Weekly lectures on Wednesdays at 18-20, subject to change:

7.9. How to communicate in Finland? (Katja Keisala)

14.9. Finnish History - Finns and Finland between East and West (Seija-Leena Nevala)

21.9. Boundaries of Finnishness and Ethnic Minorities in Finland (Hannu Sinisalo)

28.9. Finnish Gastronomy (Arja Luiro)

5.10. Finnish Political System (Johanna Peltoniemi)

12.10. Finnish Education System (Raisa Harju-Autti)

19.10. Finnish Popular Music (Juho Kaitajärvi-Tiekso)

26.10. Technology and Innovation in Finland: Current Issues and Future Challenges (Tomi Nokelainen)

2.11. Finnish forests and forestry (Ari Vanamo)

9.11. Finnish Welfare and Social Services (Lina van Aerschot)

16.11. Finnish Art History in a Nutshell (Katja Fält)

23.11. Finnish Literature (Toni Lahtinen)

30.11. Special Features of Finnish Mass Media (Jyrki Jyrkiäinen)

7.12. Exam

14.12. Exam retake

Enrolment to the course

- TUT and TAMK students: enrolment with electronic form during the enrolment period 1.8.- 1.9.2016
<https://elomake3.uta.fi/lomakkeet/17335/lomake.html>

- UTA students: enrolment in NettiOpsu, click below

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

This course is part of the Master's programme in Public Choice and is compulsory for the degree students in the programme.

There are some places available for other students at the University of Tampere.

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In North American Studies belongs to NAM-VII Methodology.

This course introduces students to the testing of causal hypotheses with statistical methods, focusing on social-science applications.  Causal inference in this setting requires melding the language of mathematical statistics with the reality of human decision-making.  Successfully testing a social-science hypothesis thus requires both facility with the mathematics, as well an understanding of how people actually behave.  This course gives students an introduction to the math, and experience in translating the math to reality.

The course is timed according to the scripted schedule of the masters’ program in Public Choice, and is tailored to the needs of that program.  As a result, non-PCP students should be aware that the course will proceed at a substantially faster pace than other courses.

The first week is the program’s Math Camp, consisting of 10 lecture hours (no quarters) and nightly group homework assignments.  The following three weeks form the Statistics component, consisting of 24 lecture hours (no quarters), twice-a-week group homework assignments, and a final exam.  The final mark comes from the Statistics component alone: 50% weight on homework, and 50% on the exam.

Course in North American Studies: NAM-VII Methodology

Forty (40) students fulfilling the preceding study qualifications are accepted to the course. Students having Psychology as a major subject are selected first. The rest of the course, if places are available, is selected from students having Psychology as a minor subject and international students. 

Registration for the course is open until 3rd of September at 23:59.

Please see the Finnish language course description and further information for enrolment

General description of the course

The course consists of lectures (14 hours), brief written reflections before each class (except the first class on 7.9.2016) based on the readings, written questions to the teacher before each class (except the first class on 7.9.2016) and a learning diary or an essay by November 1st.

Course programme

Wednesday 7.9. 2016 Päivi Korvajärvi: Introduction to Feminist Methodologies & Silvia Gherardi: Gender as social practice

Tuesday 13.9.2016 Marsha Henry: Decolonizing Feminist Methodologies. Part 1.

Tuesday 20.9.2016 Marsha Henry: Decolonizing Feminist Methodologies. Part 2.

Tuesday 27.9.2016 Xin Liu: Feminist Posthumanist Research Methodologies and Methods

Tuesday 4.10.2016 Xin Liu: Researching Affects

Tuesday 11.10.2016 Tuula Juvonen: Queer Feminist Methodologies

Tuesday 18.10.2016 Mari Korpela: The situated knowledge of ethnographic research

The course addresses people’s transnational lives in Eastern Europe and beyond in an anthropological perspective. We will draw on transnational anthropology by locating Eastern Europe in the context of global transformation and interconnectedness. We will discuss how everyday transnationalism manifests in labor mobilities, intimate relations, class (in)equalities, religious practices, gender and family-making. We will also deconstruct the Iron Curtain imaginaries and explore transnational linkages of Eastern Europeans already during the Cold War period. Drawing on multi-sited ethnography, we will focus on lived experiences of individuals with Polish and Russian backgrounds. In lectures and seminar, students will engage anthropologically with various types of sources, including people’s narratives, posters, animated movies, and icons.

Priority will be given to students in social anthropology, sociology and social psychology.

The course runs from 11 October to 29 November, on Tuesdays and some Thursdays, from 2pm to 4 pm:

Tuesday 11.10., main building, room C8

Thursday 13.10., Linna, room 5026

Tuesday 25.10., main building, room A2B

Tuesday 1.11., main building, room C6

Tuesday 8.11., main building, room A2A

Tuesday 15.11., main building, room A2B

Thursday 17.11., Linna, room 5026

Tuesday 22.11., main building, room A2B

Thursday 24.11., Linna, room 5026

Tuesday 29.11., main building, room A2B

The course explores connections between social change, empowerment and theory. What is grassroots? The course aspires to develop the students’ understanding of concepts central to feminist and post-colonial theory within the context of different movements for social change and peace. Examples include grassroots women’s activism in sub Sahara Africa, feminist and queer self-defense groups and anti-consumerist and eco- and animal-friendly activism in Europe and the US. During the course students will question and discuss different kinds of social movements. Students will also engage in discussions on peace and conflict related to intersections of gender and race.

The students will be expected to read the course material and actively take part in online discussions in small groups. There will be video lectures and a field work in which the students will do an analysis and discussion of a chosen area alternatively a comparison of two groups or organizations. Participation throughout the course is obligatory. The course will be made in weekly cycles and is foremost for students on a basic level in gender studies.

For further information and enrolment, please see: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/hilma-verkosto/in-english/courses-in-english/

Mikäli pääset kurssille, ole välittömästi yhteydessä Tampereen Hilma-yhdyshenkilöön Hanna Ojalaan (Hanna.L.Ojala@uta.fi) ja sovi kurssin korvaavuudesta.

Webcourse “Introduction to Gender Studies” gives basic introductory knowledge about gender studies. The course begins with introduction to concept of gender and gender studies and continues with seven themes: feminist knowledge, men and masculinities, equality policy, family, intersectionality, gendered practices of working life, and body and sexuality. The course is for exchange students and everyone interested in gender studies. Previous studies in gender studies are not required.

The course will be organized 3.10.–25.11.2016. Each week the students will read text and/or other material available in the internet and discuss them in small groups in the Moodle learning environment.

The course is organized by HILMA Network for Gender Studies. Application to course: starting 29.8. with this form  https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/71850/lomake.html
There can be max 30 students in the course.

FILA7 Feminist Metaphysics and Epistemology

Mari Mikkola

mari.mikkola@hu-berlin.de

OUTLINE AND LEARNING OBJECTIVES

How might reason and knowledge be gendered? How might taking gender seriously shape the way we understand reality and how reality is constructed? This course examines these and related questions. Our focus will be on four specific sub-themes:

• Gender and the Construction of Reality

• Gender as an Object of Philosophical Examination

• Gender and Knowledge Seeking Practices

• Gender and Being a Knower

We will be reading some contemporary key texts by leading feminist philosophers that deal with these themes. The course focus will be on analytical feminist philosophy, which is a relatively new and novel area of philosophy.

The seminar has both topic specific and general philosophical objectives.

1. Topic specific objectives:

• To give participants an understanding of the central philosophical issues pertaining to feminist metaphysics and epistemology.

• To give participants a good acquaintance with some relevant key texts.

• To improve the participants' grasp of contemporary philosophical methods.

2. General philosophical objectives: The course aims to improve the participants’ skills in:

• Identifying in the literature arguments made and faithfully reconstructing them.

• Evaluating and critically discussing others’ arguments, thereby spotting and diagnosing the strengths/ weaknesses of those arguments.

• Demonstrating and effectively communicating (verbally and in writing) the diagnosed argumentative strengths/ weaknesses.

• Reflecting on how the diagnosed argumentative shortcomings might be revised in order to salvage/ improve the line of argument.

These aims will be achieved through: (a) in-class discussions, (b) careful reading of the materials for each session, (c) via independent work undertaken by the participants.

2. SCHEDULE and READINGS

1. Introduction to the course; Gender and Social Construction (13.9.16, 14-16)

• Haslanger, S. (1995) ”Ontology and Social Construction”, in Philosophical Topics 23 (2): 95-125.

Further/ introductory texts:

• “Topics in Feminism”, “Analytic Feminism”, “Feminist Metaphysics” all in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy(http://plato.stanford.edu/)

• Mikkola, M. “Analytic Feminism: A Brief Introduction” in Horvath, J. (ed.) Methods in Analytic Philosophy: A Contemporary Reader (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, forthcoming 2016).

• Witt, Charlotte (2002) ‘Feminist Metaphysics’, in A Mind of One’s Own, L. Antony and C. Witt (Hg.) (Boulder: Westview Press).

2. Gender as an Object of Philosophical Examination (13.9.16, 16-18)

• Haslanger, Sally (2000), ‘Gender and Race: (What) are They? (What) Do We Want Them To Be?’, Noûs, 34: 31-55.

Further/ introductory texts:

• “Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

• Witt, Charlotte (1995) ‘Anti-Essentialism in Feminist Theory’, Philosophical Topics, 23: 321-344.

• Grillo, Trina (2006) ‘Anti-Essentialism and Intersectionality’, in Theorizing Feminisms, S. Haslanger & E. Hackett (Hg.) (New York: Oxford University Press).

3. Gender and Knowledge Seeking Practices I (14.9.16, 12-14)

• Longino, H. (2002) “Essential Tensions-Phase two: Feminism, Philosophical and Social Studies of Knowledge”, in A Mind of One's Own. Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity, L. Antony and C. Witt (eds.), Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2002.

4. Gender and Knowledge Seeking Practices II (14.9.16, 14-16)

• Anderson, E. (1995) “Knowledge, Human Interests, and Objectivity in Feminist Epistemology”, in Philosophical Topics 23 (2): 27-58.

Further/ introductory texts (for sessions 3 & 4):

• “Feminist Social Epistemology” and “Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science”, both in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

3

• Lloyd, Elizabeth (1993) ‘Pre-theoretical Assumptions in Evolutionary Explanations of Female Sexuality’, Philosophical Studies 69: 139-53.

• Hartsock, Nancy (1987) ‘The Feminist Standpoint’, in Feminism and Methodology, S. Harding (Hg.) (Bloomington: Indiana University Press).

• Anderson, Elizabeth (2009) ‘Feminist Epistemology: An Interpretation and a Defence’, in Feminist Theory, A. Cudd & R. Andreasen (Hg.) (Malden (MA):Blackwell).

5. Gender and Being a Knower (15.9.16, 12-14)

• Fricker, M. (2006) “Powerlessness and Social Interpretation”, Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology 3 (1-2): 96-108.

Further/ introductory texts:

• Dotson, Kristie, 2011, “Tracking Epistemic Violence, Tracking Practices of Silencing”, Hypatia 26 (2): 236–257.

• Fricker, M (1999) “Epistemic Oppression and Epistemic Privilege”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary vol. 25: 191-210.

6. Feminist Metaphysics and ‘Mainstream’ Metaphysics

(15.9.16, 14-16. Research seminar in philosophy)

• Mikkola, M. “Feminist Metaphysics as Non-Ideal Metaphysics” (draft)

Please enrol in Moodle. Enrolment key is "gender". You should read the articles (from Moodle) before the course starts.

Please enrol in Moodle. Enrolment key is "gender". You should have read the articles (especially for the first meeting) before the first meeting of the course!

https://learning2.uta.fi/course/view.php?id=9345

Join in moodle, enrolment key: "morals".

According to a crude but common picture of the human mind, it is divided into the two opposing faculties of Reason and Passion. Some, like Plato, are said to believe that morality is a matter of Reason, and others, like Hume, that morality is based on Passion. Recent work in psychology makes a related distinction between reflective and intuitive processes, and emphasizes the importance of the latter in moral thought. In this seminar, we explore some of the philosophical implications of the alleged primacy of affective processes, and the very notion of a division between Reason and Passion. Perhaps emotions and attitudes are not only causally significant, but in part constitutive of good moral thinking and morally significant relationships. We ask the following kind of questions: Is deliberation necessary for responding to reasons? Does reflective endorsement determine where our true self lies? What is the significance of reactive attitudes for morality? Do emotions constitute perceptions of value? Should people sometimes feel the negative other-directed emotions of anger, contempt, and disgust, or are they inherently morally problematic? How about the self-conscious emotions of pride and shame? We will make use of contemporary, historical, and empirical literature in exploring these topics.

This class is an advanced seminar, which means that all participants are expected to do the readings for each meeting in advance and be able to answer at least those questions about the texts that are distributed in advance. It will be very difficult to participate without reading at least the starred text for each class. The texts will be made available electronically.

WARNING: Reading and reflecting on the texts below may make you a morally better person.

Timetable                                                                                                                             Topics (roughly)

Mon 26-Sep-2016 at 12-16, Päätalo A2B        Deliberation and Moral Worth, Accountability

Tue 27-Sep-2016 at 14-18, Päätalo A4             Accountability (continued), Epistemology

Wed 28-Sep-2016 at 12-14, Pinni B4117         Anger

Wed 28-Sep-2016 at 14-16, Päätalo A2B        Contempt

Thu 29-Sep-2016 at 12-14, Päätalo A2B          Disgust

Fri 30-Sep-2016 at 10-14, Päätalo A2A            Pride and Shame

Syllabus

1. Deliberation, Desire and Moral Worth

•                          Twain, Huckleberry Finn (excerpt)

•                          Jonathan Haidt and Selin Kesebir (2010), ‘Morality’, focus on pp. 797-814.

•                          Nomy Arpaly and Timothy Schroeder (2012), ‘Deliberation and Acting for Reasons’

•                          *Nomy Arpaly and Timothy Schroeder (1999), ‘Praise, Blame, and the Whole Self’

Additional readings:

o                          Jonathan Evans and Keith Stanovich (2013), ‘Dual-Process Theories of Higher Cognition: Advancing the Debate’.

o                          Julia Markovits (2013), ‘Acting for the Right Reasons’.

2. Moral Emotions: Accountability

•                          Strawson, Peter (1962), ‘Freedom and Resentment’.

•                          *Brendan Dill and Stephen Darwall (2014), ‘Moral Psychology as Accountability’.

Additional readings:

o                          Smith, Adam, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (excerpt).

o                          R. Jay Wallace (1994), ‘Emotions, Expectations, and Responsibility’ (from Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments).

o                          Allais, Lucy (2008), ‘Wiping the Slate Clean: The Heart of Forgiveness’.

o                          C. Daniel Batson (2008), ‘Moral Masquarades: Experimental Exploration of the Nature of Moral Motivation’.

3. Moral Emotions: Epistemology

•                          *Christine Tappolet (2016), ‘Emotions and Perceptions’

•                          Jerome Dokic and Stephane Lemaire (2013), ‘Are Emotions Perceptions of Value?’

Additional readings:

o                          Peter Railton (2014), ‘The Affective Dog and Its Rational Tale’.

o                          Antti Kauppinen (2013), ‘A Humean Theory of Moral Intuition’.

o                          Sabine Döring (2015), ‘Why Recalcitrant Emotions Are Not Irrational’.

4. Anger

•                          Aristotle, Rhetoric (excerpt).

•                          Bishop Butler, ‘Upon Resentment’.

•                          Marilyn Frye (1983), ‘A Note on Anger’.

•                          Leonard Berkowitz and Eddie Harmon-Jones (2004), ‘Toward an Understanding of the Determinants of Anger’.

•                          *Martha Nussbaum, ‘Anger: Downranking, Weakness, Payback’

Additional readings:

o                          Seneca, On Anger (excerpt).

o                          Paul Rozin, Laura Lowery, Jonathan Haidt, and Sumio Imada (1999), ‘The CAD Triad Hypothesis: A Mapping Between Three Moral Emotions (Contempt, Anger, Disgust) and Three Moral Codes (Community, Autonomy, Divinity).

5. Contempt

•                          Michelle Mason (2003), ‘Contempt as a Moral Attitude’.

•                          *Macalester Bell (2013), ‘The Moral Value of Contempt’ (from Hard Feelings).

Additional readings:

o                          Ronald de Sousa (forthcoming), ‘Is Contempt Redeemable?’

6. Disgust

•                          Dan Kahan (1998), ‘The Anatomy of Disgust in Criminal Law’. [Note: contains graphic descriptions of sexual violence]

•                          *Martha Nussbaum (2004), ‘Disgust and Our Animal Bodies’ (from Hiding from Humanity).

Additional readings:

o                          Leon Kass (1997), ‘The Wisdom of Repugnance’.

o                          Daniel Kelly and Nicolae Morar (2014), ‘Against the Yuck Factor: On the Ideal Role of Disgust in Society’.

o                          John William Fischer (2016), ‘Disgust as Heuristic’.

7. Pride

•                          *Gabriele Taylor (1985), ‘Pride and Humility’ (from Pride, Shame, and Guilt).

•                          Jessica Tracy, Azim Shariff, and Joey Cheng (2010), ‘A Naturalist’s View of Pride’

•                          Jeremy Fischer (2012), ‘Feeling Proud and Being Proud’.

Additional readings:

o                          Aquinas, Summa Theologica II.II.162.

o                          David Hume, ‘Of Pride and Humility’ (from Treatise of Human Nature).

o                          Robert C. Roberts (2009), ‘The Vice of Pride’.

8. Shame

•                          June Tangney and Jessica Tracy (2013), ‘Self-Conscious Emotions’ (especially pp. 1–21).

•                          *David Velleman (2001), ‘The Genesis of Shame’.

Additional readings:

o                          Deborah Stipek (1983), ‘A Developmental Analysis of Pride and Shame’.

o                          Bernard Williams (1993), ‘Shame and Autonomy’ (from Shame and Necessity)

Please enrol in Moodle. Enrolment key: "morals".

In this text seminar we will go through Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments. The text is available in the moodle page, the password is Sentiments. (Check out also the course in moral psychology 26-29.9)

28.9. Introduction

12.10. Part I: Of the propriety of action 11-77

2.11. Part II: Of merit and demerit; or, of the objects of reward and punishment 78-127

16.11. Part III Of the foundation of our judgments concerning our own sentiments and conduct, and of the sense of duty 128-208

30.11. Part IV Of the effect of utility upon the sentiment of approbation & Part V Of the influence of custom and fashion upon the sentiments of moral approbation and disapprobation 209-247

7.12. Part VI Of the character of virtue 248-312

15.12. Part VI Of systems of moral philosophy 313-405 (NB: not 14.12).

Active participation in seminars, typically 3 ECTS, with extra reading 5 ECTS.

The course deepens the students’ understanding of the functioning of world society and the role of epistemic governance in it. In addition to showing how world culture is seen in the global spread of world models, the course approaches the circulation of global ideas from the perspective of national actors, especially policymakers. In the national political fields, actors justify new policies by international comparisons and by the successes and failures of models adopted in other countries. Consequently, national policies are synchronized with each other. Yet, because of the way such domestication of global trends takes place, citizens retain and reproduce the understanding that they follow a sovereign national trajectory.
The lectures introduce the key ideas of the Stanford School of New Institutionalism coupled with Foucault-inspired governmentality approach and the advances made in discursive institutionalist research. Through required reading the students will get a holistic view on neoinstitutionalist global sociology.

In order to complete the course, students are required to participate both the lectures and the seminar.

Maximum 20 students are accepted to the course in the following order:

1. degree students of the MDP in Global and Transnational Studies

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

3. other degree students of UTA

4. exchange students

Voting is the cornerstone of American political life. As such, the act of voting has attracted

considerable attention from scholars and policymakers. This course addresses the field of voting

behavior in the United States in roughly four parts. First, we'll discuss general questions in the field and

introduce the major sociological, psychological, and rational choice interpretations of voting. Second,

we'll look at common heuristics used to simplify the vote decision and ways in which campaigns

mobilize voters. In the latter part of the semester we will turn our attention toward voting in

congressional and presidential contexts. The last portion of the course addresses special electoral

conditions: local elections, direct democracy, and the effects of certain electoral reforms.

Course Schedule:

September 2: Introduction

September 9: Representation and Turnout in the United States

September 16: The United States in Comparative Perspective

September 23: Two Voting Models

September 30: Party Affiliation ASSIGNMENT #1 DUE

October 7: No class this week

October 14: Issue Voting and Public Opinion

October 21: Candidate Evaluation

October 28: Political Advertising

November 4: Congressional Elections and Decision Making ASSIGNMENT #2 DUE

November 18: Voter Mobilization and the 2016 Elections

November 25: Predictive Models

December 2: Presidential Elections

December 9: Other Electoral Contexts: Direct Democracy and Local Elections

December 15: Final papers are due

The course can also be taken within the Degree Programme in Politics, when it will compensate one of the following Political Science study

units: POLVOA31 Political Institutions and Processes (https://www10.uta.fi/opas/opintojakso.htm?rid=9457&idx=0&uiLang=en&lang=en&lvv=2015),

or POLVOA41 Parties, Elections and Political Participation (https://www10.uta.fi/opas/opintojakso.htm?rid=9452&idx=0&uiLang=en&lang=en&lvv=2015).

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

Weekly lectures on Wednesdays at 18-20, subject to change:

7.9. How to communicate in Finland? (Katja Keisala)

14.9. Finnish History - Finns and Finland between East and West (Seija-Leena Nevala)

21.9. Boundaries of Finnishness and Ethnic Minorities in Finland (Hannu Sinisalo)

28.9. Finnish Gastronomy (Arja Luiro)

5.10. Finnish Political System (Johanna Peltoniemi)

12.10. Finnish Education System (Raisa Harju-Autti)

19.10. Finnish Popular Music (Juho Kaitajärvi-Tiekso)

26.10. Technology and Innovation in Finland: Current Issues and Future Challenges (Tomi Nokelainen)

2.11. Finnish forests and forestry (Ari Vanamo)

9.11. Finnish Welfare and Social Services (Lina van Aerschot)

16.11. Finnish Art History in a Nutshell (Katja Fält)

23.11. Finnish Literature (Toni Lahtinen)

30.11. Special Features of Finnish Mass Media (Jyrki Jyrkiäinen)

7.12. Exam

14.12. Exam retake

Enrolment to the course

- TUT and TAMK students: enrolment with electronic form during the enrolment period 1.8.- 1.9.2016
<https://elomake3.uta.fi/lomakkeet/17335/lomake.html>

- UTA students: enrolment in NettiOpsu, click below

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

This course is part of the Master's programme in Public Choice and is compulsory for the degree students in the programme.

There are some places available for other students at the University of Tampere.

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In North American Studies belongs to NAM-VII Methodology.

Many scenarios peace research engages with are mediated either through visual images or text-image hybrids such as those prevalent in
photojournalism: as peace researchers, we (like everyone else) are exposed to images as never before and we experience our subject matter mediated and communicated through visual images. We often do not analyze conditions, but visual representations of conditions. Thus, in a world dominated by images it is necessary for peace researchers to understand the visual construction of peace and war.

Visual peace research is research on the role and function of visual images in wars and conflict situations but also in peace and reconciliation processes on the local, national, regional, international and global levels. It analyzes the relationships among image producers, subjects and spectators because it is here that the meanings of a given image are constantly negotiated.

Visual Peace Research is also interested in the ways images and their interpretations contribute to or even create conflict. It is concerned with the visualization of peace. And it explores new forms of image production (for example, citizen photography, participatory photography and new photojournalism) and how these forms relate to society.

Methodologically hybrid, visual peace research analyzes such different forms of visual representation as film, painting, video, photography, television and comics including the relationships among different genres. It explores both the meaning assigned to images by means of language and the meanings and connotations images carry with them without the explicit support of language.

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

1. degree students of the MDP in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research

2. degree students of the other Global Society programmes (MDP in Global and Transnational Studies, MDP in Quantitative Social Research, MDP in Comparative Social Policy and Welfare)

3. other degree students of UTA

4. exchange students

Forty (40) students fulfilling the preceding study qualifications are accepted to the course. Students having Psychology as a major subject are selected first. The rest of the course, if places are available, is selected from students having Psychology as a minor subject and international students. 

Registration for the course is open until 3rd of September at 23:59.

Please see the Finnish language course description and further information for enrolment

The course addresses people’s transnational lives in Eastern Europe and beyond in an anthropological perspective. We will draw on transnational anthropology by locating Eastern Europe in the context of global transformation and interconnectedness. We will discuss how everyday transnationalism manifests in labor mobilities, intimate relations, class (in)equalities, religious practices, gender and family-making. We will also deconstruct the Iron Curtain imaginaries and explore transnational linkages of Eastern Europeans already during the Cold War period. Drawing on multi-sited ethnography, we will focus on lived experiences of individuals with Polish and Russian backgrounds. In lectures and seminar, students will engage anthropologically with various types of sources, including people’s narratives, posters, animated movies, and icons.

Priority will be given to students in social anthropology, sociology and social psychology.

The course runs from 11 October to 29 November, on Tuesdays and some Thursdays, from 2pm to 4 pm:

Tuesday 11.10., main building, room C8

Thursday 13.10., Linna, room 5026

Tuesday 25.10., main building, room A2B

Tuesday 1.11., main building, room C6

Tuesday 8.11., main building, room A2A

Tuesday 15.11., main building, room A2B

Thursday 17.11., Linna, room 5026

Tuesday 22.11., main building, room A2B

Thursday 24.11., Linna, room 5026

Tuesday 29.11., main building, room A2B

The course explores connections between social change, empowerment and theory. What is grassroots? The course aspires to develop the students’ understanding of concepts central to feminist and post-colonial theory within the context of different movements for social change and peace. Examples include grassroots women’s activism in sub Sahara Africa, feminist and queer self-defense groups and anti-consumerist and eco- and animal-friendly activism in Europe and the US. During the course students will question and discuss different kinds of social movements. Students will also engage in discussions on peace and conflict related to intersections of gender and race.

The students will be expected to read the course material and actively take part in online discussions in small groups. There will be video lectures and a field work in which the students will do an analysis and discussion of a chosen area alternatively a comparison of two groups or organizations. Participation throughout the course is obligatory. The course will be made in weekly cycles and is foremost for students on a basic level in gender studies.

For further information and enrolment, please see: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/hilma-verkosto/in-english/courses-in-english/

Mikäli pääset kurssille, ole välittömästi yhteydessä Tampereen Hilma-yhdyshenkilöön Hanna Ojalaan (Hanna.L.Ojala@uta.fi) ja sovi kurssin korvaavuudesta.

Webcourse “Introduction to Gender Studies” gives basic introductory knowledge about gender studies. The course begins with introduction to concept of gender and gender studies and continues with seven themes: feminist knowledge, men and masculinities, equality policy, family, intersectionality, gendered practices of working life, and body and sexuality. The course is for exchange students and everyone interested in gender studies. Previous studies in gender studies are not required.

The course will be organized 3.10.–25.11.2016. Each week the students will read text and/or other material available in the internet and discuss them in small groups in the Moodle learning environment.

The course is organized by HILMA Network for Gender Studies. Application to course: starting 29.8. with this form  https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/71850/lomake.html
There can be max 30 students in the course.

In this text seminar we will go through Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments. The text is available in the moodle page, the password is Sentiments. (Check out also the course in moral psychology 26-29.9)

28.9. Introduction

12.10. Part I: Of the propriety of action 11-77

2.11. Part II: Of merit and demerit; or, of the objects of reward and punishment 78-127

16.11. Part III Of the foundation of our judgments concerning our own sentiments and conduct, and of the sense of duty 128-208

30.11. Part IV Of the effect of utility upon the sentiment of approbation & Part V Of the influence of custom and fashion upon the sentiments of moral approbation and disapprobation 209-247

7.12. Part VI Of the character of virtue 248-312

15.12. Part VI Of systems of moral philosophy 313-405 (NB: not 14.12).

Active participation in seminars, typically 3 ECTS, with extra reading 5 ECTS.

The course deepens the students’ understanding of the functioning of world society and the role of epistemic governance in it. In addition to showing how world culture is seen in the global spread of world models, the course approaches the circulation of global ideas from the perspective of national actors, especially policymakers. In the national political fields, actors justify new policies by international comparisons and by the successes and failures of models adopted in other countries. Consequently, national policies are synchronized with each other. Yet, because of the way such domestication of global trends takes place, citizens retain and reproduce the understanding that they follow a sovereign national trajectory.
The lectures introduce the key ideas of the Stanford School of New Institutionalism coupled with Foucault-inspired governmentality approach and the advances made in discursive institutionalist research. Through required reading the students will get a holistic view on neoinstitutionalist global sociology.

In order to complete the course, students are required to participate both the lectures and the seminar.

Maximum 20 students are accepted to the course in the following order:

1. degree students of the MDP in Global and Transnational Studies

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

3. other degree students of UTA

4. exchange students

Voting is the cornerstone of American political life. As such, the act of voting has attracted

considerable attention from scholars and policymakers. This course addresses the field of voting

behavior in the United States in roughly four parts. First, we'll discuss general questions in the field and

introduce the major sociological, psychological, and rational choice interpretations of voting. Second,

we'll look at common heuristics used to simplify the vote decision and ways in which campaigns

mobilize voters. In the latter part of the semester we will turn our attention toward voting in

congressional and presidential contexts. The last portion of the course addresses special electoral

conditions: local elections, direct democracy, and the effects of certain electoral reforms.

Course Schedule:

September 2: Introduction

September 9: Representation and Turnout in the United States

September 16: The United States in Comparative Perspective

September 23: Two Voting Models

September 30: Party Affiliation ASSIGNMENT #1 DUE

October 7: No class this week

October 14: Issue Voting and Public Opinion

October 21: Candidate Evaluation

October 28: Political Advertising

November 4: Congressional Elections and Decision Making ASSIGNMENT #2 DUE

November 18: Voter Mobilization and the 2016 Elections

November 25: Predictive Models

December 2: Presidential Elections

December 9: Other Electoral Contexts: Direct Democracy and Local Elections

December 15: Final papers are due

The course can also be taken within the Degree Programme in Politics, when it will compensate one of the following Political Science study

units: POLVOA31 Political Institutions and Processes (https://www10.uta.fi/opas/opintojakso.htm?rid=9457&idx=0&uiLang=en&lang=en&lvv=2015),

or POLVOA41 Parties, Elections and Political Participation (https://www10.uta.fi/opas/opintojakso.htm?rid=9452&idx=0&uiLang=en&lang=en&lvv=2015).

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

he idea of granting each citizen an individual and unconditional regular income without any means test of work requirement has gained my prominence across Europe (and beyond) in the last decade. In June the Swiss will vote on a referendum to institute a basic income. Basic income features prominently in public debates across Europe and several parties have adopted it in their respective election programs. The Netherlands and of course Finland are in the process of starting a multi-year basic income experiment, while most recently France and Portugal are exploring the same idea. The purpose of this course is to offer students a thorough introduction about basic income as a social policy instrument. The course outlines the main characteristics of basic income and explores how it differs from traditional income support policies. In addition, the course provides a critical overview of the reasons for and against a basic income as well as reviewing a number of practical and political challenges that need to be overcome. Finally, the course offers a series of lectures that focus on basic income in the Finnish context, including an updated account of the ongoing preparation for the basic income experiment scheduled to start in January 2017.

Course Structure

This course consists of a series of lectures (roughly one hour) by UTA faculty or guest lecturers, followed by a short discussion session with the students. The course is divided in three large components covering the reasons for introducing a basic income, the political and policy challenges faced by the basic income model, and a section discussing basic income in the Finnish context (including the upcoming basic income experiment). Students are expected to  one required reading in advance of the lecture to familiarise themselves with the topic. Lectures will be recorded and (together with presentation slides) made available to students.

https://basicincometampere2016.wordpress.com/

Lectures

Monday 24.10. “Introduction - Basic Income: From Idea to Policy”
Jurgen De Wispelaere, University of Tampere

Monday 31.10. “Basic Income and Technological Unemployment”
Ville-Veiko Pulkka, University of Helsinki/Kela

Monday 7.11. “Basic Income and the Welfare State”
Bettina Leibetseder, Johannes Kepler University (Austria)

Monday 14.11. “Basic Income and Health"
Evelyn Forget, University of Manitoba (Canada)

Monday 21.11. “Basic Income and Reciprocity”
José A. Noguera, Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain)

Monday 28.11. “The Politics of Basic Income”
Jurgen De Wispelaere, University of Tampere

Monday 5.12. “The Finnish Basic Income Debate”
Johanna Perkiö, University of Tampere

Monday 12.12.“The Finnish Basic Income Experiment: An Overview”
Olli Kangas, Kela

Friday 16.12. seminar

Weekly lectures on Wednesdays at 18-20, subject to change:

18.1. How to communicate in Finland? (Katja Keisala)

25.1. Finnish Gastronomy (Arja Luiro)

1.2. Boundaries of Finnishness and Ethnic Minorities in Finland (Hannu Sinisalo)

8.2. Finnish History - Finns and Finland between East and West (Seija-Leena Nevala)

15.2. Finnish Political System (Johanna Peltoniemi)

22.2. Finnish Education System (Raisa Harju-Autti))

1.3. Finnish Popular Music (Juho Kaitajärvi-Tiekso) POSTPONED

8.3. Technology and Innovation in Finland: Current Issues and Future Challenges (Tomi Nokelainen)

15.3. Finnish forests and forestry (Ari Vanamo)

22.3. Finnish Welfare and Social Services (Lina van Aerschot)

CANCELLED 29.3. Finnish Art History in a Nutshell (Katja Fält)

5.4. Finnish Literature (Toni Lahtinen)

7.4. FRIDAY: Finnish Popular Music (Juho Kaitajärvi-Tiekso)

12.4. Easter Holiday, no lecture

19.4. Special Features of Finnish Mass Media (Jyrki Jyrkiäinen)

26.4. Exam

3.5. Exam retake

Students of the University of Tampere enroll via Nettiopsu by clicking "To Enrolment" below.

TTY and TAMK students: please enroll via this link:

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

Course in North American Studies: NAM-VII Methodology

This course focuses on the history and geography of the Mediterranean area from the era of the 19th century colonialisms until today’s current history shaped by the Arab Spring, European integration and migration. Analyzed here are topics such as violence and race as subjects of colonialism, the politics of empires, the politics of climate change and modernization processes in post-colonial states.  In the second part of the course significant attention is paid to Cold War international relations and military history of the area, decolonization as well as post-Cold War developments.  Key concepts discussed throughout the course include anatomy of languages, circular migration, pan-Arabism, the Ottoman past, European Union integration, revolution, Communism, the global south, pan-Africanism, Superpower politics, peace, dictatorship, war, authoritarianism, democracy, the Third World and Europe.

A text seminar on Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations.

5 min presentation:

25.1. Milka Hanhela

8.2. Joel Heikkilä

22.2. Thomas Appelby

8.3. Edoardo Tagliani

22.3. Luzie Vogt

5.4. Riitta Koivisto

19.4. Ville Tynkkynen

3.5. Francesca Villa

17.5. Daniel Sell

31.5.Patrik Nikanne

Active participation in seminars, typically 3 ECTS, with extra reading 5 ECTS.

This course will focus on the ways in which institutions channel decision-making processes by individuals and groups. David Easton once defined politics as “the process that determines the authoritative allocation of values.” Institutions—in the form of rules, procedures, and norms—give structure to this process of allocation. We'll explore the main theories used to explain the emergence and evolution of political institutions, and how they are used to resolve problems of collective action and resource allocation. With this foundation in place, the latter part of the course will examine the purpose and performance of a particular institution: redistricting commissions. We'll consider the context in which these commissions operate and how these commissions compare to alternative redistricting authorities. The final portion of the class will involve a simulation in which groups of students will construct a district map and advocate for its adoption.

Course Schedule:
January 10: Introduction

January 17: Problems of Collective Action and Common Resource

January 24: “New” and Historical Institutionalism

January 31: Rational Choice and Empirical Institutionalism

February 7: No class this week

February 14: The Institutional Presidency

February 21: Congress, Polarization, and the Filibuster

February 28: Courts in the Republic

March 7: No class this week
March 14: Federalism and Direct Democracy in the States (MIDTERM HANDED OUT)

March 21: Redistricting Criteria and Institutions (MIDTERM RESPONSES DUE)

March 28: Representation and Minority-Majority Districts

April 4: Effects of Redistricting on Voter Behavior and Incumbency

April 11: Arizona Case

April 18: No lecture
April 25: Presentations of District Plans

In everyday life different emotions and sensations are often seen as individual, personal and as lacking of social or political significance. This course has as its point of departure an idea of affects, emotions and senses as socially, culturally and historically shaped and potentially collective. The social significance of affects, emotions and senses is examined as well as the ways how they are linked with wider structures of power. Attention is paid to such questions as how affects, emotions and senses participate in the production of gender, sexuality, ethnicity and class.In addition, the methodological challenges of studying non-lingvistic, non-conscious and embodied experiences and systems of meaning-making are discussed.

This interdisciplinary course combines different research traditions such as sociology of emotions, feminist theories of affect, social scientific approaches to the body, anthropology of the senses and critical psychology. Themes are approached though preliminary readings, traditional lectures, group discussions and different practical tasks.  The course also aims at developing new and experimental approaches to collective learning.

The course, being targeted mainly at students who have a basic understanding of social research, can be used to compensate both intermediate and advanced level courses upon agreement. Active participation in lectures and exercises is required to pass the course. In addition, the students are expected to compose a learning journal.

Where does nature end and culture begin? What are the ways in which the nature/culture split informs and is reproduced in scientific theories and practices? What is the relationship between critical feminist theory and science studies? How might scholars generate new ways of investigating and imagining gender, sexual difference and race out of scientific theories and practices? What are the political and ethical implications of engaging with the matter of nature and the nature of matter?

These questions will guide our thinking throughout this course. As an advanced level course, it introduces students to the field of feminist science studies, as well as feminist posthumanist and new materialist theorizations. The readings provided in the course constructs a dynamic cartography that enables transversal engagement with both the work by contributors who are often regarded as pioneers of the field of feminist science studies: for example Donna Haraway, Sandra Harding, Evelyn Fox Keller, Anne Fausto-Sterling and Londa Schiebinger, as well as the recent scholarship on the agency of matter.

The goal of the course Introduction to Criminal Justice is to provide students with means to understand the phenomenon of crime and its control in Finland; we will not delve deeply into any single topic, rather there will be a broad overview of many topics. This will be accomplished through thought-provoking lectures and discussion of the controversies and challenges of crime, some potential solutions and the machinations of justice.

The objective of the course is to provide the student with an understanding of the processes and institutions of criminal justice in the society as well as means to critically to evaluate their roles and functioning. Hence, the course aims to offer a broad foundation of knowledge to pursue more comprehensive and rigorous analysis in advanced courses.

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 Master’s degree students, but it will serve also international Doctoral students.

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

Webcourse “Intoroduction to Gender Studies” gives basic introductory knowledge about gender studies. The course begins with introduction to concept of gender and gender studies and continues with seven themes: feminist knowledge, men and masculinities, equality policy, family, intersectionality, gendered practices of working life, and body and sexuality.

The course is for exchange students and everyone interested in gender studies. Previous studies in gender studies are not required.

The course will be organized 6.2. – 31.3.2017. Each week the students will read text and/or other material available in the internet and discuss them in small groups in the Moodle learning environment.

Requirements for the course include reading independently the course material the beginning of every week (Mon-Tue) and participating actively in web discussions the end of every week (Wed-Fri), writing a short essay (3 pages) and writing a self-evaluation and a course evaluation.

Application to the course: starting 2.1.2017 (and ending 25.1.2017).
Maximum 24 students can be admitted into the course.

The course is organized by HILMA Network for Gender Studies (http://blogs.helsinki.fi/hilma-verkosto/in-english/courses-in-english/)

The forms of violence in civil wars are quite often more intensified and fatal than in traditional wars among states. Violence is present within the whole society and divides it into antagonist camps. Returning to peace after bloody civil war is therefore also more painful and complex. It takes time to recover from civil wars since the wounds are deeply engrained in the society and they dominate every day experiences among people. This course focuses on the ways to end violence after civil war and build up sustainable and just peace, ways to heal collective and individual trauma and reconstruct destroyed community but also damaged environment. The course examines from various thematic, but also disciplinary perspectives, challenges and obstacles of returning to peace after civil war. It is focused mostly on Finnish Civil War (1917), Irish civil wars and Middle Eastern cases. It offers multi- and inter-disciplinary focus by combining psychological, historical, peace studies and legal approaches.

Themes:

1) Mediation & peace processes

2) Reconciliation, trauma and remembering

3) Transitional justice & reconstruction

4) Refugees and forced displacement

Schedule:

16.1.2017 Marko Lehti (UTA): Introduction 

19.1.2017 Pertti Haapala (History, UTA) –”From Chaos to Compromise. The Civil War 1918 and its aftermath in Finland”

23.1.2016 Jyrki Ruohomäki (TAPRI, UTA): “The politics of memory and re-membering in post-conflict Northern Ireland”

26.1.2017 Anne Heimo (University of Turku): “Coping with the Past: The 1918 Finnish Civil War”

30.1.2017 Jukka Kekkonen (University of Helsinki): “Political and legal repression after Finnish and Spanish civil wars. A comparative analysis.”

2.2.2017 Elise Feron (TAPRI, UTA) "Northern Ireland: Peace without Reconciliation?"

6.2.2017 Laura Huttunen (anthropology, UTA): "Missing persons and the transition to peace:  Bosnia-Herzegovina and beyond"

9.2.2017 Tanja Tamminen (IOS, Germany): ”Kosovo – from dialogue to reconciliation”

13.2.2017 Roland Kostic: “Transitional Justice and Reconciliation in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Examining top-down approaches and bottom up response”

15.2.2017 Susanne Dahlgren (anthropology, UTA): “ Reconstruction of civil society after violent civil war: the case of Yemen”

20.2.2017 Anitta Kynsilehto (TAPRI): "Fleeing civil war: Syrians in exile"

23.2.2017 Armenak Tokjman (TAPRI, UTA) “Conflict transformation: examples from Syria”

27.2.2017 Bruno Lefort (TAPRI, UTA/ Montreal) “After Lebanese Civil war” (Skype lecture)

2.3.2017 Karim Maiche (TAPRI) “Partial Amnesty and the Confidence-Building in Post-Civil War Algeria”

6.3.2017 Raija-Leena Punamäki: “Traumatic war experiences and possibility of reconciliation: psychological aspects.”

9.3.2017 Aleksi Ylönen (Lisbon): "South Sudan: Endless Instability?"

13.3.2017. Frank Möller (TAPRI,  UTA) Children of Rwanda

16.3.2017 Eeva Puumala (TAPRI):  ”Refugees and asylum seekers: experiencing civil war from a distance”.

20.3.2017 Mahdi Abdile: “From democracy to perpetual chaos and improvement: The case of Somalia”

The course will take place on Mondays and Thursdays at 12-14, except:

Monday 30 January at 16-18

Monday 27 February at 16-18.

Wednesday 15.2.2017 at 12-14

Lectures 38h, literature given by lecturers and student workshops chaired by TAPRI phd-students.

Student write a lecture diary on the basis of lectures and given material.

Students participate to dialogic workshops (4 sessions, 2 hours each) facilitated by TAPRI’s PhD students in which target orientated questions are given beforehand and joint concluding statement are written jointly.

Course: open for all students but targeted specially for students at Faculty of Social Sciences.

Compensations:

Degree Programme in Social Sciences: SOSM7

Degree Programme in Politics (International Relations): POLKVS33 Peace and Conflict Research

Weekly lectures on Wednesdays at 18-20, subject to change:

18.1. How to communicate in Finland? (Katja Keisala)

25.1. Finnish Gastronomy (Arja Luiro)

1.2. Boundaries of Finnishness and Ethnic Minorities in Finland (Hannu Sinisalo)

8.2. Finnish History - Finns and Finland between East and West (Seija-Leena Nevala)

15.2. Finnish Political System (Johanna Peltoniemi)

22.2. Finnish Education System (Raisa Harju-Autti))

1.3. Finnish Popular Music (Juho Kaitajärvi-Tiekso) POSTPONED

8.3. Technology and Innovation in Finland: Current Issues and Future Challenges (Tomi Nokelainen)

15.3. Finnish forests and forestry (Ari Vanamo)

22.3. Finnish Welfare and Social Services (Lina van Aerschot)

CANCELLED 29.3. Finnish Art History in a Nutshell (Katja Fält)

5.4. Finnish Literature (Toni Lahtinen)

7.4. FRIDAY: Finnish Popular Music (Juho Kaitajärvi-Tiekso)

12.4. Easter Holiday, no lecture

19.4. Special Features of Finnish Mass Media (Jyrki Jyrkiäinen)

26.4. Exam

3.5. Exam retake

Students of the University of Tampere enroll via Nettiopsu by clicking "To Enrolment" below.

TTY and TAMK students: please enroll via this link:

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

The course includes lectures (12 h) and seminars (12 h). 

Course in North American Studies: NAM-VII Methodology

This international course introduces students to research on youth transition to adulthood within a cross-country comparative setting. Each lecture looks at transitions from different perspectives and discusses youth transition to adulthood and its current changes in connection with wider socio-economic, political and cultural contexts.

Enrolment period is open, please see the Finnish teaching schedule.

Preceding study requirements for students having psychology as a major or minor subject are Basic Studies in Psychology. For international students, preceding studies are checked on an individual basis. Forty (40) students fulfilling the preceding study qualifications are accepted to the course. Course description in the Finnish teaching schedule

Preliminary program:

7.3. Introduction
14.3. Russia at World’s Fairs
21.3. Friendship societies and Western Fellow Travelers
28.3. Artistic tours
4.4. Tourism to and from Russia
11.4. Lenin museum in Tampere (Lecture held at the Lenin museum, starting at 9.00)
18.4. World Youth Festivals
25.4. Sports in the Cold War
2.5. The politics of hosting Mega-events

A text seminar on Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations.

5 min presentation:

25.1. Milka Hanhela

8.2. Joel Heikkilä

22.2. Thomas Appelby

8.3. Edoardo Tagliani

22.3. Luzie Vogt

5.4. Riitta Koivisto

19.4. Ville Tynkkynen

3.5. Francesca Villa

17.5. Daniel Sell

31.5.Patrik Nikanne

Active participation in seminars, typically 3 ECTS, with extra reading 5 ECTS.

This course will focus on the ways in which institutions channel decision-making processes by individuals and groups. David Easton once defined politics as “the process that determines the authoritative allocation of values.” Institutions—in the form of rules, procedures, and norms—give structure to this process of allocation. We'll explore the main theories used to explain the emergence and evolution of political institutions, and how they are used to resolve problems of collective action and resource allocation. With this foundation in place, the latter part of the course will examine the purpose and performance of a particular institution: redistricting commissions. We'll consider the context in which these commissions operate and how these commissions compare to alternative redistricting authorities. The final portion of the class will involve a simulation in which groups of students will construct a district map and advocate for its adoption.

Course Schedule:
January 10: Introduction

January 17: Problems of Collective Action and Common Resource

January 24: “New” and Historical Institutionalism

January 31: Rational Choice and Empirical Institutionalism

February 7: No class this week

February 14: The Institutional Presidency

February 21: Congress, Polarization, and the Filibuster

February 28: Courts in the Republic

March 7: No class this week
March 14: Federalism and Direct Democracy in the States (MIDTERM HANDED OUT)

March 21: Redistricting Criteria and Institutions (MIDTERM RESPONSES DUE)

March 28: Representation and Minority-Majority Districts

April 4: Effects of Redistricting on Voter Behavior and Incumbency

April 11: Arizona Case

April 18: No lecture
April 25: Presentations of District Plans

The course is part of the Master's degree programme in Russian and European Studies (RES). RES students have priority to the course, but other students are welcome to join.

Course syllabus

Community-based, Participative Qualitative Research is aninnovative course that builds on qualitative research to add a community focus that can engage organizations and people meaningfully as partners in research projects that are of interest and significance to them. The community partners add their ideas to the research design and collaborate with the student or academic researchers to develop a project that will be of use to both. In many cases such research may be for a graduate student’s research project or a degree, a faculty member’s community project work and may add to a community organization’s knowledge about how to carry out evaluation of programs and services or to assess needs for new or better services. The course will not enable students to go beyond developing an idea for a research project but it will provide information on how community-based qualitative research could be useful and applied in community projects. Often such projects can also be stimulating and empowering for those who participate.  

Students will be asked to do some preparatory reading in qualitative research and participative methods in research prior to the start of the course and to read material for each class session. There will be some short class lectures, video clips, small group and class discussions and experiential activities during each of the class sessions.

The course is aimed at students who have prior knowledge of qualitative research. It is suitable for students who are completing their intermediate studies, or doing advanced or PhD studies.

The course consists of 6 class sessions.

This course will look at the criminal justice system within a global context.  The course will look at theories of criminality, deviance and punishment within socio-political context of the different countries studied as well as the comparison between the countries.  Within this framework, students will examine theories of crime including but not limited to: the learning theory, corporate crime, and restorative justice.

The course is directed primarily at upper division undergraduate students, but would also be beneficial to master’s level students. It is appropriate for students majoring in sociology, criminology, social welfare and justice, and political science, or any students with a career interest in criminal justice.  

The course will utilize a variety of teaching methods, including lectures, discussions, videos, guest speakers and tours of prisons in Finland and Karosta Prison in the city of Liepaja. Latvia.  These countries were chosen because of the contrasting style of responding to crime between/ among the Latvia (harsh punishment), Finland [Gentle Justice] (a penal system of two countries with two different extremes). We will also analyze the USA penal system, another Western country with a very harsh punishment policy.   

METHODOLOGY

The course is designed as both lecture and discussion.  Evaluation will be based on:

A) A class journal (notes from lecture/discussion).

B) A reaction paper that builds off course materials or reflects upon those materials.  

Classroom activities will be designed to encourage students to play an active role in the construction of their own knowledge and in the design of their own learning strategies.

We will combine short lectures with other active teaching methodologies, such as group discussions, cooperative group solving problems, analysis of video segments depicting scenes relevant to criminology topics and debates. Class participation is a fundamental aspect of this course. Students will be encouraged to actively take part in all group activities and to give short oral group presentations throughout the course.

The fifteen days lectures/seminarswill provide a practical component, with guest speakers (including criminal justice practitioners, former inmates, and other experts), videos, Training Institute for Prison and Probation Services, and tours of prisons in Finland, Estonia and The Karosta Prison in the city of Liepaja. Latvia.

TEACHING METHODS

• Excursions: trips to Finnish Open Prison and road-trip to Karosta Prison in the city of Liepaja. Latvia, through Estonia.

  • The two-day excursion to Estonia old prison and new Prison.
  • The      two-day visit to Karosta Prison      in the city of Liepaja. Latvia. With the agreement to staying at the  Karosta Prison as prisoners for a day, (great opportunity to live and observe  a truly unique convict’s experience).
  • For  further information on combined student price for both excursions will be posted later.  

Travelling Agent responsible for both excursions is www.aikamatkat.fi

Course requirements:

All Students are required to participate in class discussion and readings.

Lectures: Please see Teaching schedule below (TBA).

Presentations: Each student is also expected to do a short presentation, using the required reading materials that will be sent to registered students in advance.

1. Daily Diary of activities including notes from lecture and discussion.
2. Final paper integrating the overall course experience. 

To register, the first 15 students to send in a synopsis of their interest in the course and their academic background to ikponwosa.ekunwe@uta.fi will be accepted.

Course is available for all the students at the UTA.

Compensations in certain studies:

North American Studies: NAM-III Law and Politics

Degree Programme in Social Sciences: Optional studies or compensations on certain courses agreed with teacher responsible

Degree Programme in Social Work: Optional studies

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 Master’s degree students, but it will serve also international Doctoral students.

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

Webcourse “Intoroduction to Gender Studies” gives basic introductory knowledge about gender studies. The course begins with introduction to concept of gender and gender studies and continues with seven themes: feminist knowledge, men and masculinities, equality policy, family, intersectionality, gendered practices of working life, and body and sexuality.

The course is for exchange students and everyone interested in gender studies. Previous studies in gender studies are not required.

The course will be organized 6.2. – 31.3.2017. Each week the students will read text and/or other material available in the internet and discuss them in small groups in the Moodle learning environment.

Requirements for the course include reading independently the course material the beginning of every week (Mon-Tue) and participating actively in web discussions the end of every week (Wed-Fri), writing a short essay (3 pages) and writing a self-evaluation and a course evaluation.

Application to the course: starting 2.1.2017 (and ending 25.1.2017).
Maximum 24 students can be admitted into the course.

The course is organized by HILMA Network for Gender Studies (http://blogs.helsinki.fi/hilma-verkosto/in-english/courses-in-english/)

The forms of violence in civil wars are quite often more intensified and fatal than in traditional wars among states. Violence is present within the whole society and divides it into antagonist camps. Returning to peace after bloody civil war is therefore also more painful and complex. It takes time to recover from civil wars since the wounds are deeply engrained in the society and they dominate every day experiences among people. This course focuses on the ways to end violence after civil war and build up sustainable and just peace, ways to heal collective and individual trauma and reconstruct destroyed community but also damaged environment. The course examines from various thematic, but also disciplinary perspectives, challenges and obstacles of returning to peace after civil war. It is focused mostly on Finnish Civil War (1917), Irish civil wars and Middle Eastern cases. It offers multi- and inter-disciplinary focus by combining psychological, historical, peace studies and legal approaches.

Themes:

1) Mediation & peace processes

2) Reconciliation, trauma and remembering

3) Transitional justice & reconstruction

4) Refugees and forced displacement

Schedule:

16.1.2017 Marko Lehti (UTA): Introduction 

19.1.2017 Pertti Haapala (History, UTA) –”From Chaos to Compromise. The Civil War 1918 and its aftermath in Finland”

23.1.2016 Jyrki Ruohomäki (TAPRI, UTA): “The politics of memory and re-membering in post-conflict Northern Ireland”

26.1.2017 Anne Heimo (University of Turku): “Coping with the Past: The 1918 Finnish Civil War”

30.1.2017 Jukka Kekkonen (University of Helsinki): “Political and legal repression after Finnish and Spanish civil wars. A comparative analysis.”

2.2.2017 Elise Feron (TAPRI, UTA) "Northern Ireland: Peace without Reconciliation?"

6.2.2017 Laura Huttunen (anthropology, UTA): "Missing persons and the transition to peace:  Bosnia-Herzegovina and beyond"

9.2.2017 Tanja Tamminen (IOS, Germany): ”Kosovo – from dialogue to reconciliation”

13.2.2017 Roland Kostic: “Transitional Justice and Reconciliation in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Examining top-down approaches and bottom up response”

15.2.2017 Susanne Dahlgren (anthropology, UTA): “ Reconstruction of civil society after violent civil war: the case of Yemen”

20.2.2017 Anitta Kynsilehto (TAPRI): "Fleeing civil war: Syrians in exile"

23.2.2017 Armenak Tokjman (TAPRI, UTA) “Conflict transformation: examples from Syria”

27.2.2017 Bruno Lefort (TAPRI, UTA/ Montreal) “After Lebanese Civil war” (Skype lecture)

2.3.2017 Karim Maiche (TAPRI) “Partial Amnesty and the Confidence-Building in Post-Civil War Algeria”

6.3.2017 Raija-Leena Punamäki: “Traumatic war experiences and possibility of reconciliation: psychological aspects.”

9.3.2017 Aleksi Ylönen (Lisbon): "South Sudan: Endless Instability?"

13.3.2017. Frank Möller (TAPRI,  UTA) Children of Rwanda

16.3.2017 Eeva Puumala (TAPRI):  ”Refugees and asylum seekers: experiencing civil war from a distance”.

20.3.2017 Mahdi Abdile: “From democracy to perpetual chaos and improvement: The case of Somalia”

The course will take place on Mondays and Thursdays at 12-14, except:

Monday 30 January at 16-18

Monday 27 February at 16-18.

Wednesday 15.2.2017 at 12-14

Lectures 38h, literature given by lecturers and student workshops chaired by TAPRI phd-students.

Student write a lecture diary on the basis of lectures and given material.

Students participate to dialogic workshops (4 sessions, 2 hours each) facilitated by TAPRI’s PhD students in which target orientated questions are given beforehand and joint concluding statement are written jointly.

Course: open for all students but targeted specially for students at Faculty of Social Sciences.

Compensations:

Degree Programme in Social Sciences: SOSM7

Degree Programme in Politics (International Relations): POLKVS33 Peace and Conflict Research