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STUDY PLANS
2024/2025

Social Sciences

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Code Completion Credits Range Language
105SSU Z,ZK 6 4P+1C English
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Department of Social Sciences
Synopsis:

The course Social Sciences encompasses a broader, multidisciplinary, framework (sociology, economy, marketing, politology, social anthropology, and media). The economics part of the course covers basic economic terms, demand, supply, market equilibrium, and rational consumer choice. Firm and production functions in the short and long run as well as long-run and short-run costs are discussed. Market structures and markets for productive inputs and public goods are other topics. Also presented are macroeconomic aggregates and the basics of macroeconomics. Social theories presented in the course are considered an analytical reflection on the concepts and formal cognitive schemes of all social sciences. Students will get familiar with social theories/paradigms that are used to study and interpret social phenomena. Seminars will focus on everyday life, its interactions, and opinion polemics, which often interfere in negotiations about the direction and goals of society.

The course also provides students with conceptual tools for their own further studies based on critical thinking.

Requirements:

Credit requirements: Completion of three partial tasks during the semester. Each month, one task will be assigned, which will contain creative and academic elements - e.g. content analysis of social networks, creation of own annotated photo on a given topic, monitoring of a key topic, and its presentation in the media.

Final test - economic theory

Syllabus of lectures:
Syllabus of tutorials:

1.Sociology as a way of seeing

2.Production function in the long run.

3.Family and Social Institutions

4.Prisoners dilemma and game theory

5.Inequality, Social Stratification

6.Money supply and demand

Study Objective:

recognition

Study materials:

Economics. Paul Samuelson, McGraw-Hill.2009. ISBN 978-00-71-26383-2.

Microeconomics and Behavior. Robert H. Frank, McGraw-Hill. 2005. ISBN 978-00-71-26349-8.

Social Problems: Continuity and Change. Copyright Year: 2016. ISBN 13: 9781946135230. Publisher: Saylor Foundation. https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/social-problems-continuity-and-change.

Local to Global: The Sociological Journey. Christina Miller-Bellor and Donna Giuliani. https://thesociologicaljourney.pressbooks.com.

Politology. Political Ideologies and Worldviews: An Introduction. Valérie Vézina, Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Copyright Year: 2021. ISBN 13: 9781989864241. Publisher: Kwantlen Polytechnic University. https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/political-ideologies-and-worldviews-an-introduction.

Psychology as a Social Science. Robert Bissau-Diener Ed Diener, University of Utah. Copyright Year: 2015. Publisher: Noba. https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/psychology-as-a-social-science.

Digital Storytelling. The Changing Story: digital stories that participate in transforming teaching & learning. Linda Buturian, University of Minnesota. Copyright Year: 2016. Publisher: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. https://www.cehd.umn.edu/the-changing-story/.

Humans R Social Media. Open Textbook Edition Diana Daly, University of Arizona. Copyright Year: 2021. Publisher: The University of Arizona. https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/humans-r-social-media-open-textbook-edition.

Understanding Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication. Copyright Year: 2016. ISBN 13: 9781946135261. Publisher: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. https://open.lib.umn.edu/mediaandculture/.

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