ECTS
ECTS Course Catalogue
Course details
Course code: BIS10013f11Semester: 2011/2012 summer
Name: SOCIOLOGY
Major: Bioinformatics
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
Language of instruction: Polish
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: Completion of the course enables to enter upon independent considerations related to social reality.
Prerequisites: The humanities within the secondary school curriculum
Course content: 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: 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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