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Course code: BIS10041f14Semester: 2014/2015 summer
Name: Culture Studies
Major: Bioinformatics
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 2
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 0 / 0
Lecturer: dr Ewa Pustelnik
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Knowledge: The student learns chosen religion and science, which investigates these phenomena. He learns to define basic concepts of religion related sciences. He becomes aware of the nature of religion in its various concrete manifestations. He acquires basic knowledge of the most well-known concepts of the genesis, function and history of religions and of different research methods in religious studies. Skills: He can carry search, analyze, evaluate, select, and obtain information on the phenomena of religion and religiosity using various sources. Into account the influence of religious values and traditions in different areas of life. Can express his own views and ideas on important social and ideological.
Competences: Personal and social competences (attitudes and behaviors): He gets aware of the importance of their own religious tradition or worldview for their life choices and their relation to other cultures and traditions. He gain awareness of the impact of religious attitudes, behaviors and decisions in various spheres of human life. He gets ties with the people aware of their own ideological options in the region, country, Europe. He can cultivate their own spiritual heritage while respecting and understanding of the followers of other religions in the world.
Prerequisites: Humanities at the matriculation (A-levels) examination
Course content: Introduction to the science of culture, the concept of culture, its characteristics. The genesis of culture, civilization, creation of writing and country research on contemporary primitive cultures, anthropology of peasant societies, sociology of culture studies of large social structures, the main problems of contemporary culture - mass culture, the globalization of culture.
Recommended literature: Burszta Wojciech J.: Antropologia kultury, Warszawa 2008 Filipiak Marian: Socjologia kultury. Zarys zagadnień, Lublin 2003, Wyd. Uniw. M. Curie-Skłodowskiej Nowicka Ewa: Świat człowieka – świat kultury. Systematyczny wykład problemów antropologii kulturowej, Wyd. Nauk. PWN, Warszawa 2007 Turowski Jan: Socjologia wsi i rolnictwa, Lublin 1995, wyd. II
Assessment methods: Witten test/exam
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