Research Seminar “Civil and Political Processes”

2022/2023

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

4

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Sociology

Course type:

Elective course

When:

2 year, 1-4 module

Instructors

Arkatov, Dmitry

Мацкевич Мария Георгиевна

Tkacheva, Tatiana

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This seminar offers a cross-disciplinary perspective on political power, institutions, civic movements, and their socio-cultural context. It draws mainly from sociology, political science, and media studies and will be most useful to the students interested in how modern societies are organized and negotiated through politics, and how this can be studied. Key to this seminar is reading and discussing original research papers. As a result, the students will expand their knowledge of the subject and their skills of critical reading, participating in discussions, and writing abstracts of academic papers. The seminar starts with a discussion of academic culture, proceeding to media experiments, the meaning of political debates and then to practising various formats of applied political analysis.