not possible to attend only the seminars.

Students of the Master's Degree Programme on Global and Transnational Sociology are required to complete full course (10 ECTS).

Please note that you must enroll separately for the lectures and the seminar.

Students will be accepted to the course in the following order:

1. degree students of the MDP Global and Transnational Sociology

2. degree students of the other Global Society programmes (MDP in in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research, MDP in Public Choice, MDP in Comparative Social Policy and Welfare, MDP in Gender Studies)

3. other degree students of UTA

4. exchange students

In cases where more students register for a course than space allows, priority is assigned as follows:

1. First priority is given to the degree students of the University of Tampere.
2. Second priority is given to the exchange students of the University of Tampere.
3. Third priority is given to the Tampere3 students and to the high school students of the UTA Teacher Training School.

In addition, there is a quota of 5 for the Open University students in every group.

In cases where more students register for a course than space allows, priority is assigned as follows:

1. First priority is given to the degree students of the University of Tampere.
2. Second priority is given to the exchange students of the University of Tampere.
3. Third priority is given to the Tampere3 students and to the high school students of the UTA Teacher Training School.

n addition, there is a quota of 5 for the Open University students in every group.

This course is an advanced introductory course to the themes and concepts of the Master's Degree Programme in Leadership for Change. Leadership and change dynamics are examined in relation to topical events and processes. The course uses a multidisciplinary approach and interactive learning methods in close cooperation with businesses and public sector organisations. The course is taught by academic experts and visiting practitioners.

The “Key Concept Lectures” equip students with conceptual tools for analyzing organizational and societal change. At the “LFC Lectures” visiting practitioners discuss change dynamics from the perspective of their organizations.

Contents of the course

The following topics will be discussed during the course:

- Changes of organizing work

- Distinction between the terms leader and leadership

- History of leadership research

- Forms of collective leadership

- Embodiment in leadership

- Sociomateriality in leadership

- Leadership-as-Practice

This course is for Master students in Leadership for Change. The course is also held in I period for Master students in Management and Organizations (in Finnish).

A very limited number of Master level exchange students with suitable business management studies backround may be accepted to the course.

Master's seminar includes one mandatory information retrival training session (2 hours) arranged by Tampere University Library. Please, take part of either Group A or Group B:                                              

Wednesday 4.4.2018 at 14–16, place: Linna building, 3rd floor, room 3022 (Elina), Information retrieval training (Group A)                                                               
Wednesday 11.4.2018 at 14 –16, place: Linna building, 3rd floor, room 3022 (Elina), Information retrieval training (Group B)                                                          

The course focuses on the basic and general features of scientific research, methodology, and argumentation, as applicable to any field of study. Some central themes in the philosophy of science will also be discussed, in an introductory manner.

The course is intended to all new international UTA Master’s degree students, but it will serve also international Doctoral students. Other degree and exchange students may join if there are free places.

Contact person: Coordinator of international education, Anna Wansén-Kaseva

This module is made up of class sessions including group work (20 hours), as well as independent out of class tasks (61 hours). The module will be two periods long and will take place in the autumn semester of the first year of the master’s degree programme.

The course offers students a possibility to engage in a participatory simulation of the EU decision-making and legislative process beginning with the suggestion proposed by the European Commission to the adoption of the legislative dossier. In the end, students will be able to understand the differences and operational logic of each major European institution, familiarise themselves with the ordinary legislative procedure, as well as learn in-depth about the functioning of the European Union as a whole.

Mandatory registration also via e-mail by 15.10.2017.

Active participation in the lessons is required from the students. In addition, the students are required to write smaller 400 word papers in preparation for some of the lessons as well as a longer final essay of 2000 words.

This module consist of lectures, independent reading and a miniconference organized at the very end of the module. Each lecture is dedicated to a particular approach to International Political Economy as an academic field of study. The students are required to familiarize themselves with a set of required pre-readings before coming to the lecture. At the lectures, the relevance of IPE as a field of study is illustrated in the context of contemporary issues within the global economy: international trade agreements, the rise of the BRICS, labor migration, privatization of health care, transformation of the welfare state, etc. The students write an essay on one of these topics and present their essays at a conference organized at the end of the course.

Lectures, independent reading, essay writing and a closing conference with student presentations.

BOOK EXAM (optional study mode for POMLFCS1 Democratic Decision-Making)

Electronic exam is open in I-IV periods: 4.9.2017-27.05.2018. Please, register for the electronic exam using the code POLVOA31 Political Institutions and Processes: https://tenttis.uta.fi

BOOK EXAM (Optional study mode for POMLFCS2 European Integration and Disintegration)

Electronic exam is open in I-IV periods: 4.9.2017-27.05.2018. Please, register for the electronic exam using the code POLKVS32 Advanced European Integration Studies: https://tenttis.uta.fi

BOOK EXAM. Optional study mode for POMLFCS3 Trends in Global Politics

Electronic exam is open in I-IV periods: 4.9.2017-27.05.2018. Please, register for the electronic exam using the code POLKVS31 The Study of World Politics: https://tenttis.uta.fi

few places for master level business exchange students

Students will be working together in groups returning assignments throughout the course, thus they should have enough time for it in their 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, or during, of course KATVAA12.

Option 1 (Lectures) is organised in period II and option 2 (Online course) is available in periods III-IV.

This is an introductory course to Tampere3 module on digitalization.

The module provides a wide view to ongoing digitalization. The introduction course approaches the phenomenon from the perspectives of information sciences, business and management as well as public administration and politics.

After the introduction, the student can select the most suitable courses for his/her interests from the offerings of three universities. After completing the module, students are able to conceptualize the ongoing digital transformation, understand its impacts on business and society and are equipped with tools necessary when operating and managing in a digital society.

The module supports developing the kind of knowledge and expertise needed in the digitalized work life:

• Students recognize the multidisciplinary nature of digitalization and master the key concepts related to the phenomenon.
• Students know the possibilities and restrictions of technological changes both from the individual and institutional perspectives.
• Students understand the basic forms of knowledge-based value creation and possess tools for managing these processes.

There are two ways to complete the course: 1) independent work, or 2) active participation. These will be elaborated on the first lecture, which is mandatory for all. The first lecture will be available also as video recording after the class.

The course introduces students to the field of ecological economics. The field of ecological economics is transdisciplinary by nature and as therefore applicable to economic, social, and environmental problem solving.  Students are offered a view to economics that differs fundamentally from the main school of economic thought known as neoclassical economics. First, the students are introduced to the vision that ecological economics offers with concepts such as full versus empty world, and circular economy. The students are then familiarized with different policy tools for guiding development towards a sustainable scale, such as Pigouvian taxes and caps on income and wealth. During the course students are also introduced to methods for measuring not only efficiency but also a sustainable scale and just distribution with in a system.

KATVAA11 Business Ethics (5 ECTS) course (or corresponding studies) is a compulsory preceding course. You can complete Business Ethics course also as independent study before or during KATVAA15 course. You will receive a grade for KATVAA15 course only after completing Business Ethics course or showing proof of corresponding studies.

Taught at the Tampere Autumn School (13-17 November 2017) and Petrozavodsk Summer School in May 2018 (20-26 May 2018). Continues during the academic year 2018-19.

The CBIR seminars are compulsory for CBIR double degree students.

This course is centered on finding political scenarios and debates in fictive texts. Politics is an integral part of many fictive texts, and often used to reflect real world issues, debates, and political scenarios. Many seminal works of science fiction, for example, extrapolate political issues like authoritarianism, surveillance, loss of privacy, ecologism, pacifism, militarism, and so on into contexts where they can be addressed in ways less suited for traditional political science. Indeed, these works often comment on the issues of their time through fiction.

During the course the students will receive weekly readings for analysis and reflection. After the course, the students are expected to better understand how politics can be presented in fiction, and how these fictional politics can be used to make sense of actual political events. The students will be more adept at spotting political scenarios and reconstructing them in various contexts. 

The language of the course is English, so students are expected to be reasonably proficient in reading and writing academic texts in this language. English degree programme students can join students of Political Science on the course for a richer mutual understanding of disciplines and the texts.

Enrollment via email to teacher responsible. Students admitted in order of registering, but political science students prioritized. Optimal group size is 20 students. Deadline for enrollment is 06.09.2017.

Active participation in the seminars, topical presentation in seminar, and essay (9-12 pages) for 5 ECTS.

Indicative Lecture Content 

September 26:  1966. If a Woman Says ‘Perhaps’: The Great Political ‘Seduction’ and Rafael Paasio gets the Centre Party into Bed

Virolainen quotes Lenin but Einari Karvetti is unhappy. The Popular Front years; the ‘liberation of middle beer’; farm amalgamation and the exodus to Sweden and the ‘deep south’. The passing of agrarian Finland? Ämmänsaari 1968; Eero Raittisen ‘vanha holvikirkko’; SALT talks: the US and USSR negotiate whether to negotiate in Helsinki (and Vienna!). Podgorny’s visit and the Soviet’s failure to recognise Finnish neutrality.

October 3: 1970: The Finnish ship sails away from the Nordic Common Market

The ‘V’ linja: Väätäinen, Vasala, Viren and Vennamo. Did Veikko Vennamo really sink Nordek? The electoral ‘earthquake’ and the start of populism as a ‘family business’; Irwin Goodman; the Haukivuori relay; and Kekkonen takes to the television to roast the Communists. TUPO.

October 10: 1977: Why did superman fail to get the job?

The multiple aspects of Finlandisation: patronage, censorship and self-censorship. Westerholm forces a presidential election. The ‘midsummer bomb’ and ‘yleiset syyt’. Did the Kremlin really keep the Conservatives in opposition? Veikko and Manu in Jäähalli. Ilkityö in Kotka. Kekkonen rejects a Soviet approach for joint military ‘manoeuvres’

October 24: 1987 What was in the safe?

Manu and the ladybirds in Vaasa. The ‘Aids election’. Koivisto versus Väyrynen and a non-socialist coalition. From red-green to red-blue cabinets; Schism on the radical left: DEVA, Esko-Juhani Tennilä and the road to Vasemmistoliitto. Gorbachev recognises Finnish neutrality. Esko Almgren’s version of events.

October 31: 1992 Finland at 75: the ‘Kannuksen Kennedy’, a Nieminen gold and the ‘pulla index’

Did Nokia save Finland? From the depths of recession to ‘kännykä Suomi’.  The new liturgy: neutrality is replaced by ‘military nonalignment and a credible national defence’. Soft and hard security. Salolainen flops; Sundqvist implodes and so on to Lipponen

November 7: 1994 The EU Referendum, the ‘no butters’ and guess who?

As I said to Jacques Delors! Esko Aho and the airport taxi. Olli Rehn’s parents; the Estonian ferry disaster; Korhonen and Kainuun Sanomat; cocktails on the Royal Yacht Brittania. The Greens and ‘kyllä, mutta’; LFAs.

November 14: 1998 Onpa kiihkeä kosinta: the Centre beats the competition to sign a former ‘Miss Finland’

Tanja Karpela, celebrity candidates and the increasing mediatisation of politics. Finland becomes a founder-member of EMU and VL has a new chair. Why were ‘rainbow coalitions’ necessary? Uosukainen and her ‘water bed’.

November 21: 2000. What’s the most common word in the Finnish language? Answer: Kekkonen

The new Finnish constitution coincides with the centenary of Kekkonen’s birth. The end of semi-presidential government? The Kekkonen legacy. The first female Finnish president. Johannes Virolainen dies at 86. Iraqgate and the end of the social democratic hegemony

November 28: 2012 Finland According to Paavo Väyrynen: A Prophet in the Wilderness?

Neutrality (the Väyrynen version); Euroscepticism and the post-referendum filibuster; the Nordic Community; the minister, MEP and founder of the Citizens’ Party. Why Väyrynen has been good for Finland! Soini and the Social Democrats

December 5: Finland at 100: Independence, For What, So What?

Why, exactly, should we celebrate on December 6? What is the measure of the Finnish achievement? How independent has Finland really been? Punainen viiva. When electoral turnout is below 1907, how ‘well’ is Finnish democracy? How independent is Finland today? Aalto- Saara not Alvar; Tom of Finland; Vesa-Matti Loiri; the ‘Finland brand’. A marsalkka beer?

Email registration essential by September 20, 2017.

We see and hear about globalization all the time: in the media, in statements by politicians, and buzzing around our social networks. We have a broad sense that politics, cultures, people, and organizations are all connected around the world. Yet, most people are hard-pressed to define what, precisely, globalization means. This course provides students with the basis for making sense of globalization and transnational connections in the contemporary world. It will go beyond popular, political and media rhetoric about globalization, and build a basis for students to gain a critical understanding of transnational connectivity. We will understand how events and forces outside national borders inform local trends, by examining global aspects of politics, policies, economics, environment, migration, history, popular culture, and religion. To do this, the course will unpack the three major social theoretic perspectives on making sense of globalization in these areas of modern life, with a spotlight on the emerging, cutting-edge, World Society Theory. We will also focus on the global-local interface: on how the local becomes global and how the global in turn, shapes what we think about as entirely local. By the end of the course, students will be able to describe how globalization impacts their own life, and to apply social theories of globalization to an empirical case of their interest.

In order to be able to participate in the course, students are required to complete either
(a) the lectures (5 ECTS), or (b) the lectures plus seminars (10 ECTS). It is not possible to attend only the seminars.

Students of the Master's Degree Programme on Global and Transnational Sociology are required to complete full course (10 ECTS).

Please note that you must enroll separately for the lectures and the seminar.

Students will be accepted to the course in the following order:

1. degree students of the MDP Global and Transnational Sociology

2. degree students of the other Global Society programmes (MDP in in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research, MDP in Public Choice, MDP in Comparative Social Policy and Welfare, MDP in Gender Studies)

3. other degree students of UTA

4. exchange students

In cases where more students register for a course than space allows, priority is assigned as follows:

1. First priority is given to the degree students of the University of Tampere.
2. Second priority is given to the exchange students of the University of Tampere.
3. Third priority is given to the Tampere3 students and to the high school students of the UTA Teacher Training School.

In addition, there is a quota of 5 for the Open University students in every group.

In cases where more students register for a course than space allows, priority is assigned as follows:

1. First priority is given to the degree students of the University of Tampere.
2. Second priority is given to the exchange students of the University of Tampere.
3. Third priority is given to the Tampere3 students and to the high school students of the UTA Teacher Training School.

In addition, there is a quota of 5 for the Open University students in every group.

In cases where more students register for a course than space allows, priority is assigned as follows:

1. First priority is given to the degree students of the University of Tampere.
2. Second priority is given to the exchange students of the University of Tampere.
3. Third priority is given to the Tampere3 students and to the high school students of the UTA Teacher Training School.

n addition, there is a quota of 5 for the Open University students in every group.

Taught at the Tampere Autumn School (13-17 November 2017) and Petrozavodsk Summer School in May 2018. More exact times to be announced.

This course offers a way of analysing European integration as a process, and deepens the participants’ knowledge of the most important theories of European integration and of disintegration. Particular emphasis will be put on the consequences of integration and disintegration on the external relations of the EU and international relations more widely.

Teaching

13.11. 12-14

14.11. 12-14

15.11. 12-14

16.11. 12-16 (workshop)

17.11. 10-12 (results & conclusions)

+ independent essay writing, deadline for the essay (about 2500 words) 15 December 2017

Students are required to familiarize themselves with assigned study materials before the lectures.

This course is an advanced introductory course to the themes and concepts of the Master's Degree Programme in Leadership for Change. Leadership and change dynamics are examined in relation to topical events and processes. The course uses a multidisciplinary approach and interactive learning methods in close cooperation with businesses and public sector organisations. The course is taught by academic experts and visiting practitioners.

The “Key Concept Lectures” equip students with conceptual tools for analyzing organizational and societal change. At the “LFC Lectures” visiting practitioners discuss change dynamics from the perspective of their organizations.

Modes of study: lectures, readings, essay

A limited number (5–7) of Master students in Management and Organizations will be accepted to the course.

Master's seminar includes one mandatory information retrival training session (2 hours) arranged by Tampere University Library. Please, take part of either Group A or Group B:                                              

Wednesday 4.4.2018 at 14–16, place: Linna building, 3rd floor, room 3022 (Elina), Information retrieval training (Group A)                                                               
Wednesday 11.4.2018 at 14 –16, place: Linna building, 3rd floor, room 3022 (Elina), Information retrieval training (Group B)                                                          

This module is made up of class sessions including group work (20 hours), as well as independent out of class tasks (61 hours). The module will be two periods long and will take place in the autumn semester of the first year of the master’s degree programme.

Political and social trust are often seen as important determinants or elements of a functioning democracy and citizens well-being. But what is trust, and how it actually influences citizens and the political system? The purpose of the course is to give students a comprehensive picture of the concept of trust and its relevance in political science. The course starts with a conceptualization of trust, both as a political and social concept. After the conceptualization, measuring trust is analysed, and main results concerning survey evidence on trust discussed. The course goes then on with discussing the relevance and role of trust in international relations, trust in comparative perspective, the relationship of trust to political inequality and its relevance in explaining the rise of right wing populism. The course provides students analytical tools to study trust and an extensive knowledge of the relevant literature.

After completing the study unit/the course students understand how the international migration system functions today, the push and pull factors of international migration - the questions of emigration, immigration and integration and are able to analyze them critically.

BOOK EXAM (optional study mode for POMLFCS1 Democratic Decision-Making)

Electronic exam is open in I-IV periods: 4.9.2017-27.05.2018. Please, register for the electronic exam using the code POLVOA31 Political Institutions and Processes: https://tenttis.uta.fi

BOOK EXAM (Optional study mode for POMLFCS2 European Integration and Disintegration)

Electronic exam is open in I-IV periods: 4.9.2017-27.05.2018. Please, register for the electronic exam using the code POLKVS32 Advanced European Integration Studies: https://tenttis.uta.fi

BOOK EXAM. Optional study mode for POMLFCS3 Trends in Global Politics

Electronic exam is open in I-IV periods: 4.9.2017-27.05.2018. Please, register for the electronic exam using the code POLKVS31 The Study of World Politics: https://tenttis.uta.fi

- How and why legal environment affects business
- Law principles of contracting and business negotiations in international context
- Corporate governance in limited liability companies
- Legal framework of tax planning and tax-related risks in cross-border business

open for master level exchange students

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 2017: 4.9.-17.9.2017
Spring 2018: 23.2.-8.3.2018

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

Demola contact persons at the Faculty of Management

Administrative studies: University Lecturer Markus Laine, Professor Harri Laihonen
Business studies: University Lecturer Janne Ruohonen, University Lecturer Jarna Kulmala, Researcher Malla Mattila, Professor Anna Heikkinen
Politics: Professor Pami Aalto

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.

Option 1 (Lectures and essay) is organised in period III and option 2 (Independent study and essay) is available in period IV.

The course consists of lectures, two problem-based learning (PBL) tutorials with a brief research paper to be written and delivered among participants, as well as writing of a team essay and a presentation in a closing seminar.

Exams and retakes

Lecture exam (no enrolment required)

Wed 14.2.2018, 10-12, Pinni B 1100

Retakes (enrolment in NettiOpsu required)

Mon 26.3.2018, 8-12 Päätalo ls D10 a+b

Tue 17.4.2018, 16–20 Päätalo ls D10 a+b

BOOK EXAM

Electronic exam, Wed 21-Feb-2018 -- Mon 30-April-2018. 

Course is offered only for a selected number of doctoral students, exchange students, and KOHAMA students.

Note: MAX 5 exchange students with suitable background in social sciences can be accepted to the course.  

Enrollment: send an email to yohannes.mehari[at]staff.uta.fi by 10th January 2018 and explain why you should be enrolled to this course.

Teaching schedule and lecture rooms will be updated only to Moodle course area.

Course is offered only for a selected number of doctoral students, exchange students, and KOHAMA students.

Note: MAX 5 exchange students with suitable background in social sciences can be accepted to the course.  

Enrollment: send an email to yohannes.mehari[at]staff.uta.fi by 29th January 2018 and explain why you should be enrolled to this course.

Teaching schedule and lecture rooms will be updated only to Moodle course area.

No teaching. Course will be completed by written assignments.

No teaching. Course can be completed with written assignments.

In cases where more students register for a course than space allows, priority is assigned as follows:

1. First priority is given to the degree students of the University of Tampere.
2. Second priority is given to the exchange students of the University of Tampere.
3. Third priority is given to the Tampere3 students and to the high school students of the UTA Teacher Training School.

In addition, there is a quota of 5 for the Open University students in every group.

In cases where more students register for a course than space allows, priority is assigned as follows:

1. First priority is given to the degree students of the University of Tampere.
2. Second priority is given to the exchange students of the University of Tampere.
3. Third priority is given to the Tampere3 students and to the high school students of the UTA Teacher Training School.

In addition, there is a quota of 5 for the Open University students in every group.

The option 2 of this course is a web-based online course. The course comprises of three modules that the students will carry out in groups. This course will be completed as a team effort, so students must make sure they have enough time on their schedules when choosing this course.

NB 2.2.2018: There is still course places available. You can sign up for the course by sending an email to johanna.heiskanen@uta.fi or by attending the introduction lecture Tue 6.2.

The course is an online course. The course comprises of an introduction lecture, individual and group assignments, and a written exam of the course material.

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, or during, course KATVAA12.

Option 1 (Lectures) is organised in period II and option 2 (Online course) is available in periods III-IV.

This course is an advanced introductory course to the themes and concepts of the Master's Degree Programme in Leadership for Change. Leadership and change dynamics are examined in relation to topical events and processes. The course uses a multidisciplinary approach and interactive learning methods in close cooperation with businesses and public sector organisations. The course is taught by academic experts and visiting practitioners.

The “Key Concept Lectures” equip students with conceptual tools for analyzing organizational and societal change. At the “LFC Lectures” visiting practitioners discuss change dynamics from the perspective of their organizations.

The course will begin with an introduction lecture to organisation theory and analysis. The themes for the following weeks cover research areas varying from what goes on inside organizations to how external environments affect organisations. These themes are:

- organisational learning - decision-making in organisations - organisational culture - organisations and their external environment - neoinstitutional theory - organisational ecology - networks and organisations

While the course content is structured around these themes, the lectures provide a background story for how organisational theory has developed historically. This will enable students to understand the intellectual development of organisation theory and its various shifts in emphasis. The students are required to attend lectures, read academic articles identified by the instructor, write analytical essays, and take part in group presentations and discussions.

Thursdays 14-16

NB: This course is for Master students in Leadership for Change. A limited number of Master students in Management and Organizations may be accepted to the course.  

A limited number (5–7) of Master students in Management and Organizations will be accepted to the course.

Master's seminar includes one mandatory information retrival training session (2 hours) arranged by Tampere University Library. Please, take part of either Group A or Group B:                                              

Wednesday 4.4.2018 at 14–16, place: Linna building, 3rd floor, room 3022 (Elina), Information retrieval training (Group A)                                                               
Wednesday 11.4.2018 at 14 –16, place: Linna building, 3rd floor, room 3022 (Elina), Information retrieval training (Group B)                                                          

Multilateralism can be understood as a cooperative form of decision-making on issue areas where supranational authority does not exist but where coordinated action is necessary. It is ideally an institutional arrangement that ensures global governance in a non-discriminatory manner wihtout regard to particularistic interests. Regionalism on the other hand refers to the different forms of regional cooperation among states that are drawn together through geography, politics, culture and transnationalism and most importantly, the benefits of cooperation. European integration process is the most developed form of regionalism and as such has served as a stepping stone for global cooperation. Under US leadership, the transatlantic region has been instrumental in developing the current structures of multilateralism and global governance. However, while population growth and climate change (among other things) necessitate even stronger cooperation, multilateral institutions like United Nations and World Trade Organization are being sidelined by regional organizations. Moreover, under Trump administration the former champion of liberal institutionalism has turned its back on multilateralism at the same time as the EU struggles with internal political and economic crisis.  This course provides tools to analyze current affairs of regional and global governance within the framework of comparative regioanalism and comparative institutional analysis. Studend also learns to set their analytical skills in practice through a policy paper workshop.

- Lectures and instruction, 12 hours  - Seminar work, 12 hours - Individual and group work about 100 hours to be used for the following: a) individual reading of course material about 6 research articles, b) 300 word commentaries of each article, c) group work: preparing and presenting a policy brief, d) 1800-2500 word individual essay or policy paper.

The module includes lectures, seminars and independent reading, complemented by independent research/essay writing or practical workshops.

The module is divided in three parts.

The first consists of 4 lectures providing a historical overview of the emergence of refugees and forced migration as a contemporary “governance issue”, as well as a theoretical and methodological introduction to refugee studies as an interdisciplinary area in social sciences.

The second part of the course consists of 4 seminars, in which, after a short introduction by the teacher, students engage in group discussions, short presentations and other activities on the following topics: 1. Humanitarian innovation: what is left of refugee aid? 2. The promotion of refugee self-reliance and entrepreneurship: critical approaches to the refugee camp as an ‘economic space’. 3. The role of the private sector in refugee aid: examples from Jordan, Sweden, and Finland.  4. The role of political activism and volunteering in spaces of hospitality and refuge.

In the third, applied part of the module, students can choose between activities:

1. Writing an essay on a topic of their choice.

2. Taking part in an art/research workshop on migration organized in Tampere, 2-5 May 2018.

Lectures, seminars and workshops require a limited amount of independent reading to be completed before the sessions. Material for the seminar activities includes not only academic texts, but also policy reports, press, videos and art work.

Schedule

6.3.-25.4.2018, Tuesdays 13-16

Art/research workshop 3-4 May 2018.

BOOK EXAM (optional study mode for POMLFCS1 Democratic Decision-Making)

Electronic exam is open in I-IV periods: 4.9.2017-27.05.2018. Please, register for the electronic exam using the code POLVOA31 Political Institutions and Processes: https://tenttis.uta.fi

BOOK EXAM (Optional study mode for POMLFCS2 European Integration and Disintegration)

Electronic exam is open in I-IV periods: 4.9.2017-27.05.2018. Please, register for the electronic exam using the code POLKVS32 Advanced European Integration Studies: https://tenttis.uta.fi

BOOK EXAM. Optional study mode for POMLFCS3 Trends in Global Politics

Electronic exam is open in I-IV periods: 4.9.2017-27.05.2018. Please, register for the electronic exam using the code POLKVS31 The Study of World Politics: https://tenttis.uta.fi

Contents

The Art/Research Festival examines the ways in which the arts and arts-based research can be incorporated to qualitative inquiry in social sciences. The festival examines how the artistic process, actual making of artistic expressions or artworks themselves can offer a way to understand and examine social and political life.

The focus of the festival is migration. Presentations, panels, performances and workshops approach the movement of people through different forms of expression. The festival asks how art can help researchers make sense of migration – and what are its limits.

Programme:

Thursday 3 May

12–13 Lobby Bar, PinniB, ground floor
What is ABR

13–15 Lobby Bar, PinniB, ground floor
Workshop: Collaging Migration
Inna Perheentupa, Daria Krivonos, Saara Särmä

15–17:30 Oasis, PinniB, 2nd floor
Panel: Researching migration through art
Leonardo Custodio, Eeva Puumala, Marja-Liisa Torniainen, Sepideh Rahaa (TBC)
Moderated by Daria Krivonos

19:00 TTT Kellariteatteri, Hämeenpuisto 28
Olga Jitlina: “Translation” and a discussion
Reserve your ticket at www.eventbrite.com

Friday 4 May

12–14 Oasis, PinniB, 2nd floor
Panel discussion: Can art change the world?
Julia Bethwaite, Hassan Blasim, Monica Gathuo, Saara Särmä
Moderated by Inna Perheentupa

14–17 PinniA 1081
Workshop: Home and belonging through videos
Amir Jan and Mohammad Javid

18–20 Restaurant Telakka, 2nd floor
Acoustic lecture: Sounds of War
Susanna Hast & Timo Kalevi Forss

Please, register for the course by 25 April here: https://elomake.uta.fi/lomakkeet/21033/lomake.html

Contents: 

- Risk management trends

- Long term risks

- Economics theories for risks

- Financial crisis management

- Measuring risk in financial markets

- Risk management in financial markets

- Risk management in corporate finance

open for master level exchange students

This course includes visitors from business, thus requires attendance on most of the lectures.

Please notice:

• Preceding studies KATVAA11 Business Ethics (5 ECTS) course (or corresponding studies) is a compulsory preceding course, and has to be completed before the beginning of the course KATVAA13.

Taught at the Tampere Autumn School (13-17 November 2017) and Petrozavodsk Summer School in May 2018 (20-26 May 2018). Continues during the academic year 2018-19.

The CBIR seminars are compulsory for CBIR double degree students.

The class will look at the concept of trust in international relations theoretically as well as through examining a number of case studies from diplomatic history. The relevance of trust for contemporary issues in world politics will also be discussed.

EU financial management course focuses into financial management including EU policies, budgeting, measurement and evaluation.

Course is offered only for a selected number of doctoral students, exchange students, and KOHAMA students.

Note: MAX 5 exchange students with suitable background in social sciences can be accepted to the course.  

Enrollment: send an email to yuzhuo.cai[at]staff.uta.fi by 26th February 2018 and explain why you should be enrolled to this course.

Teaching schedule and lecture rooms will be updated only to Moodle course area.

No teaching. Course will be completed by written assignments.

No teaching. Course can be completed with written assignments.

In cases where more students register for a course than space allows, priority is assigned as follows:

1. First priority is given to the degree students of the University of Tampere.
2. Second priority is given to the exchange students of the University of Tampere.
3. Third priority is given to the Tampere3 students and to the high school students of the UTA Teacher Training School.

In addition, there is a quota of 5 for the Open University students in every group.

In cases where more students register for a course than space allows, priority is assigned as follows:

1. First priority is given to the degree students of the University of Tampere.
2. Second priority is given to the exchange students of the University of Tampere.
3. Third priority is given to the Tampere3 students and to the high school students of the UTA Teacher Training School.

Also, the grade of the Finnish Elementary Course 3 is considered in the selection.

In addition, there is a quota of 5 for the Open University students in every group.

In cases where more students register for a course than space allows, priority is assigned as follows:

1. First priority is given to the degree students of the University of Tampere.
2. Second priority is given to the exchange students of the University of Tampere.
3. Third priority is given to the Tampere3 students and to the high school students of the UTA Teacher Training School.

In addition, there is a quota of 5 for the Open University students in every group.

Taught at the Petrozavodsk Summer School in May 2018. More exact schedule to be announced.

Taught at the Tampere Autumn School (13-17 November 2017) and Petrozavodsk Summer School in May 2018. More exact times to be announced.

The option 2 of this course is a web-based online course. The course comprises of three modules that the students will carry out in groups. This course will be completed as a team effort, so students must make sure they have enough time on their schedules when choosing this course.

NB 2.2.2018: There is still course places available. You can sign up for the course by sending an email to johanna.heiskanen@uta.fi or by attending the introduction lecture Tue 6.2.

The course is an online course. The course comprises of an introduction lecture, individual and group assignments, and a written exam of the course material.

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, or during, course KATVAA12.

Option 1 (Lectures) is organised in period II and option 2 (Online course) is available in periods III-IV.

Option 2 of this course is a web-based independent study module. The course consists of independent study and an individual essay.

Update 5.3.2018: During the course, new students can sign up to the course by contacting the teacher.

The course consists of independent study and a final essay. Students can write and hand-in the essay any time during the course. The essay can be written in English or in Finnish. Essay instructions are given on course moodle page.

KATVAA11 Business Ethics (5 ECTS) course (or corresponding studies) is a compulsory preceding course. Please note that it has to be completed before the beginning of, or during, course KATVAA14.

Contents:

Corporate Global Citizenship; Corporate Social Responsibility; Global issues and changemarkers; Understanding and Critiquing Social Entrepreneurship and Social Intrapreneurs; Political roles, Political CSR, Business and Human rights; Stakeholder Relationships and Corporate Citizenship; Addressing Environmental Constrains; Values in Management Practice; Shared Value; Global Standards; Global Challenges.

Lectures:

Thursday 5.4. at 16-18
Tuesday 10.4. at 10-12
Thursday 12.4. at 16-18
Tuesday 17.4. at 10-12
Thursday 19.4. at 16-18
Tuesday 24.4. at 10-12
Thursday 26.4. at 16-18
Thursday 3.5. at 16-18
Tuesday 8.5. at 10-12
Tuesday 15.5. at 10-12

This course is primarily intended for

• master's students of responsible business,
• master's students of management and organization studies (this course can be registered as course KATJOS49 Current issues in Management and Organisations)
• master's students of leadership for change master's programme, and
• master's students of politics (this course can be registered as course POLVOS23)

The course is also open for exchange students and others interested.