18.9. practicalities & introduction to the course / Aart-Jan Riekhoff
25.9. Nordic welfare model and unversalism / Anneli Anttonen
2.10. The Nordic healthcare system from a comparative perspective / Katri Sieberg
9.10. Nordic child care policies / Katja Repo
16.10. Period break, no lecture
23.10. Labour markets and employment in the Nordic countries / Jouko Nätti
30.10. Care of older people / Lina Van Aerschot
6.11. Income inequality in Nordic countries / Elina Tuominen
13.11. Labour market institutions / Aart-Jan Riekhoff
20.11. Wrap up, instructions for essays / Aart-Jan Riekhoff

V306-9/ STYP5 Finnish Social Welfare and Social Work 5 ects

Objective of course :

Student is able to

• Understand and describe the Finnish social welfare system and the role of social work within the system
• Understand what kind of social work approaches and methods are used within different working fields in practice
• Understand and discuss present challenges in social work/ social services
• Compare analytically the differences and similarities between Finnish welfare system and welfare systems of other countries

Course contents:

• The history, development and present situation of Finnish social welfare system
• Social welfare services
• Social work and social work methods in different contexts
• Social problems and future challenges for service development

Teaching methods:

• Orientative lectures (18 hours + seminar 6 hours)
• Course assignments (individual and group assignments)
• Study visits (5-6 different social work/service fields) in small groups
• Seminar with a presentation
• Virtual learning space Moodle is used for discussions and background material

Assessment methods:

• Active participation in the lectures and study visits
• Making of assignments
• Presentation in the seminar

Required/Recommended reading:

• Articles related to the course themes and field visits is given via moodle.
• Links to further information are provided in moodle. 

Year of study:
Free

Teaching place:
TAMK University of Applied Sciences
Pyynikintie 2A, 33230 Tampere

Lecturers
Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö
Juha Santala

Teaching
Lectures and study visits 30 h

Thu 12th September - 10th October weekly at 9-15

Seminar 6 h

1. session 24.10. 9-12
2. session 30.10 9-12

Enrolment takes place from 28th August to 10th to September. The course can accommodate 25 students. If more students want to attend, priority is given to students in social work and socionom programs and the order of enrolment so that those first enrolled have the priority.

You can get 1, 3 or 5 ECTS by taking the course:

• 1 ECTS: you need to attend at least 10 lectures (remember to mark your name on the list during the lecture).
• 3 ECTS: you need to attend at least 10 lectures and pass the lecture-based exam.
• 5 ECTS: you need to attend at least 10 lectures and pass the lecture-based exam, and pass the exam based on additional readings (literature for the exam will be confirmed later during the course)

Lecture programme

11.9. Finnish History - Finns and Finland between East and West, Vesa Vares

18.9. How to communicate in Finland, Niina Kovalainen

25.9. Finnish Art History in a Nutshell, Elina Bonelius 

2.10. Finnish Popular Music - Mikko Vanhasalo

9.10. Cultural Boundaries of Finnishness and Ethnic Minorities in Finland, Hannu Sinisalo

16.10. no lecture

23.10. Special Features of Finnish Mass Media, Jyrki Jyrkiäinen

30.10. Technology and Innovation in Finland: Current Issues and Future Challenges, Tomi Nokelainen

6.11. Finnish welfare and social services, Ulla-Maija Koivula

13.11. Finnish Literature - Traditions and Trends, Toni Lahtinen

20.11. Finland – Living in and from the Forests, Ari Vanamo

27.11. Finnish Education System, Eero Ropo

4.12. Finland as an Information Society, Pasi Pyöriä

Enrolment to the course 19.8. - 8.9.2013
- UTA students: enrolment in NettiOpsu
- TUT and TAMK students: enrolment with electronic form: https://elomake3.uta.fi/lomakkeet/10348/lomake.html (the form is available during the enrolment period)

This three-part course will present an overview into the Sociology of Tourism, following an outline of John Urry's 'The Tourist Gaze' (supplemented by additional academic literature), providing an introduction into the discipline of social scientific research of travel and tourism activities. The course consists of lectures and reading materials, as well as student participation and essays.

Lecture Programme:
Part 1: The Tourist Gaze & Mass tourism; October 11th, 9 – 16 (12-13 lunch break)

Part 2: The changing economics of the tourist industry & Working under the tourist gaze; October 14th, 9 – 16 (12-13 lunch break)

Part 3: Globalizing the gaze & Tourism, Culture and Social inequality; October 18th, 9 – 16 (12-13 lunch break)

You still can enroll for the course! => send an e-mail to the teaher: Christopher.Brennan@uta.fi

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Course will be organised in October.

Contemporary Perspectives on Family and Kinship (5 credits)

The course consists of reading materials, lectures and a final essay.

Kinship has been a central concept in anthropology from its very onset, one of the few which anthropology managed to make its own. Radical shift in kinship studies came in 1970s and 1980s. The traditional approach has been challenged as too static, too fixed, too algebraic. The analytical feasibility of the very category of kinship has been undermined. The aim of this course is to shed light on these new critical developments. We will look at the demise of kinship studies brought about by the argument on their essentially Western ideas of biological reproduction, and their subsequent revitalization. This would include introduction of the Schneider’s critique and the feminist anthropologists’ works on kinship, gender and power; motherhood and fatherhood; concept of relatedness; studies on new reproductive technologies, genetics and heredity; gay and lesbian kinship; new family forms emerging as a consequence of divorces, separation, domestic and transnational adoptions and migration. We will discuss how recent theoretical and empirical works reformulated kinship, putting stress on process, flexibility negotiation, human agency, local meanings and symbols. How they countered the notions of “naturalness” of marriage, sex, procreation and parenthood; kinship obligations and duty. We will deconstruct the notion of biology and nature and discuss them as culturally-constructed categories. After the course students are expected to identify central trends in the contemporary studies of kinship, and in a critical manner look at the folk assumptions on the family present in a public Euro-American discourse.

Time & place:

The course will be held on Tuesdays (10-12) and Fridays (14-16) on the time period from Sept 17th to Oct 25th. Last two classes (Oct 22nd, Tuesday, and Oct 25th, Friday) will be held exceptionally at 12-14.

22nd October - guest lecture by Uyi Osazee: ‘MIXED PARENTAGE’ CHILDREN’S ACCOUNTS OF FAMILY AND KINSHIP

The priority is given to students of social anthropology, sociology, social psychology and social policy.

Preliminary programme:

Social structures

18.9. Harri Melin (TAY): Russian social classes in flux

25.9. Jouko Nikula (Aleksanteri institute): Changing Russian countryside

2.10. Irina Sarno (City of Tampere): Russian managers

Traditional and new media

9.10 Svetlana Pasti (TAY): Comparative view on Russian media

16.10. Period break

23.10 Jukka Pietiläinen (Aleksanteri institute): Freedom of speech in post-Soviet media

30.10 Dmitry Yagodin (TAY): Citizen journalism in Russia

Friday 8.11. at 12-14 Markku Lonkila (TAY): Social media and Russian opposition movement, in Paavo Koli auditorium (please note the different day and place!)

Gender and civil society

13.11. Meri Kulmala (Aleksanteri institute): Women in Russian Civil Society

20.11. Freek van der Vet (HY): Diffusion of human rights in Russia

27.11. Laura Lyytikäinen (HY): Russian oppositional youth movement

4.12. Olga Gurova (HY): Consumption patterns in Russia

An online course organised by the university network for gender studies (HILMA, see http://www.hilmaverkosto.fi/english).

Enrolment 2.-20.9.2013

Lectures:

will be held during 2 September - 4 November on Mondays at 12-14  with exception of the first  lecture:  Sept 2nd at 11-15.

Place:

During Sept 9th - Nov 4th: Pinni B-building, room 3116. Exception: on Sept 2nd: PinniA-building, room 1081.

Modes of Study:

Active participation in the lectures and a lecture diary (written either in English or in Finnish).

Program:

Theme: Sexuality and Affect in Gender Studies
Visiting lecturer: Clare Hemmings, Professor of Feminist Theory (The London School of Economy and Political Science)

Period I
2.9. 11-12 Jaana Kuusipalo: Introduction to the course AND
       12-15 Clare Hemmings: Sexuality, Gender and Globalisation

9.9. 12-14 Clare Hemmings: Affect and Feminist Methodology

16.9. 12-14 Taina Kinnunen: Touch, Affect and Gender

23.9. 12-14 Marjo Kolehmainen: Affect and Power

30.9. 12-14 Tuula Juvonen: Affect and Sexual Orientation

7.10. 12-14 Päivi Korvajärvi: Affect on Feminist Studies on Work

14.10. no Lecture

Period II
21.10. 12-14 Jiri Nieminen: Masculinity and Affect in Politics

28.10. 12-14 Laura Saarenmaa: Affect and Intimacy in Journalism

4.11. 12-14 Jaana Kuusipalo: Gendering Affect in Mediatized Politics

Water supply and sanitation (WSS) are a key element in the development of societies. The water history course will remind us that decisions about and management of water resources and services over the long-term are to a large extent public by nature. As water systems and water use have expanded continuously, we have entered an era where humankind has to strive for more efficient water management.

The goal is to learn the role of water supply and sanitation (WSS) in development of societies. We look multi- and interdisciplinary way to the history of WSS systems in different cultures in a distant past, now and in the future.

This WASO course divides into five one-week sections and a final two-week section. Each of the six sections will include a variable number of small assignments for all students. A new section will start on Monday morning, at the latest, and all assignments are to be completed no later than 23.59 hours local time on Sunday. Note that you have to do all assignments and tasks to pass this course.

In addition to the weekly assignments, everybody will have to write an essay on a subject from a given list. This list of subjects will be published later.

To register for the course, please send an e-mail to Riikka Rajala (riikka.rajala@uta.fi). The e-mail should include your name and student number.

The course is available flexibly during the academic year 2013-2014. For registration, visit Sosnet website.

Registration to the course 1.8.2013-31.3.2014.

The course can be included in the optional studies in Master's Programme in Social Work.

Jakso korvaa 5 op sosiaalityön maisteriopintojen valinnaisista opinnoista.

18.9. practicalities & introduction to the course / Aart-Jan Riekhoff
25.9. Nordic welfare model and unversalism / Anneli Anttonen
2.10. The Nordic healthcare system from a comparative perspective / Katri Sieberg
9.10. Nordic child care policies / Katja Repo
16.10. Period break, no lecture
23.10. Labour markets and employment in the Nordic countries / Jouko Nätti
30.10. Care of older people / Lina Van Aerschot
6.11. Income inequality in Nordic countries / Elina Tuominen
13.11. Labour market institutions / Aart-Jan Riekhoff
20.11. Wrap up, instructions for essays / Aart-Jan Riekhoff

Aim: To provide students with basic understanding about different perspectives to social work activity in different social contexts, as well as regarding the relationship between local and global in social work.

Form of Educ. Lecture seminars, readings and assignments given by the teachers.

Target group: Undergraduate students

Language: English

Study materials: Articles delivered and materials designed by the teachers.

Mode of studying: Active participation in at least 75% of lecture seminars, readings and assignments.

Completion: Active participation in the lecture seminar and accomplishment of the tasks given. Participation in the introductory lecture is necessary, because the information about the course and tasks will be given by the teacher. Students write a reflective essay (3-4 pages, in English or in Finnish) on their cultural identity.

Course coordination. Kaisa-Elina Kiuru.

Feedback: Written feedback from students in English or in Finnish.

Reading assignments: Informed by the teacher in the beginning of the course.

Timetable and Themes:

Mon 21 Oct at 12-14 Introductory lecture. Kaisa-Elina Kiuru, Ph.D. University of Tampere.
Tue 22 Oct at 12-14 Social work and social problems in Tanzania. The situations of indecent work among girls of Iramba District. Ludovick Myumbo, Ph.D. University of Tampere.
Wed 23 Oct at 12-14 Social work and social problems in Tanzania, Ludovick Myumbo.

Mon 28 Oct at 12-14 Social work and social problems in Algeria. Karim Maiche, Ph.D. University of Tampere.
Tue 29 Oct at 12-14 Social work and social problems in Algeria. Karim Maiche.
Wed 30 Oct at 12-14 Challenges for Women in Traditional Practices - Tanzania Experience, Regina Opoku, Ph.D. University of Tampere.

Mon 4 Nov at 12 -14 Social work in India. Dr. Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö, University of Tampere.
Tue 5 Nov at 12-14 Social work in India. Dr. Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö.
Wed 6 Nov at 12-14 Social work in India. Dr. Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö.

Mon 11 Nov at 12-14 Social work in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Gorana Panic, Ph.D. University of Jyväskylä.
Tue 12 Nov at 12-14 Social work in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Gorana Panic.
Wed 13 Nov at 12-14 Social work in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Gorana Panic.

Mon 18 Nov at 12-14 Social work in England. Dr. Paul Stepney, Docent in Social Work, University of Tampere.
Tue 19 Nov at 12-14 Social work in England. Dr.  Paul Stepney.
Wed 20 Nov at 12-14 Social work in England. Dr. Paul Stepney.

Mon 25 Nov at 12-14 Cancelled
Tue 26 Nov at 12-14 Cancelled
Wed 27 Nov at 12-14 Cancelled

V306-9/ STYP5 Finnish Social Welfare and Social Work 5 ects

Objective of course :

Student is able to

• Understand and describe the Finnish social welfare system and the role of social work within the system
• Understand what kind of social work approaches and methods are used within different working fields in practice
• Understand and discuss present challenges in social work/ social services
• Compare analytically the differences and similarities between Finnish welfare system and welfare systems of other countries

Course contents:

• The history, development and present situation of Finnish social welfare system
• Social welfare services
• Social work and social work methods in different contexts
• Social problems and future challenges for service development

Teaching methods:

• Orientative lectures (18 hours + seminar 6 hours)
• Course assignments (individual and group assignments)
• Study visits (5-6 different social work/service fields) in small groups
• Seminar with a presentation
• Virtual learning space Moodle is used for discussions and background material

Assessment methods:

• Active participation in the lectures and study visits
• Making of assignments
• Presentation in the seminar

Required/Recommended reading:

• Articles related to the course themes and field visits is given via moodle.
• Links to further information are provided in moodle. 

Year of study:
Free

Teaching place:
TAMK University of Applied Sciences
Pyynikintie 2A, 33230 Tampere

Lecturers
Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö
Juha Santala

Teaching
Lectures and study visits 30 h

Thu 12th September - 10th October weekly at 9-15

Seminar 6 h

1. session 24.10. 9-12
2. session 30.10 9-12

Enrolment takes place from 28th August to 10th to September. The course can accommodate 25 students. If more students want to attend, priority is given to students in social work and socionom programs and the order of enrolment so that those first enrolled have the priority.

You can get 1, 3 or 5 ECTS by taking the course:

• 1 ECTS: you need to attend at least 10 lectures (remember to mark your name on the list during the lecture).
• 3 ECTS: you need to attend at least 10 lectures and pass the lecture-based exam.
• 5 ECTS: you need to attend at least 10 lectures and pass the lecture-based exam, and pass the exam based on additional readings (literature for the exam will be confirmed later during the course)

Lecture programme

11.9. Finnish History - Finns and Finland between East and West, Vesa Vares

18.9. How to communicate in Finland, Niina Kovalainen

25.9. Finnish Art History in a Nutshell, Elina Bonelius 

2.10. Finnish Popular Music - Mikko Vanhasalo

9.10. Cultural Boundaries of Finnishness and Ethnic Minorities in Finland, Hannu Sinisalo

16.10. no lecture

23.10. Special Features of Finnish Mass Media, Jyrki Jyrkiäinen

30.10. Technology and Innovation in Finland: Current Issues and Future Challenges, Tomi Nokelainen

6.11. Finnish welfare and social services, Ulla-Maija Koivula

13.11. Finnish Literature - Traditions and Trends, Toni Lahtinen

20.11. Finland – Living in and from the Forests, Ari Vanamo

27.11. Finnish Education System, Eero Ropo

4.12. Finland as an Information Society, Pasi Pyöriä

Enrolment to the course 19.8. - 8.9.2013
- UTA students: enrolment in NettiOpsu
- TUT and TAMK students: enrolment with electronic form: https://elomake3.uta.fi/lomakkeet/10348/lomake.html (the form is available during the enrolment period)

The course exists of different parts:

1. The course starts from explaining supply and demand on a perfect labour market, while continuing by explaining that the perfect labour market does not exist, especially not in the context of European welfare states. The labour market is not a market like any other where the usual laws of supply and demand apply. It is a domain of extensive government intervention. There are different institutions that make the labour market “imperfect”. The theoretical workings of different labour market institutions, as well as their outcomes in terms of efficiency and equity, will be explained. Attention will be paid to a set of specific and important labour market institutions, while ways of measuring and comparing them will be presented. The most important institutions include: a. Wage setting mechanisms b. Unemployment benefits c. Employment protection legislation d. Minimum wage e. Active labour market policies f. Working hours regulation g. Education and training h. Pensions and retirement It will also be shown that there are interactions and complementarities between these institutions that shape labour market outcomes and that one can identify labour market regimes, just like there are welfare state regimes.

2. In the second part of the course, the focus will shift to different threats to economic growth, employment and the welfare state, and the role that labour market policies play in the debates addressing these threats. Ageing populations, globalization, technological change, individualisation, and the current financial and economic crisis all have an impact on how countries organise their labour markets. Moreover, governments have used these threats as arguments for introducing reforms. The course will pay attention to the different ways these threats can impact labour markets and the types of policy responses that have been launched in different countries.

3. Reforming labour market institutions is often slow and complicated. This partly has to do with different groups in society that are well-organised and that have an interest in upholding the status quo. These groups include labour market organisations such as trade unions and employer representatives, but also for example middle-class voters and pensioners’ organisations. When policy-makers initiate reforms, they often have to take into account the interest of such parties, depending of course on how policy processes are organised in a specific country.

The course will pay attention to how decision-making processes are organised in different countries and what roles various interest organisations can play in these. The course will consist of a series of seminars where lectures will be combined with discussions on the basis of the literature that the students are required to read in preparation. Apart from reading some articles that serve as a theoretical background, the main focus will be placed on critically reading policy-oriented reports and publications. These include recent publications of the OECD (e.g. the Employment Outlook), the European Commission and other international organisations, as well as national governments. In this way, the students can familiarize themselves with current debates and different ways of conducting policy-oriented research.

The schedule of the course (dates, topics):

1.    25.10.2013    Introduction & practicalities. What are labour market policies/institutions? What do they do and why do they matter in the welfare state?
2.    1.11.2013    Wage-setting: the state, employers and unions. Minimum wage
3.   8.11.2013    Job and income protection: employment protection legislation and unemployment benefits
4.   15.11.2013    Smoothening transitions: active labour market policies and training. Transitions from education to the labour market and from the labour market into retirement
5.    22.11.2013    Challenges of post-industrialism. Labour markets during the crisis
6.    29.11.2013    The political economy of labour market reform. Instructions for final assignment, work in small groups
--      6.12.2013    Independence day break
7.    13.12.2013    How to write a policy report?

The course will look at the social and cultural complexities of the Eastern Europe in the context of its socialist past and the post-socialist present. It will introduce the Easter Europe from the anthropological perspective, privileging the perspective of ordinary people and everyday lives. It will show how anthropology may help to account for the fall of the socialist system and post-socialist transformations as well as the impact of the recent global economic crisis on Eastern Europe. The course will shed light on the construction of the Eastern-Western Europe boundary in the academic and popular discourse and similarities and differences across the Eastern European countries. It will address the mechanisms of centrally planned economy and the everyday life under real socialism. It will address issues of “transition” to capitalism and democracy; changes in the intimate family and gender relations; the emergence of new social identity movements; new patterns of social stratification and exclusion; ethnic and religious differences and the meaning of nationalism in the post-socialist period. The course will also introduce themes of transnationalism and migration from and within the region.

Nov, 12th - guest lecture by Jaanika Kingumets: "Russian-speakers' mobility and home-making practices in Soviet and post-socialist Estonia."

Nov, 15th - guest lecture by Dr. Tatiana Tiaynen: "Grandmothers and Family-making in the Midst of Postsocialist and Transnational Changes (Russian Karelia and Finland)." 

The course will consist of lectures, student presentations and a final essay.

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The course will be held on Tuesdays and Fridays (at 14-16 o´clock) during the time period: Oct 22nd - Nov 29th.

Finnish students should make 2 + 3 ETCS (lectures AND online exercises);

Exchange students can make 2 or 5 ETCS (only lectures OR lectures and online exercises) 

Outline of the course:

1) Theoretical and political framework for conseptualizing citizen participation and empirical examples from Finland and Poland. 

Lectures + lecture diary (2 ECTS):

Mon 28.10.2013  

Lecture 1 (10-12): Overview on citizen participation practices and theories (Liisa Häikiö).Place: Linna 5014

Lecture 2 (13-15): EU policies for citizen participation: A framework for national and local practices (Katarzyna Radzik-Maruszak). Place: Linna 4026

Wed 30.10.2013  

Lecture 3 (10-12): Citizen participation in Finland: Civil society and local governance (Liisa Häikiö). Place: Linna 4026

Lecture 4 (13-15) Citizen participation in Poland (Katarzyna Radzik-Maruszak). Place: Linna 4026

Fri 1.11.2013  

Lecture 5 (10-12) Conclusion and discussion (Liisa Häikiö & Katarzyna Radzik-Maruszak). Place: Linna 5014

Online exercises (3 ECTS):

2) Case descriptions about citizen participation. Students will select a citizen participation practice and make a short description of it to online learning site, Moodle. Cases can be based on different data sets: Internet sites, interviews, newspapers, official documents etc. Case descriptions will be done in pairs and reported in English. Max. 5 pages. Papers in the Moodle Mon 25.11.

3) Essay on citizen participation. Students construct a theoretical frame for analysing citizen participation practices. This framework will be used to write a comparative essay about citizen participation practices. For the comparison students will select two to three case descriptions from the Moodle. Case descriptions will be done in pairs and reported in English, or Finnish but all essays should include an abstract in English. Max. 10 pages. Papers in the Moodle Wed 11.12.

4) Students will comment essays at Moodle by Wed 18.12.

ENROLLMENT to the course from Sept 21, 2013 to Oct 21,2013 in NettiOpsu.

Preliminary programme:

Social structures

18.9. Harri Melin (TAY): Russian social classes in flux

25.9. Jouko Nikula (Aleksanteri institute): Changing Russian countryside

2.10. Irina Sarno (City of Tampere): Russian managers

Traditional and new media

9.10 Svetlana Pasti (TAY): Comparative view on Russian media

16.10. Period break

23.10 Jukka Pietiläinen (Aleksanteri institute): Freedom of speech in post-Soviet media

30.10 Dmitry Yagodin (TAY): Citizen journalism in Russia

Friday 8.11. at 12-14 Markku Lonkila (TAY): Social media and Russian opposition movement, in Paavo Koli auditorium (please note the different day and place!)

Gender and civil society

13.11. Meri Kulmala (Aleksanteri institute): Women in Russian Civil Society

20.11. Freek van der Vet (HY): Diffusion of human rights in Russia

27.11. Laura Lyytikäinen (HY): Russian oppositional youth movement

4.12. Olga Gurova (HY): Consumption patterns in Russia

An online course organised by the university network for gender studies (HILMA, see http://www.hilmaverkosto.fi/english).

Enrolment 2.-20.9.2013

Lectures:

will be held during 2 September - 4 November on Mondays at 12-14  with exception of the first  lecture:  Sept 2nd at 11-15.

Place:

During Sept 9th - Nov 4th: Pinni B-building, room 3116. Exception: on Sept 2nd: PinniA-building, room 1081.

Modes of Study:

Active participation in the lectures and a lecture diary (written either in English or in Finnish).

Program:

Theme: Sexuality and Affect in Gender Studies
Visiting lecturer: Clare Hemmings, Professor of Feminist Theory (The London School of Economy and Political Science)

Period I
2.9. 11-12 Jaana Kuusipalo: Introduction to the course AND
       12-15 Clare Hemmings: Sexuality, Gender and Globalisation

9.9. 12-14 Clare Hemmings: Affect and Feminist Methodology

16.9. 12-14 Taina Kinnunen: Touch, Affect and Gender

23.9. 12-14 Marjo Kolehmainen: Affect and Power

30.9. 12-14 Tuula Juvonen: Affect and Sexual Orientation

7.10. 12-14 Päivi Korvajärvi: Affect on Feminist Studies on Work

14.10. no Lecture

Period II
21.10. 12-14 Jiri Nieminen: Masculinity and Affect in Politics

28.10. 12-14 Laura Saarenmaa: Affect and Intimacy in Journalism

4.11. 12-14 Jaana Kuusipalo: Gendering Affect in Mediatized Politics

Graduate school - course 21.-22.10. 2013

(open for advanced students).

Groups, organizations, conventions, social roles, conflicts and cooperation are no less real than physical particles and mental attitudes. Social ontology examines what kind of objects, relations, properties and events they are, and how they relate to mind and matter. It also covers issues of collective action, intentionality, emotions, and reasoning, as well as the fundamental nature of sociality. Social ontology is a relatively new, but rapidly evolving field of research devoted to the analysis of the basic structures of the social world. The phenomena it covers range from small-scale everyday interactions to encompassing societal institutions, from unintended consequences to institutional design. The unifying element is its focus on the basic constitution of these phenomena. The field of social ontology blends a well-defined approach to social phenomena with a wide scope that extends well beyond the boundaries of philosophy into the other humanities and the various social sciences.

The course will consist of lectures (12 hours in total) addressing the central contemporary debates in the field.

DAY ONE 21.10.2013 10 - 18 PINNI A LS A3111

1. Introduction: social ontology as a subfield of philosophy

2. Collective intentionality - approach Incl. John Searle's approach to social ontology - critical assessments

3. Game theory: institutions as equilibria

DAY TWO 22.10.2013 10 - 18 PÄÄTALO LS A2A

4. Phenomenological approach to social ontology

5. The approach from contemporary metaphysics: the notion of 'constitution'

6. Issues in practical philosophy: e.g. social freedom, political obligation, collective evil, terrorism

[Preceding the conference European Network for Social Ontology, ENSO III, Helsinki 23.-25.10.2013]

further info: arto.laitinen@uta.fi

The course is available flexibly during the academic year 2013-2014. For registration, visit Sosnet website.

Registration to the course 1.8.2013-31.3.2014.

The course can be included in the optional studies in Master's Programme in Social Work.

Jakso korvaa 5 op sosiaalityön maisteriopintojen valinnaisista opinnoista.

LECTURE TOPICS

fri 17. 1. Introduction to main concepts

• Conflict and its solution in human life  
• Security: individual, group and cultural dimensions  
• Theories of human mind
• Tutorial for students’ work (presetations in February)

fre 24.1.  Psychhological knowledge in war-fare  

• War propaganda
• Nature, aims and consequnces of torture  
• Research on soldiers’ psyche  

fre 31.1  Reconsiliation, thruth and justice  (Learning diary)

• Forgiveness: theories, models and empirical research                             
• Models of change: competences, values, emotions and attitudes
• Examples of reconsiliation process  

fre 7.2.  Human development: indications for peace education  (Learning diary)

• Child development for empathy, aggression and socialization 
• Cultural differences in parenting and socialization

fre 14.2.  Conflict resolution: psychological and group processes

• Cooperation and competitive orientations 
• Cycles of violence and
  •  Practicing group process skills

fre 21.2.   Psychological consequences of war: implication for peace building

• Mental health and resilience
• Posttraumatic symptoms and posttraumatic growth
  • Students’ presentations (topics and material agreed in January)

fre 28.2.     Students’ presentations

• Topics and material agreed in January

Enrolment through Nettiopsu.
Enrolment and participation for the course:
Priority is given for degree students in Master's programme in Peace, Mediation and Coflict Research (1st and 2nd year students in order of enrolment and then students from collaboration University Åbo Academy).
If places are available, students outside the programme are selected in the following order:
- UTA degree students from other programmes
- UTA exchange students
Prerequisites:
- Master level students who have a very good academic English and good background knowledge in the field of study.

SOS10.4.3 Domestication of Global Trends 5 ETC

Course description

Notions of social change are often divided into local versus international. But what actually happens at the national level – where policies are ultimately made and implemented – when policy-making is interdependent worldwide? How do policy-makers take into account the prior choices of other countries? More detailed research is needed on the process of interdependent decision-making in the world polity.

Distancing itself from approaches that conceive narrowly of policy transfer as a ‘one-way street’ from powerful nations to weaker ones, this course argues instead for an understanding of national decision-making processes that emphasize cross-national comparisons and domestic field battles around the introduction of worldwide models.

The case studies presented and discussed in this course show how national policies appear to be synchronized globally yet are developed with distinctly ‘national’ flavors. Presenting new theoretical ideas and empirical cases, this course is aimed at scholars of political science, international relations, comparative public policy and sociology.

Time & space:Tue 14.1-25.2.2014 at 14-16 Room: Pinni B 3032.

The accomplishment of the course requires the following:

• active involvement in each session
• a short introduction prepared  in twos based on the selected course material
• acquaintance with the course material
• an essay based on the course material or other relevant reading

Essay return 11.3.2014.

Coordinators: Marjaana Rautalin marjaana.rautalin@uta.fi and Jukka Syväterä jukka.syvatera@uta.fi

Other teachers: Ali Qadir ali.qadir@uta.fi

Reception hours of the teachers: Tuesday at 10-11 starting on 14.1.2014; Marjaana in Pinni B 3024 and Jukka in Pinni B 3002.

In-depth focus on a selection of historical and contemporary theoretical concepts in social and cultural anthropology.

Contents:

1. Functionalism and Cultural Materialism (Malinowski; White)
2. Social Structure (Radcliffe-Brown; Leach; Lévi-Strauss)
3. Structural Analysis (Lévi-Strauss)
4. Capital and Power in Western Anthropology (Weber; Wolf)
5. Theory of Practice (Bourdieu)
6. Interpretation and Ethnography (Geertz; Gupta and Ferguson)

15.1. Finnish History, Seija-Leena Nevala-Nurmi

22.1. Finnish Popular Music - Mikko Vanhasalo

29.1. Finland as an Information Society, Pasi Pyöriä

5.2. Finnish Literature - Traditions and Trends, Toni Lahtinen

12.2. Cultural Boundaries of Finnishness and Ethnic Minorities in Finland, Hannu Sinisalo

19.2. Technology and Innovation in Finland: Current Issues and Future Challenges, Tomi Nokelainen

26.2. How to communicate in Finland, Niina Kovalainen

5.3. PERIOD BREAK, NO LECTURE

12.3. Finnish welfare and social services, Ulla-Maija Koivula

19.3. Finnish Art History in a Nutshell, Elina Bonelius

26.3. Finnish Education System, Eero Ropo

2.4. Finland – Living in and from the Forests, Ari Vanamo

9.4. Special Features of Finnish Mass Media, Jyrki Jyrkiäinen

Registration by 14.1.:
UTA students: NettiOpsu
TUT and TAMK students with e-form: https://elomake3.uta.fi/lomakkeet/11463/lomake.html

1-    Introduction: Why and how Marx and Heidegger?

Subject: The question about the relation between theory and practice, philosophy and transformation/revolution, Precedents, a short overview.

Readings (not obligatory)

Address: Heidegger on Marx, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxmzGT1w_kk

Martin Heidegger. Letter on Humanism, transl. Frank A. Capuzzi. https://ia600703.us.archive.org/30/items/HeideggerLetterOnhumanism1949/Heidegger-LetterOnhumanism1949.pdf

Martin Heidegger, “The Age of World Picture,” The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, translated by William Lovitt, New York; Harper and Row, 1977:115-54.

Karl Marx. Thesis on Feuerbach, http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm

______ The German Ideology, https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/abstract.htm

Herbert Marcuse. “On Concrete Philosophy” in Heideggerian Marxism, (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

2 – Alienation and reification of Being

Subject: Marx’s and Heidegger’s theory of alienation, with some footnotes by Luckas.  And Marcuse.

Readings:

Karl Marx. Karl Marx. “Estranged Labour” in Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, trans. And ed. Martin Milligan (Mnieola, New York. Dover Publications, 2007), p. 67-83. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/preface.htm

Martin Heidegger. Being and Time, § 25-27 and 35-38

György Luckas. “The phenomenon of reification”, in History and Class Consciousness, Merlin Press, 1967,  https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm

Optional: Lucien Goldmann. Lukacs and Heidegger: Towards a New Philosophy. Trans. William Q. Boelhower. London: Routledge, 2009.

Optional: Gérard Granel. Réinscriptions contemporaneis du Marxisme (derive, abandon, reprise). http://www.gerardgranel.com/txt_pdf/3-cours_marxisme_74_1-prepu.pdf

 3 -  Capital,  technology and the abandon of Being

Subject: The philosophical question(s) from which “we” need to confront (auseinandersetzen) “today” Heidegger and Marx. The philosophical question about the “we”, the “today”, and the “we today” or “today we”. The specter of neither of Marx nor of Heidegger, but of being.

Karl Marx. The Capital, Chapter I, section 4, http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#S4

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto  (Penguin Books, 2002)

On Comodities, http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#S1

Martin Heidegger. “The question of technology” in The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, translated by William Lovitt, New York; Harper and Row, 1977.

Jacques Derrida. “Apparition of the inapparent” in Specters of Marx. The state of the debt, the work of mourning, and the new international, (New York and London: Routledge, 1994), p. 125- 176

Optional: Jean-Luc Nancy. L'Equivalence des catastrophes : (Après Fukushima) (Paris: Galilée, 2012)

Optional: Michael Eldred. Capital and Technology, Marx and Heidegger, http://www.arte-fact.org/capiteen.html#0.

Subaltern 3( 2009), svensk tidskrift

To Susanna Lindberg susanna.e.lindberg[at]uta.fi

Reading the texts of the abovementioned reading list is not obligatory but it makes the understanding of the course much easier and deeper.

Each day, the first session is a lecture course and the second one (in the seminar room of philosophy) is a discussion of the day's themes)

Further information is provided by Susanna.E.Lindberg@uta.fi

For registration, visit Sosnet website.

Registration to the course 4.11.2013-7.1.2014 (for international students 31.1.2014).

 New venue: Päätalo A34, behind/above the dining hall.

This seminar is open for interested PhD students in any discipline, as well as master’s students. (and will be ok for the social philosophy FILA9 as well). The seminar will meet weekly, and read Axel Honneth’s articles, e.g. from the collection The I in We. (Articles by the classics that he comments on, and by his critics, will form the background and further reading.) The first meeting will be on 22nd January, when we will discuss the practicalities.

Axel Honneth is the director of Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and a professor at Columbia University. His work focuses on social-political and moral philosophy, especially relations of power, recognition, and respect. One of his core arguments is for the priority of intersubjective relationships of recognition in understanding social relations. This includes non- and mis-recognition as a basis of social and interpersonal conflict. For instance, grievances regarding the
distribution of goods in society are ultimately struggles for recognition.

Axel Honneth will visit Finland (Helsinki) at 23rd May 2014.
For more info, contact arto.laitinen@uta.fi

The Cold War between the socialist and capitalist blocs had an impact on practically every field of human activity. After all, the conflict was not only a military or a diplomatic confrontation but at least as much a battle for “hearts and minds” and for economic superiority. On a global scale, both sides of the Cold War tried to promote the expansion of their economic systems, but they also used economic methods to support and recruit allies and to coerce opponents. In practice, in the world of nuclear-armed great powers, foreign trade and financial policies were often as much instruments of foreign policy as methods of promoting a country’s economic interests. As Alan Milward, a well-known British historian, has written: “It is not surprising that economic warfare played so prominent a role in the Cold War. Its most persistently appealing attribute has always been that it is a way of striking at an enemy against whom it is inherently too risky to embark on a prolonged period of armed combat or too dangerous to risk the escalation of an existing state of combat.”

Finland was a neutral country located in the “grey area” of Europe. Although the Finns had no desire to be involved in the Cold War, the country became, in practice, one of the frontlines in this confrontation. Despite two wars against the Soviets (1939–1940 and 1941–1944), and the threat of communist takeover, Finland had surprisingly survived as an independent democratic country with a market economy. However, many Western governments and observes feared that the Soviets would not accept this situation in the long run and that since military methods had not been successful, more indirect methods would be used. Finnish-Soviet trade links, which the Soviets were anxious to expand, seemed to be one of the most obvious methods.

If the economic methods seemed a useful way to promote Soviet aims, they were also extremely useful to the United States and its allies in promoting Western aims. One of the key concerns of US foreign economic policy in Finland and in the Cold War world generally, was to uphold a free and prospering market economy as an obstacle to the expansion of communism. The US government should therefore support the reconstruction and development of the Finnish economy, which would curb the possibilities for growing support to communism in Finland and the need to expand Finnish-Soviet trade.

In the course we will consider what impact the Cold War had on the Finnish foreign trade and on the economic development of the country. How did the superpowers and their allies try to use economic tools to promote political goals? What impact did these actions have on Finland? How did the Finnish government and the Finnish companies try to defend their interests in the Cold War world?

Course Outline:

1) Economy & Cold War: an overview
2) Finland in the Cold War world
3) Finnish-Soviet trade
4) Western foreign economic policy towards Finland
5) Finland, Cold War and the European integration
6) The end of the Cold War

Enrolment starts on December 9. 2013 and ends January 14. 2014.

http://verkko-opetus.utu.fi/historia/lukukausi.php?kurssi=219&lukukausi=22

Ohjeita verkkokursseille ilmoittautumiseen

The course is available flexibly during the academic year 2013-2014. For registration, visit Sosnet website.

Registration to the course 1.8.2013-31.3.2014.

The course can be included in the optional studies in Master's Programme in Social Work.

Jakso korvaa 5 op sosiaalityön maisteriopintojen valinnaisista opinnoista.

Course Summary:


Water supply and sanitation (WSS) are a key element in the development of societies. The water history course will remind us that decisions about and management of water resources and services over the long-term are to a large extent public by nature. As water systems and water use have expanded continuously, we have entered an era where humankind has to strive for more efficient water management.

Objectives:

The goal is to learn the role of water supply and sanitation (WSS) in development of societies. We look multi- and interdisciplinary way to the history of WSS systems in different cultures in a distant past, now and in the future.

Learning methods:

This WASO course divides into five one-week sections and a final two-week section. Each of the six sections will include a variable number of small assignments for all students. A new section will start on Monday morning, at the latest, and all assignments are to be completed no later than 23.59 hours local time on Sunday. Note that you have to do all assignments and tasks to pass this course.
In addition to the weekly assignments, everybody will have to write an essay on a subject from a given list. This list of subjects will be published later.

Please register to the course by 9.1.2014 on the UniPID website http://www.unipid.fi/en/course/32/water_and_society/, or by sending an e-mail to Riikka Rajala (riikka.rajala@uta.fi).

The module will critically analyse the correlation between religion, conflict and peace through the use of different theoretical positions proposed by leading scholars in the field. In other words popular and general notions that equate religion either with violence or with peace will be critically studied.  In this analysis, the students will be guided through an interdisciplinary intersection that connects history, political science, sociology, theologies (Christian, Hindu, Islamic and Jewish) and philosophies (Buddhist and Hindu). Attention will be paid to the politics of interpretation of imagined communities (ethno-religious and ethno-religious-national) that either contributes to conflict formation and dynamics or to conflict resolution and peace building.  Political/Ideological structures and meaning (theistic and non-theistic) structures of particular religious traditions and their relationship with issues of conflict and peace will be explored through textual and historical analysis. Several case studies representing diverse regions of the world will be discussed in detail. Finally, the meanings of different notions of secularity and religiosity will be examined as an attempt to construct an ethic of co-existence in a pluralist world.   

In addition to a full a bibliography and a course outline PowerPoint presentations, documentary films and cinematic depictions of the themes will be introduced to reduce the dryness of written texts.

Dr Jude Lal Fernando

Assistant Professor in Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies and a Lecturer in International Peace Studies, Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin

Place: Tapri seminar room 126, Atalpa building

Lectures:

Wed 15.1. 14-16
Thu 16.1. 10-12
Mon 20.1. 12-14
Thu 23.1. 10-12
Mon 27.1 12-14

Compensates 2 ECTS FOR PEACE005 module in the PEACE-programme.

Tue 12-16, Atalpa -building, room 140

Teaching is based on lectures (8 hours) and seminars (16 hours). Lectures provide theoretical knowledge on particular themes related to gender in society. In seminars, the same themes are explored more thoroughly on the basis of readings, group discussions and exercises. The teaching material will be available in Moodle.

Programme

25th March 2014

Introduction and guidelines

Lecture, Hanna Ojala: “The EU's third-most gender-equal country” – Feminism and gender in Finnish context

Workshop with basic concepts of gender studies

1st April 2014

Seminar (theme Gender & State) with readings

Group presentations

8th April 2014

Lecture Jaana Kuusipalo: Gender and Politics in Finland

Seminar (theme gender & politics) with readings

15th April 2014

Lecture Ilkka Pietilä: Health as a gendered issue: men, masculinity and health

Seminar (theme health & gender) with readings

22th April 2014: Easter break; no teaching

29th April 2014

Learning Cafe (theme Public and private spaces) with readings

6th May 2014

Lecture Lisa Adkins: Gender and Economy

Seminar (theme gender & work) with readings

Closing of the course

No enrolment required for exchange students. Note! UTA degree students, please enroll by e-mail (Hanna.L.Ojala@uta.fi) 18th March at the latest. The enrolment key for entering Moodle will be given at the first lecture.

Course introduction:

The course is based on a comparative study between Finland and France, within EU context. The study compares essentially young women's situation, but also reflects upon youth transition to adulthood in general. The course introduces students to research conducted in advanced societies on youth transition to adulthood and the supposed prolongation of youth. In the different lectures, the actual patterns and markers of transition to the stage of adulthood are examined, based on up-to-date studies. The lectures analyse the current phenomenon of youth extension and changes within the stage of transition itself. The course enlarges towards contemporary socio-economic restructuring and highlights the influence it bears upon young people's routes of integration within the wider social sphere.

The teaching occurs via lectures and seminars. The lectures provide theoretical knowledge on particular themes related to youth transition to adulthood. In the seminars, the themes are explored deeper during group discussions based on questions and/or reading material, and students will give presentations on a small project (and project results) they are required to carry out.

Course assessment: The final grade is based on the scale 1-5, on the following requirements:

- Attendance and participation: Lectures attendance 1 op; Seminars attendance: 1 op; active participation in the discussions: 1 op.

- Project: 1 op.

- Project diary: 1 op.

Project: Students in groups of 2 or 3 are required to carry out a small project based on issues related to the course – the course convenor will provide topics, or students can choose their own. Students are expected to investigate a particular question (linked to the lecture themes) and answer to it concretely, for instance by putting in practice some research methods (eg. interviewing, visual/photographic methods, questionnaires, comparing some statistics or an issues related to youth between one’s home country and Finland, etc…). Each group of students will then give a presentation (max. 30 min long) about their project and show their results to the class.

Project diary: Students are required to write a diary on the development of their small project. They must explain why they chose a particular topic, which methods (and why) they used to enquire the question, the results they obtained, how the whole process did develop, and what they learnt. The diary should also be connected to the reading material (provided by the course convenor or own literature sources) so as to provide a richer analysis.

Length: 5-7 pages long.

Teaching - time & place

Lectures are taught on Mondays at 14-16 in PINNI A, ls. 2089

Seminars are taught on Fridays at 12-14 in LINNA  K107 - except the last seminar: takes place on Thursday 17.4., Time: 12-14, Place: Linna 6031.

15.1. Finnish History, Seija-Leena Nevala-Nurmi

22.1. Finnish Popular Music - Mikko Vanhasalo

29.1. Finland as an Information Society, Pasi Pyöriä

5.2. Finnish Literature - Traditions and Trends, Toni Lahtinen

12.2. Cultural Boundaries of Finnishness and Ethnic Minorities in Finland, Hannu Sinisalo

19.2. Technology and Innovation in Finland: Current Issues and Future Challenges, Tomi Nokelainen

26.2. How to communicate in Finland, Niina Kovalainen

5.3. PERIOD BREAK, NO LECTURE

12.3. Finnish welfare and social services, Ulla-Maija Koivula

19.3. Finnish Art History in a Nutshell, Elina Bonelius

26.3. Finnish Education System, Eero Ropo

2.4. Finland – Living in and from the Forests, Ari Vanamo

9.4. Special Features of Finnish Mass Media, Jyrki Jyrkiäinen

Registration by 14.1.:
UTA students: NettiOpsu
TUT and TAMK students with e-form: https://elomake3.uta.fi/lomakkeet/11463/lomake.html

The course on “Comparative Criminal Justice” provides University of Tampere students with the opportunity to study comparative crime and punishment issues with students from Marquette University Milwaukee USA and Finlandia University Michigan USA, The students will be instructed as a collective with instructional responsibilities being shared by Dr. Richard Jones of Marquette University Milwaukee USA, Dr. Richard Gee of Finlandia University Michigan USA and I sharing instructional responsibilities.

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 St Petersburg Russia.  These countries were chosen because of the contrasting style of responding to crime between/ among the Russia (very 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. 

Students will be evaluated based on daily journals and reflections, as well as a final paper that should be completed after return from Russia.

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.

This joint course with the USA visiting group focuses on:

1. Analyzing how crime and deviance are shaped by individual and social factors
2. Examining and analyzing how culture and general ideology influence criminal justice policy and practice.
3. What myths are created regarding crime and criminals, and the role of government and media in constructing crime myths.
4. Examining and analyzing how society perpetuates deviant and criminal behavior.
5. Understanding the criminal justice policy and practice in Finland, Russia and USA.
6. Exploring the response to crime, with specific focus on corrections and policing in Russia, Finland, and the United States.  

 The twelve 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 and St. Petersburg Russia.

Excursions: trips to Finnish Prisons and Four days trip to St. Petersburg Russia.

The four-day visa free excursion to St. Petersburg, Russia old and new Prisons is on the 23/5/2014 till Sunday, 25/5/2014.

Programme in St. Petersburg:

Thursday, 22/5/2014 Leave for St. Petersburg, but 2 hours lecture at Training Institute
for Prison and Probation Services in Helsinki, 16.00  to Helsinki harbour.

Friday, 23/5/2014    - Guided visit of the prison and police museums in St. Petersburg
                              - Guided tour of the State Hermitage museum for students 
                              - Timetravels tour conductor services during the trip
                              - 2 hours lecture on crime and policing crime in Russia.

Saturday, 24/5/2014   student free day in St. Petersburg, optional cultural activities/tour.

Sunday, 25/5/2014      Boat leaves back to Finland at 19.00.

Monday 26/5/2014      Back in Finland at 8.00 in the morning.

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

Enrolment time has expired.

Compensations:
Course is available for all the students at the University of Tampere. It will be offered as part ofStudies on Society and Culture which is a multi-disciplinary study module within the School of Social Sciences and Humanities.
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.

 New venue: Päätalo A34, behind/above the dining hall.

This seminar is open for interested PhD students in any discipline, as well as master’s students. (and will be ok for the social philosophy FILA9 as well). The seminar will meet weekly, and read Axel Honneth’s articles, e.g. from the collection The I in We. (Articles by the classics that he comments on, and by his critics, will form the background and further reading.) The first meeting will be on 22nd January, when we will discuss the practicalities.

Axel Honneth is the director of Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and a professor at Columbia University. His work focuses on social-political and moral philosophy, especially relations of power, recognition, and respect. One of his core arguments is for the priority of intersubjective relationships of recognition in understanding social relations. This includes non- and mis-recognition as a basis of social and interpersonal conflict. For instance, grievances regarding the
distribution of goods in society are ultimately struggles for recognition.

Axel Honneth will visit Finland (Helsinki) at 23rd May 2014.
For more info, contact arto.laitinen@uta.fi

The Cold War between the socialist and capitalist blocs had an impact on practically every field of human activity. After all, the conflict was not only a military or a diplomatic confrontation but at least as much a battle for “hearts and minds” and for economic superiority. On a global scale, both sides of the Cold War tried to promote the expansion of their economic systems, but they also used economic methods to support and recruit allies and to coerce opponents. In practice, in the world of nuclear-armed great powers, foreign trade and financial policies were often as much instruments of foreign policy as methods of promoting a country’s economic interests. As Alan Milward, a well-known British historian, has written: “It is not surprising that economic warfare played so prominent a role in the Cold War. Its most persistently appealing attribute has always been that it is a way of striking at an enemy against whom it is inherently too risky to embark on a prolonged period of armed combat or too dangerous to risk the escalation of an existing state of combat.”

Finland was a neutral country located in the “grey area” of Europe. Although the Finns had no desire to be involved in the Cold War, the country became, in practice, one of the frontlines in this confrontation. Despite two wars against the Soviets (1939–1940 and 1941–1944), and the threat of communist takeover, Finland had surprisingly survived as an independent democratic country with a market economy. However, many Western governments and observes feared that the Soviets would not accept this situation in the long run and that since military methods had not been successful, more indirect methods would be used. Finnish-Soviet trade links, which the Soviets were anxious to expand, seemed to be one of the most obvious methods.

If the economic methods seemed a useful way to promote Soviet aims, they were also extremely useful to the United States and its allies in promoting Western aims. One of the key concerns of US foreign economic policy in Finland and in the Cold War world generally, was to uphold a free and prospering market economy as an obstacle to the expansion of communism. The US government should therefore support the reconstruction and development of the Finnish economy, which would curb the possibilities for growing support to communism in Finland and the need to expand Finnish-Soviet trade.

In the course we will consider what impact the Cold War had on the Finnish foreign trade and on the economic development of the country. How did the superpowers and their allies try to use economic tools to promote political goals? What impact did these actions have on Finland? How did the Finnish government and the Finnish companies try to defend their interests in the Cold War world?

Course Outline:

1) Economy & Cold War: an overview
2) Finland in the Cold War world
3) Finnish-Soviet trade
4) Western foreign economic policy towards Finland
5) Finland, Cold War and the European integration
6) The end of the Cold War

Enrolment starts on December 9. 2013 and ends January 14. 2014.

http://verkko-opetus.utu.fi/historia/lukukausi.php?kurssi=219&lukukausi=22

Ohjeita verkkokursseille ilmoittautumiseen

The course is available flexibly during the academic year 2013-2014. For registration, visit Sosnet website.

Registration to the course 1.8.2013-31.3.2014.

The course can be included in the optional studies in Master's Programme in Social Work.

Jakso korvaa 5 op sosiaalityön maisteriopintojen valinnaisista opinnoista.

Epistemology seeks to describe the structure of true propositions and arguments and to define criteria that allow us to distinguish knowledge from what is not knowledge. While epistemological categorization thus provides a useful tool for scientific, philosophical and political discourse and seems to be indispensible for rational thinking, it always at the same time threatens to limit and restrict the creative advance of our philosophical
understanding. Following and building upon Cornel West’s reading of classical American philosophy, the series of lectures offers a perspective on representative authors of Transcendentalism, Pragmatism and Neopragmatism
as ways of ‘doing philosophy’ that challenge the idea of the need for an epistemological foundation of rational thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, William James, Alfred North Whitehead and Richard Rorty offer attempts at structuring experiential reality without settling or fixing it, thereby opening up the path for the modern tradition of process philosophy. The course consists of five successive lectures, each comprising 60 minutes of presentation and 30 minutes of discussion.

Course Summary:


Water supply and sanitation (WSS) are a key element in the development of societies. The water history course will remind us that decisions about and management of water resources and services over the long-term are to a large extent public by nature. As water systems and water use have expanded continuously, we have entered an era where humankind has to strive for more efficient water management.

Objectives:

The goal is to learn the role of water supply and sanitation (WSS) in development of societies. We look multi- and interdisciplinary way to the history of WSS systems in different cultures in a distant past, now and in the future.

Learning methods:

This WASO course divides into five one-week sections and a final two-week section. Each of the six sections will include a variable number of small assignments for all students. A new section will start on Monday morning, at the latest, and all assignments are to be completed no later than 23.59 hours local time on Sunday. Note that you have to do all assignments and tasks to pass this course.

In addition to the weekly assignments, everybody will have to write an essay on a subject from a given list. This list of subjects will be published later.

Please register to the course by 29.5.2014 on the UniPID website http://www.unipid.fi/en/courses/, or by sending an e-mail to Riikka Rajala (riikka.rajala@uta.fi).