Periods
(29-Aug-2016
– 23-Oct-2016)
(24-Oct-2016
– 16-Dec-2016)
(9-Jan-2017
– 5-Mar-2017)
(6-Mar-2017
– 28-May-2017)
The module includes:
- General Orientation Course for International Students
- Introduction to Academic Culture and Degree Studies
- Library course: Basics of Information Literacy
- Personal Study Plan
Further information and the schedule of the Basics of Information Literacy course can be found on this website: http://www.uta.fi/kirjasto/en/courses/basicsofil.html
Please note! All students who are accepted to this course will receive a questionnaire concerning their prior knowledge on quantitative methods on 7 October. This questionnaire must be filled in on Tuesday 11 October at the latest.
The course is only for the degree students of the following programmes:
- MDP in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research
- MDP in Global and Transnational Studies
If you wish to complete the course during the academic year 2016-2017, contact the teacher no later than March 15, 2017.
This module (54 hours) is online apart from individual teacher-student tutorials for discussion of the submitted thesis extract. The work consists of readings, group analysis tasks and thesis writing work. Students should take the module after their research proposal has been accepted by their programme and they are about to embark upon the writing of their thesis.
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
The course provides students with the basis for making sense of globalization and transnational connections in the contemporary world. National policies and cultures are increasingly and obviously related to events and forces outside national borders. Policies, politics, cultural trends and organizations are now intimately and broadly inter-connected across the world. The course will depart from the view of nations as container societies, and build a basis for students to gain a critical understanding of transnational connections. Students will learn of the variety of perspectives on understanding the contemporary world as divided into comparable nation-states. Students will also be guided on theoretical frameworks to understand: global history, global economy, European politics, national policies in the modern world society, media interactions with global and national politics, and global culture.
Please note that unlike mentioned in the curriculum of the GTS programme, students are required to complete full 10 ECTS credits (lectures + seminar) on this course. It is not possible to participate only the lecture part.
In order to be able to participate the course, students are required to complete both lectures and the seminar (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 Studies
2. degree students of the other Global Society programmes (MDP in 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
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
The course includes 10 hour lecture series by a visiting Professor Roderick Kiewiet from California Institute of Technology:
- Externalities 1: Contagious Disease and Public Health Regulation
- Externalities 2: Labor Markets: Working Conditions and Child Labor Laws
- Externalities 3: Air Pollution: Command and Control vs. Market-based Regulation
- Monopolies: Telecommunications and the Airline Industries
- Democracy and Discount Rates: The Crisis in Social Security and Public Employee Pensions
The course examines the consequences of democratic and dictatorial regimes in
a comparative perspective. We will explore how these broad types of regimes
are defined in the literature, how they structure political participation by citizens,
how they change over time and as a result from demands from the people, and
what effects regimes have on relative performance. In addition we'll work with
comparative public opinion datasets commonly used in social science research.
Class meetings: The class will meet once a week. Students should complete
the reading assigned in the syllabus and the homework before each meeting.
Each class period will be devoted to a discussion of the main ideas encountered
in the reading and students are expected to fully participate in the discussions.
Term Papers: 2 term papers will be assigned – one critical review and a final
paper. Both will incorporate the concepts studied in the class. Think of each
paper as an exam – I do. Make sure that you use them to show what you have
learned from the readings and lectures. The final paper is due on the last day of
class.
Critical Review Essay: Semester participants will write 1 paper on any of
the topics covered in this class. These papers are not supposed to be mere
summaries of the readings. Rather, they should be thoughtful critiques of the
assigned readings.
Research Paper: Each seminar participant will prepare a final paper.
Ideally this paper will be an empirical analysis using data from the World Values
Survey (http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/wvs.jsp) or the European Values Study
(http://www.europeanvaluesstudy.eu/) datasets. The topic of this paper is up to
you. Alternatively, students can write a literature review of a topic addressed in
this class (see the Gandhi and Lust-Okar article for an example).
Schedule
Week 1 (Sept 7) Course Introduction
Week 2 (Sept. 14) Summarizing Regime Types
Week 3 (Sept. 21) Measuring Regime Characteristics
Week 4 (Sept 22) Value Change and Postmaterialism
Week 5 (Oct. 12) Political Life in Democracies
Week 6 (Oct. 26) Political Participation in Authoritarian Systems
Week 7 (Nov. 2) Civil Society [Will meet in Pinni B 4113]
Week 8 (Nov. 9) Social Welfare
Week 9 (Nov. 16) Economic Performance
Week 10 (Nov. 23) Corruption
Week 11 (Nov. 30) Protection of Human Rights and Personal Integrity
Week 12 (Dec. 7) War and Regime Type
Week 13 (Dec. 14) Prospects for Democratic Transitions
Students will be accepted to the course in the following order:
1. degree students of the MDP in Public Choice
2. degree students of the other Global Society programmes (MDP in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research, MDP in Global and Transnational Studies, MDP in Comparative Social Policy and Welfare)
3. other degree students of UTA
4. exchange students
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The course can also be taken within the Degree Programme in Politics,
when it will compensate 5 ECTS from one of the following Political
Science study units: POLVOS23 Civil Society and Political Participation
(https://www10.uta.fi/opas/opintojakso.htm?rid=9428&idx=2&uiLang=en&lang=en&lvv=2015),
or POLVOS27 Political Systems
(https://www10.uta.fi/opas/opintojakso.htm?rid=9428&idx=6&uiLang=en&lang=en&lvv=2015).
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
Lecture course 5 ECTS + book exam 5 ECTS
The lectures take place at 12-14 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
PART 1: Peace & Conflict Research Traditions (10h)
Wed 31.8. Tarja Väyrynen: Introduction
Thu 1.9. Helena Rytövuori-Apunen: Peace and conflict research as a critical movement in the 20th century
Mon 5.9. Helena Rytövuori-Apunen: Peace and conflict research as a critical movement in the 20th century
Wed 7.9. Tarja Väyrynen: The Interpretative tradition of conflict and conflict resolution theory
Thu 8.9. Tarja Väyrynen: The Interpretative tradition of conflict and conflict resolution theory
PART 2: Conflict Resolution and Transformation (12 h)
Mon 12.9. Marko Lehti: Ideals of peace(making): From Kant to liberal peace and beyond
Wed 14.9. Marko Lehti: Ideals of peace(making): From Kant to liberal peace and beyond
Thu 15.9. Marko Lehti: Ideals of peace(making): From Kant to liberal peace and beyond
Mon 19.9. no lecture
Wed 21.9. no lecture
Thu 22.9. Elise Féron: Practices of peace(making): From peacekeeping to negotiation, mediation and peacebuilding
Mon 26.9. Elise Féron: Practices of peace(making): From peacekeeping to negotiation, mediation and peacebuilding
Wed 28.9. Elise Féron: Practices of peace(making): From peacekeeping to negotiation, mediation and peacebuilding
PART 3: Peace & Security (12 h)
Thu 29.9. Benedikt Schoenborn: Fragile Peace during the Cold War
Mon 3.10. Benedikt Schoenborn: Fragile Peace during the Cold War
Wed 5.10. Frank Möller: A new research agenda after the end of the cold war
Thu 6.10. Frank Möller: A new research agenda after the end of the cold war
Mon 10.10. no lecture
Wed 12.10. Teemu Palosaari: Environmental peacebuilding
Mon 17.10. Teemu Palosaari: Environmental peacebuilding
This study module includes a book exam (lecture course 5 ECTS, book exam 5 ECTS) which is compulsory for the degree students of MDP in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research. This exam must be completed by the end of November 2016. Please see the curriculum of the programme for the list of books.
In order to gain the credits students must participate in the lecture course and write an essay.
The course is compulsory for the degree students of the MDP in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research. If other UTA degree students or exchange students are interested in joining the course, please contact eveliina.permi@uta.fi to inquire about free places.
"Violence is a preventable disease" stated a 2002 Report by the World Health Organization. The accumulation of evidence in the field of violence prevention suggests that we may already know enough to drastically reduce the levels of violence globally. The adoption among the Sustainable Development Goals of several targets focused on significantly reducing all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere call for applying and further expanding existing knowledge. This course will present the socio-ecological model used in the public health approach to stopping violence before it happens through the exploration of existing evidence-based prevention programs.
The course is only for the degree students of the Global Society framework within the School of Social Sciences and Humanities. Priority is given to the students of MDP in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research.
The module includes:
- General Orientation Course for International Students
- Introduction to Academic Culture and Degree Studies
- Library course: Basics of Information Literacy
- Personal Study Plan
Further information and the schedule of the Basics of Information Literacy course can be found on this website: http://www.uta.fi/kirjasto/en/courses/basicsofil.html
Please note! All students who are accepted to this course will receive a questionnaire concerning their prior knowledge on quantitative methods on 7 October. This questionnaire must be filled in on Tuesday 11 October at the latest.
The course is only for the degree students of the following programmes:
- MDP in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research
- MDP in Global and Transnational Studies
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.
If you wish to complete the course during the academic year 2016-2017, contact the teacher no later than March 15, 2017.
This module (54 hours) is online apart from individual teacher-student tutorials for discussion of the submitted thesis extract. The work consists of readings, group analysis tasks and thesis writing work. Students should take the module after their research proposal has been accepted by their programme and they are about to embark upon the writing of their thesis.
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
The course provides students with the basis for making sense of globalization and transnational connections in the contemporary world. National policies and cultures are increasingly and obviously related to events and forces outside national borders. Policies, politics, cultural trends and organizations are now intimately and broadly inter-connected across the world. The course will depart from the view of nations as container societies, and build a basis for students to gain a critical understanding of transnational connections. Students will learn of the variety of perspectives on understanding the contemporary world as divided into comparable nation-states. Students will also be guided on theoretical frameworks to understand: global history, global economy, European politics, national policies in the modern world society, media interactions with global and national politics, and global culture.
Please note that unlike mentioned in the curriculum of the GTS programme, students are required to complete full 10 ECTS credits (lectures + seminar) on this course. It is not possible to participate only the lecture part.
In order to be able to participate the course, students are required to complete both lectures and the seminar (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 Studies
2. degree students of the other Global Society programmes (MDP in 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
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
The course includes 10 hour lecture series by a visiting Professor Roderick Kiewiet from California Institute of Technology:
- Externalities 1: Contagious Disease and Public Health Regulation
- Externalities 2: Labor Markets: Working Conditions and Child Labor Laws
- Externalities 3: Air Pollution: Command and Control vs. Market-based Regulation
- Monopolies: Telecommunications and the Airline Industries
- Democracy and Discount Rates: The Crisis in Social Security and Public Employee Pensions
The course examines the consequences of democratic and dictatorial regimes in
a comparative perspective. We will explore how these broad types of regimes
are defined in the literature, how they structure political participation by citizens,
how they change over time and as a result from demands from the people, and
what effects regimes have on relative performance. In addition we'll work with
comparative public opinion datasets commonly used in social science research.
Class meetings: The class will meet once a week. Students should complete
the reading assigned in the syllabus and the homework before each meeting.
Each class period will be devoted to a discussion of the main ideas encountered
in the reading and students are expected to fully participate in the discussions.
Term Papers: 2 term papers will be assigned – one critical review and a final
paper. Both will incorporate the concepts studied in the class. Think of each
paper as an exam – I do. Make sure that you use them to show what you have
learned from the readings and lectures. The final paper is due on the last day of
class.
Critical Review Essay: Semester participants will write 1 paper on any of
the topics covered in this class. These papers are not supposed to be mere
summaries of the readings. Rather, they should be thoughtful critiques of the
assigned readings.
Research Paper: Each seminar participant will prepare a final paper.
Ideally this paper will be an empirical analysis using data from the World Values
Survey (http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/wvs.jsp) or the European Values Study
(http://www.europeanvaluesstudy.eu/) datasets. The topic of this paper is up to
you. Alternatively, students can write a literature review of a topic addressed in
this class (see the Gandhi and Lust-Okar article for an example).
Schedule
Week 1 (Sept 7) Course Introduction
Week 2 (Sept. 14) Summarizing Regime Types
Week 3 (Sept. 21) Measuring Regime Characteristics
Week 4 (Sept 22) Value Change and Postmaterialism
Week 5 (Oct. 12) Political Life in Democracies
Week 6 (Oct. 26) Political Participation in Authoritarian Systems
Week 7 (Nov. 2) Civil Society [Will meet in Pinni B 4113]
Week 8 (Nov. 9) Social Welfare
Week 9 (Nov. 16) Economic Performance
Week 10 (Nov. 23) Corruption
Week 11 (Nov. 30) Protection of Human Rights and Personal Integrity
Week 12 (Dec. 7) War and Regime Type
Week 13 (Dec. 14) Prospects for Democratic Transitions
Students will be accepted to the course in the following order:
1. degree students of the MDP in Public Choice
2. degree students of the other Global Society programmes (MDP in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research, MDP in Global and Transnational Studies, MDP in Comparative Social Policy and Welfare)
3. other degree students of UTA
4. exchange students
---------------------------------------
The course can also be taken within the Degree Programme in Politics,
when it will compensate 5 ECTS from one of the following Political
Science study units: POLVOS23 Civil Society and Political Participation
(https://www10.uta.fi/opas/opintojakso.htm?rid=9428&idx=2&uiLang=en&lang=en&lvv=2015),
or POLVOS27 Political Systems
(https://www10.uta.fi/opas/opintojakso.htm?rid=9428&idx=6&uiLang=en&lang=en&lvv=2015).
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.
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
This course is an introduction to peace mediation as an approach to conflict resolution in the international political sphere. We will look at the practice of mediation, its methods and analyse the opportunities and challenges of applying mediation in peace processes. The course seeks to simplify the field and bridge theoretical approaches with institutional frameworks and policy approaches on the one hand and equip students with practical tools and skills in mediation that can be applied in diverse policy fields on the other.
This course is not a certification in mediation and is not an all-encompassing coverage on the topic. Instead this is an introduction to the practice of mediation, complementing the existing theoretical courses at the university. As such it aims to give a broad overview of the issues related to applying mediation from the macro to the micro level, introduce the main actors conducting mediation in the international sphere and analyse the multiple stakeholders in peace-building processes and the different ways to approach them.
Mediation has been around for centuries and depending on culture, ideology, context and personal background and character there are many valuable ways of approaching it. There is no such thing as the “the right way” of applying mediation. What is important is that future mediators have a holistic and empathetic understanding of the actors and issues, strategic approach to the process and professional conduct when it comes to conflict resolution.
The course is built around a four-day block seminar. Students' presence, ideas, and active engagement are required throughout for its successful competition. The course is based on experiential learning, which means that we will practice mediation and try to generalize conclusions, as well as look into theoretical frameworks and try to practically apply them. It is built on student participation, supplemented by short lectures. The course includes the following components:
• Lectures: each lecture gives an introduction and presents different aspects of a given topic. Students are expected to have read the readings assigned for the lecture and engage in the discussion.
• Seminar: in this round students will discuss together with the instructor the subject matter and raise questions for consideration
• Exercises: students will be asked to form smaller groups and work interactively.
• Role-plays: each student will be assigned a role. It is expected that students read their roles and practice the lessons learned in the lectures and seminars.
• Small Group Discussions: students are expected to read the newspaper and other social media and to come prepared to discuss current affairs.
Only for the degree students of the MDP in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research.
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
The course deals with the role of the gender in war, peace and peacebuilding, including conflict mediation. Gender is used as an analytical tool which opens up a domain of larger theoretical issues which include, for example, the construction of femininities and masculinities in war and peace, cultural trauma, post-conflict exclusion and memory work, political agency, subaltern and the nexus of speech/silence. The course discusses also the ways in which gender can be studied (methods and methodology) and demonstrates the usability of a variety of research material (e.g. policy documents, documentary films, interviews).
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
The module includes:
- General Orientation Course for International Students
- Introduction to Academic Culture and Degree Studies
- Library course: Basics of Information Literacy
- Personal Study Plan
Further information and the schedule of the Basics of Information Literacy course can be found on this website: http://www.uta.fi/kirjasto/en/courses/basicsofil.html
The course is only for the degree students of the following programmes:
- MDP in Comparative Social Policy and Welfare
- MDP in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research
- MDP in Global and Transnational Studies
- MDP in Public Choice
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.
If you wish to complete the course during the academic year 2016-2017, contact the teacher no later than March 15, 2017.
This module (54 hours) is online apart from individual teacher-student tutorials for discussion of the submitted thesis extract. The work consists of readings, group analysis tasks and thesis writing work. Students should take the module after their research proposal has been accepted by their programme and they are about to embark upon the writing of their thesis.
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
The course departs from the idea that the media is one of the central actors through which national actors become aware of far-away events and through which these events become integrated with domestic policy discourses. However, this process is a complex one. On one hand, the journalists are central players in it as they decide what is topical or newsworthy for domestic audiences. They also frame the events so that they make good sense to domestic addressees. On the other hand, in domestic contexts there are many other actors that aim to influence the public understanding of the reported events. These actors bring far-way events into their political argumentation in their attempts to advance their own political interests and desires. Interpretations that appear widely convincing are typically taken up and reported by the media.
Starting from these premises, the course suggests, the media serve not merely as an arena through which far-away events are introduced to local audiences. If anything, the media can be seen as a political arena in which different accounts of the reported events meet thus constructing public understanding of these events. Sooner or later, these understandings convert into domestic policy decisions and practices.
The course approaches the above phenomenon especially from the perspective of the traditional news media institution, i.e. of how the national media serve as a forum through which foreign news events are incorporated into domestic policy discourses. Additionally, the course discusses the role of social media in processes in which far-way news events are brought into local political argumentation, thus affecting domestic policies.
Students of the MDP in Global and Trasnational Studies must complete lectures + seminar 10 ECTS.
Other students: it is possible to participate only to the lecture part of the course: lectures + essay 5 ECTS.
Lectures: Max 30 students.
Seminar: Max. 16 students.
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 Studies
2. degree students of the other Global Society programmes (MDP in 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
Max. 16 students. In order to be able to participate this seminar, students must also attend the lecture part of this course. Please note that you must enroll separately for the lectures and the seminar.
Students will be accepted to the seminar 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 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
Schedule:
January 11: Introduction
January 18: Social Choice and Electoral Systems
January 25: Comparative Visions of Representation
February 1: Variety of Electoral Systems
February 8: Proportional Representation in Practice
February 15: Mixed Electoral Systems and the Single Transferable Vote
February 22: Majoritarian Electoral Systems ASSIGNMENT #1 DUE
March 1: Coalition Formation Processes
March 8: No class this week
March 15: Electoral Systems and Interest Representation
March 22: Electoral Systems in Divided Societies: The Case of South Africa
March 29: Elections in Authoritarian Societies ASSIGNMENT #2 DUE
April 5: Representation at the Local Level
April 12: The Power of Agenda Setting
April 26: Final papers are due
Course in North American Studies: NAM-VII Methodology
PART 1: HOW TO CHOOSE TOPIC (February)
Goal: To learn what kind of themes are studies by TAPRI researchers and what kind of thesis are written. To learn what are the important steps in finding one’s own theme.
Friday 10.2. at 12-16 Global society thesis day POSTPONED!
Friday 17.2. (?) Student conference ‘Tampere Peace Perspectives’ (full day), Pinni B1097
Tapri Research Day (to be confirmed)
PART 2: UNDERTANDING PEACE RESEARCH
Goal: To learn what kind of approaches are possible in peace research. To learn how epistemological and ontological issues are linked to research design and research questions. To learn to be aware of ethical issues.
Thursday 2.3. at 14-16 Introduction (Marko Lehti), Linna 6017
Thursday 9.3 14-16 Research design models (Marko Lehti), Linna 6017
Thursday 16.3 14-16 Ethics in Peace and Conflict Research (Elise Féron), Linna 6017
Thursday 23.3 12-14 Dealing with the Complexity of Conflicts (Elise Féron), Linna 6017
Book: Höglund, Kristine & Öberg, Magnus (2011): Understanding Peace Research. Methods and Challenges. Routledge: moodle exercises, deadline end of March
PART 3: THEMATIC SESSIONS
Specific approaches to peace research: the aim is to show what kind approaches are available, what kind of research material can be used and what methodological tools are available.
4 thematic sessions: each 4 h
Thursday 30.3. at 12-16 Mobility, transnationalism: Interviews and ethnographic method (Eeva Puumala), Linna 6017
Thursday 6.4. at 12-16 Environmental conflicts and policy analysis (Teemu Palosaari), Linna 6017
Thursday 20.4. at 12-16 Peace and Gender: narratives and visual methods (Tarja Väyrynen) Linna 6017
Thursday 27.4. at 12-16 Conflict transformation: Identity, memories and the use of the past: hermeneutic approach (Marko Lehti), Linna 6017
IR theories are basically Western centric, based on Western historical experience and intellectual traditions. However, all actors in the international system do not necessarily act according to the rationality of the Western centric theories. Currently emerging powers challenge the international system and that might challenge also the mainstream IR theories. In order to avoid a conflictual behaviour, it is worth of knowing approaches based on non-Western world views. The aim of the course is to find out whether the epistemic communities in the emerging states are challenging our traditional interpretations about the international system and politics. Simultaneously students are encouraged to invent new perspectives in interpreting international politics. The course should also make it possible to evaluate how international IR as an academic discipline is as well as to estimate whether changes in the international system require new approaches in understanding international politics.
Course consist 8 h of lectures and 16 h of seminars.
Lectures give a general overview to the topic of the course: changing international order; Western centric IR and challenging IR approaches from the non-Western world.
For the seminar session each of the students have to read provided articles and each of the articles will be introduced by one student for discussion.
Students also have to write a learning diary about how they have found the texts and also explicate how those texts might affect their own understanding about the international politics.
Compensations in International Relations:
POLKVS33 Rauhan- ja konfliktintutkimus/Peace and Conflict Research
or
POLKVS31 Maailmanpolitiikan tutkimus/The Study of World Politics
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
The course is only for the degree students of the following programmes:
- MDP in Comparative Social Policy and Welfare
- MDP in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research
- MDP in Global and Transnational Studies
- MDP in Public Choice
If you wish to complete the course during the academic year 2016-2017, contact the teacher no later than March 15, 2017.
This module (54 hours) is online apart from individual teacher-student tutorials for discussion of the submitted thesis extract. The work consists of readings, group analysis tasks and thesis writing work. Students should take the module after their research proposal has been accepted by their programme and they are about to embark upon the writing of their thesis.
The course departs from the idea that the media is one of the central actors through which national actors become aware of far-away events and through which these events become integrated with domestic policy discourses. However, this process is a complex one. On one hand, the journalists are central players in it as they decide what is topical or newsworthy for domestic audiences. They also frame the events so that they make good sense to domestic addressees. On the other hand, in domestic contexts there are many other actors that aim to influence the public understanding of the reported events. These actors bring far-way events into their political argumentation in their attempts to advance their own political interests and desires. Interpretations that appear widely convincing are typically taken up and reported by the media.
Starting from these premises, the course suggests, the media serve not merely as an arena through which far-away events are introduced to local audiences. If anything, the media can be seen as a political arena in which different accounts of the reported events meet thus constructing public understanding of these events. Sooner or later, these understandings convert into domestic policy decisions and practices.
The course approaches the above phenomenon especially from the perspective of the traditional news media institution, i.e. of how the national media serve as a forum through which foreign news events are incorporated into domestic policy discourses. Additionally, the course discusses the role of social media in processes in which far-way news events are brought into local political argumentation, thus affecting domestic policies.
Students of the MDP in Global and Trasnational Studies must complete lectures + seminar 10 ECTS.
Other students: it is possible to participate only to the lecture part of the course: lectures + essay 5 ECTS.
Lectures: Max 30 students.
Seminar: Max. 16 students.
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 Studies
2. degree students of the other Global Society programmes (MDP in 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
Max. 16 students. In order to be able to participate this seminar, students must also attend the lecture part of this course. Please note that you must enroll separately for the lectures and the seminar.
Students will be accepted to the seminar 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 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
Schedule:
January 11: Introduction
January 18: Social Choice and Electoral Systems
January 25: Comparative Visions of Representation
February 1: Variety of Electoral Systems
February 8: Proportional Representation in Practice
February 15: Mixed Electoral Systems and the Single Transferable Vote
February 22: Majoritarian Electoral Systems ASSIGNMENT #1 DUE
March 1: Coalition Formation Processes
March 8: No class this week
March 15: Electoral Systems and Interest Representation
March 22: Electoral Systems in Divided Societies: The Case of South Africa
March 29: Elections in Authoritarian Societies ASSIGNMENT #2 DUE
April 5: Representation at the Local Level
April 12: The Power of Agenda Setting
April 26: Final papers are due
Course in North American Studies: NAM-VII Methodology
In this module we study different approaches to peace through the examples of specific individuals who have earned recognition for their actions in the cause of peace. Here the term ‘peacebuilder’ is interpreted in a broad sense. The lectures will introduce a selection of individuals, the conflict situations they faced, and the means of their coping with theconflict. These personalities will include some acclaimed peacebuilders and historical figures like Mohandas Gandhi, Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela and Willy Brandt. Their individual positions on non-violence, or their acceptance of qualified violence under certain circumstances, will be discussed. Attention will also be paid to the peacebuilders’ own explanations of their motivations, actions and objectives, and the – potentially different – international perception of their work in hindsight.
Furthermore, each student will present a research paper on a chosen individual and thereby contribute one approach to the complex topic of peacebuilding. Interested students are encouraged to start thinking about the choice of ‘their’ peacebuilder (different from the individuals presented by the teacher) already before the first session. The sources used for the research paper should ideally include original writings and speeches by the selected peacebuilder.
The course primarily targets degree students in the Master's programme in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research, and secondarily degree students of the Global Society programmes. If places are available, UTA Master's degree students from other programmes can be selected to the course.
Max. 18 students
PART 1: HOW TO CHOOSE TOPIC (February)
Goal: To learn what kind of themes are studies by TAPRI researchers and what kind of thesis are written. To learn what are the important steps in finding one’s own theme.
Friday 10.2. at 12-16 Global society thesis day POSTPONED!
Friday 17.2. (?) Student conference ‘Tampere Peace Perspectives’ (full day), Pinni B1097
Tapri Research Day (to be confirmed)
PART 2: UNDERTANDING PEACE RESEARCH
Goal: To learn what kind of approaches are possible in peace research. To learn how epistemological and ontological issues are linked to research design and research questions. To learn to be aware of ethical issues.
Thursday 2.3. at 14-16 Introduction (Marko Lehti), Linna 6017
Thursday 9.3 14-16 Research design models (Marko Lehti), Linna 6017
Thursday 16.3 14-16 Ethics in Peace and Conflict Research (Elise Féron), Linna 6017
Thursday 23.3 12-14 Dealing with the Complexity of Conflicts (Elise Féron), Linna 6017
Book: Höglund, Kristine & Öberg, Magnus (2011): Understanding Peace Research. Methods and Challenges. Routledge: moodle exercises, deadline end of March
PART 3: THEMATIC SESSIONS
Specific approaches to peace research: the aim is to show what kind approaches are available, what kind of research material can be used and what methodological tools are available.
4 thematic sessions: each 4 h
Thursday 30.3. at 12-16 Mobility, transnationalism: Interviews and ethnographic method (Eeva Puumala), Linna 6017
Thursday 6.4. at 12-16 Environmental conflicts and policy analysis (Teemu Palosaari), Linna 6017
Thursday 20.4. at 12-16 Peace and Gender: narratives and visual methods (Tarja Väyrynen) Linna 6017
Thursday 27.4. at 12-16 Conflict transformation: Identity, memories and the use of the past: hermeneutic approach (Marko Lehti), Linna 6017
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