English version published 2007-04-11 10.37.22

Study units and instruction

Study unit Structure of the Degree Programme in Political Science and General Studies

In Finnish: Tutkintojen rakenne ja yleisopinnot/yleisopinnot

Structure of the Degree Programme in Political Science and General Studies

Bachelor's degree, 180 credits:

  • Basic studies, 25 credits
  • Intermediate studies, 65 credits
  • Minor Subject Studies, 50-60 credits
  • General Studies, 30 credits
  • Elective Studies, 10–0 credits

Master's degree, 120 credits:

  • Major subject studies and supportive studies, 85–96 credits
  • Elective Studies, 35–24 credits

General Studies, 30 credits:

Literature

Subordinate units

Study unit HOPS1. Personal Study Plan 1

In Finnish: HOPS1 (1 op / 0 ov)/hops1

Orientation to Studies and HOPS1. Personal Study Plan 1

Code
Credits: 1, Credit Units: 0

In order to facilitate the long-term planning of studies, each student will be required to devise a personal study plan. The study plan will be checked regularly, thus aiding in the monitoring of study progress. New students will be given information on HOPS during the orientation in the beginning of autumn semester. HOPS1 should be done during third study period of the first BA study year. You can plan your HOPS as detailed as you wish.

Open and fill in the form (rtf- or pdf-format) and take it your teacher tutor for approval:

The teacher tutors of the department of political to whom the HOPS1 will be taken personally for discussion and approval:

Subprogramme of Politics:

  • Lecturer Erkki Berndtson
  • University Lecturer Johanna Kantola

Subprogramme of Administration and Organisations:

  • University Lecturer Jan-Erik Johanson
  • Senior Assistant Timo Moilanen

Subprogramme of World Politics:

  • University Lecturer Riikka Kuusisto
  • University Lecturer Henri Vogt

Study unit HOPS2. Personal Study Plan 2

In Finnish: HOPS2 (1 op / 0 ov)/hops2

HOPS2. Personal Study Plan 2

Code
Credits: 1, Credit Units: 0

In order to facilitate the long-term planning of studies, each student will be required to devise a personal study plan. The study plan will be checked regularly, thus aiding in the monitoring of study progress. New students will be given information on HOPS during the orientation in the beginning of autumn semester. HOPS2 should be done during third study period of the second BA study year. It is an update of the HOPS1. You can plan your HOPS as detailed as you wish.

Open and fill in the form (rtf- or pdf-format) and take it your teacher tutor for approval:

The teacher tutors of the department of political to whom the HOPS2 will be taken personally for discussion and approval:

Subprogramme of Politics:

  • Lecturer Erkki Berndtson
  • University Lecturer Johanna Kantola

Subprogramme of Administration and Organisations:

  • University Lecturer Jan-Erik Johanson
  • Senior Assistant Timo Moilanen

Subprogramme of World Politics:

  • University Lecturer Riikka Kuusisto
  • University Lecturer Henri Vogt

Study unit Orientation to Employment and Working Life

In Finnish: Työelämäorientaatio (1 op / 0 ov)/tyo

Orientation to Employment and Working Life

Labour Market Orientation Course (1 cr) - Spring Term 2007 is provided for non-Finnish speaking students following the English Degree programme:

http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/faculty/Studies/lmo.htm

Literature

Study unit Bachelor´s Degree, Politics

In Finnish: Politiikan tutkimus (VTK)/vtkpot

Bachelor´s Degree, Politics

  • Studies in major subject: basic studies 25 credits, intermediate studies, 65 credits
  • Minor subject studies: 50-60 credits
  • General studies: 30 credits
  • Elective studies: 10–0 credits

Literature

Subordinate units

Study unit Basic Studies

In Finnish: Perusopinnot (25 op / 16 ov)/79181

title: Basic Studies

Credits: 25, Credit Units: 16,

Major Subject Students:

Common basic studies in Political Science (19 credits) and a compulsory subprogramme-specific basic study unit in Political Science (6 credits). The study subprogramme specified for majors in conjunction with student admission determines the study path from the beginning of basic studies.

Minor Subject Students:

Common basic studies in Political Science (19 credits) and one subprogramme-specific basic study unit in Political Science (6 credits). Minor subject students that only plan to complete the basic studies in Political Science do not need to choose a specific subprogramme. Minor subject students that plan to continue to intermediate studies must choose one of the three Political Science subprogrammes during their basic study period: Politics, Administration and Organisations, World Politics. The subprogramme of a minor subject student is not confirmed separately. For information about planning minor subject studies, see Counselling in the Study Guide.

Common Basic Studies in Polotical Science:

  • Y101. Introduction to Political Science (7 credits),
  • Y105. Politics in the Baltic and Scandinavian Region (6 credits) and
  • Y110. Foundations of Political Thought (6 credits) are obligatory for all Political Science majors and minors.

Subprogramme-Specific Basic Study Unit in Political Science:

  • Major Subject Students: Students select the study unit that belongs to their own subprogramme.
  • Minor Subject Students: One of the three subprogramme-specific study units. Minor subject students that plan to continue to intermediate Political Science studies must select the unit that belongs to the subprogramme that the student will follow in intermediate studies.

The letter preceding the study unit number indicates the subprogramme: P = Politics, H = Administration and Organisations, M = World Politics.

Study unit Y101. Introduction to Political Science

In Finnish: Y101. Johdatus valtio-oppiin (7 op / 4 ov)/791010

Y101. Introduction to Political Science

The study unit aims to provide an overall picture of the different targets and orientations in political research, administrative and organisation studies, and world politics. It also deals with the terminology and theories used in these fields. The goal is to understand the basics of political science, administrative and organisation studies and world politics.

N.B. For Major Subject Students the study unit also marks the beginning of teacher tutoring for majors, which falls under general studies and continues until the autumn term of the second year of studies during which major subject students prepare their Personal Study Plan 2 (1 credit).

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. Teacher responsible for the study unit in English: Juri Mykkänen.

Registration for political science Y101 and Y105 literature exams for non-Finnish speaking students is done via WebOodi: http://oodi-www.it.helsinki.fi/hy/frame.jsp?Kieli=6

Literature

  • Brown C: Understanding International Relations (2nd ed.)
  • Heffron F: Organization Theory and Public Organizations
  • Heywood A: Politics (2nd ed.)

Study unit Y105. Politics in the Baltic and Scandinavian Region

In Finnish: Y105. Suomen poliittinen järjestelmä ja EU - pääaineopiskelijat (6 op / 4 ov)/791020

Y105. Politics in the Baltic and Scandinavian Region

The study unit aims to increase and deepen the student's understanding of the basic features of the Baltic Sea and Scandinavian region as the context for Finnish politics.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. Teacher responsible for the study unit in English: Juri Mykkänen.

Registration for political science Y101 and Y105 literature exams for non-Finnish speaking students is done via WebOodi: http://oodi-www.it.helsinki.fi/hy/frame.jsp?Kieli=6

Literature

  • Arter D: Scandinavian Politics Today
  • Norgaard O & Johannsen L: The Baltic States After Independence (2nd ed.)
  • Pesonen P & Riihinen O: Dynamic Finland. The Political System and the Welfare State
  • White S: Russia’s New Politics: The Management of a Postcommunist Society

Study unit Y110. Foundations of Political Thought

In Finnish: Y110. Poliittisen ajattelun perusteet - pääaineopiskelijat (6 op / 4 ov)/791030

Y110. Foundations of Political Thought

Code 791030
Credits: 6 , Credit Units: 4

The study unit aims to look at the theoretical and methodological foundations of political research and the philosophical and ideological background assumptions in modern politics through a discussion of ideological history. The unit also emphasises the significance of feminist political theory to political thought.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide. Teacher responsible for the study unit: Erkki Berndtson.

Registration for political science Y110 literature exams for non-Finnish speaking major students is done via WebOodi: http://oodi-www.it.helsinki.fi/hy/frame.jsp?Kieli=6

Literature

  • Heywood Andrew: Political ideologies.(3rd ed.)
  • Boucher David and Kelly Paul (eds.): Political Thinkers
  • Bryson Valerie: Feminist Political Theory (2nd ed.)

Study unit P115. European Political Systems

In Finnish: P115. Euroopan poliittiset järjestelmät (6 op / 4 ov)/791040

title: P115. European Political Systems

Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4,

The study unit focuses on the structures, operating methods and political cultures of modern European countries. The goal is to learn how to examine these topics from a comparative point of view. The unit emphasises the political issues and future outlook of the new Europe in a historical situation where the old division between Western and Eastern Europe is disappearing. The study unit aims to give a picture of Europe as a whole in which small nations play as important a part as big ones.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide. The study unit is compulsory for majors in the Politics subprogramme.

Literature

  • Colomer Josep M (ed.): Political Institutions in Europe (2nd ed.)
  • Heywood Paul et al. (eds.): Developments in West European Politics 2
  • White Stephen et al. (eds.): Developments in Central and East European Politics 3

Literature examinations

Courses in English

European Political Systems

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 6 Credits (study weeks): 4

Teachers

M.Pol.Sc. Tapio Lovio E-mail Tapio.Lovio@helsinki.fi

Time and location

08.09.2006 - 20.10.2006

8.9.-6.10. Fri 10-14, U40 sali 8 and 13.10.-20.10. Fri 10-16, U40 sali 8. All the participants should be present in the first meeting. Active presence also in other sessions is a requirement. Registration for the course in WebOodi between 21.8.-15.9.

N.B. Number of students limited (max 40) due to the workshop nature of the course! (limitation added 5 Sept 06)

Compensations

The seminar covers the whole study unit P115.

Target group

Mainly for exchange and minor students.

Objectives

The course focuses on the structures, operating methods and political cultures of modern European countries. The goal is to learn how to examine these topics from a comparative point of view. The course emphasises the political issues and future outlook of the new Europe in a historical situation where the old division between Western and Eastern Europe is disappearing.

Content

After the opening lectures the course will take the form of a working seminar. The programme will be specified in the beginning of the course.

Course work and forms of study

After the opening lectures this workshop is a combination of book reviews, paper writing and their oral presentations by the participants. During the last session there will be a dialogue examination.

Grading

The course work will be graded on a scale from 0 to 5.

Course results and retake

The results of the course will be posted on the notice board of the Department by XX. If the course work is not accepted or if the student wishes to raise his/her grade, he/she should contact the teacher within one month after the publication of the results and discuss arrangements for rewriting course work.

Course evaluation and development

During the last session, students will have an opportunity to give feedback on the course to the lecturer and to fill in an anonymous evaluation form. During the course feedback can be given anonymously.

When giving feedback, please evaluate the contribution of the teacher, your own contribution, the contributions of other students and the possible contribution of the Department office to the success of the course.

Course_evaluation_2006 .

Main results from the course evaluation, autumn 2005:

  • Participation: students took regularly part in sessions.
  • What was good: Instruction methods, the topics, discussions, and the positively constructive and open international atmosphere.
  • Contents: Current contents were taken to be interesting. Next study year there will an effort to broaden the base of topics even more.
  • Practical arrangements: It"s always difficult to make especially the newest interesting books somehow available to all students. More time could have been given for writing the final paper.
  • Something to improve: The class was simply too big, more than 40 participants. Because of this and because participants formed such a heterogenous group of people there were some selfevident problems to go through the workshop part of the course. This course has been very popular and there are reasons to believe that next study year the demand will be even stronger. Either the number of the participants should be limited or the class divided into two groups. Comparative political research is the starting point for this course. It is very fruitful to study the theme of the workshop in a group of students who represent so many European and also other countries. This could be better used as a valuable resource if the group(s) would be smaller.

Feedback summed up by Tapio Lovio.

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Study unit Intermediate Studies

In Finnish: Aineopinnot (65 op / 43 ov)/ainepot

title: Intermediate Studies

Credits: 65, Credit Units: 43,

Major Subject Students:

  • Common intermediate studies in Political Science (22 credits),
  • subprogramme-specific intermediate studies in Political Science (30 credits) and
  • the Bachelor’s Thesis (13 credits).

Minor Subject Students:

35 credits =

  • either Y201. Methodology of Political Science (5 credits) or
  • Y205. Research on Power (5 credits) and
  • one of the subprogramme-specific intermediate study units (30 credits).

Common Intermediate Studies in Political Science:

  • Y201. Methodology of Political Science (5 credits),
  • Y205. Research on Power (5 credits),
  • Y250. Quantitative Methods (6 credits) and
  • Y301. Qualitative Methods (6 credits).

Subprogramme - Specific Intermediate Studies:

Mode of Assessment: Political Science majors continue their studies in the subprogramme they selected when accepted into the Faculty, while minor subject students follow the subprogramme they selected during basic studies in Political Science (Politics, Administration and Organisations or World Politics).

Politics:

Five 6-credit study units, at least three of which must be from the Politics subprogramme:

  • P210. Modern Political Thought (6 credits),
  • P215. Citizens, Institutions and Decision-Making in the European Union (6 credits),
  • P220. Interaction between Politics and Economy (6 credits),
  • P225. Problems of Modern Democracy (6 credits),
  • P230. Current Political Phenomena (6 credits) or
  • P260. Elective Intermediate Studies, which can account for 0–12 credits in the Politics subprogramme.

Superordinate Units

Subordinate units

Study unit Y201. Methodology of Political Science

In Finnish: Y201. Valtio-opin tutkimuksen metodologia (5 op / 3 ov)/791070

Y201. Methodology of Political Science

The study unit deals with some core issues and concepts in the philosophy of social science, especially with the positivistic, hermeneutic and realistic methodologies of the social sciences. It also discusses how to pose scientific questions and develop arguments, and looks at the concepts, information and skills needed to assess the relevance and validity of arguments.

Mode of Assessment: Lecture series on the Methodology of Political Science (1 credit) and a literature examination in conjunction with the lecture course exam or a Faculty examination within the three periods following the course (4 credits). Even if a lecture course in English is not organised, non Finnish-speaking degree students should nonetheless contact the teacher responsible for the study unit in order to get instructions about the ways to accomplish the 1 credit which the course counts for.

Literature

  • Sayer Andrew: Method in Social Science. A Realist Approach
  • Walton Douglas: Informal Logic. A Handbook for Critical Argumentation
  • Marsh David and Stoker Gerry (eds.): Theory and Methods in Political Science (Second Edition 2002) - (Added 8.8.2006)

Literature examinations

Study unit Y205. Research on Power

In Finnish: Y205. Vallan tutkimus (5 op / 3 ov)/791080

Y205. Research on Power

(In Finnish: Y205. Vallan tutkimus )

The study unit aims to deepen the student’s understanding of political science by examining the notion of power, in general terms and from the perspective of each individual subprogramme: Politics, Administration and Organisations, and World Politics. The goal is to attain a general understanding of the concepts and theories of power, and the ability to examine power from national and international, as well as political and administrative points of view.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

All the students register for the Faculty exam in the same WebOodi registration window where the scope of the exam is 2 cr / 1 cu. This is due to the degree stucture of the Finnish speaking majors.

Literature

  • Hindess Barry: Discourses of Power
  • Pfeffer Jeffrey: Managing With Power: Politics and Influence in Organizations
  • Strange Susan: States and Markets

Literature examinations

Study unit Y250. Quantitative Methods

In Finnish: Y250. Kvantitatiiviset menetelmät (6 op / 4 ov)/791090

title: Y250. Quantitative Methods

Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4,

The study unit focuses on the methodology, concepts, methods and materials of empirical and quantitative political science research. It deals with the foundations and application of the main approaches to analysis, as well as the most important methods for collecting material. After completing the unit the student should understand and be able to interpret quantitative studies in Political Science and apply the methods to his/her own research.

Mode of Assessment:

The course on quantitative methods is compulsory for all Political Science majors; minor subject students cannot participate in it. Course participants are expected to complete the course Introduction to Statistics (4 credits), either before (recommended) or in parallel with the Quantitative Methods course. Students are also strongly recommended to take the intensive SPSS course that is part of the Faculty’s general studies.

Courses in English

Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Political Science

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 6 Credits (study weeks): 4

Teachers

Erling Solheim E-mail erling.solheim@helsinki.fi

Time and location

15.01.2007 - 28.02.2007
  • Time: III period 15 Jan - 28 Feb, Mon 9-13 and Wed 9-11 (exact dates to be specified later, some minor changes may be arranged if the course hours overlap with other political science courses taught in English).
  • Place: Unioninkatu 35, Social Science Library"s computer lab, second floor.
  • Number of participants: Max 12 students.
  • Prior registration for the course between 2.-8.1. in WebOodi. Only for Helsinki University Political Science major students following the English Degree Programme of Political Science. Finnish speaking students can attend only if there is room. Exchange and visiting students can"t attend the course.

Prerequisites

Y101 (7 cr) ja Y105 (6 cr) and ICT-studies (5 cr) and Introduction to Statistics (4 cr).

Compensations

Taking the course covers the whole study unit Y250.

Target group

Only for Helsinki University Political Science major students following the English Degree Programme of Political Science. Finnish speaking students can attend only if there is room (number of participants max 12). Exchange and visiting students can"t attend the course.

Objectives

The tutorial course for Political Science majors will provide an introduction to the methods of quantitative analysis.

Content

To be specified in the beginning of the course.

Please see instructor"s homepage for further details: http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/solheim

Course work and forms of study

Course assessment by writing a term paper.

Grading

The course work will be graded on a scale from 0 to 5.

Course results and retake

The results of the course will be posted on the notice board of the Department by XX. If the course work is not accepted or if the student wishes to raise his/her grade, he/she should contact the teacher within one month after the publication of the results and discuss arrangements for rewriting course work.

Course evaluation and development

During the last session, students will have an opportunity to give feedback on the course to the lecturer and to fill in an anonymous evaluation form. During the course feedback can be given anonymously.

When giving feedback, please evaluate the contribution of the teacher, your own contribution, the contributions of other students and the possible contribution of the Department office to the success of the course.

Course feedback - autumn 2005

Close to all students complete the course and express they have gained valuable insight into the theory and application of quantitative methods. A majority of students coming to this course report they initially attend it primarily because it is a compulsory course. However, the practical application of various statistical techniques using SPSS, supported by comprehensive and informative step by step handouts, ensure few students drop out due to not being able to understand the principles and application of quantitative methods. The course is nonetheless somewhat demanding, and to pass the course students should read the recommended course literature alongside the lectures and assignments as well as attending classes regularly. The usage of real survey data from the Finnish Social Science Data Archive, where the student her- or himself selects whatever survey data that fits their interests within the political or social sciences, means most students find the term paper work to be interesting. An on the day email service by the course instructor and extra lab sessions helps the students in their term paper work, and a draft version of the term paper is reviewed and commented upon before the student submits the final version. Among those completing the course a few choose to apply survey data and methods in their master thesis work and/or decide to continue learning more about quantitative methods by attending a course such as Data Analysis 2, arranged by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

Course feedback summed up Erling Solheim.

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Study unit Y301. Qualitative Methods

In Finnish: Y301. Kvalitatiiviset menetelmät (6 op / 4 ov)/791100

Y301. Qualitative Methods

Code 791100
Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4

This study unit is part of the method teaching offered by the Department. Qualitative methods encompass a broad range of methods. What they have in common is a strong emphasis on theory and the search for content of meaning in phenomena. Teaching emphasises a systematic approach to conclusions based on a variety of materials.

Mode of Assessment:

The study unit is compulsory for Political Science majors; it is not available for minor subject students. To complete it, students can take part in one of the special courses offered by the Department. The courses are offered in the first autumn period and the third spring period. Students must take an entrance examination before course start. The book to be examined is Alasuutari Pertti: Researching Culture.

Prerequisites:

  • Basic studies (all the students).
  • Y201. Methodology of Political Science (doesn't apply to students who study according to the previous degree structure).
  • Y250. Quantitative Methods (applies to students who study according to the previous degree structure). (Corrected 16.10.2006.)

N.B. Students who are changing the degree structure they follow from the previous system to the present one may take Y201 and Y301 at the same time.

Courses in English

Workshop on Qualitative Methods - Rhetorical Analysis (degree students only)

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 6 Credits (study weeks): 4

Teachers

University Lecturer Riikka Kuusisto E-mail Riikka.Kuusisto@helsinki.fi Home page http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/vol/staff/rkuusist/index.htm

Time and location

22.01.2007 - 26.02.2007

22.1.-5.2. Mon 14-16, U37 sh 1 and 12.-26.2. Mon 14-18, U37 sh 1. Prior registration for the course between 2.-8.1. in WebOodi. The group will consist of max. 20 students (see Target group).

N.B. The course has an entrance exam Mon 15.1. at 14-16, U37 sh 1. For the exam read Alasuutari Pertti: Researching Culture .

Prerequisites

  • Basic studies (all the students).
  • Y201. Methodology of Political Science (doesn"t apply to students who study according to the previous degree structure).
  • Y250. Quantitative Methods (applies to students who study according to the previous degree structure). (Corrected 16.10.2006.)*

N.B. Students who are changing the degree structure they follow from the previous system to the present one may take Y201 and Y301 at the same time.

Compensations

Study Unit Y301.

Target group

Primarily Helsinki University Political Science majors following the English Degree Programme of Political Science. Finnish speaking majors, minor and exchange/visiting students can participate only if there is room. The group will consist of max. 20 students.

Objectives

Students will learn about the rhetorical analysis of politics both in general and through focusing on a specific method of reading.

Content

The course consists of an entrance exam, four lectures, a written assignment and a personal feedback session on the assignment. Dates to be specified later.

Course work and forms of study

Students are to pass the set book exam, to participate in the lectures, to prepare a 7-15 page written assignment and to discuss their work during a feedback session.

Grading

The course work will be graded on a scale from 0 to 5.

Course results and retake

The results of the course will be posted on the notice board of the Department by XX. If the course work is not accepted or if the student wishes to raise his/her grade, he/she should contact the teacher within one month after the publication of the results and discuss arrangements for rewriting course work.

The book exam retake will be held Fri 25.5. at 8-10, PR sali 1. Prior registration for the exam retake between 7.-17.5. in WebOodi. Don"t mind if WebOodi informs you that you have already taken the course.

Course evaluation and development

During the last session, students will have an opportunity to give feedback on the course to the lecturer and to fill in an anonymous evaluation form. During the course feedback can be given anonymously.

When giving feedback, please evaluate the contribution of the teacher, your own contribution, the contributions of other students and the possible contribution of the Department office to the success of the course.

A summary of the feedback will be posted on this page before the next similar course is given.

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Study unit Elective intermediate studies

In Finnish: Valinnaiset aineopinnot (30 op / 20 ov)/ainevalpot

title: Elective intermediate studies

Study unit P210. Modern Political Thought

In Finnish: P210. Moderni poliittinen ajattelu (6 op / 4 ov)/791110

title: P210. Modern Political Thought

Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4,

The study unit aims to familiarise students with modern political thought through some central modern classics. The unit focuses on European political thought and a critical understanding of it by looking at the core notions of thinkers concerned with European politics, states, democracy, publicity and power. The unit discusses how leading political thinkers of the past century aimed to rethink and examine the traditions of European political thought.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

Three of the following:

  • Bobbio Norberto: Democracy and Dictatorship: The Nature and Limits of State Power
  • Arendt Hannah: The Human Condition
  • Habermas Jürgen: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
  • Foucault Michel: Discipline and Punish

Literature examinations

Courses in English

The Politics of Public Space

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 6 Credits (study weeks): 4

Teachers

Senior Lecturer Erkki Berndtson E-mail Erkki.Berndtson@helsinki.fi Home page http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/vol/staff/berndtso/index.htm
Visiting lecturer: Professor Henri Goverde (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) E-mail h.goverde@nsm.kun.nl

Time and location

13.03.2007 - 27.04.2007

13.3.-27.4. Tue and Fri 10-12, U37 sh 1. Prior registration for the course between 26.2.-5.3. in WebOodi. All participants must be present in the first meeting 13.3.

Course exam Fri 4.5. at 10-12, U37 sh 4.

Prerequisites

Study units Y101 and Y110. Doesn"t apply to exchange students.

Compensations

The course covers the whole study unit P210.

Target group

Primarily for students majoring in the Subprogramme of Politics. Also for minor and exchange students.

Objectives

The course deals with the relation of public and private space in contemporary societies. The literature consists of the key works of modern political thought (Arendt, Foucault, Habermas) as well as of theories of power, democracy and public space. The course aims to develop participants" skills to analyse politics and social problems critically from a new perspective.

Content

See the homepage of the course: http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/vol/staff/berndtso/.

Course work and forms of study

The course consists of lectures, students" written assignments and literature. Written assignments are discussed in seminar sessions.

This is an interactive course. Students are expected to read literature for every class meeting and participate actively in discussions. Every participant has to write an independent paper applying the concepts and theories presented in the course.

The working language of the course is English (including the assignments and the course exam replies). The course is organised in cooperation with Radboud University (Nijmegen, Netherlands). The visiting lecturer is Professor Henri Goverde from Nijmegen.

Grading

The course work will be graded on a scale from 0 to 5. The grading criteria will be specified in the course. A student"s course attendance and participation affects his/her grade.

Course results and retake

The results of the course will be posted on the notice board of the Department by the date which will be announced in the exam.

The exam retake will be held Fri 25.5. at 8-10, PR sali 1. Prior registration for the exam retake between 7.-17.5. in WebOodi. Don"t mind if WebOodi informs you that you have already taken the course.

Course evaluation and development

During the last session, students will have an opportunity to give feedback on the course to the lecturer and to fill in an anonymous evaluation form. During the course feedback can be given anonymously.

When giving feedback, please evaluate the contribution of the teacher, your own contribution, the contributions of other students and the possible contribution of the Department office to the success of the course.

Course Feedback, Spring 2006

The course had fourteen students, nine of them were foreign (mostly exchange) students. The course was evaluated positively, no special problems were expressed by the participants.

Feedback summed up by Erkki Berndtson.

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Study unit P215. Citizens, Institutions and Decision-Making in the European Union

In Finnish: P215. Kansalaiset, instituutiot ja päätöksenteko Euroopan unionissa (6 op / 4 ov)/791120

title: P215. Citizens, Institutions and Decision-Making in the European Union

Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4,

The aim of the study unit is to study EU institutions, their decision-making and mutual relations, as well as the relations between citizens and the EU in terms of elections and civic participation. Special attention will be given to the history of Europe, current conflicts and alternatives for future development.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

  • Raunio Tapio & Tiilikainen Teija: Finland in the European Union

and two of the following:

  • Hix Simon: The Political System of the European Union (2nd ed.)
  • Cini Michelle (ed.): European Union Politics
  • Cremona Marise (ed.): The Enlargement of the European Union

Literature examinations

Courses in English

Challenges to the EU: Citizens, Institutions and Decision-making

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 4 Credits (study weeks): 3

Teachers

University Lecturer Henri Vogt E-mail henri.vogt@helsinki.fi

Time and location

30.10.2006 - 11.12.2006

30.10.-11.12. Mon and Wed 14-16, Eco sh 3-4 . Registration for the course between 21.8.-6.11. in WebOodi.

Course exam on Wed 13.12. 14-16, Eco ls .

Prerequisites

  • Students of Politics and Administration and Organisations: basic studies.
  • Students of EU-studies: EU1.

Compensations

  • Study unit P215 elective literature: two of the following : Hix Simon : The Political System of the European Union (2nd ed.), Cini Michelle (ed.): European Union Politics , Cremona Marise (ed.): The Enlargement of the European Union .
  • Study unit H230 : Cremona Marise (ed.): The Enlargement of the European Union and Nugent Neill : The European Commission.
  • NB! Students who are doing P215 or H230: In addition to the exam, choose one of the texts of the reading list, or a recent article related to the course and published either in Journal of Common Market Studies, Cooperation and Conflict, European Union Politics or International Affairs and write a short, one-page review of it (i.e. the main point of the text and its main strengths and weaknesses; in Finnish, Swedish, or English). Submit the review to Henri Vogt’s post box at the Department of Political Science by Friday, December 15, 2 pm.

See also Course work and forms of study.

Target group

Students of

Objectives

The aim of the course is simply to give a broad overview of the principal challenges that the EU – or Europe in general – is currently facing. The underlying, mutually closely interrelated questions are: 1) How can the EU feasibly function in the future? And 2) how can the EU justify its existence in the eyes of its own citizens and those of the rest of the world, i.e. how ought it to function? In terms of its methodological approach the course is pluralistic; it involves perspectives from comparative politics, “EU studies proper” and International Relations.

Content

  • Mon 30/10: Introduction: The EU as a Theoretical Challenge
  • Wed 1/11: Support for Integration
  • Mon 6/11: A European Identity? Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion in Europe
  • Wed 8/11: A Respectful Continent? Tolerance and changing demographies in Europe
  • Mon 13/11: The EU, Globalisation and Individualism
  • Wed 15/11: No lecture
  • Mon 20/11: The EU’s role in the world: A Responsible Europe?
  • Wed 22/11: Further Enlargements?
  • Mon 27/11: No lecture
  • Wed 29/11: What Kind of Democracy Promotion?
  • Mon 4/12: The EU as a security agent in the making?
  • Wed 6/12: Independence day (no lecture)
  • Mon 11/12: A European Constitution?
  • Wed 13/12: Exam : the lecturer will give a list of approximately 15_questions , to be prepared beforehand on the webpage of the course by Thursday, December 7. In the exam, three of these questions will have to be answered, i.e. written a short essay about.

Course work and forms of study

Exam : the lecturer will give a list of approximately 15_questions to be prepared beforehand on the webpage of the course by Thursday, December 7. In the exam, three of these questions will have to be answered, i.e. written a short essay about.

NB! Students who are doing P215 or H230: In addition to the exam, choose one of the texts of the reading_list , or a recent article related to the course and published either in Journal of Common Market Studies, Cooperation and Conflict, European Union Politics or International Affairs and write a short, one-page review of it (i.e. the main point of the text and its main strengths and weaknesses; in Finnish, Swedish, or English). Submit the review to Henri Vogt’s post box at the Department of Political Science by Friday, December 15, 2 pm.

N.B. If a student doesn"t attend other courses belonging to the study unit during the academic year 2006-2007 the remaining credits of the study unit are to be completed in the form of a book exam within six months, at the latest, after the date of the course completion.

Grading

The course work will be graded on a scale from 0 to 5.

Course results and retake

The results of the course will be posted on the notice board of the Department by XX.

The exam retake will be held Wed 24.1. at 8-10, PR sali 1. Prior registration for the exam retake between 8.-15.1. in WebOodi. Don"t mind if WebOodi informs you that you have already taken the course.

Course evaluation and development

During the last session, students will have an opportunity to give feedback on the course to the lecturer and to fill in an anonymous evaluation form. During the course feedback can be given anonymously.

When giving feedback, please evaluate the contribution of the teacher, your own contribution, the contributions of other students and the possible contribution of the Department office to the success of the course.

A summary of the feedback will be posted on this page before the next similar course is given.

WebOodi Registration

Study unit P220. Interaction between Politics and Economy

In Finnish: P220. Politiikan ja talouden vuorovaikutus (6 op / 4 ov)/791130

title: P220. Interaction between Politics and Economy

Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4,

The study unit aims to familiarise students with the interaction between politics and economy, that is, how political decisions and institutions influence the economy and how economic factors affect political decision-makers and the choices they make. After completing the unit, students should be able to analyse topical discussions on politics and economics, as well as the main structural problems of welfare states, from a theoretical point of view.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

  • Levitt Malcolm & Lord Christopher: The Political Economy of Monetary Union
  • Castles Francis: The Future of the Welfare State. Crisis Myths and Crisis Realities
  • Self Peter: Government by the Market? The Politics of Public Choice

Literature examinations

Courses in English

Civil Society and Civic Engagement

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 2 Credits (study weeks): 1

Teachers

M.Soc.Sc Peter Hilger E-mail peter.hilger@helsinki.fi Home page http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/hilger/

Time and location

15.01.2007 - 21.02.2007

15.1.-21.2. Mon 10-12, Vironkatu 1 seminar room 446 (enter from the backyard, B-Entrance, then by escalator or staircase to level 4b) and Wed 10-12, Unioninkatu 37 seminar room 3.

Registration for the course between 2.-22.1. in WebOodi.

Prerequisites

Basic studies.

Compensations

The grading value of the course is 2 study points and it will replace Castles Francis : The Future of the Welfare State. Crisis Myths and Crisis Realities" of the study unit P220.

Target group

Primarily for students majoring in the Subprogramme of Politics. Also for minor and exchange students.

Objectives

The course familiarises the students with the concept of civil society and its organisations. The students learn about theoretical explanations and organisational features of the civic sector which not only covers different forms of (political) involvement but is also a central element of welfare state arrangements. The course therefore pays attention to the relation between the civic sector, the state and the economy and provides insight into practical aspects of engagement, in particular in the organisational context of associations.

Content

The course focuses on forms of civic engagement that go beyond formal participation in elections and political parties. At the outset conceptual issues and empirical dimensions of the civic sector are presented. One central question is the relation between political participation and other forms of civic activism, in particular those connected to welfare production. A look at current trends in engagement and empirical dimensions of the civic sector help to clarify the role the civic sector plays. The course then presents the main theories about why citizens take an active role and organise themselves in associations. Although civil society is commonly seen as a sphere independent from the state there are multiple forms of interaction between both. In particular attempts to organise and activate civil society/civic engagement are currently widespread. They are the focus of the final section.

Preliminary programme:

Conceptual and empirical issues

  • 1. Theoretical dimensions of civil society
  • 2. The concepts of political participation, reflexive volunteering and civic engagement
  • 3. Empirical dimensions of the civic sector

Approaches to the civic/nonprofit/third sector

  • 4. Theories of undersupply and trust
  • 5. Social entrepreneurship theory and theories of positive externalities
  • 6. Rational choice and principal-agent theories
  • 7. Resource and neo-institutional theories

Applied questions connected to civic engagement and civil society

  • 8. Organisational aspects of engagement
  • 9. Policy issues with respect to civic engagement
  • 10. Final discussion and feedback

More detailed programme with a reading list will be published later at the teacher"s_home_page .

Course work and forms of study

The course consists of 10 lectures with seminar discussions. Active participation in lectures and a 5 page essay on a chosen topic.

Grading

The course work will be graded on a scale from 0-5:

  • active course participation 30 %
  • essay 70 %.

Course results and retake

The results of the course will be posted on the notice board of the Department by XX. If the course work is not accepted or if the student wishes to raise his/her grade, he/she should contact the teacher within one month after the publication of the results and discuss arrangements for rewriting course work.

Course evaluation and development

During the last session, students will have an opportunity to give feedback on the course to the lecturer and to fill in an anonymous evaluation form. During the course feedback can be given anonymously.

When giving feedback, please evaluate the contribution of the teacher, your own contribution, the contributions of other students and the possible contribution of the Department office to the success of the course.

A summary of the feedback will be posted on this page before the next similar course is given.

WebOodi Registration

Study unit P225. Problems of Modern Democracy

In Finnish: P225. Modernin demokratian ongelmat (6 op / 4 ov)/791140

title: P225. Problems of Modern Democracy

Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4,

The study unit aims to familiarise students with the latest developments in Western democracy and political culture, as well as problems and their solutions from national, international and global perspectives.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

  • Dahl Robert: On Democracy
  • Beetham David: The Legitimation of Power
  • Bergqvist, Christina et al. (eds.): Equal democracies? Gender and Politics in the Nordic Countries
  • Budge Ian: The New Challenge of Direct Democracy

Literature examinations

Study unit P230. Current Political Phenomena

In Finnish: P230. Ajankohtaiset poliittiset ilmiöt (6 op / 4 ov)/791150

P230. Current Political Phenomena

Code 791150
Credits: 6 , Credit Units: 4

The overall goal of the study unit is to familiarise students with current phenomena in politics.

The literature for the Faculty examination deals with the ways in which relations between ethics, ethnicity, culture and politics have changed in the era of globalisation. The study unit deals, among other things, with the following topics: opportunities offered by global citizenship, multiculturalism, citizenship and theory of politics.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

  • Kymlicka Will: Multicultural Citizenship
  • Rex John & Singh Gurharpal: Governance in Multicultural Societies
  • Benhabib Seyla: The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era
  • Held David: Democracy and the Global Order

Literature examinations

Study unit P260. Elective Intermediate Studies in Politics

In Finnish: P260. Politiikan tutkimuksen linjan vapaavalintaiset aineopinnot (0-12 op / 0-8 ov)/791160

title: P260. Elective Intermediate Studies in Politics

Credits: 0-12, Credit Units: 0-8,

Elective intermediate studies consist primarily of intermediate-level studies in politics completed in other Finnish or foreign Universities, but may also be selected from the intermediate studies of other subprogrammes in the Department of Political Science.

Study unit Y320. Bachelor's Thesis Seminar: General Part

In Finnish: Y320. Kandidaatintutkielmaseminaarin yleinen osa (4 op / 3 ov)/791310

title: Y320. Bachelor"s Thesis Seminar: General Part

Credits: 7, Credit Units: 5,

Bachelor's Thesis Seminar (7 credits):

  • Y320. General Part (4 credits) and
  • P330./H330./M330. Topic-Specific Part (3 credits)

The study unit aims to teach the principles and practices of scientific research, how to prepare a research plan and write an academic text, as well as to develop the students' argumentation and discussion skills.

Mode of Assessment:

The study unit is divided into two parts: the first, general part (4 credits) is an introduction to the methodology of political science and to academic writing, while the second, topic-specific part (3 credits) is a research seminar. These are completed in successive periods. Students write their research plans during the first part and continue to prepare their Bachelor's Thesis during the research seminar on the basis of their plans. The research seminar includes the preparation of a seminar paper, which is also the preliminary version of the Bachelor's Thesis. Based on the comments received on the research paper, the student prepares his/her thesis at the latest during the period following the seminar and hands it in to the teacher responsible for the seminar.

The Bachelor's Thesis Seminar is not available to minor subject students.

Courses in English

Bachelor´s Thesis Seminar: General Part

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 4 Credits (study weeks): 3

Teachers

University Lecturer Henri Vogt E-mail henri.vogt@helsinki.fi

Time and location

16.01.2007 - 27.02.2007

16.1.-27.2. Tue 10-12, N.B. The lecture room locations :

  • 16.-30.1. Tue 10-12, U37 sh 2
  • 6.-27.2. Tue 10-12, U37 sh 1

Registration for the course in WebOodi between 2.-23.1.

Prerequisites

Students attending this seminar must during the same term also sign up for and attend P330., H330. or M330. Bachelor´s_Thesis_Seminar:_Topic-Specific_Part .

Compensations

Taking the seminar covers the study unit Y320.

Target group

The Bachelor"s Thesis Seminar is only for Political Science degree students. It is not available to exchange, visiting or minor subject students.

Objectives

The study unit aims to teach the principles and practices of scientific research, how to prepare a research plan and write an academic text, as well as to develop the students" argumentation and discussion skills.

Content

To be specified later.

Course work and forms of study

Bachelor"s Thesis Seminar is divided into two parts: the first, Y320. General Part (4 credits) is an introduction to the methodology of political science and to academic writing, while the second, P330., H330. or M330. Topic-Specific_Part (3 credits) is a research seminar. These are completed in successive periods. Students write their research plans during the first part and continue to prepare their Bachelor"s Thesis during the research seminar on the basis of their plans. The research seminar includes the preparation of a seminar paper, which is also the preliminary version of the Bachelor"s Thesis. Based on the comments received on the research paper, the student prepares his/her thesis at the latest during the period following the seminar.

NB! The seminar paper (effectively the first draft of the Bachelor"s thesis) can also be written in Finnish or Swedish, but in that case it should contain an English-language synopsis of 2-3 pages.

Grading

The course is graded on a scale from 0 to 5.

Course results and retake

The results of the course will be posted on the notice board of the Department. If the course work is not accepted or if the student wishes to raise his/her grade, he/she should contact the teacher within one month after the publication of the results and discuss arrangements for rewriting course work.

Course evaluation and development

During the last session, students will have an opportunity to give feedback on the course to the lecturer and to fill in an anonymous evaluation form. During the course feedback can be given anonymously.

When giving feedback, please evaluate the contribution of the teacher, your own contribution, the contributions of other students and the possible contribution of the Department office to the success of the course.

A summary of the feedback will be posted on this page before the next similar course is given.

WebOodi Registration

Study unit P330. Bachelor's Thesis Seminar: Topic-Specific Part (Politics)

In Finnish: P330. Kandidaatintutkielmaseminaarin aihekohtainen osa (3 op / 2 ov)/791320

P330. Bachelor's Thesis Seminar: Topic-Specific Part (Politics)

Courses in English

Bachelor´s Thesis Seminar: Topic-Specific Part

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 3 Credits (study weeks): 2

Teachers

University Lecturer Henri Vogt E-mail henri.vogt@helsinki.fi

Time and location

03.04.2007 - 24.04.2007

10.-17.4. Tue 10-14, U37 sh 3. N.B. additional sessions 3.4. Tue 10-14, U40 sali 10 and 24.4. 10-14, U37 sh 3.

Registration for the seminar according to a student"s subprogramme in WebOodi between 2.1.-17.4.

Prerequisites

Students who are about to attend this seminar must also sign up for and attend Bachelor´s_Thesis_Seminar:_General_Part_(Y320) .

Compensations

Taking the seminar covers the study unit P330., H330. or M330.

Target group

The Bachelor"s Thesis Seminar is only for Political Science degree students. It is not available to exchange, visiting or minor subject students.

Objectives

The study unit aims to teach the principles and practices of scientific research, how to prepare a research plan and write an academic text, as well as to develop the students" argumentation and discussion skills.

Content

To be specified later.

Course work and forms of study

Bachelor"s Thesis Seminar is divided into two parts: the first, Y320. General_Part (4 credits) is an introduction to the methodology of political science and to academic writing, while the second, P330., H330. or M330. Topic-Specific Part (3 credits) is a research seminar. These are completed in successive periods. Students write their research plans during the first part and continue to prepare their Bachelor"s Thesis during the research seminar on the basis of their plans. The research seminar includes the preparation of a seminar paper, which is also the preliminary version of the Bachelor"s Thesis. Based on the comments received on the research paper, the student prepares his/her thesis at the latest during the period following the seminar.

NB! The seminar paper (effectively the first draft of the Bachelor"s thesis) can also be written in Finnish or Swedish, but in that case it should contain an English-language synopsis of 2-3 pages.

Grading

The course is graded on a scale from 0 to 5.

Course results and retake

The results of the course will be posted on the notice board of the Department. If the course work is not accepted or if the student wishes to raise his/her grade, he/she should contact the teacher within one month after the publication of the results and discuss arrangements for rewriting course work.

Course evaluation and development

During the last session, students will have an opportunity to give feedback on the course to the lecturer and to fill in an anonymous evaluation form. During the course feedback can be given anonymously.

When giving feedback, please evaluate the contribution of the teacher, your own contribution, the contributions of other students and the possible contribution of the Department office to the success of the course.

A summary of the feedback will be posted on this page before the next similar course is given.

WebOodi Registration

Study unit Bachelor´s Thesis and Maturity test

In Finnish: Kandidaatin tutkielma ja kypsyysnäyte (6 op / 4 ov)/oj390

Bachelor´s Thesis and Maturity test

Objectives and Content and Mode of Assessment will be specified in accordance with the Faculty's guidelines.

Study unit Bachelor´s Degree, Administration and Organisations

In Finnish: Hallinnon ja organisaatioiden tutkimus (VTK)/vtkhot

Bachelor´s Degree, Administration and Organisations

  • Studies in major subject: basic studies 25 credits, intermediate studies, 65 credits
  • Minor subject studies: 50-60 credits
  • General studies: 30 credits
  • Elective studies: 10–0 credits

Literature

Subordinate units

Study unit Basic Studies

In Finnish: Perusopinnot (25 op / 16 ov)/79182

title: Basic Studies

Credits: 25, Credit Units: 16,

Major Subject Students:

Common basic studies in Political Science (19 credits) and a compulsory subprogramme-specific basic study unit in Political Science (6 credits). The study subprogramme specified for majors in conjunction with student admission determines the study path from the beginning of basic studies.

Minor Subject Students:

Common basic studies in Political Science (19 credits) and one subprogramme-specific basic study unit in Political Science (6 credits). Minor subject students that only plan to complete the basic studies in Political Science do not need to choose a specific subprogramme. Minor subject students that plan to continue to intermediate studies must choose one of the three Political Science subprogrammes during their basic study period: Politics, Administration and Organisations, World Politics. The subprogramme of a minor subject student is not confirmed separately. For information about planning minor subject studies, see Counselling in the Study Guide.

Common Basic Studies in Political Science:

  • Y101. Introduction to Political Science (7 credits),
  • Y105. Politics in the Baltic and Scandinavian Region (6 credits) and
  • Y110. Foundations of Political Thought (6 credits) are obligatory for all Political Science majors and minors.

Subprogramme-Specific Basic Study Unit in Political Science:

  • Major Subject Students: Students select the study unit that belongs to their own subprogramme.
  • Minor Subject Students: One of the three subprogramme-specific study units. Minor subject students that plan to continue to intermediate Political Science studies must select the unit that belongs to the subprogramme that the student will follow in intermediate studies.

Study unit H115. Finnish and European Administration

In Finnish: H115. Suomalainen ja eurooppalainen hallinto (6 op / 4 ov)/791050

title: H115. Finnish and European Administration

Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4,

The study unit aims to familiarise students with the organisations and operational systems of public administration in Finland and Europe. Core topics include the reform and development of administration in Finland and Europe, Finnish and European administrative cultures, and EU governance. The goal for learning is a general understanding of these fields.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide. The study unit is compulsory for majors in the Administration and Organisations subprogramme.

Literature

  • Pollitt Christopher & Bouckaert Geert: Public Management Reform; (2. painos)
  • Stevens Anne & Stevens Hadley: Brussels Bureaucrats? The Administration of the European Union
  • Puoskari Pentti: Transformation of Public Sector. A Comparative Study of the British and Finnish Developments from the Late 1970s to the Early 1990s

Literature examinations

Study unit Intermediate Studies

In Finnish: Aineopinnot (65 op / 43 ov)/ainehot

title: Intermediate Studies

Credits: 65, Credit Units: 43,

Major Subject Students:

Common intermediate studies in Political Science (22 credits), subprogramme-specific intermediate studies in Political Science (30 credits) and the Bachelor’s Thesis (13 credits).

Minor Subject Students:

35 credits =

  • either Y201. Methodology of Political Science (5 credits) or
  • Y205. Research on Power (5 credits) and
  • one of the subprogramme-specific intermediate study units (30 credits).

Common Intermediate Studies in Political Science:

  • Y201. Methodology of Political Science (5 credits),
  • Y205. Research on Power (5 credits),
  • Y250. Quantitative Methods (6 credits) and
  • Y301. Qualitative Methods (6 credits).

Subprogramme - Specific Intermediate Studies:

Mode of Assessment: Political Science majors continue their studies in the subprogramme they selected when accepted into the Faculty, while minor subject students follow the subprogramme they selected during basic studies in Political Science (Politics, Administration and Organisations or World Politics).

Administration and Organisations:

  • Compulsory intermediate studies in administration and organisations (12 credits): H210. Foundations of Administrative and Organisation Theory (6 credits) and H215. Evaluation Research (6 op).
  • Elective intermediate studies in administration and organisations (18 credits): Three 6-credit study units, at least one of which must be from the Administration and Organisations subprogramme: H220. International Organisations (6 credits), H225. Comparative Research on Administration (6 credits), H230. EU Institutions, Decision-Making and Administration (6 credits) or H260. Elective Intermediate Studies, which can account for 0–12 credits in the Administration and Organisations subprogramme.

Superordinate Units

Subordinate units

Study unit H210. Foundations of Administrative and Organisation Theory

In Finnish: H210. Hallinnon ja organisaatioiden tutkimus (6 op / 4 ov)/791170

H210. Foundations of Administrative and Organisation Theory

The study unit aims to familiarise students with the basics of and main approaches to research on administration and organisations.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

  • Denhardt Robert B.: Theories of Public Organization (3rd or 4th ed.)
  • Morgan Gareth: Images of Organization (2nd ed.)
  • Kilduff Martin & Tsai Wenpin: Social Networks and Organizations

Literature examinations

Study unit H215. Evaluation Research

In Finnish: H215. Arviointitutkimus (6 op / 4 ov)/791180

H215. Evaluation Research

Code 791180
Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4

The study unit aims to familiarise students with examining the execution and evaluation of public policies and their practical implementation. Core topics include the growth and development of evaluation practices in the public sector, the relationships between evaluation, administration and accountability, and the central approaches and methodologies of evaluation research. The goal is to provide students with a general overview of the basics and methods of evaluation research.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

  • Vedung Evert: Public Policy and Program Evaluation
  • Guba Egon G & Lincoln Yvonna S: Fourth Generation Evaluation
  • Newman D L & Brown R D: Applied Ethics in Program Evaluation

Literature examinations

Study unit Elective intermediate studies

In Finnish: Valinnaiset aineopinnot (18 op / 12 ov)/ainevalhot

title: Elective intermediate studies

Study unit H220. International Organisations

In Finnish: H220. Kansainväliset organisaatiot (6 op / 4 ov)/791190

title: H220. International Organisations

Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4,

The study unit aims to familiarise students with research on international organisations and form an overall picture of international organisations and their operations. The main topics are the growth of international organisations and development of their duties, the structure and operations of the most important international organisations, and the characteristics of international organisations from the perspective of organisation theory.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

  • Archer Clive: International Organizations (3rd ed.)
  • Pease Kelly-Kate S: International Organizations. Perspectives on Governance in the Twenty-First Century (2nd ed.)
  • Lewis David: The Management of Non-Governmental Development Organizations

Literature examinations

Courses in English

Conflict Management and International Organizations: An Intercultural Communication Perspective

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 4 Credits (study weeks): 3

Teachers

Dr. Peter Praxmarer, University of Lugano, Switzerland E-mail pprax@webshuttle.ch
Course is organised in co-operation with Renvall Institute.

Time and location

22.11.2006 - 29.11.2006
  • Time: 22.11. at 12-16, 23.11. at 8-10, 24.11. at 12-16, 27.-28.11. at 12-14 and 29.11. at 12-16.
  • N.B. Lecture rooms have changed!
  • Wed 22.11: B18 SH 3
  • Thu 23.11: P722
  • Fri 24.11: P722
  • Mon 27.11: P722
  • Tue 28.11: U37 SH 4
  • Wed 29.11: AUD IX
  • Maximum number of participants: 30 (15 Political Science students and 15 Intercultural Encounters students).

N.B. Before starting the course, participants should familiarize themselves with the general theme and the main topics which will be dealt with. See Course work and forms of study.

Prior registration for the course between 9.-16.10. in WebOodi (Political Science students). Information on registration for Intercultural Encounters students: http://www.helsinki.fi/hum/kvv/opetus/periodi_2.html

Compensations

Completion of the course covers

  • Archer Clive : International Organizations (3rd ed.) AND
  • Lewis David : The Management of Non-Governmental Development Organizations

from the study unit H220 .

For Renvall Institute compensation see Renvall_Institute_Study_Guide .

Target group

Political Science students and Intercultural Encounters students (Renvall Institute).

Objectives

  • to give participants a general sense of the role IGOs and INGOs play in the contemporary international system in general, and in post-conflict situations in particular
  • to enable participants to identify the main stakeholders, agents and actors with which IGOs and INGOs typically interact and communicate, especially in post-conflict situations, and to clarify their role
  • to enable participants to understand the organizational, situational and contextual factors which influence communication in IOs
  • to enable participants to assess situations, processes and styles of organizational / institutional and interpersonal communication in IGOs and INGOs
  • to make participants conscious of the potential ambiguity in the meaning and interpretation of key-concepts used in international organizational discourse
  • to raise participants’ awareness of the importance of intercultural communication competence and skills in international organization work in general, and in post-conflict situations in particular.

Content

  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN THE CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM
  • 2.1. Select Terms and Concepts in International Relations and International Organization Studies
  • 2.2. International Organizations (IOs)
  • - 2.2.1. Current Classifications
  • - 2.2.2. Evolution and Structures of IOs
  • - 2.2.3. International Organizations between (Global) Civil Society, the (World) Economy and the International State System
  • - 2.2.4. (Global) Civil Society, its Organizations (NGOs) and International Public Policy
  • 3. COMMUNICATION IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: GENERALITIES
  • 3.1. Simple Definitions / Models of Communication
  • 3.2. Organizational Communication Flows and Webs
  • 3.3. Peculiarities of Professional Communication in IOs
  • 3.4. Organizational and Personal / Group Dimensions Influencing Organizational Communication
  • 3.5. Elements of "National" Political (Civic) Culture Influencing Organizational Communication
  • 4. VERBAL AND NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION IN IOS
  • 4.1. General Considerations
  • 4.2. Verbal Communication in IOs
  • 4.3. Non-Verbal Communication in IOs
  • 5. KEY-CONCEPTS AND THEIR MEANING IN IO DISCOURSE
  • 5.1. Generalities
  • 5.2. Perceived or Real Influence of Distinct Cultural / Civilizational Value Bases
  • 5.3. Semantic Approximations
  • 5.4. Unintended Misunderstandings, Deliberate Ambiguity, Obfuscation and Manipulation of Meaning
  • 6. POST-CONFLICT SITUATIONS
  • 6.1. Context and Situation: Analytical Approximations
  • 6.2. Specific Terms and Concepts used in Peace and Conflict Studies and in Conflict Transformation Methodology (Selection)
  • 6.3. Post-Conflict (and Post-Disaster) Situations and Development Cooperation Contexts
  • 6.4. Communication, Peace and Conflict Studies and Conflict Transformation
  • 6.5. Two Ways of Looking at Conflict and Conflict Transformation
  • 6.6. Main Organizational Actors / Communicators in a Post-Conflict Situation
  • 7. COMMUNICATING AFTER CONFLICT
  • 7.1. Nonconsensual Communication
  • 7.2. "Classical" Methods of Consensual Communication
  • 7.3. Innovative Methods of Consensual Communication
  • 8. PROFILE OF PEACE-BUILDERS AND COMMUNICATORS FOR PEACE: (INTERCULTURAL) COMMUNICATION COMPETENCE AND SKILLS APPLIED
  • 9. AFTERTHOUGHTS AND CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS

Course work and forms of study

Timeframe and Expected Work Load

  • This intensive course will be given over five days, for a total of 18 hours of class contact, and will consist of:
  • - four meetings of lectures and discussions, for a total of ca. 12 hours
  • - two meetings of preliminary presentations of participants’ Final Papers, for a total of ca. 6 hours.
  • The total workload for this course, including individual preparation, readings and time spent on the Final Paper, is estimated to be 75 – 100 hours.
  • The lecturer will be available for individual or small group discussions before or after class.

Modes of Teaching and Learning

  • Lecture, discussion, seminar and group work, assignments.

Materials

  • A detailed course description, containing all information about the content of the course and how to prepare for it, will be sent to all students who have chosen to take this course, a couple of weeks before the course starts.
  • Online readings, handouts and worksheets, recommended readings.

Individual Preparation

  • Before starting the course , participants should familiarize themselves with the general theme and the main topics we will be dealing with. This can easily be done by browsing the net. Just search, for instance, "International Governmental Organizations", "International Nongovernmental Organizations", "Conflict Transformation", "Peacebuilding", "Organizational Communication" or any other topic relevant to our theme, and go through some of the many results your search will yield. Alternatively, you can also visit one of the websites listed the Reference Texts (see below).
  • At the beginning of the first session , each participant should be prepared to give a short presentation on what he/she has learned from this first exercise. If you prefer, you can work on this with others (up to 3 people). Your presentation will count as part of the grading requirements for this course (see Grading).
  • Before each session , participants are expected to read the required readings and glance over the handouts relevant to the lecture, and, if possible, consult some of the recommended readings.

Select Reference Readings on Peace and Conflict

Glossaries

Research Guide

Handbooks, Programs, Reports, Research Centers

Truth Commissions and Community Courts

Completion of the Study Unit H220

If a student doesn"t attend other H220 courses during the academic year 2006-2007 the remaining credits of the study unit are to be completed in the form of a book exam for Markku Kiviniemi within six months, at the latest, after the date of the course completion.

Grading

The course work will be graded on a scale from 0 to 5.

Assessment Basis and Evaluation

  • Individual preparation (pre-course preparation and preparation for each course day) 20%
  • Class participation (informed discussion contributions and questions) 40%
  • Final Paper (5-8 pages, customary format), ideally to be gradually written, at least in part, during the course, with preliminary presentation of findings to all participants at the end of the course (time and class size permitting). Group work (up to three) is encouraged. Some topics for final papers will be proposed by the lecturer, but students can also work on a relevant topic of their choice. The paper will be graded according to contents, originality, clarity and structure, and is due three weeks after the end of the course (please send by e-mail to lecturer) 40%

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Courses in English

International Organizations

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 2 Credits (study weeks): 1

Teachers

Research Manager Markku Kiviniemi E-mail Markku.Kiviniemi@helsinki.fi Home page http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/vol/staff/markivin/index.htm
Guest lecturers

Time and location

20.03.2007 - 03.05.2007

20.3.-3.5. Tue and Thu 16-18, U37 ls. Registration for the course in WebOodi between 2.1.-27.3.

Prerequisites

Basic studies.

Compensations

Completion of the course covers either Archer Clive : International Organizations (3rd ed.) OR Pease Kelly-Kate S : International Organizations. Perspectives on Governance in the Twenty-First Century (2nd ed.) - according to a student"s choice - from the study unit H220.

Target group

Students of Political Science (Subprogramme of Administration and Organisations).

Objectives

The objective is to learn to know main international organizations and their action in the international system. Another objective is to learn to analyze international organizations by different criteria.

Content

The first lecture on March 20 is a general introduction which is followed by a series of guest lectures by experts on different international organizations UN, World Bank, IMF, WTO, NATO, Amnesty, Attac, ILO). The fields of world economy and human rights will both be covered.

Lectures and links

The lectures are given from March 20 to April 26, 2007 on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4-6 p.m., in U37, lecture room. Obs. no lecture on March 27, April 5, April 17, May 3. Exceptional time and place on April 13.

  • Tue March 20 General Introduction, Markku Kiviniemi, University of Helsinki (slides)
  • Thu March 22 International Monetary Fund, Senior Economist Kaija-Leena Rikkonen, The Bank of Finland (slides)
  • Thu March 29 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Senior Researcher Hanna Ojanen, Finnish Institute of International Affairs (bibliography)
  • Tue April 3 Decision Making in the United Nations, Eeva-Liisa Myllymäki, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Tue April 10 International Labor Organization, Director Marjaana Valkonen, The Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions
  • Thu April 12 Development Issues in the United Nations, Director Tarja Reponen, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Fri April 13 10-12, U40, room 6 World Trade Organization, Yenkong Ngangjoh, University of Uppsala
  • Thu April 19 Amnesty International, Niina Laajapuro, Amnesty, The Finnish Section
  • Tue April 24 The World Bank, Special Adviser Inkeri Hirvensalo, Ministry of Finance
  • Thu April 26 Attac and alternatives to neoliberal globalization, Researcher Tuomas Ylä-Anttila, University of Helsinki

One lecture may be added to this programme later.

Websites: Course information: http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/opas2005/vol/h220_kiviniemi The United Nations: www.un.org, The World Bank: www.worldbank.org, The IMF: www.imf.org, The WTO: www.wto.org, The NATO: www.nato.int, Attac: www.attac.org/index.htm, Amnesty: www.amnesty.org, The ILO: www.ilo.org, The Red Cross: www.redcross.int

Course work and forms of study

The course is completed by attending the expert lectures and by writing a lecture diary which comments on the themes of the different lectures and also gives feedback on them. The lecture diary is not only referring to the lectures but it may also discuss and argument on them (for/against). The lecture diary must include reports of 1-2 pages on eight lectures. The lecture diary must be written clearly by a computer program, and it is to be returned to the post box of Markku Kiviniemi in the office of the Department of Political Science by May 18, at the latest.

If a student doesn"t attend other H220 courses during the academic year 2006-2007 the remaining credits of the study unit are to be completed in the form of a book exam for Markku Kiviniemi within six months, at the latest, after the date of the course completion.

Grading

The lecture diaries are graded on a scale 0-5. The main criteria of grading are analytical approach, comprehensiveness and clarity.

Course results and retake

The results will be available at the information table of the Department of Political Science at the beginning of June. If the course work is not accepted or if the student wishes to raise his/her grade, he/she should contact the teacher within one month after the publication of the results and discuss arrangements for rewriting course work.

Course evaluation and development

At the last lectures anonymous feedback sheets will be distributed. During the course feedback can be given anonymously.

When giving feedback, please evaluate the contribution of the teacher, your own contribution, the contributions of other students and the possible contribution of the Department office to the success of the course.

Summary of course feedback - Spring 2006

  • the course was generally interesting
  • the variety and selection of organizations and lecturers was good
  • the slides in the internet were useful
  • lecture diary system an appropriate way to do the credits
  • more uniform structure in the lectures was wanted
  • more concentration on selected important themes instead of organizational details
  • more discussion in the lectures

Feedback summed up by Markku Kiviniemi.

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Study unit H225. Comparative Research on Administration

In Finnish: H225. Vertaileva hallinnon tutkimus (6 op / 4 ov)/791200

title: H225. Comparative Research on Administration

Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4,

The study unit aims to familiarise students with comparative research on changes in public administration in general, as well as with the connections between changes in politics and administration. Core topics include comparative research on administrative systems in general, and Russian and Eastern European studies as an optional field of specialisation.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

  • Heady Ferrel: Public Administration: A Comparative Perspective (6th ed.)

or

  • Blondel Jean: Comparative Government (2nd ed.)

In addition, one of the following:

  • Harrinvirta Markku: Strategies for Public Sector Reform in OECD Countries. A Comparison
  • Hollis Guy & Plokker Karin: Towards Democratic Decentralization: Transforming Regional and Local Government in the New Europe
  • Nissinen Marja: Latvia's Transition to a Market Economy. Political Determinants of Economic Reform Policy
  • Ryavec Karl W: Russian Bureaucracy. Power and Pathology

Literature examinations

Study unit H230. EU Institutions, Decision-Making and Administration

In Finnish: H230. Euroopan unionin instituutiot, päätöksenteko ja hallinto (6 op / 4 ov)/791210

title: H230. EU Institutions, Decision-Making and Administration

Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4,

The study unit aims to deepen students' knowledge about EU institutions, their mutual relations, decision-making and administrative procedures. Goals for learning include the ability to examine and analyse the development of the EU, and the goals of different member states and groups concerning the Union's activities and the development of institutions.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

  • Raunio Tapio & Tiilikainen Teija: Finland in the EU
  • Cremona Marise (ed.): The Enlargement of the European Union
  • Nugent Neill: The European Commission

Literature examinations

Courses in English

Challenges to the EU: Citizens, Institutions and Decision-making

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 4 Credits (study weeks): 3

Teachers

University Lecturer Henri Vogt E-mail henri.vogt@helsinki.fi

Time and location

30.10.2006 - 11.12.2006

30.10.-11.12. Mon and Wed 14-16, Eco sh 3-4 . Registration for the course between 21.8.-6.11. in WebOodi.

Course exam on Wed 13.12. 14-16, Eco ls .

Prerequisites

  • Students of Politics and Administration and Organisations: basic studies.
  • Students of EU-studies: EU1.

Compensations

  • Study unit P215 elective literature: two of the following : Hix Simon : The Political System of the European Union (2nd ed.), Cini Michelle (ed.): European Union Politics , Cremona Marise (ed.): The Enlargement of the European Union .
  • Study unit H230 : Cremona Marise (ed.): The Enlargement of the European Union and Nugent Neill : The European Commission.
  • NB! Students who are doing P215 or H230: In addition to the exam, choose one of the texts of the reading list, or a recent article related to the course and published either in Journal of Common Market Studies, Cooperation and Conflict, European Union Politics or International Affairs and write a short, one-page review of it (i.e. the main point of the text and its main strengths and weaknesses; in Finnish, Swedish, or English). Submit the review to Henri Vogt’s post box at the Department of Political Science by Friday, December 15, 2 pm.

See also Course work and forms of study.

Target group

Students of

Objectives

The aim of the course is simply to give a broad overview of the principal challenges that the EU – or Europe in general – is currently facing. The underlying, mutually closely interrelated questions are: 1) How can the EU feasibly function in the future? And 2) how can the EU justify its existence in the eyes of its own citizens and those of the rest of the world, i.e. how ought it to function? In terms of its methodological approach the course is pluralistic; it involves perspectives from comparative politics, “EU studies proper” and International Relations.

Content

  • Mon 30/10: Introduction: The EU as a Theoretical Challenge
  • Wed 1/11: Support for Integration
  • Mon 6/11: A European Identity? Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion in Europe
  • Wed 8/11: A Respectful Continent? Tolerance and changing demographies in Europe
  • Mon 13/11: The EU, Globalisation and Individualism
  • Wed 15/11: No lecture
  • Mon 20/11: The EU’s role in the world: A Responsible Europe?
  • Wed 22/11: Further Enlargements?
  • Mon 27/11: No lecture
  • Wed 29/11: What Kind of Democracy Promotion?
  • Mon 4/12: The EU as a security agent in the making?
  • Wed 6/12: Independence day (no lecture)
  • Mon 11/12: A European Constitution?
  • Wed 13/12: Exam : the lecturer will give a list of approximately 15_questions , to be prepared beforehand on the webpage of the course by Thursday, December 7. In the exam, three of these questions will have to be answered, i.e. written a short essay about.

Course work and forms of study

Exam : the lecturer will give a list of approximately 15_questions to be prepared beforehand on the webpage of the course by Thursday, December 7. In the exam, three of these questions will have to be answered, i.e. written a short essay about.

NB! Students who are doing P215 or H230: In addition to the exam, choose one of the texts of the reading_list , or a recent article related to the course and published either in Journal of Common Market Studies, Cooperation and Conflict, European Union Politics or International Affairs and write a short, one-page review of it (i.e. the main point of the text and its main strengths and weaknesses; in Finnish, Swedish, or English). Submit the review to Henri Vogt’s post box at the Department of Political Science by Friday, December 15, 2 pm.

N.B. If a student doesn"t attend other courses belonging to the study unit during the academic year 2006-2007 the remaining credits of the study unit are to be completed in the form of a book exam within six months, at the latest, after the date of the course completion.

Grading

The course work will be graded on a scale from 0 to 5.

Course results and retake

The results of the course will be posted on the notice board of the Department by XX.

The exam retake will be held Wed 24.1. at 8-10, PR sali 1. Prior registration for the exam retake between 8.-15.1. in WebOodi. Don"t mind if WebOodi informs you that you have already taken the course.

Course evaluation and development

During the last session, students will have an opportunity to give feedback on the course to the lecturer and to fill in an anonymous evaluation form. During the course feedback can be given anonymously.

When giving feedback, please evaluate the contribution of the teacher, your own contribution, the contributions of other students and the possible contribution of the Department office to the success of the course.

A summary of the feedback will be posted on this page before the next similar course is given.

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Study unit H260. Elective Intermediate Studies in Administration and Organisations

In Finnish: H260. Hallinnon ja organisaatioiden tutkimuksen linjan vapaavalintaiset aineopinnot (0-12 op / 0-8 ov)/791220

title: H260. Elective Intermediate Studies in Administration and Organisations

Credits: 0-12, Credit Units: 0-8,

Elective intermediate studies consist primarily of intermediate-level studies in administrative and organisations completed in other Finnish or foreign Universities, but may also be selected from the intermediate studies of other subprogrammes in the Department of Political Science.

Study unit H330. Bachelor's Thesis Seminar: Topic-Specific Part (Administration and Organisations)

In Finnish: H330. Kandidaatintutkielmaseminaarin aihekohtainen osa (3 op / 2 ov)/791330

title: H330. Bachelor"s Thesis Seminar: Topic-Specific Part (Administration and Organisations)

Credits: 3, Credit Units: 2,
Courses in English

Bachelor´s Thesis Seminar: Topic-Specific Part

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 3 Credits (study weeks): 2

Teachers

University Lecturer Henri Vogt E-mail henri.vogt@helsinki.fi

Time and location

03.04.2007 - 24.04.2007

10.-17.4. Tue 10-14, U37 sh 3. N.B. additional sessions 3.4. Tue 10-14, U40 sali 10 and 24.4. 10-14, U37 sh 3.

Registration for the seminar according to a student"s subprogramme in WebOodi between 2.1.-17.4.

Prerequisites

Students who are about to attend this seminar must also sign up for and attend Bachelor´s_Thesis_Seminar:_General_Part_(Y320) .

Compensations

Taking the seminar covers the study unit P330., H330. or M330.

Target group

The Bachelor"s Thesis Seminar is only for Political Science degree students. It is not available to exchange, visiting or minor subject students.

Objectives

The study unit aims to teach the principles and practices of scientific research, how to prepare a research plan and write an academic text, as well as to develop the students" argumentation and discussion skills.

Content

To be specified later.

Course work and forms of study

Bachelor"s Thesis Seminar is divided into two parts: the first, Y320. General_Part (4 credits) is an introduction to the methodology of political science and to academic writing, while the second, P330., H330. or M330. Topic-Specific Part (3 credits) is a research seminar. These are completed in successive periods. Students write their research plans during the first part and continue to prepare their Bachelor"s Thesis during the research seminar on the basis of their plans. The research seminar includes the preparation of a seminar paper, which is also the preliminary version of the Bachelor"s Thesis. Based on the comments received on the research paper, the student prepares his/her thesis at the latest during the period following the seminar.

NB! The seminar paper (effectively the first draft of the Bachelor"s thesis) can also be written in Finnish or Swedish, but in that case it should contain an English-language synopsis of 2-3 pages.

Grading

The course is graded on a scale from 0 to 5.

Course results and retake

The results of the course will be posted on the notice board of the Department. If the course work is not accepted or if the student wishes to raise his/her grade, he/she should contact the teacher within one month after the publication of the results and discuss arrangements for rewriting course work.

Course evaluation and development

During the last session, students will have an opportunity to give feedback on the course to the lecturer and to fill in an anonymous evaluation form. During the course feedback can be given anonymously.

When giving feedback, please evaluate the contribution of the teacher, your own contribution, the contributions of other students and the possible contribution of the Department office to the success of the course.

A summary of the feedback will be posted on this page before the next similar course is given.

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Study unit Compulsory Minor Subject Studies

In Finnish: Pakolliset sivuaineopinnot (25 op / 16 ov)/ainesivuhot

Compulsory Minor Subject Studies

Compulsory Minor Subject Studies in Leadership and Management (in Finnish: JOS - Johtamisen sivuainekokonaisuus) (25 cr)

Forms of Study:

There are two compulsory lectures: JOS1 and JOS2. If you cannot follow a lecture in Finnish, you should contact the responsible teacher and ask for a substitute for the compulsory lecture (for example, a written assignment). Some of the coursebooks are also in Finnish. If you find your reading skills in Finnish insufficient, you should request the concerned teacher for equivalent books in English. Generally, substitute books can be arranged easily.

Timing:

Major Students of Administration and Organisation start Leadership and Management minor studies in their first autumn.

Study unit Introduction to Leadership and Management (JOS1)

In Finnish: JOS1. Johtamisen perusteet (7 op / 4 ov)/79440

Introduction to Leadership and Management (JOS1)

Code 79440
Credits: 7, Credit Units: 4

Literature

  • Robbins S P: Essentials of Organizational Behavior (6.th edition or newer)
  • Sennett R: Corrosion of Character
  • Palmer I - Hardy C: Thinking about management

The book "Thinking about management: implications of organizational debates for practice" by Ian Palmer and Cynthia Hardy (SAGE 2000) will be the substitute for the compulsory lecture in JOS1. This is to say that once you have done the three books [Robbins, Sennett, Palmer & Hardy] you have passed the study unit JOS1 (7 credit points) in a Faculty examination.

Literature examinations

Study unit Strategic Management (JOS2)

In Finnish: JOS2. Strateginen johtaminen (6 op / 4 ov)/79441

Strategic Management (JOS2)

Code 79441
Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4

Literature examinations

Study unit Human Resource Management (JOS3)

In Finnish: JOS3. Henkilöstöjohtaminen (6-10 op / 4-6 ov)/79442

Human Resource Management (JOS3)

Code 79442
Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4

Literature examinations

Study unit Public Management (JOS6)

In Finnish: JOS6. Julkinen johtaminen (6 op / 4 ov)/79445

Public Management (JOS6)

Code 79445
Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4

Literature examinations

Study unit Bachelor´s Degree, World Politics

In Finnish: Maailmanpolitiikan tutkimus (VTK)/vtkmap

Bachelor´s Degree, World Politics

Literature

Subordinate units

Study unit Basic Studies

In Finnish: Perusopinnot (25 op / 16 ov)/79183

title: Basic Studies

Credits: 25, Credit Units: 16,

Study unit M115. Trends in World Politics

In Finnish: M115. Maailmanpolitiikan suuntaukset (6 op / 4 ov)/791060

title: M115. Trends in World Politics

Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4,

The study unit aims to familiarise students with the core topics of special research fields in world politics (foreign policy and diplomacy; peace and conflict research; global political economy and global governance) by discussing them from the point of view of Finland and its international relations. The goal is to achieve a better understanding of Finland’s global position and its development.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide. The unit is compulsory for majors in the World Politics subprogramme.

Literature

  • Hansen Lene & Waever Ole (eds.): European integration and national identity. The Challenge of the Nordic States
  • Jakobson Max: Finland in the New Europe
  • Raunio Tapio & Tiilikainen Teija: Finland in the European Union

Literature examinations

Courses in English

Finnish Foreign Policy

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 2 Credits (study weeks): 1

Teachers

Dr. Phil. Burkhard Auffermann E-mail Burkhard.Auffermann@uta.fi

Time and location

02.11.2006 - 30.11.2006

2.-30.11. Thu 12-16, U37 ls.

Registration for the course in WebOodi between 21.8.-9.11.

Course exam Thu 7.12. 12-14, U37 ls.

Compensations

The grading value of the course is 2 study points and it will replace Jakobson Max : "Finland in the New Europe" of the study unit M115 (the English degree requirements). See also Course Work and Forms of Study.

Target group

The course is targeted for international degree students of political science (following the English degree progamme) and for exchange and visiting students.

Objectives

The aim of this course is to acquaint students with the historical background of Finnish foreign policy and recent developments therein and with the connection between Finnish foreign policy and world politics generally.

Content

The lectures will cover the following topics:

  • Theory of Foreign Policy Analysis
  • Political history of Finland
  • Nation and nationalism, identity and interests
  • Neutrality and difficult relations to the Soviet Union
  • Security and defense
  • Foreign economic relations
  • Integration policy
  • Foreign policy and globalization
  • Current challenges: EU

Handouts:

Course work and forms of study

The lectures are basing on the major research in the field, additional examples from current political developments are used. The course ends with a written exam.

N.B. The remaining credits (4 cr / 3 cu) of the study unit are to be completed in the form of a book exam within six months, at the latest, after the date of the course completion.

Grading

The course work will be graded on a scale from 0 to 5.

Course results and retake

The results of the course will be posted on the notice board of the Department.

The exam retake will be held Wed 24.1. at 8-10, PR sali 1. Prior registration for the exam retake between 8.-15.1. in WebOodi. Don"t mind if WebOodi informs you that you have already taken the course.

Course evaluation and development

During the last session, students will have an opportunity to give feedback on the course to the lecturer and to fill in an anonymous evaluation form. During the course feedback can be given anonymously.

When giving feedback, please evaluate the contribution of the teacher, your own contribution, the contributions of other students and the possible contribution of the Department office to the success of the course.

Evaluation of the course, spring 2006

  • Registered participants: 48
  • Participant in the final examination: 32
  • Respondents of the course evaluation: 22
  • (regular participation: 25-30 students)

Out of 22 respondents 18 deemed the course as very interesting or interesting, 4 as neither interesting nor uninteresting, and nobody as uninteresting. As a consequence of previous criticism the course on Finnish Foreign was this time oriented mainly towards the needs of exchange students (more basic level) and less towards the Finnish students. Nevertheless, the course was not purely a story-telling one on Finland in the world, but also theory- and history-oriented.

A majority of the participants stressed, that the course had been well structured. The use of current examples for basically important structural issues was noted positively. But as usually: whilst some students would have preferred to get less theory and more contemporary material, more especially on issues like Baltic/Nordic cooperation in the EU, others would have preferred the opposite. The dominating view is that a good balance had been found of theory and empirical material, clear examples and "story telling". Again, some wanted less history, and less on Russia (others liked this). One student proposes to have a course on Finnish foreign and domestic policies for the ERASMUS students - others underlining that it was positive that foreign policy had been linked to domestic and current issues in Finnish politics. Generally positively seen was the comparison with the foreign policy-making in other European countries. One participant would have liked more on Finnish development policy, esp. Africa.

Generally positively evaluated was the communicative way of the lecturing; some students nevertheless were wishing that the students should have been involved even more. A majority of the participants wanted more time for discussion. The use of power point slights and the internet was underlined by most students as a very positive feature; some of them criticising the use of pictures, others understand it positively as a tool to make a 4-hours lecture possible- and wanted even more.

Evaluation summed up by Burkhard Auffermann.

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Study unit Intermediate Studies

In Finnish: Aineopinnot (65 op / 43 ov)/ainemap

title: Intermediate Studies

Credits: 65, Credit Units: 43,

Superordinate Units

Subordinate units

Study unit M210. Theoretical Orientations in World Politics

In Finnish: M210. Maailmanpolitiikan teoriasuuntaukset (6 op / 4 ov)/791230

M210. Theoretical Orientations in World Politics

The study unit focuses on different theories and methodologies used in research on world politics. The goal is to familiarise themselves with the central theoretical approaches in research on world politics, understand their strengths and weaknesses and link them to the broader field of philosophy of science.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

  • Baylis John & Smith Steve: Globalization of World Politics
  • Hollis Martin & Smith Steve: Explaining and Understanding International Relations

Literature examinations

Study unit M215. Changes in World Politics

In Finnish: M215. Muutokset maailmanpolitiikassa (6 op / 4 ov)/791240

title: M215. Changes in World Politics

Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4,

The study unit aims to give an overview of the recent changes in global politics - especially the end of the Cold War and globalisation - and of normative arguments in favour of stability or change. The goal is to understand the nature of historical changes and their impact on global politics, and the possible explanations and justifications of these changes.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

Three of the following:

  • Herrmann Richard K & Lebow Richard N (eds.): Ending the Cold War. Interpretations, Causation and the Study of International Relations
  • Brown Chris: International Relations Theory. New Normative Approaches (the title of the book corrected 10.1.2006)

and

  • Held David & McGrew Anthony: Global Transformations: Governing Globalization Power, Authority, and Global Governance

or

  • Held David et al.: Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture

Literature examinations

Study unit Fields of Specialitation

In Finnish: Erikoistumisalueet (12+6 op / 8+4 ov)/ainemaperik

title: Fields of Specialitation

Credits: 12-18, Credit Units: 8-12,

Mode of Assessment:

One of the three fields of specialisation in global politics (12 credits):

  • Foreign Policy and Diplomacy,
  • Peace and Conflict Studies, or
  • Global Political Economy and Global Governance,

and one elective intermediate study unit (6 credits) in another field of specialisation in World Politics than one’s own.

Study unit Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

In Finnish: Ulkopolitiikka ja diplomatia/aineulk

title: Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

Credits: 18, Credit Units: 12,
  • M220. Theory of Foreign Policy and Diplomacy (6 credits) and
  • M225. The Foreign Policies of Key International Actors (6 credits), and one elective intermediate study unit from another field of specialisation in World Politics than one’s own.

Study unit M220. Theory of Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

In Finnish: M220. Ulkopolitiikan ja diplomatian teoria (6 op / 4 ov)/791250

title: M220. Theory of Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4,

The study unit provides the foundations for discussion about the international system and the state as foreign and security policy actor. The goal is to understand how the international system can be conceptualised and how it can be thought to affect the foreign policies of states and other international actors.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

  • Ruggie John G: Constructing World Polity
  • Katzenstein Peter J (ed.): Culture of National Security
  • Bull Hedley: Anarchical Society

Literature examinations

Study unit M225. The Foreign Policies of Key International Actors

In Finnish: M225. Joidenkin keskeisten toimijoiden ulkopolitiikka (6 op / 4 ov)/791260

M225. The Foreign Policies of Key International Actors

The study unit deals with research on foreign policy by focusing on a group of key actors (USA, Russia, the EU) and discusses various theoretical approaches used in the foreign policy research of these actors. The goal is to obtain a comprehensive understanding of different theoretical approaches used in foreign policy research and to see how these are linked to the concrete foreign policy activities of these central actors.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

  • Hopf Ted: Understandings of Russian Foreign Policy
  • Yetiv Steve A: Explaining Foreign Policy. U.S. decision-making and the Persian Gulf War
  • Tonra Ben & Christiansen Thomas (eds.): Rethinking European Union Foreign Policy

Literature examinations

Courses in English

European Foreign, Security and Defense Policy

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 2 Credits (study weeks): 1

Teachers

Dr., Docent Hanna Ojanen E-mail hanna.ojanen@upi-fiia.fi

Time and location

15.01.2007 - 19.02.2007

15.1.-19.2. Mon and Wed 16-18, U37 ls.

Registration for the course between 2.-22.1. in WebOodi.

The course exam will be held Wed 21.2. 16-18, U37 ls.

Prerequisites

Basic studies.

Compensations

The grading value of the course is 2 study points (1 cu) and it will replace Tonra Ben et Christiansen Thomas (eds.): Rethinking European Union Foreign Policy of the study unit M225. See Course work and forms of study.

Target group

Students of World Politics.

Objectives

The goal of the course is to give the students a good overall view and understanding of the European Union as an actor in security and defence policy, including the historical development of a common EU foreign and security policy and the EU"s current relations with other actors. In addition to the empirical side, also alternative theoretical explanations will be dealt with, linking the analysis to theories of European integration in general, and to the evolution of the conceptual framework. The students are also encouraged to put forward their own analyses and look at possible future developments.

Content

Topics include: ESDP, EU-NATO relations, EU-UN relations, member countries" positions, theoretical explanations, defence integration.

  • Programme:
  • 15 January: Introduction: Is the EU a key international actor in security and defence?
  • 17 January: Origins and history: from foreign political cooperation in the European Communities to common foreign and security policy and European security and defence policy in the European Union
  • 22 January: Security and defence in principle and in practice: The constitutional treaty, the EU Security Strategy and the international presence of the EU – civilian, military or perhaps normative power?
  • 24 January: Theories at a loss? Explaining the common security and defence policy
  • 29 January: Variation in member countries’ views on foreign and security policy
  • 31 January: Military non-alignment and ESDP

( Note: no lecture on 5 February! )

  • 7 February: The impact of EU enlargement on common foreign and security policy
  • 12 February: EU-NATO relations
  • 14 February: EU-UN relations
  • 19 February: Discussion on the readings. Conclusions: What is European foreign, security and defence policy about? What brings it forward? Course evaluation
  • 21 February: Exam

See readings, chronology_of_events_and_glossary . See also the CFSP Forum at http://www.fornet.info/CFSPforum.html for additional readings.

Course work and forms of study

The course consists of lectures, discussion based on the following readings :

  • 1) A Secure Europe in a Better World. European security strategy. 13 December 2003. http://ue.eu.int/uedocs/cmsUpload/78367.pdf and
  • 2) Posen, Barry R. (2006)"European Union Security and Defense Policy: Response to Unipolarity?". Security Studies 15 (2) 2006, pp. 149-186.

Have a look also at the glossary_and_chronology_of_events . If you want to read more on current events, follow the CFSP Forum at

, and a written exam.

N.B. The remaining credits of the study unit are to be completed in the form of a book exam within six months, at the latest, after the date of the course completion.

Grading

The course work will be graded on a scale from 0 to 5.

Course results and retake

The results of the course will be posted on the notice board of the Department by 16th March.

The exam retake will be held Fri 25.5. at 8-10, PR sali 1. Prior registration for the exam retake between 7.-17.5. in WebOodi. Don"t mind if WebOodi informs you that you have already taken the course.

Course evaluation and development

During the last session, students will have an opportunity to give feedback on the course to the lecturer and to fill in an anonymous evaluation form. During the course feedback can be given anonymously.

When giving feedback, please evaluate the contribution of the teacher, your own contribution, the contributions of other students and the possible contribution of the Department office to the success of the course.

A summary of the feedback will be posted on this page before the next similar course is given.

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Study unit Peace and Conflict Studies

In Finnish: Rauhan- ja konfliktintutkimus/ainerh

title: Peace and Conflict Studies

Credits: 18, Credit Units: 12,
  • M230. Theory of Peace and Security Studies (6 credits) and
  • M235. Conflicts and Their Resolution (6 credits), and one elective intermediate study unit from another field of specialisation in World Politics than one’s own.

Study unit M230. Theory of Peace and Security Studies

In Finnish: M230. Rauhan– ja konfliktintutkimuksen teoria (6 op / 4 ov)/791270

title: M230. Theory of Peace and Security Studies

Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4,

The study unit provides an overview of the fields of peace and conflict research, and security studies, by examining their main theoretical orientations, concepts and questions. The goal is to get an idea of different models of thinking about conflicts and understand the basics of conflict solving.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

  • Lipschutz Ronnie D: On Security
  • Nafziger E Wayne & Auvinen Juha: Economic Development Inequality and War. Humanitarian Emergencies in Developing Countries
  • Kaldor Mary : New and Old Wars. Organized Violence in a Global Era

Literature examinations

Study unit M235. Conflicts and Their Resolution

In Finnish: M235. Konfliktit ja niiden ratkaiseminen (6 op / 4 ov)/791280

title: M235. Conflicts and Their Resolution

Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4,

The study unit aims to give a picture of the means used for solving conflicts by examining some of the main conflicts in recent times, and the global approaches adopted to solve these conflicts.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

  • Gurr Ted Robert: Peoples versus States. Minorities at Risk in the New Century
  • Kymlicka Will: Multicultural Citizenship
  • Galtung Johan: Peace by Peaceful Means: Peace and Conflict, Development and Civilization

Literature examinations

Study unit Global Political Economy and Global Governance

In Finnish: Globaali poliittinen talous ja globaali hallinta/aineglob

title: Global Political Economy and Global Governance

Credits: 18, Credit Units: 12,
  • M240. Core Questions in Political Economy (6 credits) and
  • M245. Global Governance and its Reform (6 credits),

and one elective intermediate study unit from another field of specialisation in World Politics than one’s own.

Study unit M240. Core Questions in Political Economy

In Finnish: M240. Poliittisen talouden keskeisiä kysymyksiä (6 op / 4 ov)/791290

title: M240. Core Questions in Political Economy

Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4,

The study unit aims to familiarise students with the core questions and theories of international and global economics. The goal is to master at least the main points of both traditional (realist/liberalist/marxist) and various new constructivist and critical theories of political economy. Students will also learn about the historical development of relations between global production, exchange and finance, and about a number of related topical issues.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

  • Stubbs Richard & Underhill Geoffrey R D: Political Economy and the Changing Global Order
  • Palan Ronen: Global Political Economy: Contemporary Theories
  • Gilpin Robert: Global Political Economy

Literature examinations

Study unit M245. Global Governance and its Reform

In Finnish: M245. Globaali hallinta ja sen uudistaminen, 6 op / 4 ov)/791300

title: M245. Global Governance and its Reform

Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4,

The study unit introduces a number of critical approaches to globalisation and global governance. Is globalisation as clear and basic a process as we are often led to believe? How can power analysis and normative change theories be applied to globalisation and research on global governance? The goal is to learn how to apply the core concepts and theories of world politics to the analysis of globalisation and global governance.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

  • Hirst Paul & Thompson Grahame: Globalization in Question
  • Gill Stephen: Power and Resistance in the New World Order
  • Patomäki Heikki & Teivainen Teivo: A Possible World. Democratic Transformation of Global Institutions

Literature examinations

Study unit M330. Bachelor's Thesis Seminar: Topic-Specific Part ( World Politics)

In Finnish: M330. Kandidaatintutkielmaseminaarin aihekohtainen osa (3 op / 2 ov)/791340

M330. Bachelor's Thesis Seminar: Topic-Specific Part ( World Politics)

Courses in English

Bachelor´s Thesis Seminar: Topic-Specific Part

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 3 Credits (study weeks): 2

Teachers

University Lecturer Henri Vogt E-mail henri.vogt@helsinki.fi

Time and location

03.04.2007 - 24.04.2007

10.-17.4. Tue 10-14, U37 sh 3. N.B. additional sessions 3.4. Tue 10-14, U40 sali 10 and 24.4. 10-14, U37 sh 3.

Registration for the seminar according to a student"s subprogramme in WebOodi between 2.1.-17.4.

Prerequisites

Students who are about to attend this seminar must also sign up for and attend Bachelor´s_Thesis_Seminar:_General_Part_(Y320) .

Compensations

Taking the seminar covers the study unit P330., H330. or M330.

Target group

The Bachelor"s Thesis Seminar is only for Political Science degree students. It is not available to exchange, visiting or minor subject students.

Objectives

The study unit aims to teach the principles and practices of scientific research, how to prepare a research plan and write an academic text, as well as to develop the students" argumentation and discussion skills.

Content

To be specified later.

Course work and forms of study

Bachelor"s Thesis Seminar is divided into two parts: the first, Y320. General_Part (4 credits) is an introduction to the methodology of political science and to academic writing, while the second, P330., H330. or M330. Topic-Specific Part (3 credits) is a research seminar. These are completed in successive periods. Students write their research plans during the first part and continue to prepare their Bachelor"s Thesis during the research seminar on the basis of their plans. The research seminar includes the preparation of a seminar paper, which is also the preliminary version of the Bachelor"s Thesis. Based on the comments received on the research paper, the student prepares his/her thesis at the latest during the period following the seminar.

NB! The seminar paper (effectively the first draft of the Bachelor"s thesis) can also be written in Finnish or Swedish, but in that case it should contain an English-language synopsis of 2-3 pages.

Grading

The course is graded on a scale from 0 to 5.

Course results and retake

The results of the course will be posted on the notice board of the Department. If the course work is not accepted or if the student wishes to raise his/her grade, he/she should contact the teacher within one month after the publication of the results and discuss arrangements for rewriting course work.

Course evaluation and development

During the last session, students will have an opportunity to give feedback on the course to the lecturer and to fill in an anonymous evaluation form. During the course feedback can be given anonymously.

When giving feedback, please evaluate the contribution of the teacher, your own contribution, the contributions of other students and the possible contribution of the Department office to the success of the course.

A summary of the feedback will be posted on this page before the next similar course is given.

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Study unit Master´s Degree, Politics

In Finnish: Politiikan tutkimus (VTM)/vtmpot

Master´s Degree, Politics

  • Advanced studies: 85-96 credits, 43-49 credit units
  • Elective Studies: 24–35 credits

Common Advanced Studies in Political Science:

  • Personal Study Plan 3 (1 credit) and
  • Y401. Philosophy of Politics (6 credits) or
  • Y405. Advanced Studies in Research Methods (6 credits).

The student may also take both of the elective study units. In this case the scope of advanced studies in Political Science, excluding the elective Practical Training, amounts to 91 credits.

Subprogramme-Specific Advanced Studies:

Mode of Assessment:

Major subject students continue in the subprogramme selected for the Bachelor's degree (Politics, Administration and Organisations or World Politics). Students starting directly from the Master’s degree studies have to follow the curriculum of the subprogramme that they were accepted to (or that they chose).

Literature

Subordinate units

Study unit HOPS3. Personal Study Plan 3

In Finnish: HOPS3 (1 op / 0 ov)/791350

HOPS3. Personal Study Plan 3

Code 791350
Credits: 1 , Credit Units: 0

Political Science majors prepare their Personal_Study_Plan_3 early on in their advanced studies, at the latest midway through the Master’s thesis seminar.

The teacher tutor of the department of political to whom the HOPS3 will be taken personally for discussion and approval is University Lecturer Juri Mykkänen.

Study unit Y401. Philosophy of Politics (- alternative to Y405.)

In Finnish: Y401. Politiikan filosofia (6 op / 3 ov) – vaihtoehtoinen Y405:n kanssa/791360

Y401. Philosophy of Politics (- alternative to Y405.)

After completing the study unit, students are familiar with the main normative theories about democracy, citizenship, justice, political rights and responsibilities, political virtues, relationship between freedom and equality, political violence and encounters with differences. Students understand the basic problems related to different theories and how they can be at least partly solved. They are familiar with moral epistemology and normative argumentation. Students are also able to assess the relevance of different normative arguments and types of evidence to the research issue at hand. After completing the unit, students will master the main positions and choices in political theories and can formulate a systematic normative ethical-political argument on a central political research question.

Target group:

Students following the new study credit based degree structere.

N.B. This study unit doesn't have a corresponding study unit in the old study week based degree sturcture.

Mode of Assessment:

Lecture course (2 credits) and two textbooks examined during the course (4 credits). In the case a lecture course in English is not being organised in a given year, non Finnish-speaking students should contact the teacher responsible for the study unit about the ways to accomplish the 2 credits which the lecture course counts for. The options include reading an additional classic from the list below or writing an essay on the topic agreed upon with the the teacher responsible for the study unit.

Literature

One common book:

  • Held David (ed.): Political Theory Today (2 credits)

One of the post Second World War classics (2 credits):

  • Arendt Hannah: The Human Condition
  • Bhaskar Roy: Plato Etc. Philosophical Problems and Their Resolution
  • Derrida Jacques: Spectres of Marx Habermas Jürgen: Between Facts and Norms. Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
  • Habermas Jürgen: The Inclusion of the Other. Studies in Political Theory
  • MacIntyre Alasdair: After Virtue
  • Macpherson C B: Democratic Theory
  • Pateman Carole: Sexual Contract
  • Popper Karl: The Open Society and Its Enemies
  • Rawls John: A Theory of Justice
  • Unger Roberto Mangabeira: False Necessity. Anti-Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy

Literature examinations

Study unit Y405. Advanced Studies in Research Methods (- alternative to Y401.)

In Finnish: Y405. Tutkimusmenetelmien syventävät opinnot (6 op / 3 ov) – vaihtoehtoinen Y401:n kanssa/791370

Y405. Advanced Studies in Research Methods (- alternative to Y401.)

The goal is to further deepen students' skills in a particular methodology of the social sciences to support the preparation of their thesis.

Target group:

Students following the new study credit based degree structere.

N.B. The corresponding study unit in the old study week based degree structure is optional study unit S3. Supplementary Course in Research Methods , 2-4 cu.

Mode of Assessment:

A methodology course if arranged by the Department of Political Science or an advanced course in methodology if arranged by the Faculty of Social Sciences. If the scope of the course is smaller than that of study unit Y405 or if there are no courses in English available, the study unit shall be complemented with further work as agreed with the teacher responsible for Y405.

Courses in English

Ideology and Discourse Analysis

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 4 Credits (study weeks): 2

Teachers

PhD Emilia Palonen E-mail emiliapalonen@yahoo.co.uk

Time and location

11.09.2006 - 18.10.2006

11.9.-18.10. Mon and Wed 16-18, U37 sh 4.

Prior registration for the course between 21.-28.8. in WebOodi. Max 30 participants. Priority given to Political Science degree students at Helsinki University.

N.B. All the students must apply for the course in the same (Political Science study unit Y401) WebOodi registration window. Write down in the Further Information field the name of study unit you plan to use this course for . You will be informed after the registration time via email if you fitted in the course.

The course is part of the "Method_Basket" of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Prerequisites

See Target group.

Compensations

  • 4 cr / 2 cu of the study unit Y405. Advanced Studies in Research Methods (Masters level)
  • 4 cr / 2 cu of the study unit Y601. Advanced Studies in Research Methods (Doctoral level)

Target group

Masters level (or doctoral) students in any field of politics (and social sciences). The course is part of the "Method_Basket" of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Objectives

To make a distinction with a variety of discourse theoretical approaches with a main focus on Laclauian discourse theory. Strong analytical skills, ability to interpret and analyse texts, objects and wider political phenomena. Critically analyse underlying values of statements and phenomena. Students also will be expected to learn about hermeneutic and textual approaches to the study of politics as both empirical and theoretical inquiry. Critically reflect the consequences of different methods for the object of analysis. The essay will be demonstrating ability to grasp and analyse a specific political topic in a structured well argued and referenced manner. This will offer the basics for the future research project, such as MA thesis.

Content

Part A – Introduction to discourse theory

11 September

  • Session 1 – From texts to political phenomena: reading politically. Different types of narrative and discourse analysis: e.g. Fairclough and Wodak, van Dijk, Billig and Laclau

13 September

  • Session 2 – Basics of Laclau’s discourse theory

Part B – Application: theory in praxis

18 September

  • Session 3 – Key concepts of discourse theory: myth/imaginary, hegemony, signifiers.

20 September

  • Session 4 - Key concepts of discourse theory II: political frontiers, political communities and identification.

25 September

  • Session 5 – Applying discourse theory: study of existing applications in discourse theory from Argentina, South Africa, Austria, Hungary, to the UK.

Part C – Theory: focus on the background

3 October

  • Session 6 – Deconstruction and discourse analysis (Derrida, Norval)

5 October

  • Session 7 – Rhetoric and discourse analysis (Laclau, Skinner)

9 October

  • Session 8 – Psychoanalytic approaches to discourse. E.g. concepts of trauma and jouissance (Lacan, Zizek)

Part C – Our own case studies

11 and 16 October

  • Sessions 9-10 – Discourse theory in political analysis: besides the already existing research, the aim of these sessions is to combining discourse theory to the contemporary politics and student’s research agendas. Overlaps with other frameworks of analysis.
  • Here the above mentioned concepts will be discussed further, and clarified with the cases of empirical analysis in the sessions 5 and 9.

COURSE MATERIALS:

The reading list will be made available on the first week of the course. When not available in the Library MATERIALS will be made available in an electronic format on this web page.

For the first week, it would be suggested that the students would familiarise themselves with one of the works listed below for pre-course reading:

  • Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy , London, Verso 1985 (or its second edition)
  • Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason , Verso: London 2005

Any other work by Ernesto Laclau and/or one of the following:

  • David Howarth , Discourse , Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press 2000
  • David Howarth, Aletta Norval and Yannis Stavrakakis, Discourse Theory and Political Analysis: identities, hegemonies and social change , Manchester: Manchester University, 2000
  • David Howarth and Jakob Torfing, Discourse Theory in European Politics , Palgrave London: Macmillan, 2005
  • Jacob Torfing, New Theories of Discourse: Laclau, Mouffe and Zizeek , Oxford: Blackwell, 1999
  • Anna Marie Smith, Laclau and Mouffe: the radical democratic imaginary , London: Routledge, 1998

Course work and forms of study

Seminar 20 hours, 10 sessions and 15 page referenced essay.

Grading

The course work will be graded on a scale from 0 to 5.

Course results and retake

The results of the course will be posted on the notice board of the Department by XX. If the course work is not accepted or if the student wishes to raise his/her grade, he/she should contact the teacher within one month after the publication of the results and discuss arrangements for rewriting course work.

Course evaluation and development

During the last session, students will have an opportunity to give feedback on the course to the lecturer and to fill in an anonymous evaluation form. During the course feedback can be given anonymously.

When giving feedback, please evaluate the contribution of the teacher, your own contribution, the contributions of other students and the possible contribution of the Department office to the success of the course.

Course Feedback and teacher"s comments - autumn 2006

The course was rated as interesting (4/5 scale).

The main problem was the reading, the lack of reading list in the beginning and the availability of books.

  • This is something I"m ready to admit as a problem. But as I explained in the beginning of the course: when I came to teach I thought we would have more things in the real library and tried to give the reading in electronic form, which I hadn"t prepared for and had no access for before the start of the course.

The second problem was lack of structure.

  • I suppose this is mainly due to the misclassification of the course as a lecture course. Of course I had to be giving a mini-lecture in the beginning, but the point was to improvise the teaching to the directions that were taken up by the group. That means relying on the students: that they would read and could contribute from their own (starting or ongoing) research, it being an advanced MA and PhD level course.

On the positive sides, the enthusiasm and knowledge of the teacher, the explanations and examples were praised.

  • Thanks!

Feedback summed up and commented by Johanna Palonen.

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Study unit Subprogramme-specific advanced studies

In Finnish: Linjakohtaiset syventävät opinnot (24 op / 12 ov)/syvpot

title: Subprogramme-specific advanced studies

Credits: 24, Credit Units: 12,

Three 8-credit study units, at least two of which must belong to the Politics subprogramme:

  • P410. Theory of Political Science (8 credits),
  • P415. The EU and Its Challenges (8 credits),
  • P420. Comparative Study of Political Institutions and Political Action (8 credits) or
  • P460. Elective Advanced Studies that can account for a maximum of 8 credits in the Politics subprogramme.

Study unit P410. Theory of Political Science

In Finnish: P410. Politiikan teoria (8 op / 4 ov)/791380

title: P410. Theory of Political Science

Credits: 8, Credit Units: 4,

The study unit aims to enhance the students’ knowledge of the conceptualisation and theoretical study of politics and political phenomena. It deepens and broadens the understanding of the main concepts used to analyse political phenomena and discusses the ways in which these concepts have affected the interpretation of politics.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

Four of the following:

  • Ankersmit F R: Aesthetic Politics
  • Dunleavy Patrick: Democracy, Bureaucracy and Public Choice
  • Farr James et al. (eds.): Political Science in History. Research Programs and Political Traditions
  • Ojakangas Mika: A Philosophy of Concrete Life
  • Squires Judith: Gender in Political Theory
  • Beck Ulrich: The Reinvention of Politics

Literature examinations

Study unit P415. The EU and Its Challenges

In Finnish: P415. Euroopan unioni haasteena (8 op / 4 ov)/791390

title: P415. The EU and Its Challenges

Credits: 8, Credit Units: 4,

The study unit introduces the multiple levels of EU decision-making, different decision-making bodies, as well as related research methods and theoretical discussions. It also examines questions related to the democracy and legitimacy of the EU.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

Four of the following:

  • Beetham David & Lord Christopher: Legitimacy and the European Union
  • Rossilli Mariagrazi (ed.): Gender Policies in the European Union
  • Wiener Antje & Dietz Thomas (eds.): European Integration Theory
  • Bretherton Charlotte & Vogler John: The European Union as a Global Actor
  • Wallace Helen & Wallace William: Policy-Making in the EU

Literature examinations

Courses in English

Immigration, Pluralism and the Politics of Integration in Europe

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 8 Credits (study weeks): 4

Teachers

Professor Peter Kraus E-mail peter.kraus@helsinki.fi
The course is organised by Swedish School of Social Science.

Time and location

30.10.2006 - 11.12.2006
  • Time: 30.10.-11.12. Mon 15-18
  • Place: room 107-108 (Swedish School of Social Sciences, address: Topeliuksenkatu 16)
  • Registration: limit of 25 participants, registration in WebOodi 5.10.-7.11. (link to WebOodi at the bottom of this page).

Compensations

Covers the whole study unit P415. The EU and Its Challenges.

Content

European societies are facing great political challenges which are related to immigration and its consequences. The course will start with a brief assessment of the dynamics of migration in Western Europe from the 1950s up to the present. This will serve as the background for both an empirical and a normative discussion of the factors that shape the conditions of integration in different political and institutional settings. Special attention will be given, on the one hand, to the effects of Europeanization in the field of immigration policy. On the other hand, the interplay of cultural pluralism and political integration will be analyzed in the comparative "micro-context" of European cities.

Literature:

  • R. Bauböck/A. Heller/A. R. Zolberg, eds. (1996), The Challenge of Diversity. Integration and Pluralism in Societies of Immigration , Aldershot: Avebury.
  • S. Benhabib (2004), The Rights of Others , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • A. Geddes (2003), The Politics of Migration and Immigration in Europe , London: Sage.
  • R. D. Grillo (1998), Pluralism and the Politics of Difference , Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • R. Koopmans/P. Statham, eds. (2000), Challenging Immigration and Ethnic Relations Politics: Comparative European Perspectives , Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • W. Kymlicka/K. Banting, eds. (2006), Multiculturalism and the Welfare State: Recognition and Redistribution in Contemporary Democracies , Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).

See also Swedish School of Social Sciences Study_Guide .

Course work and forms of study

Course participants are examined on the basis of lecture participation, lecture diaries and an assignment presentation/essay.

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Courses in English

Theories of European Integration

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 4 Credits (study weeks): 2

Teachers

M.Soc.Sc. Michael Kull E-mail Michael.Kull@helsinki.fi

Time and location

19.01.2007 - 23.03.2007

19.1.-23.3. Thu and Fri 10-12, Eco sh 1. NB. The course will be held in III and IV periods! The first session is on Fri 19 Jan.

Prior registration for the course between 2.-8.1. in WebOodi. Max 30 participants. N.B. Since there is room on the course the teacher takes late registrations via email. Email to michael.kull@helsinki.fi before the course start.

Prerequisites

  • P415: basic and intermediate studies.
  • EU3: EU1.

Compensations

  • P415: 4 cr / 2 cu = two books i.e. Wallace Helen and Wallace William : Policy-Making in the EU and Wiener Antje and Dietz Thomas (eds.): European Integration Theory .
  • EU3 compensations: see EU_studies_guide .

Target group

This course is designed for students who already have a basic knowledge of European integration: Students of Political Science (advanced level) and EU-students. For EU-studies see EU-studies_Study_Guide .

Objectives

Using a mixed lecture-seminar format, the course aims to give students a systematic and critical introduction to social science approaches to European integration; to capture the complexity of the evolving European polity; to discuss theories in relation to their intellectual and political contexts; and to sharpen the students’ analytical skills (theoretical literacy).

Content

N.B. The course will be held later than earlier informed (updated 4.10.06) .

  • Friday 19.1. 10-12: Introduction and overview of the course. Why theory?
  • Friday 26.1. 10-12: Functionalism, federalism, transactionalism
  • Friday 2.2. 10-12: Neofunctionalism
  • Friday 9.2. 10-12: Intergovernmentalism
  • Friday 23.2. 10-12: Multi-level governance
  • Friday 2.3. 10-12: Constructivism
  • Thursday 15.3. 10-12: Paper presentation
  • Friday 16.3. 10-12: Paper presentation
  • Thursday 22.3. 10-12: Paper presentation
  • Friday 23.3. 10-12: Conclusion

Material for the course

Texts for paper presentations:

15.3.07 F.Popovic and K. Störmer

(Hoffmann, S. (1966): ”Obstinate or Obsolete? The Fate of the Nation-State and the Case of Western Europe”, in Daedalus 95:3, 862-915)

15.03.07 J. Laakso

(Mitrany, D. (1975): “The Prospect of Integration: Federal or Functional”, in Groom A. J. R. and Taylor Paul (eds.): Functionalism: Theory and Practice in International Relations, (London: University of London Press) , pp. 53-66)

15.03.07 S. Rantamäki and H. Karv

(Spinelli, A. (1972): “The Growth of the European Movement since the Second World War”, in Hodges, M. (ed.): European integration: selected readings, (Harmondsworth: Penguin), pp. 43-68)

16.03.07 (Haas, E. B. (1961): “International Integration: The European and the Universal Process, in International Organization, Vol. 15, No. 3. (Summer, 1961), pp. 366-392)

16.03.07 J. Welsh

(Moravcsik, A. (1993): “Preferences and Power in the European Community: A Liberal Intergovernmentalist Approach”, in Journal of Common Market Studies Vol. 31, No. 4)

22.03.07 A. Kiviharju

(Hooghe, L. / Marks, G. (2003): “Unraveling the Central State, But How? – Types of Multi-Level Governance”, American Political Science Review, Vol. 97, No. 2 May 2003, pp. 223-243)

22.03.07 K. Ling

(Kauppi, N. (2003): “Bourdieu’s political sociology and the politics of European integration”, in Theory and Society 32: 775-789)

22.3.07 R. Tolonen and R.Henttonen

(Christiansen, T., Jørgensen, K. E. and Wiener, A. (1999): “The social construction of Europe“, in Journal of European Public Policy 6:4 Special Issue 1999 528-44)

Dear all, the promised links to papers, journals and articles as well as texts on the history of European integration cannot be posted on this page due to its technical limitation. This goes also for my notes for the presentation on 19.01. However, you will find them in the file folder together with the texts for you presentations in the building-manager’s office. M. Kull

Course work and forms of study

  • Mixed lecture-seminar format
  • Active participation
  • Research paper of 15 pages
  • Paper presentation.

N.B. If a student doesn"t attend other courses belonging to the study unit during the academic year 2006-2007 the remaining credits of the study unit are to be completed in the form of a book exam within six months, at the latest, after the date of the course completion.

Grading

The final grade will be based on: The course work will be graded on a scale from 0 to 5.

  • Participation in class (20%).
  • A research paper of 15 pages (50%)
  • A paper presentation (30%).

Course results and retake

The results of the course will be posted on the notice board of the Department.

If the course work is not accepted or if the student wishes to raise his/her grade, he/she should contact the teacher within one month after the publication of the results and discuss arrangements for rewriting course work.

Course evaluation and development

During the last session, students will have an opportunity to give feedback on the course to the lecturer and to fill in an anonymous evaluation form. During the course feedback can be given anonymously.

When giving feedback, please evaluate the contribution of the teacher, your own contribution, the contributions of other students and the possible contribution of the Department office to the success of the course.

A summary of the feedback will be posted on this page before the next similar course is given.

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Study unit P420. Comparative Study of Political Institutions and Political Action

In Finnish: P420. Poliittisten instituutioiden ja poliittisen toiminnan vertaileva tutkimus (8 op / 4 ov)/791400

title: P420. Comparative Study of Political Institutions and Political Action

Credits: 8, Credit Units: 4,

The goal is to familiarise students with new research on international political institutions and political activities. Study unit topics include voting, political parties, political movements and gender equality.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

Four of the following:

  • Evans Jocelyn: Voters & Voting. An Introduction
  • Lijphart Arend: Patterns of Democracy. Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries.
  • Dalton Russell & Wattenberg Martin (eds.): Parties without Partisans. Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies
  • Norris Pippa (ed.): Critical Citizens. Global Support for Democratic Governance
  • Lane Jan-Erik & Ersson Svante: Government and the Economy. A Global Perspective
  • Tarrow Sidney: Power in Movement. Social Movements and Contentious Politics
  • Inglehart Ronald & Norris Pippa: Rising Tide: Gender Equality and Cultural Change Around the World

Literature examinations

Courses in English

The Logic of Chinese Political Behaviour

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 4 Credits (study weeks): 2

Teachers

M.Soc.Sc Mikael Mattlin E-mail mikael.mattlin@helsinki.fi
The course is organised by Renvall Institute.

Time and location

31.10.2006 - 7.12.2006

31.10.–7.12. Tue 14-16 and Thu 12-14, U40 sali 5. No prior registration required.

See also Renvall Institute Study_Guide .

Compensations

The grading value of the course is 4 cr (ECTS) / 2 cu and it will replace 2 optional books of the study unit P420 .

See also Course work and forms of study.

Content

Is Chinese political behaviour unique, or is it at its foundation the same as political behaviour anywhere else? The course draws on field research experience to study Chinese political behaviour in different structural environments both in Mainland China and in Taiwan. Applying a political anthropological approach, the course explores the relationship and interaction between structural and cultural factors in explaining Chinese political behaviour.

Course work and forms of study

In addition to following the lectures and taking an examination, the students will write an essay.

The remaining credits of the study unit are to be completed in the form of a book exam within six months, at the latest, after the date of the course completion.

Grading

The course work will be graded on a scale from 0 to 5.

Study unit P460. Elective Advanced Studies in the Politics

In Finnish: P460. Vapaavalintaiset syventävät opinnot (0-8 op / 0-4 ov)/791410

title: P460. Elective Advanced Studies in the Politics

Credits: 0 - 8 , Credit Units: 0-4,

Elective advanced studies consist primarily of advanced-level studies in politics completed in other Finnish or foreign Universities, but may also be selected from the advanced studies of other subprogrammes in the Department of Political Science.

Courses in English

Language Policy: Theoretical Debates and Empirical Assessments

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 8 Credits (study weeks): 4

Teachers

Professor Peter Kraus E-mail peter.kraus@helsinki.fi
The course is organised by Swedish School of Social Science.

Time and location

19.03.2007 - 07.05.2007
  • Time: 19.3-7.5. N.B. Timetable exchange. The exact timetable on Swedish School of Social Sciences Study_Guide .
  • Place: room 210 (Swedish School of Social Sciences, address: Topeliuksenkatu 16)
  • Registration: limit of 25 participants, registration in WebOodi 15.2.-26.3. (link to WebOodi at the bottom of this page).

Compensations

P460. Elective Advanced Studies in the Politics.

Content

To a great extent, processes of cultural and political integration in modern societies are based upon language. In general, the formation of nation-states went hand in hand with political attempts to introduce and maintain standardized communication codes. In this context, language policy was often associated with the goal of establishing a democratic public sphere. At the same time, however, in multilingual settings the political definition of a language regime can easily become a matter of conflict.

The course will start with a discussion of the central theoretical and normative issues which are at stake in the field of language policy. This will set the background for an empirical comparison of different language conflict constellations: Under which conditions do linguistic attachments become politicized? How does language relate to the construction of ethnic and national identities? In which ways does language policy contribute to the protection of minorities? To what extent can national approaches adopted in the realm of language policy help us to understand the cultural dynamics of transnational integration? What are the political implications of the role English has attained as a global lingua franca? In dealing with these questions, our main focus will be on Europe; however, the European experience may well be contrasted with examples taken from other regions of the world.

Literature:

  • E. Allardt (1979), Implications of the Ethnic Revival in Modern, Industrialized Society. A Comparative Study of the Linguistic Minorities in Western Europe , Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica (Commentationes Scientiarum Socialium 12).
  • K.W. Deutsch (1966), Nationalism and Social Communication , Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press.
  • E. Gellner (1983): Nations and Nationalism , London: Blackwell.
  • W. Kymlicka (2001), Politics in the Vernacular , Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • D. Laitin (1992), Language Repertoires and State Construction in Africa , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • J.A. Laponce (1987): Languages and Their Territories , Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • K.D. McRae (1983-1987), Conflict and Compromise in Multilingual Societies , Vols. 1-3, Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
  • S. Rokkan (1999), State Formation, Nation-Building, and Mass Politics in Europe , Oxford: Oxford University Press .
  • A. de Swaan (2001), Words of the World. The Global Language System , Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • C. Taylor (1992), Multiculturalism and "The Politics of Recognition" , Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • P. Van Parijs, ed. (2004), Cultural Diversity versus Economic Solidarity. Is there a tension? How must it be resolved? , Brussels: Deboeck Université (Francqui Scientific Library).

See also Swedish School of Social Sciences Study_Guide .

Course work and forms of study

Course participants are examined on the basis of lecture participation, lecture diaries and an assignment presentation/essay.

WebOodi Registration

Study unit Y501. Master's Thesis Seminar: General Part

In Finnish: Y501. Pro gradu -tutkielmaseminaarin yleinen osa (7 op / 4 ov)/791550

title: Y501. Master"s Thesis Seminar: General Part

Credits: 7, Credit Units: 4,

Master's Thesis Studies (14 credits):

  • Y501. Master's Thesis Seminar: General Part (7 credits) and
  • P510., H510. or M510. Master's Thesis Seminar: Topic-Specific Part (7 credits).

The Master's thesis seminar aims to improve students' skills to meet the general requirements set for the Master's thesis. Students learn what is expected of a feasible research plan. They are expected to be sufficiently familiar with the research traditions in their field of specialisation to be able to formulate a well-founded research agenda, including meaningful research questions, and appropriate research materials and methods.

The seminar aims to improve students’ skills in academic writing and in using empirical research materials. It also strengthens students’ ability to assess other students’ research plans, and to enter into an academic, critical discussion.

Mode of Assessment:

The Master's thesis seminar consists of three parts. The first topic-specific part focuses on specifying the research topic of the student’s thesis. This involves getting acquainted with earlier research done in the field, research traditions and literature related to the research topic. Personal Study Plan 3 is submitted at the latest during the first topic-specific part.

The second, general part, of the seminar aims to deepen and make more concrete the general requirements and possibilities of scientific research from the point of view of the student's own research plan. Students also prepare a concrete research plan at this stage.

The research plan prepared during the general part of the seminar is carried out in practice during the second topic-specific part in the form of process writing. Students are expected to write as much as possible of their thesis during the thesis seminar.

Courses in English

Master´s Thesis Seminar: General Part

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 7 Credits (study weeks): 4

Teachers

University Lecturer Juri Mykkänen E-mail juri.mykkanen@helsinki.fi

Time and location

04.09.2006 - 11.12.2006

4.9.-11.12. Mon 9-12, U37 sh 3 and 15.1.-23.4. Mon 9-12, U37 sh 3. The course program will be specified during the first session.

N.B. Those students who start the seminar in the beginning of autumn term 2006 should register for the seminar in WebOodi between 21.8.-11.9. Those students who are continuing the seminar from the spring term 2005 don"t register anymore in WebOodi.

Students starting the seminar in the beginning of spring term 2007 should register for the seminar in WebOodi 2.-22.1.

N.B. Students need to register in WebOodi also for P510.,_H510._or_M510._Topic-Specific_Part .

Since the purpose of the seminar is to get the student’s thesis writing well on its way, the topic of the thesis should be chosen before registering for the seminar. Students should time the seminar in such a way that they have sufficient energy to concentrate in research work during the course.

Prerequisites

Basic and intermediate studies.

Compensations

Study unit Y501.

Target group

Political Science Degree Majors (Advanced level). Exchange and visiting students can"t attend the course.

Objectives

To be specified later.

Content

To be specified later.

Course work and forms of study

To be specified in the beginning of the course.

Grading

Students’ work will be graded on a scale from 0 to 5.

Course results and retake

The results of the course will be posted on the notice board of the Department. If the course work is not accepted or if the student wishes to raise his/her grade, he/she should contact the teacher within one month after the publication of the results and discuss arrangements for rewriting course work.

Course evaluation and development

During the last session, students will have an opportunity to give feedback on the course to the lecturer and to fill in an anonymous evaluation form. During the course feedback can be given anonymously.

When giving feedback, please evaluate the contribution of the teacher, your own contribution, the contributions of other students and the possible contribution of the Department office to the success of the course.

A summary of the feedback will be posted on this page before the next similar course is given.

WebOodi Registration

Study unit P510. Master's Thesis Seminar: Topic-Specific Part (Politics)

In Finnish: P510. Pro gradu -tutkielmaseminaarin aihekohtainen osa (7 op / 4 ov)/791560

P510. Master's Thesis Seminar: Topic-Specific Part (Politics)

Courses in English

Master´s Thesis Seminar: Topic-Specific Part

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 7 Credits (study weeks): 4

Teachers

University Lecturer Juri Mykkänen E-mail juri.mykkanen@helsinki.fi

Time and location

04.09.2006 - 15.12.2006

4.9.-11.12. Mon 9-12, U37 sh 3 and 15.1.-23.4. Mon 9-12, U37 sh 3. The course program will be specified during the first session.

N.B. Those students who start the seminar in the beginning of autumn term 2006 should register for the seminar in WebOodi between 21.8.-11.9. Those students who are continuing the seminar from the spring term 2005 don"t register anymore in WebOodi.

Students starting the seminar in the beginning of spring term 2007 should register for the seminar in WebOodi 2.-22.1.

N.B. Students need to register in WebOodi also for Y501._General_Part .

Since the purpose of the seminar is to get the student’s thesis writing well on its way, the topic of the thesis should be chosen before registering for the seminar. Students should time the seminar in such a way that they have sufficient energy to concentrate in research work during the course.

Prerequisites

Basic and intermediate studies.

Compensations

Study unit P510., H510. or M510.

Target group

Political Science Degree Majors (Advanced level). Exchange and visiting students can"t attend the course.

Objectives

To be specified later.

Content

To be specified later.

Course work and forms of study

To be specified in the beginning of the course.

Grading

Students’ work will be graded on a scale from 0 to 5.

Course results and retake

The results of the course will be posted on the notice board of the Department. If the course work is not accepted or if the student wishes to raise his/her grade, he/she should contact the teacher within one month after the publication of the results and discuss arrangements for rewriting course work.

Course evaluation and development

During the last session, students will have an opportunity to give feedback on the course to the lecturer and to fill in an anonymous evaluation form. During the course feedback can be given anonymously.

When giving feedback, please evaluate the contribution of the teacher, your own contribution, the contributions of other students and the possible contribution of the Department office to the success of the course.

A summary of the feedback will be posted on this page before the next similar course is given.

WebOodi Registration

Study unit Master´s Thesis

In Finnish: P590., H590. tai M590. Pro gradu –tutkielma (40 op / 20 ov)/gradu

title: Master´s Thesis

Credits: 40, Credit Units: 20,

Mode of Assessment:

Further specified in accordance with the Faculty guidelines.

Study unit Y550. Practical Training

In Finnish: Y550. Työharjoittelu (5 op / 3 ov)/791590

Y550. Practical Training

Code 791590
Credits: 5 , Credit Units: 3

Practical training is an optional part of studies. The goal is to get acquainted with work practices in public administration, organisations or companies.

Mode of Assessment:

At least two months of uninterrupted training in a workplace approved by the Department Head, as well as a written report of training. Practical training must be done before the completion of all of the Master's degree studies in Political Science, including the Master's thesis (thesis submitted for assessment).

Political Science Practical Training Internship Grants for 2007:

In order to apply, leave the Application form with the enclosures (listed below) before 15 Dec 2006, 3.45 p.m. to Esko Tantarimäki, administrative official of the department.

Degree Students of Political Science at Helsinki University are eligible for Political Science Internship Grants. An applicant must have at least 120 credit units (opintoviikko) / 180 ECTS credits (opintopiste) of which at least 52 credit units / 105 ECTS credits must be completed in Political Science. Also, an applicant must have completed HOPS3_(personal_study_plan) . HOPS3 form is to be found at the pigeon-holes out of the department office or in the internet .

Internship Grant can’t be admitted to a student who has already completed Practical Training study unit or has earlier been given an Internship Grant. In case there are more applicants than internship places available, the internship grant holders are selected by lottery (among those who meet the application criteria). Internship Grant is for two (2) months, the recommended length of the Practical Training is three months.

An applicant must fill in the Internship Grant form (to be found at the pigeon-holes out of the department office) or in the internet and return it with the enclosures: transcript of credits and a copy of HOPS3 (personal study plan) before 15 Dec 3.45 p.m. to Esko Tantarimäki, administrative official of the department .

Read also the faculty page on Practical Training: http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/faculty/Studies/internship/index.htm

Information on awarded Internship Grants 2007 in Finnish: http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/ajankohtaista/vol/post213.htm.

Study unit Y595. Optional Studies in Political Science

In Finnish: Y595. Valtio-opin vapaat opinnot (24-35 op)/791600

title: Y595. Optional Studies in Political Science

Credits: 24 - 35,

Mode of Assessment:

General studies can include political science studies completed in other Finnish or foreign universities.

Studies freely selected by the student.

Study unit Master´s Degree, Administration and Organisations

In Finnish: Hallinnon ja organisaatioiden tutkimus (VTM)/vtmhot

Master´s Degree, Administration and Organisations

  • Advanced studies: 85-96 credits, 43-49 credit units
  • Elective Studies: 24–35 credits

Common Advanced Studies in Political Science:

  • Personal Study Plan 3 (1 credit) and
  • Y401. Philosophy of Politics (6 credits) or
  • Y405. Advanced Studies in Research Methods (6 credits).

The student may also take both of the elective study units. In this case the scope of advanced studies in Political Science, excluding the elective Practical Training, amounts to 91 credits.

Subprogramme-Specific Advanced Studies:

Mode of Assessment: Major subject students continue in the subprogramme selected for the Bachelor's degree (Politics, Administration and Organisations or World Politics). Students starting directly from the Master’s degree studies have to follow the curriculum of the subprogramme that they were accepted to (or that they chose).

Literature

Subordinate units

Study unit Subprogramme-specific advanced studies

In Finnish: Linjakohtaiset syventävät opinnot (24 op / 12 ov)/syvhot

title: Subprogramme-specific advanced studies

Credits: 24, Credit Units: 12,

Compulsory subprogramme-specific study unit H410. Theory of Administration and Organisations (8 credits) and elective studies (16 credits):

  • H415. International Governance (8 credits),
  • H420. Research on Governance (8 credits),
  • H425. Reforming and Developing Administration (8 credits),
  • H430. Ethics in Administration and Organisations (8 credits) or
  • H460. Elective Advanced Studies, which may account for a maximum of 8 credits in Administration and Organisations.

Study unit H410. Theory of Administration and Organisations

In Finnish: H410. Hallinnon ja organisaatioiden teoria (8 op / 4 ov)/791420

title: H410. Theory of Administration and Organisations

Credits: 8, Credit Units: 4,

The study unit aims to deepen the understanding of theories of organisations and public administration, their methodological background and the basics of practical approaches to administration. The goal is to provide students with a versatile command of these topics for research purposes.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

Required reading:

  • Frederickson H George & Smith Kevin B: The Public Administration Theory Primer
  • Mintzberg Henry: The Structuring of Organizations

In addition, one of the following:

  • Alvesson Mats & Billing Yvonne Due: Understanding Gender and Organizations
  • Bozeman Barry: All Organizations are Public. Bridging Public and Private Organization Theories
  • Brown Andrew D: Organisational Culture (2. painos)
  • Burke W Warner: Organization Change: Theory and Practice Douma Sytse & Schreuder Hein: Economic Approaches to Organizations (3. painos)
  • Frederickson H George: The Spirit of Public Administration
  • Peters B Guy: The Future of Governing: Four Emerging Models (2. uudistettu painos)
  • White Jay D: Taking Language Seriously. The Narrative Foundations of Public Administration Research

Literature examinations

Study unit Elective subprogramme-specific advanced studies

In Finnish: Valinnaiset linjakohtaiset syventävät opinnot (16 op / 8 ov)/syvhotval

Elective subprogramme-specific advanced studies

Two of the following:

  • H415. International Governance (8 credits),
  • H420. Research on Governance (8 credits), H425. Reform and Development of Administration (8 credits),
  • H430. Ethics in Administration and Organisations (8 credits) or
  • H460. Elective Advanced Studies, which may account for a maximum of 8 credits in Administration and Organisations.

Literature

Study unit H415. International Administration

In Finnish: H415. Kansainvälinen hallinto (8 op / 4 ov)/791430

H415. International Administration

Code 791430
Credits: 8 , Credit Units: 4

The study unit aims to introduce students to research on international governance and create an overall picture of it as a form of management and activity of government officials. The goal is to obtain a general understanding of the field and the skills to analyse its topics by applying different research approaches.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

  • Mouritzen Hans: The International Civil Service: A Study of Bureaucracy
  • Beigbeder Yves: The Internal Management of United Nations - Organizations: The Long Quest for Reform
  • Berridge Geoff R: Diplomacy. Theory and Practice (2nd ed.)
  • Bøås Morten & McNeill Desmond: Multilateral Institutions: A Critical Introduction

Literature examinations

Study unit H420. Research on Governance

In Finnish: H420. Governance-tutkimus (8 op / 4 ov)/791440

H420. Research on Governance

Code 791440
Credits: 8 , Credit Units: 4

The study unit aims to enhance the comprehension of governance on a global, national and local level. The core content of the unit is research on governance and different thematic fields related to it. The goal is to get an insight into governance research and learn the skills needed to apply the governance approach in different levels of research and practice.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

  • Kjaer Anne Mette: Governance (updated 24.7.2006)
  • Pierre Jon & Peters B Guy: Governance, Politics and the State
  • John Peter: Local Governance in Western Europe
  • Thompson Grahame F: Between Hierarchies and Markets: The Logic and Limits of Network Forms of Organization

Literature examinations

Study unit H425. Reform and Development of Administration

In Finnish: H425. Hallinnon uudistaminen ja kehittäminen (8 op / 4 ov)/791450

H425. Reform and Development of Administration

Code 791450
Credits: 8 , Credit Units: 4

The study unit aims to familiarise students with research on the reform and development of public administration, as well as related practical problems. The goal is to learn how to analyse the policies and implementation of the reform and development of administration.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

  • Brunsson Nils & Olsen Johan P: The Reforming of Organization. Making Sense of Administrative Change
  • Pierre Jon & Peters B Guy (eds.): Politicians, Bureaucrats and Administrative Reform
  • Lane Jan-Erik (ed.): Public Sector Reform. Rationale, Trends and Problems
  • Lane Jan-Erik: New Public Management

Literature examinations

Study unit H430. Ethics in Administration and Organisations

In Finnish: H430. Etiikka hallinnossa ja organisaatioissa (8 op / 4 ov)/791460

H430. Ethics in Administration and Organisations

Code 791460
Credits: 8 , Credit Units: 4

The study unit aims to introduce students to research on the ethics of and corruption in business and public administration and to link this field of research to that of administration and organisations. The goal is to get a good general understanding of the field and learn the skills to analyse the field by applying different research approaches.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

  • Boatright John R: Ethics and the Conduct of Business (4th ed.)
  • Cooper Terry L: The Responsible Administrator: An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role (4th ed.)
  • Phillips Robert & Freeman R Edward: Stakeholder Theory and Organizational Ethics
  • Rose-Ackerman Susan: Corruption and Government. Causes, Consequences, and Reform

Literature examinations

Study unit H460. Elective Advanced Studies in Administration and Organisations

In Finnish: H460. Vapaavalintaiset syventävät opinnot (0-8 op / 0-4 ov)/791470

H460. Elective Advanced Studies in Administration and Organisations

Code 791470
Credits: 0 - 8 , Credit Units: 0 - 4

Elective advanced studies consist primarily of advanced-level studies in administration and organisations completed in other Finnish or foreign universities, but may also be selected from the advanced studies of the other subprogrammes in the Department of Political Science.

Study unit H510. Master's Thesis Seminar: Topic-Specific Part (Administration and Organisations)

In Finnish: H510. Pro gradu -tutkielmaseminaarin aihekohtainen osa (7 op / 4 ov)/791570

H510. Master's Thesis Seminar: Topic-Specific Part (Administration and Organisations)

Courses in English

Master´s Thesis Seminar: Topic-Specific Part

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 7 Credits (study weeks): 4

Teachers

University Lecturer Juri Mykkänen E-mail juri.mykkanen@helsinki.fi

Time and location

04.09.2006 - 15.12.2006

4.9.-11.12. Mon 9-12, U37 sh 3 and 15.1.-23.4. Mon 9-12, U37 sh 3. The course program will be specified during the first session.

N.B. Those students who start the seminar in the beginning of autumn term 2006 should register for the seminar in WebOodi between 21.8.-11.9. Those students who are continuing the seminar from the spring term 2005 don"t register anymore in WebOodi.

Students starting the seminar in the beginning of spring term 2007 should register for the seminar in WebOodi 2.-22.1.

N.B. Students need to register in WebOodi also for Y501._General_Part .

Since the purpose of the seminar is to get the student’s thesis writing well on its way, the topic of the thesis should be chosen before registering for the seminar. Students should time the seminar in such a way that they have sufficient energy to concentrate in research work during the course.

Prerequisites

Basic and intermediate studies.

Compensations

Study unit P510., H510. or M510.

Target group

Political Science Degree Majors (Advanced level). Exchange and visiting students can"t attend the course.

Objectives

To be specified later.

Content

To be specified later.

Course work and forms of study

To be specified in the beginning of the course.

Grading

Students’ work will be graded on a scale from 0 to 5.

Course results and retake

The results of the course will be posted on the notice board of the Department. If the course work is not accepted or if the student wishes to raise his/her grade, he/she should contact the teacher within one month after the publication of the results and discuss arrangements for rewriting course work.

Course evaluation and development

During the last session, students will have an opportunity to give feedback on the course to the lecturer and to fill in an anonymous evaluation form. During the course feedback can be given anonymously.

When giving feedback, please evaluate the contribution of the teacher, your own contribution, the contributions of other students and the possible contribution of the Department office to the success of the course.

A summary of the feedback will be posted on this page before the next similar course is given.

WebOodi Registration

Study unit Master´s Degree, World Politics

In Finnish: Maailmanpolitiikan tutkimus (VTM)/vtmmapt

Master´s Degree, World Politics

  • Advanced studies: 85-96 credits, 43-49 credit units
  • Elective Studies: 24–35 credits

Common Advanced Studies in Political Science:

  • Personal Study Plan 3 (1 credit) and
  • Y401. Philosophy of Politics (6 credits) or
  • Y405. Advanced Studies in Research Methods (6 credits).

The student may also take both of the elective study units. In this case the scope of advanced studies in Political Science, excluding the elective Practical Training, amounts to 91 credits.

Subprogramme-Specific Advanced Studies:

Mode of Assessment: Major subject students continue in the subprogramme selected for the Bachelor's degree (Politics, Administration and Organisations or World Politics). Students starting directly from the Master’s degree studies have to follow the curriculum of the subprogramme that they were accepted to (or that they chose).

World Politics:

Compulsory subprogramme-specific study unit M410. Theory and Methodology of Research on World Politics (8 credits) and one of the three fields of specialisation (16 credits): Foreign Policy and Diplomacy, Peace and Conflict Research or Global Political Economy and Global Governance.

Literature

Subordinate units

Study unit M410. Theory and Methodology of Research on World Politics

In Finnish: M410. Maailmanpolitiikan tutkimuksen teoria ja metodologia (8 op / 4 ov)/791480

M410. Theory and Methodology of Research on World Politics

The study unit aims to enhance students' theoretical and analytical skills, as well as the ability to apply these skills when doing research. The unit provides students with the skills needed to independently analyse phenomena related to global politics and to write the thesis. It focuses on recent research and literature. Students also read one elective new classic.

Mode of Assessment:

Compulsory lecture course (2 credits), during which students will be examined at least on the compulsory textbook by Patomäki (2 credits). Students will also be examined on two other books, one of them compulsory (Wendt, 2 credits), the other a new classic selected from the list below (2 credits). Wendt and the elective classic are to be taken in a Faculty examination.

Timing :

It is recommended that study unit should be taken in the beginning of advanced studies of world politics. The study unit M410 is a prerequisite for master's thesis seminar in world politics.

Literature

Compulsory literature:

  • Patomäki Heikki: After International Relations
  • Wendt Alexander: Social Theory of International Politics

Elective new classic (one of the following):

  • Gilpin Robert: War and Change in World Politics
  • Keohane Robert O: International Institutions and State Power
  • Wallerstein Immanuel: The Essential Wallerstein
  • Cox Robert W: Approaches to World Order
  • Linklater Andrew: Transformation of Political Community

Literature examinations

Courses in English

World Politics: Advanced Theory and Methodology

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 2-4 Credits (study weeks): 1-2

Teachers

Professor Heikki Patomäki E-mail Heikki.Patomaki@helsinki Home page http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/vol/staff/patomaki/index.htm

Time and location

05.09.2006 - 05.10.2006

5.9.-5.10. Tue and Thu 10-12, U37 ls. Registration for the course between 21.8.-12.9. in WebOodi.

Course exam Thu 19.10. at 10-14, U40 sali 2. See Course Work and Forms of Study.

Prerequisites

Basic and Intermediate Studies.

Compensations

The compulsory lecture course with exam compensates 2-4 study points for the study unit M410 (depending on the amount of literature taken in the course exam). See also Course work and forms of study.

Target group

Majors in World Politics (Advanced level).

Objectives

The study unit M410 aims to enhance students" theoretical and analytical skills, as well as the ability to apply these skills when doing research. The unit provides students with the skills needed to independently analyse phenomena related to global politics and to write the thesis.

Content

M410 contents

1. Tuesday 5 September

  • Course introduction (lecture_slides)
  • "How to Tell Better Stories About World Politics?" part I (based largely on After International Relations , ch 3) (lecture_slides) (updated version 5.9.06)

2. Thursday 7 September

  • "How to Tell Better Stories About World Politics?", part II (based largely on After International Relations , ch 3) (lecture_slides)

3. Tuesday 12 September

  • Alexander Wendt: "Anarchy Is What States Make of It", International Organization , 46:2, 1992, pp.391-425 (downloadable_here) . Hint: use Browse this Journal command and then find year 1992 and vol 46:2.
  • "Why State is Not a Person" (downloadable)
  • (lecture_slides) (updated 28.9.06)
  • work in small groups
  • presentations and general discussion at the end

4. Thursday 14 September

  • "A Global Security Community", based on After International Relations , ch 8 (lecture_slides) (updated 28.9.06)

5. Tuesday 19 September

  • Wendt, Alexander, 2003: "Why a World State is Inevitable", European Journal of International Relations , (9):4 (December): 491-542 (downloadable) . Hint: write down the name of the journal European Journal of International Relations in the Search field. Then choose either of the Full text options and then find year 2003 and vol 9:4.
  • (lecture_slides) (updated 28.9.06)
  • work in small groups
  • presentations and general discussion at the end

6. Thursday 21 September

  • Based on "A Critical Realist Approach to Global Political Economy", in J.Cruickshank (ed.): Critical Realism: What Difference Does It Make? , Routledge: London and New York, 2003, pp. 197-220 (downloadable)
  • (lecture_slides) (updated 28.9.06)

7. Tuesday 26 September

  • Based on "The Long Downward Wave of the World Economy and the Future of Global Conflict", Globalizations , (2):1, May 2005, pp.61-78. (downloadable)
  • (lecture_slides) (added 26.9.06)
  • work in small groups
  • presentations and general discussion at the end

8. Thursday 28 September

  • Based on "Realist Ontology for Futures Studies", Journal of Critical Realism , (4):3, 2005, pp.1-31 (downloadable)
  • (lecture_slides) (updated 28.9.06)

9. Tuesday 3 October

  • Based on "Global Security: Learning from Possible Futures", forthcoming in Hans Günter Brauch, John Grin, Czeslaw Mesjasz, Pal Dunay, Navnita Chadha Behera, Béchir Chourou, Ursula Oswald Spring, P. H. Liotta, Patricia Kameri-Mbote (eds.): Globalisation and Environmental Challenges: Reconceptualising Security in the 21st Century , Berlin - Heidelberg - New York - Hong Kong - London - Milan - Paris - Tokyo: Springer-Verlag, October 2006 (downloadable) (updated 3.10.06)
  • (lecture_slides) (updated 3.10.06)

10. Thursday 5 October

  • Part II of “Global Security: Learning from Possible Futures” (text is to be found at the 9th lecture)
  • (lecture_slides) (updated 3.10.06)
  • Conclusion

Course work and forms of study

Compulsory lecture course (2 credits), during which students will be examined on the compulsory textbook by Patomäki (2 credits). Taking the compulsory textbook in the course exam is optional. It can also be taken in the faculty examination (see below). The exam will last from 10 to 12 if a student takes part in lecture exam and from 10 to 14 if a student takes both the lecture exam and the textbook by Patomäki.

The remaining credits of the study unit M410 , i.e. two-three books: Patomäki , 2 credits (if not taken in the course exam), the other compulsory book ( Wendt , 2 credits) and a new classic selected from the list mentioned on the study unit page (2 credits) are to be completed in the form of a book exam in a Faculty examination within six months, at the latest, after the date of the course completion.

Grading

The course work will be graded on a scale from 0 to 5.

Course results and retake

The results of the course will be posted on the notice board of the Department by XX.

The exam retake will be held Wed 24.1. at 8-10, PR sali 1. Prior registration for the exam retake between 8.-15.1. in WebOodi. Don"t mind if WebOodi informs you that you have already taken the course.

N.B. Book exam retake not possible Wed 24 Jan. It is to be taken in a literature examination, within six months, at the latest, after the date of the course completion. See the study unit M410 page for dates:

Course evaluation and development

During the last session, students will have an opportunity to give feedback on the course to the lecturer and to fill in an anonymous evaluation form. During the course feedback can be given anonymously.

When giving feedback, please evaluate the contribution of the teacher, your own contribution, the contributions of other students and the possible contribution of the Department office to the success of the course.

Feedback_of_the_autumn_2005_course (in Finnish).

WebOodi Registration

Study unit Fields of Specialisation

In Finnish: Erikoistumisalueet (16 op / 8 ov)/syverikmap

title: Fields of Specialisation

Credits: 16, Credit Units: 8,

Mode of Assessment:

Each field of specialisation in the World Politics subprogramme is based on a lecture series arranged in the form of a workshop, during which students read and analyse some of the main articles related to the field and take an oral examination on five articles that the students select from the latest volume of a journal dealing with the field of specialisation. The requirements also include a Faculty examination on four books. Students are given a list of 6–8 important research topics from which they can select the ones most appropriate for their own orientation. One of the books can also be selected outside the given literature list if agreed with the teacher responsible for the study unit.

Superordinate Units

Subordinate units

Study unit Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

In Finnish: Ulkopolitiikka ja diplomatia/syvulk

title: Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

  • M420. Theoretical Orientations in Research on Foreign Policy and Diplomacy (8 credits) and
  • M425. Specialisation in Foreign Policy and Diplomacy (8 credits).

Study unit M420. Theoretical Orientations in Research on Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

In Finnish: M420. Ulkopolitiikan ja diplomatian tutkimuksen teoreettisia suuntauksia (8 op / 4 ov)/791490

title: M420. Theoretical Orientations in Research on Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

Credits: 8, Credit Units: 4,

The study unit aims to strengthen students' understanding of the theory of foreign policy and diplomacy. The goal is to give students a more detailed view of recent theoretical issues in the field as well as its classics so that they can further build up their knowledge by studying, according to their own interests, either classics or recent articles from one of the main journals in the field.

Mode of Assessment:

  • Workshop (2 credits). Even if a workshop in English is not organised, non Finnish-speaking students should nonetheless contact the teacher responsible for the study unit in order to get instructions about the ways to accomplish the 2 credits which the workshop counts for.
  • Oral examination: five articles selected by the student from the latest volume of European Journal of International Relations (2 credits)
  • Examination on two classics in the field or a literature essay (4 credits) on a topic related to the field of specialisation (if the student chooses to write an essay on the classics, it must be submitted before taking the oral examination).

Literature

Students select two of the following volumes:

  • Aron Raymond: Paix et guerre entre les nations (in English: Peace and War).
  • Wight Martin & Butterfield Herbert & (eds.): Diplomatic Investigations. Essays in the Theory of International Politics
  • Der Derian James: On Diplomacy
  • Guzzini Stefano: Realism in International Relations and International Political Economy. The Continuing Story of a Death Foretold
  • Jervis Robert: Perception and Misperception in International Politics
  • Keohane Robert O: Neorealism and Its Critics
  • Morgenthau Hans J: Politics Among Nations. The Struggle for Power and Peace
  • Tickner J Ann: Gendering World Politics
  • Waltz Kenneth N: Theory of International Politics

Literature examinations

Study unit M425. Specialisation in Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

In Finnish: M425. Ulkopolitiikan ja diplomatian alan erikoistuminen (8 op / 4 ov)/791500

title: M425. Specialisation in Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

Credits: 8, Credit Units: 4,

The study unit aims to deepen students' understanding of various theoretical approaches applied to research on foreign policy and of topical theoretical discussions related to the foreign policy of some of the main international actors. The goal is to give students the opportunity to study literature that could be of use for their thesis.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

Four of the following:

  • Smith Michael E: Europe’s Foreign and Security Policy: The Institutionalization of Cooperation
  • Neumann Iver B: Russia and Europe
  • Campbell David: Writing Security. United States Foreign Policy and Politics of Identity
  • Ikenberry G John (ed.): U.S. Foreign Policy. Theoretical Essays (equals two books)
  • Hopf Ted: Social Construction of International Politics
  • Youngs Richard: The European Union and the Promotion of Democracy
  • Schimmelpfenning Frank: EU, NATO and the Integration of Europe. Rules and Rhetoric

Literature examinations

Courses in English

International Energy Politics in Eurasia

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 2 Credits (study weeks): 1

Teachers

Dr., Docent Pami Aalto E-mail pami.aalto@helsinki.fi
The course is organised by the Aleksanteri Institute.

Time and location

12.03.2007 - 28.3.2007

IV study period: 12.3-28.3.2007:

  • Mon 16-18, U38 F211
  • Tue 10-12, U40 lecture room 2
  • Wed 10-12, U38 F211.

Registration by February 26th 2007 via email: hanna.o.peltonen@helsinki.fi

See also Aleksanteri_Institute .

Prerequisites

The course is primarily aimed at advanced undergraduate or graduate students in political science (world politics) and master’s degree students in the Aleksanteri Institute’s master’s programme.

Compensations

For Political Science 2 ECTS credits (study points) / 1 study week (cu) i.e.

  • one optional book from study unit M425 or
  • one optional book from study unit M445 (but not compensating the obligatory Braithwaite and Drahos from M445).

See also Course work and forms of study.

Target group

Advanced world politics undergraduates and graduates in political science (world politics) and master’s degree students in the Aleksanteri Institute’s master’s programme.

Objectives

  • 1) To open up critical insights into the ability of International Relations theory to tackle the topical and thorny questions of energy in world politics. Energy politics typically connotes a high degree of uncertainty, complexity and often also a notable degree of polarization between energy producing/energy rich and energy consuming/energy poor actors. It will be argued that instead of single theories a more flexible and pragmatic approach deriving from multiple sources and related disciplines is needed.
  • 2) To illustrate the thus understood role of energy in world politics by introducing the case of the EU-Russia energy dialogue that formally includes EU institutions, individual member states, and Russian actors. But due to the border-transgressing nature of energy politics that challenges traditional International Relations theory, this dialogue has regional repercussions in several further locations in the Eurasian continent: the wider European and Eurasian areas.

Content

Lectures:

  • 1. International Relations theory and the challenge of global energy policy
  • 2. Towards an alternative approach to global energy policy
  • 3. Case study I: EU and energy policy
  • 4. Case study II: Russian actors in energy policy
  • 5. Case study III: EU-Russia energy dialogue
  • 6. Case study IV: regional repercussions in the wider European area
  • 7. Case study V: regional repercussions in the wider Eurasian area
  • 8. Conclusion: lessons for global energy policy

Course work and forms of study

8 Lectures and 2-3 obligatory readings (articles) provided by the course tutor during the course. A lecture diary to be prepared on the basis of the lectures and obligatory readings (familiarity with the readings must be shown by proper referencing in the lecture diary).

N.B. for political science students (world politics), the remaining credits of the study unit M425 or M445 are to be completed in the form of a book exam within six months, at the latest, after the date of the course completion.

Grading

The course work will be graded on a scale from 0 to 5 based on active attendance in the lectures and the submitted lecture diary.

Course results and retake

Failed students have a possibility to revise and resubmit their lecture diaries provided class attendance is deemed satisfactory.

Course evaluation and development

During the last session, students will have an opportunity to give feedback on the course to the lecturer and to fill in an anonymous evaluation form. During the course feedback can be given anonymously.

When giving feedback, please evaluate the contribution of the teacher, your own contribution, the contributions of other students and the possible contribution of the Department office to the success of the course.

A summary of the feedback will be posted on this page before the next similar course is given.

Courses in English

Making Sense of Empire: Accounts of the British Empire from Karl Marx to Niall Ferguson

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 4 Credits (study weeks): 2

Teachers

Dr. Mrinalini Greedharry
The course is organised by the Renvall Institute.

Time and location

16.03.2007 - 04.05.2007

16.3.-4.5., Fri 12-15, Unioninkatu 38 A 205.

WebOodi registration from 1 Feb to 12 March (code 402228). Direct link to WebOodi at the bottom of this page.

Compensations

For Political Science students: 4 ECTS credits (study points) / 2 study week (cu) i.e.

  • two optional books from study unit M425 or
  • two optional books from study unit M435 or
  • two optional books from study unit M445 (but not compensating the obligatory Braithwaite and Drahos from M445).

See also Course work and forms of study. N.B. The course gives compensation (5 cr / 3 cu) also for the following subjects: British and Irish Studies, History and Political History. See also Renvall_Institute .

Content

This is a seven-week course in March-May that looks at how the British Empire has been explained and questioned over time. The course is taught by Dr Mrinalini Greedharry, who has a PhD in postcolonial studies from Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Themes of the course include Capital and Empire; Modern Liberalism and Empire; Culture and Empire; Race and Empire; Theories of Knowledge and Empire; and Empire Today.

The writers and ideas analyzed during the course are:

  • Karl Marx, "The British Rule in India"; "Future Results of the British Rule in India"; and "Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist" (from On Colonialism by K. Marx and F. Engels)
  • Niall Ferguson, "Maxim Force" (from Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, 2003)
  • Eric Hobsbawm, from The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 (1987)
  • Uday Singh Mehta, "Progress, Civilization and Consent" (from Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought, 1999)
  • Edward Said, from Orientalism
  • Bernard Porter, "Culture and Imperialism" (from The Absent-Minded Imperialists, 2004)
  • Ann Laura Stoler, "Cultivating Bourgeois Bodies and Racial Selves" (from Rade and the Education of Desire, 1995)

Course work and forms of study

N.B. for political science students (world politics), the remaining credits of the study unit M425, M435 or M445 are to be completed in the form of a book exam within six months, at the latest, after the date of the course completion.

WebOodi Registration

Study unit Peace and Conflict Studies

In Finnish: Rauhan- ja konfliktintutkimus/syvrk

title: Peace and Conflict Studies

  • M430. Theoretical Orientations in Peace and Conflict Research (8 credits) and
  • M435. Specialisation in Peace and Conflict Research (8 credits).

Study unit M430. Theoretical Orientations in Peace and Conflict Research

In Finnish: M430. Rauhan– ja konfliktintutkimuksen teoreettisia suuntauksia (8 op / 4 ov)/791510

title: M430. Theoretical Orientations in Peace and Conflict Research

Credits: 8, Credit Units: 4,

The goal is to strengthen and enhance students' understanding of the theory of peace and conflict research. The study unit focuses on recent research and classics in the field. Depending on their line of research, students familiarise themselves with both classics and more recent research in the field. The goal is to obtain comprehensive and fundamental skills in the basics of and recent developments in their field of research.

Mode of Assessment:

  • Workshop (2 credits). Even if a workshop in English is not organised, non Finnish-speaking students should nonetheless contact the teacher responsible for the study unit in order to get instructions about the ways to accomplish the 2 credits which the workshop counts for.
  • Oral examination: five articles from the latest volume of Journal of Peace Research selected by the student (2 credits)
  • Examination on two classics or a literature essay (4 credits) on the topics of the specialisation field (if the classics are done as an essay, the essay must be submitted before the student takes part in the oral examination).

Literature

Students select two of the following volumes:

  • Carr Edward H: The Twenty Years’ Crisis 1919-1939
  • Deutsch Karl W et al.: Political Community and the North Atlantic Area. International Organization in the Light of Historical Experience
  • Der Derian James & Shapiro Michael: International/Intertextual Relations: Postmodern Readings of World Politics
  • Galtung Johan: Methodology and Ideology
  • Rapoport Anatol: Fights, Games and Debates
  • Walzer Michael: Just and Unjust Wars

Literature examinations

Study unit M435. Specialisation in Peace and Conflict Research

In Finnish: M435. Rauhan- ja konfliktintutkimuksen alan erikoistuminen (8 op / 4 ov)/791520

title: M435. Specialisation in Peace and Conflict Research

Credits: 8, Credit Units: 4,

The study unit aims to deepen and focus students' knowledge of the theoretical foundations in the field of specialisation and to introduce the main trends and discussions that have emerged in the last few years. The aim is to give students the opportunity to get acquainted with literature that could be of use for their thesis.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

Four of the following:

  • Alker Hayward: Rediscoveries and Reformulations. Humanistic Methodologies for International Studies
  • Dalby Simon: Environmental Security
  • de Mesquita Bruce & Lalman David: War and Reason
  • McSweeney Bill: Security, Identity and Interests: A sociology of International Relations
  • Robinson William: Transnational Conflicts: Central America, Social Change, and Globalization
  • Suganami Hidemi: Causes of War
  • Goldstein Joshua S: War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System
  • Väyrynen Tarja: Culture and International Conflict Resolution: A Critical Analysis of the Work of John Burton

Literature examinations

Courses in English

Making Sense of Empire: Accounts of the British Empire from Karl Marx to Niall Ferguson

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 4 Credits (study weeks): 2

Teachers

Dr. Mrinalini Greedharry
The course is organised by the Renvall Institute.

Time and location

16.03.2007 - 04.05.2007

16.3.-4.5., Fri 12-15, Unioninkatu 38 A 205.

WebOodi registration from 1 Feb to 12 March (code 402228). Direct link to WebOodi at the bottom of this page.

Compensations

For Political Science students: 4 ECTS credits (study points) / 2 study week (cu) i.e.

  • two optional books from study unit M425 or
  • two optional books from study unit M435 or
  • two optional books from study unit M445 (but not compensating the obligatory Braithwaite and Drahos from M445).

See also Course work and forms of study. N.B. The course gives compensation (5 cr / 3 cu) also for the following subjects: British and Irish Studies, History and Political History. See also Renvall_Institute .

Content

This is a seven-week course in March-May that looks at how the British Empire has been explained and questioned over time. The course is taught by Dr Mrinalini Greedharry, who has a PhD in postcolonial studies from Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Themes of the course include Capital and Empire; Modern Liberalism and Empire; Culture and Empire; Race and Empire; Theories of Knowledge and Empire; and Empire Today.

The writers and ideas analyzed during the course are:

  • Karl Marx, "The British Rule in India"; "Future Results of the British Rule in India"; and "Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist" (from On Colonialism by K. Marx and F. Engels)
  • Niall Ferguson, "Maxim Force" (from Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, 2003)
  • Eric Hobsbawm, from The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 (1987)
  • Uday Singh Mehta, "Progress, Civilization and Consent" (from Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought, 1999)
  • Edward Said, from Orientalism
  • Bernard Porter, "Culture and Imperialism" (from The Absent-Minded Imperialists, 2004)
  • Ann Laura Stoler, "Cultivating Bourgeois Bodies and Racial Selves" (from Rade and the Education of Desire, 1995)

Course work and forms of study

N.B. for political science students (world politics), the remaining credits of the study unit M425, M435 or M445 are to be completed in the form of a book exam within six months, at the latest, after the date of the course completion.

WebOodi Registration

Study unit Global Political Economy and Global Governance

In Finnish: Globaali poliittinen talous ja globaali hallinta/syvglob

title: Global Political Economy and Global Governance

  • M440. Theoretical Orientations in Global Political Economy (8 credits) and
  • M445. Specialisation in the Field of Global Political Economy and Global Governance (8 credits).

Study unit M440. Theoretical Orientations in Global Political Economy

In Finnish: M440. Globaalin poliittisen talouden teoreettisia suuntauksia (8 op / 4 ov)/791530

title: M440. Theoretical Orientations in Global Political Economy

Credits: 8, Credit Units: 4,

The study unit aims to enhance students’ theoretical understanding of the global political economy and global governance. The workshop deals with theories and viewpoints and prepares students for the selection of articles and books. Students then choose the theories that are most relevant from their point of view for an oral and written examination.

Mode of Assessment:

  • Workshop (2 credits). Even if a workshop in English is not organised, non Finnish-speaking students should nonetheless contact the teacher responsible for the study unit in order to get instructions about the ways to accomplish the 2 credits which the workshop counts for.
  • Oral examination: five articles from the latest volume of Review of International Political Economy selected by the student (2 credits)

Literature

  • Cox Robert W: Production, Power and World Order. Social Forces in the Making of History
  • Emanuel Arghiri: L’Echange Inegal (englanniksi: Unequal Exchange)
  • Haas Peter M: Saving the Mediterranean (Political Economies of International Change)
  • Hardt Michael & Negri Antonio: Empire
  • Kratochwil Friedrich: Rules, Norms and Decision. On the Conditions of Practical and Legal Reasoning in International Relations and Domestic Affairs
  • Nussbaum Martha C & Glover Jonathan (eds): Women, Culture and Development: A Study of Human Capabilities
  • O’Neill Onora: Bounds of Justice
  • Strange Susan : States and Markets

Literature examinations

Study unit M445. Specialisation in the Field of Global Political Economy and Global Governance

In Finnish: M445. Globaalin poliittisen talouden ja globaalin hallinnan alan erikoistuminen (8 op / 4 ov)/791540

M445. Specialisation in the Field of Global Political Economy and Global Governance

Code 791540
Credits: 8 , Credit Units: 4

The study unit aims to deepen students’ understanding of global governance and their own topic within the field of specialisation. It deals, among other things, with advanced normative theories of global democracy, with critical analyses of economics and its role in society, and with theories of global financial markets and a networked society. Students select the books and substitute courses (if offered) depending on which best support their preparation for writing the thesis.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

  • Braithwaite John & Drahos Peter: Global Business Regulation

In addition, three of the following:

  • Castells Manuel: The Rise of Network Society
  • Cornia Giovanni Andrea: Growth, Inequality and Poverty in an Era of Liberalization and Globalization
  • Held David: Democracy and the Global Order
  • Keen Steve: Debunking Economics. The Naked Emperor of Social Sciences
  • Lawson Tony: Economics & Reality
  • O’Brien Robert & Goetz Anne Marie & Scholte Jan Aart& Williams Marc: Contesting Global Governance: Multilateral Economic Institutions and Global Social Movements
  • Patomäki Heikki: Democratizing Globalization
  • Palan Ronen: The Offshore World: Sovereign Markets, Virtual Places, and Nomad Millionaires
  • Robinson William I: A Theory of Global Capitalism

Literature examinations

Courses in English

International Energy Politics in Eurasia

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 2 Credits (study weeks): 1

Teachers

Dr., Docent Pami Aalto E-mail pami.aalto@helsinki.fi
The course is organised by the Aleksanteri Institute.

Time and location

12.03.2007 - 28.3.2007

IV study period: 12.3-28.3.2007:

  • Mon 16-18, U38 F211
  • Tue 10-12, U40 lecture room 2
  • Wed 10-12, U38 F211.

Registration by February 26th 2007 via email: hanna.o.peltonen@helsinki.fi

See also Aleksanteri_Institute .

Prerequisites

The course is primarily aimed at advanced undergraduate or graduate students in political science (world politics) and master’s degree students in the Aleksanteri Institute’s master’s programme.

Compensations

For Political Science 2 ECTS credits (study points) / 1 study week (cu) i.e.

  • one optional book from study unit M425 or
  • one optional book from study unit M445 (but not compensating the obligatory Braithwaite and Drahos from M445).

See also Course work and forms of study.

Target group

Advanced world politics undergraduates and graduates in political science (world politics) and master’s degree students in the Aleksanteri Institute’s master’s programme.

Objectives

  • 1) To open up critical insights into the ability of International Relations theory to tackle the topical and thorny questions of energy in world politics. Energy politics typically connotes a high degree of uncertainty, complexity and often also a notable degree of polarization between energy producing/energy rich and energy consuming/energy poor actors. It will be argued that instead of single theories a more flexible and pragmatic approach deriving from multiple sources and related disciplines is needed.
  • 2) To illustrate the thus understood role of energy in world politics by introducing the case of the EU-Russia energy dialogue that formally includes EU institutions, individual member states, and Russian actors. But due to the border-transgressing nature of energy politics that challenges traditional International Relations theory, this dialogue has regional repercussions in several further locations in the Eurasian continent: the wider European and Eurasian areas.

Content

Lectures:

  • 1. International Relations theory and the challenge of global energy policy
  • 2. Towards an alternative approach to global energy policy
  • 3. Case study I: EU and energy policy
  • 4. Case study II: Russian actors in energy policy
  • 5. Case study III: EU-Russia energy dialogue
  • 6. Case study IV: regional repercussions in the wider European area
  • 7. Case study V: regional repercussions in the wider Eurasian area
  • 8. Conclusion: lessons for global energy policy

Course work and forms of study

8 Lectures and 2-3 obligatory readings (articles) provided by the course tutor during the course. A lecture diary to be prepared on the basis of the lectures and obligatory readings (familiarity with the readings must be shown by proper referencing in the lecture diary).

N.B. for political science students (world politics), the remaining credits of the study unit M425 or M445 are to be completed in the form of a book exam within six months, at the latest, after the date of the course completion.

Grading

The course work will be graded on a scale from 0 to 5 based on active attendance in the lectures and the submitted lecture diary.

Course results and retake

Failed students have a possibility to revise and resubmit their lecture diaries provided class attendance is deemed satisfactory.

Course evaluation and development

During the last session, students will have an opportunity to give feedback on the course to the lecturer and to fill in an anonymous evaluation form. During the course feedback can be given anonymously.

When giving feedback, please evaluate the contribution of the teacher, your own contribution, the contributions of other students and the possible contribution of the Department office to the success of the course.

A summary of the feedback will be posted on this page before the next similar course is given.

Courses in English

International Political Economy of Labour

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 2 Credits (study weeks): 1

Teachers

Ph. D. Nathan Lillie E-mail Nathan.Lillie@helsinki.fi

Time and location

05.09.2006 - 10.10.2006

5.9. Tue 14-18, U37 sh 4, 12.-19.9. Tue 14-18, U40 sali 18 and 26.9.-10.10. Tue 14-16, U40 sali 18.

Registration for the course between 21.8.-12.9. in WebOodi.

The course exam Tue 17.10. 14-16, U37 sh4.

Prerequisites

This course is aimed at advanced undergraduate or graduate students. Less advanced student may take it at their own discretion if the enrollment is not too large.

Compensations

2 cr / 1 cu = Cornia, Giovanni Andrea : "Growth, Inequality and Poverty in an Era of Liberalization and Globalization" or Palan, Ronen : "The Offshore World: Sovereign Markets, Virtual Places, and Nomad Millionaires" of the study unit M445 .

Target group

Advanced political science (world politics) undergraduates.

Objectives

Students will learn about various theories on the internationalization of production, and its effect on workers and worker organizations. We look at forms of resistance, drawing on the union revitalization literature as well as discussions of less organized forms of resistance. We will investigate theories of capital movement and class formation based on recent work in this area. Students will learn about global labour standards, corporate social responsibility, capital mobility in local and national development politics, labour migration, labour representation in international organizations, and worker resistance in the developing world.

Content

Known popularly in Finland as the "Chine Syndrome", the increasing incidence of production movement from high wage to low wage countries in recent decades has undermined the position of organized labour in the developed world, triggered concession bargaining, spurred local and national subsidy competitions by local governments to attract investment, and increased unemployment and lowered wages in the developed and developing world. This course explores these themes, focusing on the relationship between the transnationalization of production, the weakening of organized labour, and new union and worker strategies for resistance in the global economy.

The instructor will provide one or two articles to the class each week to students who want them; these are recommended readings which will supplement and provide more depth to the lectures - they are not required.

There will be an ungraded small group research project in which students will be asked to look up a factory movement, or incident of labor migration, and determine the reactions of unions to it. Students will present the results of these projects at the end of the course.

Students are required to write report on either a book, selected from the list below, or determined in consultation with the instructor, or alternatively, may write the report on course recommended readings, selecting 3 or more readings to focus on.

Book list

  • Hyman, Richard (2001) Understanding European Trade Unionism: Between Market, Class and Society. London: Sage
  • Silver, Beverly (2003) Forces of Labor: Workers Movements and Globalization since 1870. Cambridge
  • Golden, Miriam (1997) Heroic Defeats
  • Braverman, Harry (1974) Labor and Monopoly Capital
  • Piore and Sabel (1986) The Second Industrial Divide
  • Katz and Darbishire (1999) Converging Divergences
  • Shorter and Tilly (1974) Strikes in France
  • Kelly, John (1998) Rethinking Industrial Relations: mobilization, collectivism and long waves. London, UK: Routledge
  • Hyman, Richard (1977) Strikes. London: Fontana
  • Crouch, Colin (1993) Industrial Relations and European State Traditions. Oxford, UK: Clarendon
  • Rosen, Ellen (2002) Making Sweatshops
  • O"Brien and Harrod (2002) Global Unions?

Course work and forms of study

Seminar format, though it will involve some lecturing.

The final exam will be administered on Tue 17.10. 14-16, U37 sh4. 50% of the exams grade will come from short essays and 50% multiple choice questions.

The book report must be returned to the instructor on the next to final week of class (i.e. the session before the exam).

N.B. The remaining credits of the study unit M445 are to be completed in the form of a book exam within six months, at the latest, after the date of the course completion.

Grading

The course work will be graded on a scale from 0 to 5.

Book report required, of at least 5 pages, worth 1/3 of grade. Final exam will be 2/3 of grade.

Course results and retake

The results of the course will be posted on the notice board of the Department by XX.

The exam retake will be held Wed 24.1. at 8-10, PR sali 1. Prior registration for the exam retake between 8.-15.1. in WebOodi. Don"t mind if WebOodi informs you that you have already taken the course.

Course evaluation and development

During the last session, students will have an opportunity to give feedback on the course to the lecturer and to fill in an anonymous evaluation form. During the course feedback can be given anonymously.

When giving feedback, please evaluate the contribution of the teacher, your own contribution, the contributions of other students and the possible contribution of the Department office to the success of the course.

A summary of the feedback - autumn 2006

Most of the students found the course interesting overall, and thought the lectures were well presented. Some students liked the selection of course content, while others thought there was too much emphasis on union behavior, and too much sociology. Many students appreciated electronic delivery of course materials. Specific suggestions included shortening the four hour lectures, including more discussion, giving more time for student presentations, reducing the number of readings, and using WebCT instead of email for distributing course materials.

Feedback summed up by Nathan Lillie.

WebOodi Registration

Courses in English

Making Sense of Empire: Accounts of the British Empire from Karl Marx to Niall Ferguson

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 4 Credits (study weeks): 2

Teachers

Dr. Mrinalini Greedharry
The course is organised by the Renvall Institute.

Time and location

16.03.2007 - 04.05.2007

16.3.-4.5., Fri 12-15, Unioninkatu 38 A 205.

WebOodi registration from 1 Feb to 12 March (code 402228). Direct link to WebOodi at the bottom of this page.

Compensations

For Political Science students: 4 ECTS credits (study points) / 2 study week (cu) i.e.

  • two optional books from study unit M425 or
  • two optional books from study unit M435 or
  • two optional books from study unit M445 (but not compensating the obligatory Braithwaite and Drahos from M445).

See also Course work and forms of study. N.B. The course gives compensation (5 cr / 3 cu) also for the following subjects: British and Irish Studies, History and Political History. See also Renvall_Institute .

Content

This is a seven-week course in March-May that looks at how the British Empire has been explained and questioned over time. The course is taught by Dr Mrinalini Greedharry, who has a PhD in postcolonial studies from Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Themes of the course include Capital and Empire; Modern Liberalism and Empire; Culture and Empire; Race and Empire; Theories of Knowledge and Empire; and Empire Today.

The writers and ideas analyzed during the course are:

  • Karl Marx, "The British Rule in India"; "Future Results of the British Rule in India"; and "Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist" (from On Colonialism by K. Marx and F. Engels)
  • Niall Ferguson, "Maxim Force" (from Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, 2003)
  • Eric Hobsbawm, from The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 (1987)
  • Uday Singh Mehta, "Progress, Civilization and Consent" (from Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought, 1999)
  • Edward Said, from Orientalism
  • Bernard Porter, "Culture and Imperialism" (from The Absent-Minded Imperialists, 2004)
  • Ann Laura Stoler, "Cultivating Bourgeois Bodies and Racial Selves" (from Rade and the Education of Desire, 1995)

Course work and forms of study

N.B. for political science students (world politics), the remaining credits of the study unit M425, M435 or M445 are to be completed in the form of a book exam within six months, at the latest, after the date of the course completion.

WebOodi Registration

Study unit M510. Master's Thesis Seminar: Topic-Specific Part (World Politics)

In Finnish: M510. Pro gradu -tutkielmaseminaarin aihekohtainen osa (7 op / 4 ov)/791580

M510. Master's Thesis Seminar: Topic-Specific Part (World Politics)

Courses in English

Master´s Thesis Seminar: Topic-Specific Part

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 7 Credits (study weeks): 4

Teachers

University Lecturer Juri Mykkänen E-mail juri.mykkanen@helsinki.fi

Time and location

04.09.2006 - 15.12.2006

4.9.-11.12. Mon 9-12, U37 sh 3 and 15.1.-23.4. Mon 9-12, U37 sh 3. The course program will be specified during the first session.

N.B. Those students who start the seminar in the beginning of autumn term 2006 should register for the seminar in WebOodi between 21.8.-11.9. Those students who are continuing the seminar from the spring term 2005 don"t register anymore in WebOodi.

Students starting the seminar in the beginning of spring term 2007 should register for the seminar in WebOodi 2.-22.1.

N.B. Students need to register in WebOodi also for Y501._General_Part .

Since the purpose of the seminar is to get the student’s thesis writing well on its way, the topic of the thesis should be chosen before registering for the seminar. Students should time the seminar in such a way that they have sufficient energy to concentrate in research work during the course.

Prerequisites

Basic and intermediate studies.

Compensations

Study unit P510., H510. or M510.

Target group

Political Science Degree Majors (Advanced level). Exchange and visiting students can"t attend the course.

Objectives

To be specified later.

Content

To be specified later.

Course work and forms of study

To be specified in the beginning of the course.

Grading

Students’ work will be graded on a scale from 0 to 5.

Course results and retake

The results of the course will be posted on the notice board of the Department. If the course work is not accepted or if the student wishes to raise his/her grade, he/she should contact the teacher within one month after the publication of the results and discuss arrangements for rewriting course work.

Course evaluation and development

During the last session, students will have an opportunity to give feedback on the course to the lecturer and to fill in an anonymous evaluation form. During the course feedback can be given anonymously.

When giving feedback, please evaluate the contribution of the teacher, your own contribution, the contributions of other students and the possible contribution of the Department office to the success of the course.

A summary of the feedback will be posted on this page before the next similar course is given.

WebOodi Registration

Study unit Political science as a Minor Subject

In Finnish: Valtio-oppi sivuaineena/sivuaineena

Political science as a Minor Subject

Literature

Subordinate units

Study unit Basic Studies

In Finnish: Perusopinnot (25 op / 16 ov)/perussivu

title: Basic Studies

Major Subject Students:

Common basic studies in Political Science (19 credits) and a compulsory subprogramme-specific basic study unit in Political Science (6 credits). The study subprogramme specified for majors in conjunction with student admission determines the study path from the beginning of basic studies.

Minor Subject Students:

Common basic studies in Political Science (19 credits) and one subprogramme-specific basic study unit in Political Science (6 credits). Minor subject students that only plan to complete the basic studies in Political Science do not need to choose a specific subprogramme. Minor subject students that plan to continue to intermediate studies must choose one of the three Political Science subprogrammes during their basic study period: Politics, Administration and Organisations, World Politics. The subprogramme of a minor subject student is not confirmed separately. For information about planning minor subject studies, see Counselling in the Study Guide.

Common Basic Studies in Political Science:

  • Y101. Introduction to Political Science (7 credits),
  • Y105. Politics in the Baltic and Scandinavian Region (6 credits) and
  • Y110. Foundations of Political Thought (6 credits) are obligatory for all Political Science majors and minors. Subprogramme-Specific Basic Study Unit in Political Science:

Major Subject Students: Students select the study unit that belongs to their own subprogramme.

Minor Subject Students: One of the three subprogramme-specific study units. Minor subject students that plan to continue to intermediate Political Science studies must select the unit that belongs to the subprogramme that the student will follow in intermediate studies.

The letter preceding the study unit number indicates the subprogramme:

  • P = Politics,
  • H = Administration and Organisations,
  • M = World Politics.

Study unit Y101. Introduction to Political Science

In Finnish: Y101. Johdatus valtio-oppiin - sivuaineopiskelijat (7 op / 4 ov)/sivu791010

Y101. Introduction to Political Science

The study unit aims to provide an overall picture of the different targets and orientations in political research, administrative and organisation studies, and world politics. It also deals with the terminology and theories used in these fields. The goal is to understand the basics of political science, administrative and organisation studies and world politics.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. Teacher responsible for the study unit in English: Juri Mykkänen.

Registration for political science Y101 and Y105 literature exams for non-Finnish speaking students is done via WebOodi: http://oodi-www.it.helsinki.fi/hy/frame.jsp?Kieli=6

Literature

  • Brown C: Understanding International Relations (2nd ed.)
  • Heffron F: Organization Theory and Public Organizations
  • Heywood A: Politics (2nd ed.)

Study unit Y105. Politics in the Baltic and Scandinavian Region

In Finnish: Y105. Suomen poliittinen järjestelmä ja EU - sivuaineopiskelijat (6 op / 4 ov)/sivu791020

Y105. Politics in the Baltic and Scandinavian Region

The study unit aims to increase and deepen the student's understanding of the basic features of the Baltic Sea and Scandinavian region as the context for Finnish politics.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. Teacher responsible for the study unit in English: Juri Mykkänen.

Registration for political science Y101 and Y105 literature exams for non-Finnish speaking students is done via WebOodi: http://oodi-www.it.helsinki.fi/hy/frame.jsp?Kieli=6

Literature

  • Arter D: Scandinavian Politics Today
  • Norgaard O & Johannsen L: The Baltic States After Independence (2nd ed.)
  • Pesonen P & Riihinen O: Dynamic Finland. The Political System and the Welfare State
  • White S: Russia’s New Politics: The Management of a Postcommunist Society

Study unit Y110. Foundations of Political Thought

In Finnish: Y110. Poliittisen ajattelun perusteet - sivuaineopiskelijat (6 op / 4 ov)/sivu791030

title: Y110. Foundations of Political Thought

Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4,

The study unit aims to look at the theoretical and methodological foundations of political research and the philosophical and ideological background assumptions in modern politics through a discussion of ideological history. The unit also emphasises the significance of feminist political theory to political thought.

Mode of Assessment:

Faculty examination. If lecture courses in English belonging to the study unit are organised, the books that these courses substitute are specified in the course description of the Study Guide.

Literature

  • Heywood Andrew: Political ideologies.(3rd ed.)
  • Boucher David and Kelly Paul (eds.): Political Thinkers
  • Bryson Valerie: Feminist Political Theory (2nd ed.)

Literature examinations

Study unit One of the following basic study units

In Finnish: Linjakohtainen opintojakso (6 op / 4 ov)/peruslinja

title: One of the following basic study units

Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4,

Mode of Assessment – Minor Subject Students:

One of the three subprogramme-specific study units. Minor subject students that plan to continue to intermediate Political Science studies must select the unit that belongs to the subprogramme that the student will follow in intermediate studies.

  • P115. European Political Systems (6 credits)
  • H115. Finnish and European Administration (6 credits)
  • M115. Trends in World Politics (6 credits)

Study unit Intermediate Studies

In Finnish: Aineopinnot (35 op / 23 ov)/sivuaineop

title: Intermediate Studies

Credits: 35, Credit Units: 23,
  • either Y201. Methodology of Political Science (5 credits) or
  • Y205. Research on Power (5 credits) and
  • one of the subprogramme-specific intermediate study units (30 credits).

Superordinate Units

Subordinate units

Study unit One of the following intermediate study units

In Finnish: Yksi linjakohtaisista aineopinnoista/linjasivu

title: One of the following intermediate study units

Mode of Assessment:

Political Science minor subject students follow the subprogramme they selected during basic studies in Political Science (Politics, Administration and Organisations or World Politics).

Superordinate Units

Subordinate units

Study unit Subprogramme-specific intermediate studies

In Finnish: Politiikan tutkimuksen linjakohtaiset aineopinnot (30 op / 20 ov)/polsivu

title: Subprogramme-specific intermediate studies

Credits: 30, Credit Units: 20,

Five 6-credit study units, at least three of which must be from the Politics subprogramme:

  • P210. Modern Political Thought (6 credits),
  • P215. Citizens, Institutions and Decision-Making in the European Union (6 credits),
  • P220. Interaction between Politics and Economy (6 credits),
  • P225. Problems of Modern Democracy (6 credits),
  • P230. Current Political Phenomena (6 credits) or
  • P260. Elective Intermediate Studies, which can account for 0–12 credits in the Politics subprogramme.

Study unit Subprogramme-specific intermediate studies

In Finnish: Hallinnon ja organisaatioiden tutkimuksen linjakohtaiset aineopinnot (30 op / 20 ov)/hallsivu

title: Subprogramme-specific intermediate studies

Credits: 30, Credit Units: 20,
  • Compulsory intermediate studies in administration and organisations (12 credits): H210. Foundations of Administrative and Organisation Theory (6 credits) and H215. Evaluation Research (6 op).
  • Elective intermediate studies in administration and organisations (18 credits): Three 6-credit study units, at least one of which must be from the Administration and Organisations subprogramme: H220. International Organisations (6 credits), H225. Comparative Research on Administration (6 credits), H230. EU Institutions, Decision-Making and Administration (6 credits) or H260. Elective Intermediate Studies, which can account for 0–12 credits in the Administration and Organisations subprogramme.

Study unit Elective intermediate studies

In Finnish: Valinnaiset aineopinnot (18 op / 12 ov)/hallsivuval

title: Elective intermediate studies

Credits: 18, Credit Units: 12,

Three 6-credit study units, at least one of which must be from the Administration and Organisations subprogramme:

  • H220. International Organisations (6 credits),
  • H225. Comparative Research on Administration (6 credits),
  • H230. EU Institutions, Decision-Making and Administration (6 credits) or
  • H260. Elective Intermediate Studies, which can account for 0–12 credits in the Administration and Organisations subprogramme.

Study unit Subprogramme-specific intermediate studies

In Finnish: Maailmanpolitiikan tutkimuksen linjakohtaiset aineopinnot (30 op / 20 ov)/maailsivu

title: Subprogramme-specific intermediate studies

Credits: 30, Credit Units: 20,
  • Common intermediate studies in world politics (12 credits): M210. Theoretical Orientations in World Politics (6 credits) and M215. Changes in World Politics (6 credits).
  • Fields of specialisation in world politics (18 credits): One of the three fields of specialisation in global politics (12 credits): Foreign Policy and Diplomacy, Peace and Conflict Studies, or Global Political Economy and Global Governance, and one elective intermediate study unit (6 credits) in another field of specialisation in World Politics than one’s own.

Superordinate Units

Subordinate units

Study unit Fields of Specialisation

In Finnish: Maailmanpolitiikan tutkimuksen linjan erikoistumisalueet (12+6 op / 8+4 ov)/maailsivuerik

title: Fields of Specialisation

Credits: 12 + 6 , Credit Units: 8 + 4,

Mode of Assessment:

Each field of specialisation in the World Politics subprogramme is based on a lecture series arranged in the form of a workshop, during which students read and analyse some of the main articles related to the field and take an oral examination on five articles that the students select from the latest volume of a journal dealing with the field of specialisation. The requirements also include a Faculty examination on four books. Students are given a list of 6–8 important research topics from which they can select the ones most appropriate for their own orientation. One of the books can also be selected outside the given literature list if agreed with the teacher responsible for the study unit.

Study unit Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

In Finnish: Ulkopolitiikka ja diplomatia/ulkopsivu

title: Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

  • M220. Theory of Foreign Policy and Diplomacy (6 credits) and
  • M225. The Foreign Policies of Key International Actors (6 credits), and one elective intermediate study unit from another field of specialisation in World Politics than one’s own.

Study unit Peace and Conflict Studies

In Finnish: Rauhan- ja konfliktintutkimus/rksivu

title: Peace and Conflict Studies

  • M230. Theory of Peace and Security Studies (6 credits) and
  • M235. Conflicts and Their Resolution (6 credits), and one elective intermediate study unit from another field of specialisation in World Politics than one’s own.

Study unit Global Political Economy and Global Governance

In Finnish: Globaali poliittinen talous ja globaali hallinta/globsivu

title: Global Political Economy and Global Governance

  • M240. Core Questions in Political Economy (6 credits) and
  • M245. Global Governance and its Reform (6 credits), and one elective intermediate study unit from another field of specialisation in World Politics than one’s own.

Study unit Elective intermediate studies

In Finnish: Maailmanpolitiikan tutkimuksen linjan valinnaiset aineopinnot (6 op / 4 ov)/maailsivuval

title: Elective intermediate studies

Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4,

Study unit Postgraduate Studies

In Finnish: Valtio-opin jatko-opinnot/jatko

Political Science Postgraduate Studies 2006-2007

Code
Credits: 60 , Credit Units: 35

New: Subscribe the new Political Science PostGrad mailing list by sending an email to the new postgraduate studies contact person of the department, University Lecturer Johanna.Kantola@helsinki.fi.

Political Science Postgraduate Degree requirements (yellow envelopes) and teaching (red chaps with a pointer) 2006-2007 below at Subordinate units .

WebOodi registration for literature exams and courses is introduced into the postgraduate studies of Political Science from the beginning of autumn term 2006. Read_the_instructions .

Learning Goals

In addition to offering proof of the student's ability to carry out independent research in a narrow field of specialisation, the postgraduate degree aims to enhance the student's knowledge about the methodology of Social Science and the theory of and research traditions in politics, especially in the student's own field of study. A person with a doctorate is expected to have obtained general skills to carry out research in different fields and the ability to teach the foundations in the discipline.

Postgraduate studies aim to strengthen both oral and written academic argumentation in the student's mother tongue and English. The skills for academic communication in a variety of interactive situations will be developed during the studies.

Postgraduates are expected to form their own, well-founded understanding of the value and role of academic research, especially from the point of view of their own field of science and research. It is particularly important for a political scientist to know how to critically reflect on his/her own knowledge and status with reference to power analysis. This perspective is not only valuable within the academic community, but also strengthens the societal impact of scientific research and the working life relevance of postgraduate studies in a way characteristic to the identity of Political Science.

In addition to an understanding of the content of Political Science, those heading for an academic career are advised to acquire university pedagogical skills although they are not expressly included in the learning goals set for postgraduate studies.

Degree Requirements

The postgraduate degree in Political Science involves studies towards the Licentiate and Doctoral degree in Social Sciences. The difference lies in the research report prepared at the end of studies, which can be either a Licentiate Thesis or a doctoral dissertation.

The scope of the postgraduate subprogramme is 60 study points. If the student already has a Licentiate Degree, only a dissertation is required for the Doctoral Degree. Studies are mainly carried out independently and in seminar groups. Students who actively participate in seminars are also entitled to personal guidance. The Department also arranges complementary teaching for postgraduate students alone or jointly for them and students who are at the advanced stage of their Master’s studies.

New students present their research plan in a seminar during the first semester. Students can continue the seminar once they have completed study unit Y610. and one of the following: P615., H615. or M615.

The_rules_of_transition_for_postgraduate_studies specify how the right to participate in the seminar can be attained during the period of transition from the old to the new degree requirements for postgraduate studies.

Each postgraduate has at least one appointed supervisor (main supervisor), usually a professor or a docent specialised in the research field. The subject of the thesis will determine the need to appoint an additional supervisor for the research project. The supervision group composed of several supervisors is headed by the main supervisor of the postgraduate. The supervisors and postgraduate students are committed to the Principles_and_Practices_of_Good_Supervision .

Subordinate units

Study unit Common Studies in Methodology and Theory

In Finnish: Yhteiset metodologia- ja teoriaopinnot (24 op / 12 ov)/jatkoyht

Political Science - Postgraduate Common Studies in Methodology and Theory (24 cr / 12 cu)

This entity aims to complement and deepen the student's knowledge about political theory, and the methodology and philosophy of Social Science and to further deepen the students' understanding of the theory of science, society and politics. This leads to better skills for independent research. Common Studies in Methodology and Theory comprise of three study units.

Study unit Y601. Philosophy of Politics or Advanced Studies in Research Methods

In Finnish: Y601. Politiikan tutkimuksen filosofia tai tutkimusmenetelmien syventävät opinnot (6 op / 3 ov)/79331

Y601. Philosophy of Politics or Advanced Studies in Research Methods (6 cr / 3 cu, Oodi code: 79331)

One of the following Political Science Master's degree programme study units:

The same course may not be included in the student's Master’s degree and postgraduate studies. If the student has already completed both courses, he/she shall agree on alternative studies with the supervisor.

Literature

Study unit Y401 literature (besides a course two books taken at the political science faculty examination):

One common book:

  • Held David (ed.): Political Theory Today

One of the post Second World War classics:

  • Arendt Hannah: The Human Condition
  • Bhaskar Roy: Plato Etc. Philosophical Problems and Their Resolution
  • Derrida Jacques: Spectres of Marx Habermas Jürgen: Between Facts and Norms. Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
  • Habermas Jürgen: The Inclusion of the Other. Studies in Political Theory
  • MacIntyre Alasdair: After Virtue
  • Macpherson C B: Democratic Theory
  • Pateman Carole: Sexual Contract
  • Popper Karl: The Open Society and Its Enemies
  • Rawls John: A Theory of Justice
  • Unger Roberto Mangabeira: False Necessity. Anti-Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy

Literature examinations

Courses in English

Ideology and Discourse Analysis

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 4 Credits (study weeks): 2

Teachers

PhD Emilia Palonen E-mail emiliapalonen@yahoo.co.uk

Time and location

11.09.2006 - 18.10.2006

11.9.-18.10. Mon and Wed 16-18, U37 sh 4.

Prior registration for the course between 21.-28.8. in WebOodi. Max 30 participants. Priority given to Political Science degree students at Helsinki University.

N.B. All the students must apply for the course in the same (Political Science study unit Y401) WebOodi registration window. Write down in the Further Information field the name of study unit you plan to use this course for . You will be informed after the registration time via email if you fitted in the course.

The course is part of the "Method_Basket" of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Prerequisites

See Target group.

Compensations

  • 4 cr / 2 cu of the study unit Y405. Advanced Studies in Research Methods (Masters level)
  • 4 cr / 2 cu of the study unit Y601. Advanced Studies in Research Methods (Doctoral level)

Target group

Masters level (or doctoral) students in any field of politics (and social sciences). The course is part of the "Method_Basket" of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Objectives

To make a distinction with a variety of discourse theoretical approaches with a main focus on Laclauian discourse theory. Strong analytical skills, ability to interpret and analyse texts, objects and wider political phenomena. Critically analyse underlying values of statements and phenomena. Students also will be expected to learn about hermeneutic and textual approaches to the study of politics as both empirical and theoretical inquiry. Critically reflect the consequences of different methods for the object of analysis. The essay will be demonstrating ability to grasp and analyse a specific political topic in a structured well argued and referenced manner. This will offer the basics for the future research project, such as MA thesis.

Content

Part A – Introduction to discourse theory

11 September

  • Session 1 – From texts to political phenomena: reading politically. Different types of narrative and discourse analysis: e.g. Fairclough and Wodak, van Dijk, Billig and Laclau

13 September

  • Session 2 – Basics of Laclau’s discourse theory

Part B – Application: theory in praxis

18 September

  • Session 3 – Key concepts of discourse theory: myth/imaginary, hegemony, signifiers.

20 September

  • Session 4 - Key concepts of discourse theory II: political frontiers, political communities and identification.

25 September

  • Session 5 – Applying discourse theory: study of existing applications in discourse theory from Argentina, South Africa, Austria, Hungary, to the UK.

Part C – Theory: focus on the background

3 October

  • Session 6 – Deconstruction and discourse analysis (Derrida, Norval)

5 October

  • Session 7 – Rhetoric and discourse analysis (Laclau, Skinner)

9 October

  • Session 8 – Psychoanalytic approaches to discourse. E.g. concepts of trauma and jouissance (Lacan, Zizek)

Part C – Our own case studies

11 and 16 October

  • Sessions 9-10 – Discourse theory in political analysis: besides the already existing research, the aim of these sessions is to combining discourse theory to the contemporary politics and student’s research agendas. Overlaps with other frameworks of analysis.
  • Here the above mentioned concepts will be discussed further, and clarified with the cases of empirical analysis in the sessions 5 and 9.

COURSE MATERIALS:

The reading list will be made available on the first week of the course. When not available in the Library MATERIALS will be made available in an electronic format on this web page.

For the first week, it would be suggested that the students would familiarise themselves with one of the works listed below for pre-course reading:

  • Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy , London, Verso 1985 (or its second edition)
  • Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason , Verso: London 2005

Any other work by Ernesto Laclau and/or one of the following:

  • David Howarth , Discourse , Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press 2000
  • David Howarth, Aletta Norval and Yannis Stavrakakis, Discourse Theory and Political Analysis: identities, hegemonies and social change , Manchester: Manchester University, 2000
  • David Howarth and Jakob Torfing, Discourse Theory in European Politics , Palgrave London: Macmillan, 2005
  • Jacob Torfing, New Theories of Discourse: Laclau, Mouffe and Zizeek , Oxford: Blackwell, 1999
  • Anna Marie Smith, Laclau and Mouffe: the radical democratic imaginary , London: Routledge, 1998

Course work and forms of study

Seminar 20 hours, 10 sessions and 15 page referenced essay.

Grading

The course work will be graded on a scale from 0 to 5.

Course results and retake

The results of the course will be posted on the notice board of the Department by XX. If the course work is not accepted or if the student wishes to raise his/her grade, he/she should contact the teacher within one month after the publication of the results and discuss arrangements for rewriting course work.

Course evaluation and development

During the last session, students will have an opportunity to give feedback on the course to the lecturer and to fill in an anonymous evaluation form. During the course feedback can be given anonymously.

When giving feedback, please evaluate the contribution of the teacher, your own contribution, the contributions of other students and the possible contribution of the Department office to the success of the course.

Course Feedback and teacher"s comments - autumn 2006

The course was rated as interesting (4/5 scale).

The main problem was the reading, the lack of reading list in the beginning and the availability of books.

  • This is something I"m ready to admit as a problem. But as I explained in the beginning of the course: when I came to teach I thought we would have more things in the real library and tried to give the reading in electronic form, which I hadn"t prepared for and had no access for before the start of the course.

The second problem was lack of structure.

  • I suppose this is mainly due to the misclassification of the course as a lecture course. Of course I had to be giving a mini-lecture in the beginning, but the point was to improvise the teaching to the directions that were taken up by the group. That means relying on the students: that they would read and could contribute from their own (starting or ongoing) research, it being an advanced MA and PhD level course.

On the positive sides, the enthusiasm and knowledge of the teacher, the explanations and examples were praised.

  • Thanks!

Feedback summed up and commented by Johanna Palonen.

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Courses in English

Practice, Thought and Judgment – Hannah Arendt 100 years

Study units

Teachers

Contact Person: D.Soc.Sc., Docent Mika Ojakangas E-mail mika.ojakangas@helsinki.fi
The Symposium is organised by Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.

Time and location

24.11.2006 - 25.11.2006

Practice, Thought and Judgment – Hannah Arendt 100 years : Anniversary Symposium November 24–25, 2006 is organised by Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies in collaboration with the Department of Political Science, the Christina Institute for Women"s Studies and the Deparmtments of Philosophy.

Morning sessions will be held at the University Main Building, Auditorium XIII (Unioninkatu 34). The afternoon sessions will be held at the Collegium for Advances Studies (Fabianinkatu 24, seminar room 136).

Compensations

See Course work and forms of study.

Objectives

Hannah Arendt is one of the most outstanding philosophers and political theorists of the 20th century. Her writings cover many diverse topics of which the most known are the Christian caritas, the critique of totalitarianism and of totally bureaucratic society, the analysis of practice, freedom and authority, the question of the banality of evil, the nature of the faculties of thinking, willing and judging, the history of philosophy, and the relationship between natality and indeterminism. A thinker of multidimensional argumentation Arendt’s writings draw inspiration from Aristotle, Augustine, Kant, Nietzsche, Marx, Jaspers, Heidegger and Kafka just to mention a few. Moreover, her thought has had a great impact on various contemporary philosophers and thinkers, such as Jürgen Habermas, Alasdair MacIntyre, Seyla Benhabib, Giorgio Agamben, Jean-Luc Nancy, Adriana Cavarero, Dana R. Villa, Richard J. Bernstein and Grace M. Jantzen. The amount of interest in her theories is remarkable in Finland as well, not only among political scientists but also among philosophers, jurisprudents, sociologists, anthropologists, feminists and theologians. The reason for this interest is simple: Arendt’s innovative concepts and conceptual distinctions have not lost their significance and are thus highly useful for the analyses of contemporary philosophical, social and political questions and problems. Her insightful concern for the possibility of multicultural democracy in a globalizing world is still a burning question for contemporary politics and philosophy.

Content

Keynote speakers:

  • Professor Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott, Eastern Michigan University
  • Professor Dana Richard Villa, University of Notre Dame

Friday, November 24th

Morning Session at the University Main Building, Auditorium XIII (Unioninkatu 34)

10: 15 Opening words Professor Juha Sihvola, Collegium for Advanced Studies

Plenary lecture and discussion:

Hannah Arendt: the Autonomy of the Political Reconsidered Dana Richard Villa, Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Theory, University of Notre Dame

12-13:15 Lunch

Afternoon Session at The Collegium for Advanced Studies (Fabianinkatu 24, Seminar room 136) Chair: Sara Heinämaa, Collegium for Advanced Studies

13:30 Plurality as Fact and Value in Arendt’s Political Philosophy Kristian Klockars, Department of Social and Moral Philosophy

14: 15 (Im)mortal Action: Arendt and Aristotle Jussi Backman, Department of Philosophy

15:00 Arendt’s conception of the sense of realness Julia Honkasalo, Department of Philosophy

Coffee service at the Collegium

16:15 The abyss of freedom and the totalitarian lure Iivi Masso, Department of Social and Moral Philosophy

17: 00 The Janus faced Juno of Arendt’s politics of life Markku Koivusalo, Department of Political Science

18: 00 Reception dinner party at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies

Saturday, November 25th

Morning Session at the University Main Building, Auditorium XIII (Unioninkatu 34)

10:15

Plenary lecture and discussion:

What St. Augustine Taught Hannah Arendt about “how to live in the world”: Caritas, Natality and the Banality of Evil Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott, Professor of Political Science, Eastern Michigan University

12-13:15 Lunch

Afternoon Session at The Collegium for Advanced Studies (Fabianinkatu 24, Seminar room 136) Chair: Marja-Liisa Honkasalo, Collegium for Advanced Studies

13: 30 Hannah Arendt and the Question of Conscience Mika Ojakangas, Department of Political Science

14: 15 Infinity and Unpredictability: Descartes and Arendt on Will and Action Martina Reuter, Department of Systematic Theology

15:00 Perspectivism and Corporeality – Nietzschean Themes in Arendt Krista Johansson, Department of Philosophy

Coffee service at the Collegium

16:15 Between Action and Existence. On Meaning and Finitude in Arendt and Heidegger Miika Luoto, Institute for Art Research

17:00 Arendt on the Sublime Susanna Snell, Department of Social and Moral Philosophy

Closing of the Symposium

Introduction of the invited keynote speakers

Professor Dana R. Villa

Professor Dana R. Villa from University of Notre Dame is one of the most significant contemporary Arendt scholars. He is specialized in contemporary political theory and the history of political thought. Professor Villa is the author of Socratic Citizenship as well as two books on Hannah Arendt, Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the Political , and Politics, Philosophy, Terror: Essays on the Thought of Hannah Arendt . In addition, he has contributed to the contemporary international research on Hannah Arendt by editing The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt and publishing articles in such works as Hannah Arendt - Twenty Years Later and Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem . Professor Villa has taught at Amherst College for ten years, and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the University Center for Human Values (Princeton University), the Institute for Advanced Study, and the American Academy in Berlin. He has also published several articles on Arendt, Nietzsche, Weber, Socrates, and Tocqueville in journals such as Political Theory, Constellations, American Political Science Review, and the Revue Internationale de Philosophie . He is currently working on a study of Hegel and Tocqueville.

Professor Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott

Professor Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott from Eastern Michigan University is a highly acknowledged political theorist and Europeanist interested in the cross-fertilization of European and American political culture in the 20th century, with a particular focus on Hannah Arendt and her generation of philosophers, social theorists, writers, and artists. Her areas of concentration include feminist theories, the history of political thought, cultural politics, questions of ethnicity and ideology. She is also engaged in research on contemporary reinterpretations of medieval political theories of identity and power, from the Cold War to the post-Modern eras. Previously, she has taught at California State University, Long Beach, where she served for three years on the General Education Governing Committee and was elected "Outstanding Teacher" in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Scott published Hannah Arendt: Love and Saint Augustine (with Judith C. Stark, 1996, University of Chicago Press) and is completing a second study on Arendt which explores her emergence as an American political theorist and cultural critic in New York City in the middle decades of the 20th century. Scott"s other publications include book chapters, book reviews, and articles in political science journals such as “The Journal of Politics”, “Polity”, “New York Times” and “The American Political Science Review”, as well as in the multidisciplinary venues, “Augustinian Studies”, “New German Critique”, and the “Hannah Arendt Newsletter”, just to mention a few.

Course work and forms of study

For Political Science Postgraduate study units Y601 or P630 or H630 or M630 :

  • 1 cr: listening to the symposium lectures and a short lecture diary / commentary paper on the symposium.
  • 2 cr / 1 cu: listening to the symposium lectures and an essay (circa 10 pages) relating to one"s own study; Arendt"s writings must be applied in the essay.
  • Compensation according to an agreement with the teacher responsible for the study unit: participating in the symposium with own paper.

Study unit Y605. Methodology Course

In Finnish: Y605. Metodologiakurssi (8 op / 4 ov)/79332

Y605. Methodology Course (8 cr / 4 cu – Oodi code: 79332)

The course will be offered by the Department of Political Science, research school or an international summer school. If the course description does not indicate whether the course can be used to replace Y605., the student shall discuss the issue with his/her supervisor. It is the student's responsibility to find or choose an appropriate course and enrol in it.

Courses in English

Critical Realism and Methodology: What Difference does it make in Politics / World Politics?

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 8 Credits (study weeks): 4

Teachers

Professor Tuomas Forsberg E-mail tuomas.forsberg@helsinki.fi
Guest teachers.
The course is organised in co-operation with VAKAVA.

Time and location

27.10.2006 - 02.12.2006
  • Fri 27.10., 10.11., 24.11. and 1.12. 16-20, U37 ls (Faculty of Social Sciences, Unioninkatu 37, lecture hall)
  • Sat 28.10., 11.11., 25.11. and 2.12. 10-16, P724 (Porthania, Yliopistonkatu 3, lecture room 724).

N.B. The change of the timetable. The last sessions will be held one week earlier than previously infomed.

Maximum number of students (Sat seminar sessions) is twenty (20); however, Fri lectures are open to everyone.

Entrance: Please contact Marja Jukola-Aho at Marja.Jukola-Aho@uta.fi. A title and abstract of the seminar paper required. Deadline : 30 Sept 2006.

Compensations

Post graduate study unit Y605 .

Target group

Only for Postgraduate students.

Content

Read more on the_VAKAVA_page .

Course work and forms of study

Four sessions with four different teachers. Each session comprises lectures and a seminar-session. On Fridays, four hours of lectures; on Saturdays, seminar up to six hours, depending on the number of papers presented. Students" papers – engaging with issues related to critical realism – will be discussed in the seminar.

Study unit Y610. Methodology and Theory: Literature Exam

In Finnish: Y610. Metodologia ja teoria: kirjallisuuskuulustelu (10 op / 5 ov)/79333

Y610. Methodology and Theory: Literature Exam (10 cr / 5 cu – Oodi code: 79333)

Three books in one Political Science Faculty examination, one of which is compulsory to all students and two of which are selected from a list of books.

Literature

Book compulsory to all:

  • Chalmers: What Is This Thing Called Science?

One of the following two:

  • Flyvbjerg: Making Social Sciences Matter. Why Social Inquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again
  • Fuller: The Governance of Science

And one of the following:

  • Bhaskar: Dialectic. The Pulse of Freedom
  • Derrida: Of Grammatology
  • Elster: Making Sense of Marx
  • Habermas: Between Facts and Norms. Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
  • Popper: The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Literature examinations

Study unit Subprogramme-Specific Postgraduate Studies

In Finnish: Linjakohtaiset jatko-opinnot (36 op / 25 ov)/jatkolinja

Subprogramme-Specific Postgraduate Studies (36 cr / 25 cu)

The goal of this entity is to complement and deepen students' knowledge about the theoretical foundations in the subprogramme. This provides them with a broader command of the field and develops their skills to discuss basic topics in the field at the deepest possible level.

Superordinate Units

Subordinate units

Study unit Subprogramme-Specific Literature Exam

In Finnish: Linjakohtainen kirjallisuuskuulustelu (6 op / 3 ov)/jatkokirjall

Subprogramme-Specific Literature Exam (6 cr / 3 cu)

Students study two books for a Political Science Faculty examination. The books are selected from the list according to one’s own subprogramme (P630., H630. or M630.). The books may not have been included in the student's earlier studies. The books are examined by the professor responsible for the subprogramme.

Study unit P615. Theory of Political Science

In Finnish: P615. Politiikan tutkimuksen teoria (6 op / 3 ov)/79334

P615. Theory of Political Science (6 cr / 3 cu – Oodi code: 79334)

Two books taken in a Political Science Faculty examination. The selected books should not be books that student has already passed in his or her earlier studies.

Literature

  • Barber : Strong Democracy. Participatory Politics for a New Age
  • Foucault : Foucault / Nietzsche
  • Green & Shapiro : Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory. A Critique of Applications in Political Science
  • King & Keohane & Verba : Designing Social Inquiry. Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research
  • Palonen : Quentin Skinner
  • Young : Inclusion and Democracy

Literature examinations

Study unit H615. Theory of Administration and Organisations

In Finnish: H615. Hallinnon ja organisaatioiden tutkimuksen teoria (6 op / 3 ov)/79335

H615. Theory of Administration and Organisations (6 cr / 3 cu - Oodi code: 79335)

Two books taken in a Political Science Faculty examination. Select one from both lists. The selected books should not be books that student has already passed in his or her earlier studies.

Literature

Classic research:

  • Barnard: The Functions of Executiv
  • Cyert & March: A Behavioral theory of the firm
  • Downs: Inside Bureaucracy
  • Fox & Urwick (eds.): Dynamic Administration. The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett
  • Etzioni: A Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations (revised and enlarged edition 1975)
  • Pressman & Wildavsky: Implementation (3rd expanded edition)
  • Simon: Administrative Behavior (fourth edition)
  • Weber: Economy and Society, Vol. 1. part 1: chapter I and III, Vol. 2, chapters IX, X, XI and XIV

or (the last item includes two books)

  • Mayo: The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization

and

  • Taylor: The Principles of Scientific Management

Modern research:

  • Ashcraft & Mumby: Reworking Gender: A Feminist Communicology of Organization
  • Barnett & Finnemore: Rules of the World: International Organizations in Global Politics
  • Campbell & Wilson: The End of Whitehall
  • Casey: Critical Analysis of Organizations. Theory, Practice, Revitalization
  • Cross & Parker: The Hidden Power of Social Networks. Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations
  • Donaldson: For Positivist Organization Theory. Providing the Hard Core
  • Harmon: Responsibility as Paradox. A Critique of Rational Discourse on Government
  • Hood: The Art of the State. Culture, Rhetoric, and Public Management
  • Rhodes: Understanding Governance. Policy Networks, Reflexivity and Accountability

Literature examinations

Study unit M615. Theory of World Politics

In Finnish: M615. Maailmanpolitiikan tutkimuksen teoria (6 op / 3 ov)/79336

M615. Theory of World Politics (6 cr / 3 cu – Oodi code: 79336)

Two books taken in a Political Science Faculty examination. The selected books should not be books that student has already passed in his or her earlier studies.

Literature

  • Cox: Approaches to World Order
  • Enloe: Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics.
  • Gilpin: War and Change in World Politics
  • Hardt & Negri: Empire
  • Linklater: Transformation of Political Community
  • O'Neill: Bounds of Justice
  • Patomäki: After International Relations
  • Suganami: Causes of War
  • Wallerstein: The Essential Wallerstein
  • Walzer: Just and Unjust Wars
  • Wendt: Social Theory of International Politics

Literature examinations

Study unit Postgraduate Seminar

In Finnish: P620., H620. tai M620. Linjakohtainen jatkokoulutusseminaari (10 op / 5 ov)/jatkosemma

P620., H620. or M620. Postgraduate Seminar (10 cr / 5 cu – Oodi code: 79337, 79338 or 79339)

Each postgraduate will take part in the work of the postgraduate seminar of his/her own subprogram (P620, H620 or M620). The possibility to participate in the seminars of other subprograms may be discussed with the main supervisor.

The seminar aims to create an environment for discussion where students can practice academic presentation and argumentation. Participants also get feedback and comments on different aspects of their work while carrying out research.

Mode of assessment:

Postgraduate students present their research plans in the first term. Students can continue the seminar once they have completed study unit Y610. and one of the following: P615., H615. or M615. Personal guidance is only given to students that actively participate in the seminar. The course is not registered until the thesis has been submitted for preliminary examination (or for examination in the case of the Licentiate Thesis). To complete this course, the student must present a research plan and at least two papers.

Courses in English

M620. Postgraduate Seminar in World Politics

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 10 Credits (study weeks): 5

Teachers

Professor Jussi Pakkasvirta E-mail Jussi.Pakkasvirta@helsinki.fi

Time and location

13.09.2006 - 02.05.2007

13.9.-12.12. Wed 16-18, U40 sali 9 and 17.1.-2.5. Wed 17-19, U40 sali 9. N.B. Spring term session are held at 17-19 due to Minds to Rule course!

Old N.B:s:

  • N.B. the last meeting of autumn term will be held on Tue 12 Dec, at 16-18 at U40 sali 11.
  • N.B. the seminar will be held on Wednesdays, not Thursdays as earlier informed + the change of the seminar place (now Unioninkatu 40, Metsätalo).

No WebOodi registration.

Target group

Only for Postgraduate students.

Study unit Other Postgraduate Studies

In Finnish: Muut linjakohtaiset jatko-opinnot (20 op / 15 ov)/jatkomuut

Other Postgraduate Studies (20 cr / 15 cu)

Other subprogram-specific postgraduate studies are to be agreed on with the main supervisor. These studies may be completed by writing research essays, by taking part in courses aimed at postgraduates, by participating in scientific seminars and presenting papers in these seminars, by producing scientific research publications in the field of Political Science, by teaching based on research, and by doing other specifically agreed on work that enhances scientific facilities. Completed studies will be registered in Oodi in appropriate entities (recommendation 5-10 study points).

See also the post graduate course programmes of research schools:

Superordinate Units

Subordinate units

Study unit P630. Other Postgraduate Studies in Politics

In Finnish: P630. Politiikan tutkimuksen muut jatko-opinnot (20 op / 15 ov)/79340

P630. Other Postgraduate Studies in Politics (20 cr / 15 cu - Oodi code: 79340)

Other subprogram-specific postgraduate studies are to be agreed on with the main supervisor. These studies may be completed by writing research essays, by taking part in courses aimed at postgraduates, by participating in scientific seminars and presenting papers in these seminars, by producing scientific research publications in the field of Political Science, by teaching based on research, and by doing other specifically agreed on work that enhances scientific facilities. Completed studies will be registered in Oodi in appropriate entities (recommendation 5-10 study points).

See also the post graduate course programmes of research schools:

Courses in English

Minds to Rule - Interrelations between political power and the powers of the mind in Western philosophy

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 5

Teachers

Conveners: Ph.D. Petter Korkman and FD, FT Martina Reuter E-mail petter.korkman@helsinki.fi, martina.reuter@helsinki.fi
The course is organised by Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.

Time and location

24.01.2007 - 02.05.2007

The lecture series starts on 24.1.2007 and the last lecture is on 2.5.2007. Sessions on Wednesdays 14-17 in the Collegium"s seminar room (Fabianink. 24, 1st floor).

All students desiring to take part in the lecture series are encouraged to enlist for the lectures with Maria Soukkio at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies: this way we can contact you with further information and more material well before the lecture series begins. Please insert "Minds to Rule" in the title and send you email to maria.soukkio@helsinki.fi.

Target group

The lecture series, under the title "Minds to Rule. Interrelations between political power and the powers of the mind in Western philosophy" is open to students various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and builds on guest lectures combined with work sessions devoted to discussions of relevant original texts. The lecture series is convened by Petter Korkman and Martina Reuter. The lectures are aimed at an audience of intermediary to advanced level students, and to post-graduate or PhD students.

Content

See the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies site where you find more detailed information on e.g.

  • Objectives of the Lecture Series
  • Lecture Series Programme and Dates
  • Course Work and Forms of Study
Courses in English

Practice, Thought and Judgment – Hannah Arendt 100 years

Study units

Teachers

Contact Person: D.Soc.Sc., Docent Mika Ojakangas E-mail mika.ojakangas@helsinki.fi
The Symposium is organised by Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.

Time and location

24.11.2006 - 25.11.2006

Practice, Thought and Judgment – Hannah Arendt 100 years : Anniversary Symposium November 24–25, 2006 is organised by Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies in collaboration with the Department of Political Science, the Christina Institute for Women"s Studies and the Deparmtments of Philosophy.

Morning sessions will be held at the University Main Building, Auditorium XIII (Unioninkatu 34). The afternoon sessions will be held at the Collegium for Advances Studies (Fabianinkatu 24, seminar room 136).

Compensations

See Course work and forms of study.

Objectives

Hannah Arendt is one of the most outstanding philosophers and political theorists of the 20th century. Her writings cover many diverse topics of which the most known are the Christian caritas, the critique of totalitarianism and of totally bureaucratic society, the analysis of practice, freedom and authority, the question of the banality of evil, the nature of the faculties of thinking, willing and judging, the history of philosophy, and the relationship between natality and indeterminism. A thinker of multidimensional argumentation Arendt’s writings draw inspiration from Aristotle, Augustine, Kant, Nietzsche, Marx, Jaspers, Heidegger and Kafka just to mention a few. Moreover, her thought has had a great impact on various contemporary philosophers and thinkers, such as Jürgen Habermas, Alasdair MacIntyre, Seyla Benhabib, Giorgio Agamben, Jean-Luc Nancy, Adriana Cavarero, Dana R. Villa, Richard J. Bernstein and Grace M. Jantzen. The amount of interest in her theories is remarkable in Finland as well, not only among political scientists but also among philosophers, jurisprudents, sociologists, anthropologists, feminists and theologians. The reason for this interest is simple: Arendt’s innovative concepts and conceptual distinctions have not lost their significance and are thus highly useful for the analyses of contemporary philosophical, social and political questions and problems. Her insightful concern for the possibility of multicultural democracy in a globalizing world is still a burning question for contemporary politics and philosophy.

Content

Keynote speakers:

  • Professor Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott, Eastern Michigan University
  • Professor Dana Richard Villa, University of Notre Dame

Friday, November 24th

Morning Session at the University Main Building, Auditorium XIII (Unioninkatu 34)

10: 15 Opening words Professor Juha Sihvola, Collegium for Advanced Studies

Plenary lecture and discussion:

Hannah Arendt: the Autonomy of the Political Reconsidered Dana Richard Villa, Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Theory, University of Notre Dame

12-13:15 Lunch

Afternoon Session at The Collegium for Advanced Studies (Fabianinkatu 24, Seminar room 136) Chair: Sara Heinämaa, Collegium for Advanced Studies

13:30 Plurality as Fact and Value in Arendt’s Political Philosophy Kristian Klockars, Department of Social and Moral Philosophy

14: 15 (Im)mortal Action: Arendt and Aristotle Jussi Backman, Department of Philosophy

15:00 Arendt’s conception of the sense of realness Julia Honkasalo, Department of Philosophy

Coffee service at the Collegium

16:15 The abyss of freedom and the totalitarian lure Iivi Masso, Department of Social and Moral Philosophy

17: 00 The Janus faced Juno of Arendt’s politics of life Markku Koivusalo, Department of Political Science

18: 00 Reception dinner party at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies

Saturday, November 25th

Morning Session at the University Main Building, Auditorium XIII (Unioninkatu 34)

10:15

Plenary lecture and discussion:

What St. Augustine Taught Hannah Arendt about “how to live in the world”: Caritas, Natality and the Banality of Evil Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott, Professor of Political Science, Eastern Michigan University

12-13:15 Lunch

Afternoon Session at The Collegium for Advanced Studies (Fabianinkatu 24, Seminar room 136) Chair: Marja-Liisa Honkasalo, Collegium for Advanced Studies

13: 30 Hannah Arendt and the Question of Conscience Mika Ojakangas, Department of Political Science

14: 15 Infinity and Unpredictability: Descartes and Arendt on Will and Action Martina Reuter, Department of Systematic Theology

15:00 Perspectivism and Corporeality – Nietzschean Themes in Arendt Krista Johansson, Department of Philosophy

Coffee service at the Collegium

16:15 Between Action and Existence. On Meaning and Finitude in Arendt and Heidegger Miika Luoto, Institute for Art Research

17:00 Arendt on the Sublime Susanna Snell, Department of Social and Moral Philosophy

Closing of the Symposium

Introduction of the invited keynote speakers

Professor Dana R. Villa

Professor Dana R. Villa from University of Notre Dame is one of the most significant contemporary Arendt scholars. He is specialized in contemporary political theory and the history of political thought. Professor Villa is the author of Socratic Citizenship as well as two books on Hannah Arendt, Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the Political , and Politics, Philosophy, Terror: Essays on the Thought of Hannah Arendt . In addition, he has contributed to the contemporary international research on Hannah Arendt by editing The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt and publishing articles in such works as Hannah Arendt - Twenty Years Later and Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem . Professor Villa has taught at Amherst College for ten years, and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the University Center for Human Values (Princeton University), the Institute for Advanced Study, and the American Academy in Berlin. He has also published several articles on Arendt, Nietzsche, Weber, Socrates, and Tocqueville in journals such as Political Theory, Constellations, American Political Science Review, and the Revue Internationale de Philosophie . He is currently working on a study of Hegel and Tocqueville.

Professor Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott

Professor Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott from Eastern Michigan University is a highly acknowledged political theorist and Europeanist interested in the cross-fertilization of European and American political culture in the 20th century, with a particular focus on Hannah Arendt and her generation of philosophers, social theorists, writers, and artists. Her areas of concentration include feminist theories, the history of political thought, cultural politics, questions of ethnicity and ideology. She is also engaged in research on contemporary reinterpretations of medieval political theories of identity and power, from the Cold War to the post-Modern eras. Previously, she has taught at California State University, Long Beach, where she served for three years on the General Education Governing Committee and was elected "Outstanding Teacher" in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Scott published Hannah Arendt: Love and Saint Augustine (with Judith C. Stark, 1996, University of Chicago Press) and is completing a second study on Arendt which explores her emergence as an American political theorist and cultural critic in New York City in the middle decades of the 20th century. Scott"s other publications include book chapters, book reviews, and articles in political science journals such as “The Journal of Politics”, “Polity”, “New York Times” and “The American Political Science Review”, as well as in the multidisciplinary venues, “Augustinian Studies”, “New German Critique”, and the “Hannah Arendt Newsletter”, just to mention a few.

Course work and forms of study

For Political Science Postgraduate study units Y601 or P630 or H630 or M630 :

  • 1 cr: listening to the symposium lectures and a short lecture diary / commentary paper on the symposium.
  • 2 cr / 1 cu: listening to the symposium lectures and an essay (circa 10 pages) relating to one"s own study; Arendt"s writings must be applied in the essay.
  • Compensation according to an agreement with the teacher responsible for the study unit: participating in the symposium with own paper.
Courses in English

Representation, Elections and Parliaments

Study units

Teachers

The course is organised by VAKAVA.

Time and location

20.11.2006 - 23.11.2006

The course will be held on 20-23 November 2006 at the Finnish Institute in Madrid, Spain.

Registration time for the course has been extended by one month, till the end of September . N.B. A course participant is responsible for covering her/himself those expenses of the course which VAKAVA funding doesn"t cover. Read more about applying on the_VAKAVA_page .

Compensations

Credit compensations for P630. , H630. or M630. postgraduate study units are to be specified later after Course work and forms of study have been specified.

Target group

Only for Postgraduate students.

Content

Read more on the_VAKAVA_page .

Study unit H630. Other Postgraduate Studies in Administration and Organisations

In Finnish: H630. Hallinnon ja organisaatioiden tutkimuksen muut jatko-opinnot (20 op / 15 ov)/79341

H630. Other Postgraduate Studies in Administration and Organisations (20 cr / 15 cu - Oodi code: 79341)

Other subprogram-specific postgraduate studies are to be agreed on with the main supervisor. These studies may be completed by writing research essays, by taking part in courses aimed at postgraduates, by participating in scientific seminars and presenting papers in these seminars, by producing scientific research publications in the field of Political Science, by teaching based on research, and by doing other specifically agreed on work that enhances scientific facilities. Completed studies will be registered in Oodi in appropriate entities (recommendation 5-10 study points).

See also the post graduate course programmes of research schools:

Courses in English

Minds to Rule - Interrelations between political power and the powers of the mind in Western philosophy

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 5

Teachers

Conveners: Ph.D. Petter Korkman and FD, FT Martina Reuter E-mail petter.korkman@helsinki.fi, martina.reuter@helsinki.fi
The course is organised by Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.

Time and location

24.01.2007 - 02.05.2007

The lecture series starts on 24.1.2007 and the last lecture is on 2.5.2007. Sessions on Wednesdays 14-17 in the Collegium"s seminar room (Fabianink. 24, 1st floor).

All students desiring to take part in the lecture series are encouraged to enlist for the lectures with Maria Soukkio at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies: this way we can contact you with further information and more material well before the lecture series begins. Please insert "Minds to Rule" in the title and send you email to maria.soukkio@helsinki.fi.

Target group

The lecture series, under the title "Minds to Rule. Interrelations between political power and the powers of the mind in Western philosophy" is open to students various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and builds on guest lectures combined with work sessions devoted to discussions of relevant original texts. The lecture series is convened by Petter Korkman and Martina Reuter. The lectures are aimed at an audience of intermediary to advanced level students, and to post-graduate or PhD students.

Content

See the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies site where you find more detailed information on e.g.

  • Objectives of the Lecture Series
  • Lecture Series Programme and Dates
  • Course Work and Forms of Study
Courses in English

Practice, Thought and Judgment – Hannah Arendt 100 years

Study units

Teachers

Contact Person: D.Soc.Sc., Docent Mika Ojakangas E-mail mika.ojakangas@helsinki.fi
The Symposium is organised by Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.

Time and location

24.11.2006 - 25.11.2006

Practice, Thought and Judgment – Hannah Arendt 100 years : Anniversary Symposium November 24–25, 2006 is organised by Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies in collaboration with the Department of Political Science, the Christina Institute for Women"s Studies and the Deparmtments of Philosophy.

Morning sessions will be held at the University Main Building, Auditorium XIII (Unioninkatu 34). The afternoon sessions will be held at the Collegium for Advances Studies (Fabianinkatu 24, seminar room 136).

Compensations

See Course work and forms of study.

Objectives

Hannah Arendt is one of the most outstanding philosophers and political theorists of the 20th century. Her writings cover many diverse topics of which the most known are the Christian caritas, the critique of totalitarianism and of totally bureaucratic society, the analysis of practice, freedom and authority, the question of the banality of evil, the nature of the faculties of thinking, willing and judging, the history of philosophy, and the relationship between natality and indeterminism. A thinker of multidimensional argumentation Arendt’s writings draw inspiration from Aristotle, Augustine, Kant, Nietzsche, Marx, Jaspers, Heidegger and Kafka just to mention a few. Moreover, her thought has had a great impact on various contemporary philosophers and thinkers, such as Jürgen Habermas, Alasdair MacIntyre, Seyla Benhabib, Giorgio Agamben, Jean-Luc Nancy, Adriana Cavarero, Dana R. Villa, Richard J. Bernstein and Grace M. Jantzen. The amount of interest in her theories is remarkable in Finland as well, not only among political scientists but also among philosophers, jurisprudents, sociologists, anthropologists, feminists and theologians. The reason for this interest is simple: Arendt’s innovative concepts and conceptual distinctions have not lost their significance and are thus highly useful for the analyses of contemporary philosophical, social and political questions and problems. Her insightful concern for the possibility of multicultural democracy in a globalizing world is still a burning question for contemporary politics and philosophy.

Content

Keynote speakers:

  • Professor Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott, Eastern Michigan University
  • Professor Dana Richard Villa, University of Notre Dame

Friday, November 24th

Morning Session at the University Main Building, Auditorium XIII (Unioninkatu 34)

10: 15 Opening words Professor Juha Sihvola, Collegium for Advanced Studies

Plenary lecture and discussion:

Hannah Arendt: the Autonomy of the Political Reconsidered Dana Richard Villa, Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Theory, University of Notre Dame

12-13:15 Lunch

Afternoon Session at The Collegium for Advanced Studies (Fabianinkatu 24, Seminar room 136) Chair: Sara Heinämaa, Collegium for Advanced Studies

13:30 Plurality as Fact and Value in Arendt’s Political Philosophy Kristian Klockars, Department of Social and Moral Philosophy

14: 15 (Im)mortal Action: Arendt and Aristotle Jussi Backman, Department of Philosophy

15:00 Arendt’s conception of the sense of realness Julia Honkasalo, Department of Philosophy

Coffee service at the Collegium

16:15 The abyss of freedom and the totalitarian lure Iivi Masso, Department of Social and Moral Philosophy

17: 00 The Janus faced Juno of Arendt’s politics of life Markku Koivusalo, Department of Political Science

18: 00 Reception dinner party at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies

Saturday, November 25th

Morning Session at the University Main Building, Auditorium XIII (Unioninkatu 34)

10:15

Plenary lecture and discussion:

What St. Augustine Taught Hannah Arendt about “how to live in the world”: Caritas, Natality and the Banality of Evil Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott, Professor of Political Science, Eastern Michigan University

12-13:15 Lunch

Afternoon Session at The Collegium for Advanced Studies (Fabianinkatu 24, Seminar room 136) Chair: Marja-Liisa Honkasalo, Collegium for Advanced Studies

13: 30 Hannah Arendt and the Question of Conscience Mika Ojakangas, Department of Political Science

14: 15 Infinity and Unpredictability: Descartes and Arendt on Will and Action Martina Reuter, Department of Systematic Theology

15:00 Perspectivism and Corporeality – Nietzschean Themes in Arendt Krista Johansson, Department of Philosophy

Coffee service at the Collegium

16:15 Between Action and Existence. On Meaning and Finitude in Arendt and Heidegger Miika Luoto, Institute for Art Research

17:00 Arendt on the Sublime Susanna Snell, Department of Social and Moral Philosophy

Closing of the Symposium

Introduction of the invited keynote speakers

Professor Dana R. Villa

Professor Dana R. Villa from University of Notre Dame is one of the most significant contemporary Arendt scholars. He is specialized in contemporary political theory and the history of political thought. Professor Villa is the author of Socratic Citizenship as well as two books on Hannah Arendt, Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the Political , and Politics, Philosophy, Terror: Essays on the Thought of Hannah Arendt . In addition, he has contributed to the contemporary international research on Hannah Arendt by editing The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt and publishing articles in such works as Hannah Arendt - Twenty Years Later and Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem . Professor Villa has taught at Amherst College for ten years, and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the University Center for Human Values (Princeton University), the Institute for Advanced Study, and the American Academy in Berlin. He has also published several articles on Arendt, Nietzsche, Weber, Socrates, and Tocqueville in journals such as Political Theory, Constellations, American Political Science Review, and the Revue Internationale de Philosophie . He is currently working on a study of Hegel and Tocqueville.

Professor Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott

Professor Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott from Eastern Michigan University is a highly acknowledged political theorist and Europeanist interested in the cross-fertilization of European and American political culture in the 20th century, with a particular focus on Hannah Arendt and her generation of philosophers, social theorists, writers, and artists. Her areas of concentration include feminist theories, the history of political thought, cultural politics, questions of ethnicity and ideology. She is also engaged in research on contemporary reinterpretations of medieval political theories of identity and power, from the Cold War to the post-Modern eras. Previously, she has taught at California State University, Long Beach, where she served for three years on the General Education Governing Committee and was elected "Outstanding Teacher" in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Scott published Hannah Arendt: Love and Saint Augustine (with Judith C. Stark, 1996, University of Chicago Press) and is completing a second study on Arendt which explores her emergence as an American political theorist and cultural critic in New York City in the middle decades of the 20th century. Scott"s other publications include book chapters, book reviews, and articles in political science journals such as “The Journal of Politics”, “Polity”, “New York Times” and “The American Political Science Review”, as well as in the multidisciplinary venues, “Augustinian Studies”, “New German Critique”, and the “Hannah Arendt Newsletter”, just to mention a few.

Course work and forms of study

For Political Science Postgraduate study units Y601 or P630 or H630 or M630 :

  • 1 cr: listening to the symposium lectures and a short lecture diary / commentary paper on the symposium.
  • 2 cr / 1 cu: listening to the symposium lectures and an essay (circa 10 pages) relating to one"s own study; Arendt"s writings must be applied in the essay.
  • Compensation according to an agreement with the teacher responsible for the study unit: participating in the symposium with own paper.
Courses in English

Representation, Elections and Parliaments

Study units

Teachers

The course is organised by VAKAVA.

Time and location

20.11.2006 - 23.11.2006

The course will be held on 20-23 November 2006 at the Finnish Institute in Madrid, Spain.

Registration time for the course has been extended by one month, till the end of September . N.B. A course participant is responsible for covering her/himself those expenses of the course which VAKAVA funding doesn"t cover. Read more about applying on the_VAKAVA_page .

Compensations

Credit compensations for P630. , H630. or M630. postgraduate study units are to be specified later after Course work and forms of study have been specified.

Target group

Only for Postgraduate students.

Content

Read more on the_VAKAVA_page .

Study unit M630. Other Postgraduate Studies in World Politics

In Finnish: M630. Maailmanpolitiikan tutkimuksen muut jatko-opinnot (20 op / 15 ov)/79342

M630. Other Postgraduate Studies in World Politics (20 cr / 15 cu - Oodi code: 79342)

Other subprogram-specific postgraduate studies are to be agreed on with the main supervisor. These studies may be completed by writing research essays, by taking part in courses aimed at postgraduates, by participating in scientific seminars and presenting papers in these seminars, by producing scientific research publications in the field of Political Science, by teaching based on research, and by doing other specifically agreed on work that enhances scientific facilities. Completed studies will be registered in Oodi in appropriate entities (recommendation 5-10 study points).

See also the post graduate course programmes of research schools:

Courses in English

Minds to Rule - Interrelations between political power and the powers of the mind in Western philosophy

Study units

Credits

ECTS credits: 5

Teachers

Conveners: Ph.D. Petter Korkman and FD, FT Martina Reuter E-mail petter.korkman@helsinki.fi, martina.reuter@helsinki.fi
The course is organised by Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.

Time and location

24.01.2007 - 02.05.2007

The lecture series starts on 24.1.2007 and the last lecture is on 2.5.2007. Sessions on Wednesdays 14-17 in the Collegium"s seminar room (Fabianink. 24, 1st floor).

All students desiring to take part in the lecture series are encouraged to enlist for the lectures with Maria Soukkio at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies: this way we can contact you with further information and more material well before the lecture series begins. Please insert "Minds to Rule" in the title and send you email to maria.soukkio@helsinki.fi.

Target group

The lecture series, under the title "Minds to Rule. Interrelations between political power and the powers of the mind in Western philosophy" is open to students various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and builds on guest lectures combined with work sessions devoted to discussions of relevant original texts. The lecture series is convened by Petter Korkman and Martina Reuter. The lectures are aimed at an audience of intermediary to advanced level students, and to post-graduate or PhD students.

Content

See the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies site where you find more detailed information on e.g.

  • Objectives of the Lecture Series
  • Lecture Series Programme and Dates
  • Course Work and Forms of Study
Courses in English

Practice, Thought and Judgment – Hannah Arendt 100 years

Study units

Teachers

Contact Person: D.Soc.Sc., Docent Mika Ojakangas E-mail mika.ojakangas@helsinki.fi
The Symposium is organised by Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.

Time and location

24.11.2006 - 25.11.2006

Practice, Thought and Judgment – Hannah Arendt 100 years : Anniversary Symposium November 24–25, 2006 is organised by Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies in collaboration with the Department of Political Science, the Christina Institute for Women"s Studies and the Deparmtments of Philosophy.

Morning sessions will be held at the University Main Building, Auditorium XIII (Unioninkatu 34). The afternoon sessions will be held at the Collegium for Advances Studies (Fabianinkatu 24, seminar room 136).

Compensations

See Course work and forms of study.

Objectives

Hannah Arendt is one of the most outstanding philosophers and political theorists of the 20th century. Her writings cover many diverse topics of which the most known are the Christian caritas, the critique of totalitarianism and of totally bureaucratic society, the analysis of practice, freedom and authority, the question of the banality of evil, the nature of the faculties of thinking, willing and judging, the history of philosophy, and the relationship between natality and indeterminism. A thinker of multidimensional argumentation Arendt’s writings draw inspiration from Aristotle, Augustine, Kant, Nietzsche, Marx, Jaspers, Heidegger and Kafka just to mention a few. Moreover, her thought has had a great impact on various contemporary philosophers and thinkers, such as Jürgen Habermas, Alasdair MacIntyre, Seyla Benhabib, Giorgio Agamben, Jean-Luc Nancy, Adriana Cavarero, Dana R. Villa, Richard J. Bernstein and Grace M. Jantzen. The amount of interest in her theories is remarkable in Finland as well, not only among political scientists but also among philosophers, jurisprudents, sociologists, anthropologists, feminists and theologians. The reason for this interest is simple: Arendt’s innovative concepts and conceptual distinctions have not lost their significance and are thus highly useful for the analyses of contemporary philosophical, social and political questions and problems. Her insightful concern for the possibility of multicultural democracy in a globalizing world is still a burning question for contemporary politics and philosophy.

Content

Keynote speakers:

  • Professor Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott, Eastern Michigan University
  • Professor Dana Richard Villa, University of Notre Dame

Friday, November 24th

Morning Session at the University Main Building, Auditorium XIII (Unioninkatu 34)

10: 15 Opening words Professor Juha Sihvola, Collegium for Advanced Studies

Plenary lecture and discussion:

Hannah Arendt: the Autonomy of the Political Reconsidered Dana Richard Villa, Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Theory, University of Notre Dame

12-13:15 Lunch

Afternoon Session at The Collegium for Advanced Studies (Fabianinkatu 24, Seminar room 136) Chair: Sara Heinämaa, Collegium for Advanced Studies

13:30 Plurality as Fact and Value in Arendt’s Political Philosophy Kristian Klockars, Department of Social and Moral Philosophy

14: 15 (Im)mortal Action: Arendt and Aristotle Jussi Backman, Department of Philosophy

15:00 Arendt’s conception of the sense of realness Julia Honkasalo, Department of Philosophy

Coffee service at the Collegium

16:15 The abyss of freedom and the totalitarian lure Iivi Masso, Department of Social and Moral Philosophy

17: 00 The Janus faced Juno of Arendt’s politics of life Markku Koivusalo, Department of Political Science

18: 00 Reception dinner party at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies

Saturday, November 25th

Morning Session at the University Main Building, Auditorium XIII (Unioninkatu 34)

10:15

Plenary lecture and discussion:

What St. Augustine Taught Hannah Arendt about “how to live in the world”: Caritas, Natality and the Banality of Evil Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott, Professor of Political Science, Eastern Michigan University

12-13:15 Lunch

Afternoon Session at The Collegium for Advanced Studies (Fabianinkatu 24, Seminar room 136) Chair: Marja-Liisa Honkasalo, Collegium for Advanced Studies

13: 30 Hannah Arendt and the Question of Conscience Mika Ojakangas, Department of Political Science

14: 15 Infinity and Unpredictability: Descartes and Arendt on Will and Action Martina Reuter, Department of Systematic Theology

15:00 Perspectivism and Corporeality – Nietzschean Themes in Arendt Krista Johansson, Department of Philosophy

Coffee service at the Collegium

16:15 Between Action and Existence. On Meaning and Finitude in Arendt and Heidegger Miika Luoto, Institute for Art Research

17:00 Arendt on the Sublime Susanna Snell, Department of Social and Moral Philosophy

Closing of the Symposium

Introduction of the invited keynote speakers

Professor Dana R. Villa

Professor Dana R. Villa from University of Notre Dame is one of the most significant contemporary Arendt scholars. He is specialized in contemporary political theory and the history of political thought. Professor Villa is the author of Socratic Citizenship as well as two books on Hannah Arendt, Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the Political , and Politics, Philosophy, Terror: Essays on the Thought of Hannah Arendt . In addition, he has contributed to the contemporary international research on Hannah Arendt by editing The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt and publishing articles in such works as Hannah Arendt - Twenty Years Later and Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem . Professor Villa has taught at Amherst College for ten years, and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the University Center for Human Values (Princeton University), the Institute for Advanced Study, and the American Academy in Berlin. He has also published several articles on Arendt, Nietzsche, Weber, Socrates, and Tocqueville in journals such as Political Theory, Constellations, American Political Science Review, and the Revue Internationale de Philosophie . He is currently working on a study of Hegel and Tocqueville.

Professor Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott

Professor Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott from Eastern Michigan University is a highly acknowledged political theorist and Europeanist interested in the cross-fertilization of European and American political culture in the 20th century, with a particular focus on Hannah Arendt and her generation of philosophers, social theorists, writers, and artists. Her areas of concentration include feminist theories, the history of political thought, cultural politics, questions of ethnicity and ideology. She is also engaged in research on contemporary reinterpretations of medieval political theories of identity and power, from the Cold War to the post-Modern eras. Previously, she has taught at California State University, Long Beach, where she served for three years on the General Education Governing Committee and was elected "Outstanding Teacher" in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Scott published Hannah Arendt: Love and Saint Augustine (with Judith C. Stark, 1996, University of Chicago Press) and is completing a second study on Arendt which explores her emergence as an American political theorist and cultural critic in New York City in the middle decades of the 20th century. Scott"s other publications include book chapters, book reviews, and articles in political science journals such as “The Journal of Politics”, “Polity”, “New York Times” and “The American Political Science Review”, as well as in the multidisciplinary venues, “Augustinian Studies”, “New German Critique”, and the “Hannah Arendt Newsletter”, just to mention a few.

Course work and forms of study

For Political Science Postgraduate study units Y601 or P630 or H630 or M630 :

  • 1 cr: listening to the symposium lectures and a short lecture diary / commentary paper on the symposium.
  • 2 cr / 1 cu: listening to the symposium lectures and an essay (circa 10 pages) relating to one"s own study; Arendt"s writings must be applied in the essay.
  • Compensation according to an agreement with the teacher responsible for the study unit: participating in the symposium with own paper.
Courses in English

Representation, Elections and Parliaments

Study units

Teachers

The course is organised by VAKAVA.

Time and location

20.11.2006 - 23.11.2006

The course will be held on 20-23 November 2006 at the Finnish Institute in Madrid, Spain.

Registration time for the course has been extended by one month, till the end of September . N.B. A course participant is responsible for covering her/himself those expenses of the course which VAKAVA funding doesn"t cover. Read more about applying on the_VAKAVA_page .

Compensations

Credit compensations for P630. , H630. or M630. postgraduate study units are to be specified later after Course work and forms of study have been specified.

Target group

Only for Postgraduate students.

Content

Read more on the_VAKAVA_page .

Study unit Minor in Leadership and Management Studies Studies (JOS)

In Finnish: Johtamisen sivuainekokonaisuus (JOS)/jos

Minor in Leadership and Management Studies (JOS)

Code
Credits: 25, Credit Units: 16

Compulsory Minor Subject Studies in Leadership and Management (in Finnish: JOS - Johtamisen sivuainekokonaisuus) (25 cr)

Forms of Study:

There are two compulsory lectures: JOS1 and JOS2. If you cannot follow a lecture in Finnish, you should contact the responsible teacher and ask for a substitute for the compulsory lecture (for example, a written assignment). Some of the coursebooks are also in Finnish. If you find your reading skills in Finnish insufficient, you should request the concerned teacher for equivalent books in English. Generally, substitute books can be arranged easily.

N.B. The change of Political Science JOS literature exam dates! From January 2007, Political Science examinations of JOS programme (JOS1-JOS8, JOS11-JOS12, JOS14) will be held on the faculty examinations dates for social psychology, social policy and social work. In autumn term 2006, the JOS programme examinations can be taken on the faculty examination dates for political science.

Subordinate units

Study unit Financial Management (JOS4)

In Finnish: JOS4. Talousjohtaminen (yleinen valtio-oppi) (6-8 op / 4-6 ov)/79443

Financial Management (JOS4)

Code 79443
Credits: 6 - 8 , Credit Units: 4 - 6

Literature examinations

Study unit Knowledge Management (JOS5)

In Finnish: JOS5. Tietojohtaminen (yleinen valtio-oppi) (6 op / 4 ov)/79444

Knowledge Management (JOS5)

Code 79444
Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4

Literature examinations

Study unit International Management (JOS7)

In Finnish: JOS7. Kansainvälinen johtaminen (yleinen valtio-oppi) (6 op / 4 ov)/79446

International Management (JOS7)

Code 79446
Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4

Literature examinations

Study unit Managing Organizational Culture (JOS8)

In Finnish: JOS8. Johtaminen ja organisaatiokulttuuri (yleinen valtio-oppi) (6 op / 4 ov)/79447

Managing Organizational Culture (JOS8)

Code 79447
Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4

Literature examinations

Study unit Management and Psychology of Organizations (JOS9)

In Finnish: JOS9. Johtaminen ja organisaatiopsykologia (sosiaalipsykologia) (6 op / 4 ov)/748002

Management and Psychology of Organizations (JOS9)

Literature examinations

Study unit Managerial Communications (JOS10)

In Finnish: JOS10. Johtajuus ja asiantuntijaviestintä (viestintä) (6 op / 4 ov)/77032

Managerial Communications (JOS10)

Study unit Development of Managerial Practice (JOS11)

In Finnish: JOS11. Johtamiskäytäntöjen kehittäminen (yleinen valtio-oppi) (6-8 op / 4 ov)/79430

Development of Managerial Practice (JOS11)

Code 79430
Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4

Literature examinations

Study unit Gender in Management (JOS12)

In Finnish: JOS12. Naiset ja johtaminen (yleinen valtio-oppi) (6 op / 4 ov)/79431

Gender in Management (JOS12)

Code 79431
Credits: 6, Credit Units: 4

Literature examinations

Study unit Development Trends in Corporate Management (JOS13)

In Finnish: JOS13. Yritysjohtamisen kehityslinjoja (yhteiskuntahistoria) (6 op / 4 ov)/76078

Development Trends in Corporate Management (JOS13)

Study unit Theory of Leadership and Management (JOS14)

In Finnish: JOS14. Johtamisen teoria (yleinen valtio-oppi) (9 op / 4 ov)/79432

Theory of Leadership and Management (JOS14)

Code 79432
Credits: 9, Credit Units: 4

Literature examinations

Study unit Minor Subject Studies in European Union

In Finnish: EU-opintokokonaisuus (EU)/eu

Minor Subject Studies in European Union

Code
Credits: 25 - 60 ,

Courses