Philosophy and Sociology

Courses to be taught in English as part of the School’s doctoral programme

Courses taken outside your chosen discipline may be taken as optional courses (eg if you are doing research for your PhD in Philosophy you may take as an optional course one of the courses listed as compulsory for someone doing research for a PhD in Psychology)

Compulsory courses: Philosophy 2021-22

• Mikołaj Ratajczak, Marta Olesik, Mitchell Atkinson: Interpreting and constructing -working with a philosophical text
• Adam Lipszyc : Visions of Human Subjectivity in Late Modern and Postmodern Philosophy: Talking Bodies
• Szymon Wróbel: Philosophy in the Process of Making Concepts: Wondering about Materialism
• Andrzej Leder: Logic and Trauma IX – Aspects of the dynamis/ethos relation.
• Agata Bielik-Robson: Amor Mundi: The Turn towards the Worldly – from Duns Scotus to Hannah Arendt

Compulsory courses: sociology

• Sławomir Kapralski :
  Sociological theories the tradition and current notions pt 1
• Sociological theories: the tradition and current notions pt II
• Michal Kotnarowski: Quantitative methods of data analysis: statistical theory and good practices
• Piotr Binder: Qualitative Research Methods_2021-2022
• Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, Josh Dubrow,: Empirical Research in the Social Sciences (ERSS):Design, Implementation, and Write-up part 1
• Part II

Optional courses

(Compulsory courses: Political studies)

• Paweł Ukielski, Recent Political History of Central-Eastern Europe

(Compulsory Courses : Psychology)

• dr Krzysztof Hanusz: Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology
• Prof. Piotr Radkiewicz: Advanced statistical analysis 21_22 (Zaawansowane analizy statystyczne)
• Psychology in modules: Cognitive psychology (R Balas), Personality Psychology and Individual Differences 2021-22 (E Domaradzka) and Neurophysiological basis of behaviours (Ł Okruszek) (Psychologia ogólna w modułach: psychologia poznawcza, psychologia  osobowości różnic indywidualnych oraz neurofizjologiczne podstawy zachowania)
• dr Grzegorz Pochwatko Current research in social psychology (Psychologia społeczna)

Other Optional courses

• Agnieszka Cianciara (ISP PAN) – European Studies: Theories and Concepts 2021-22 
• J Brudzińska  Phenomenology
• Dr  P Dobrowolski Programming PsychoPy Experiments with Python 2021-22
• Hisaki Hashi (U. Vienna) : Buddhism and contemporary European philosophy
• Luisa Brotto:Introduction to Renaissance Intellectual History. Research Problems and Methodology
• Valentina Lepri, Danilo Facca, Farkas Gábor Kiss, Matthias Roick:Transcultural knowledge production in Early modern Europe: doctrines, debates, cultural exchanges, and methodological approaches for their analysis
• Kristi Viiding seminar for the above:Estonian and Livonian Renaissance Humanism: Research Problems and Methodology

From the MA programme

• Radosław Markowski (SWPS) –Political Sociology 2021-22
• Michał Federowicz (IFiS PAN), Michał Sitek (IFiS PAN) – Economy and Society 2021-2022
• Magdalena Grabowska (IFiS PAN) GenderEquality, and Womens Agency in Eastern Europe, social and economic perspective 2021-2022
• Leslie Holmes (U.Melbourne) –Organized Crime and Human trafficking 2021-22
• Leslie Holmes (U.Melbourne) –Corruption 2021-2022
• Jan Pakulski (University of Tasmania) – Elites and Leaders in Contemporary Politics 2021-2022
• Radosław Markowski (SWPS) –Backsliding into Authoritarianism 2021-2022

Courses taken outside GSSR

Courses may also be taken at other Higher Education institutions in Poland or abroad (Erasmus+, Fulbright etc).