ECTS
ECTS Course Catalogue

Course details
Course code: BŻS10028f11
Semester: 2011/2012 summer
Name: SOCIOLOGY
Major: Food Safety
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 2
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 0 / 0
Lecturer: dr Michał Lubicz Miszewski; michal.lubicz-miszewski@up.wroc.pl
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes: learning outcomes: Throughout a course a student acquires theoretical knowledge concerning the basic sociological notions as well as basic conceptions and theories that constitute the scientific apparatus of sociology.

Competences: competences: Completion of the course enables to enter upon independent considerations related to social reality.

Prerequisites: Prerequisites: The humanities within the secondary school curriculum

Course content: Course contents: Sociology as a humanistic science, Society as a subject of sociology, Definitions and types of social groups, Sociological analysis of a state, Political parties, conditions for democracy, Sociological notions of nation, Collision of civilisations according to Huntington, Globalization, Culture, Socialization and social control, Family as a basic division of socialization.

Recommended literature: Recommended literature: Giddens A. (2006) Socjologia, PWN, Warszawa. Szacka B. (2002) Wprowadzenie do socjologii, Oficyna Naukowa, Warszawa. Sztompka P. (2002) Socjologia. Analiza społeczeństwa, Znak, Kraków.

Assessment methods: Compulsory written or orall exam, level of knowledge required to complete: 60%.

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