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Course code: BIS10042f14Semester: 2014/2015 summer
Name: Religion 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
The course exclusively in Polish, with a possibility of support in English
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, analyse, 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: Basic concepts, definitions and classifications of religion, the development of religion, research methods of contemporary religion. Research on religion and religious of primitive peoples. The oldest religions of the magazine. Monotheism - Abrahams\' religions. The specificity of Asian religions. Contemporary processes religion.
Recommended literature: A. Bronk: Podstawy nauk o religii, Lublin 2003, TN KUL Religie świata. Przewodnik encyklopedyczny, Warszawa 1996, „Książka i Wiedza” Religie w świecie współczesnym. Zarys problematyki religiologicznej, praca zbiorowa, Lublin 2001, TN KUL M.,U. Tworuschka: Religie Świata, t.1-6, Agora 2009
Assessment methods: Witten test/exam
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