Philosophy and Sociology

Courses in GSSR’s PhD Programme

For your chosen discipline, some courses are compulsory. You make take courses from outside of your chosen discipline as optional courses.

Timetable for GSSR Academic Year 2021 – 2022 Semester 2

Compulsory courses: Philosophy

• Mikołaj Ratajczak, Marta Olesik, and 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, Part 1
  • Sławomir Kapralski:Sociological Theories: The Tradition and Current Notions, Part II
  • Michal Kotnarowski:Quantitative methods 2 2021-22
  • Piotr Binder: Qualitative Research Methods
  • Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, Ilona Wysmulek, and Joshua Dubrow: Empirical Research in the Social Sciences (ERSS): Design, Implementation, and Write-up, Part I
  • Joshua Dubrow and Ilona Wysmulek: ERSS Part II: Reading and Writing in the Social Sciences

Optional courses

(This optional course is compulsory in the Political Studies programme)

• Pawel Ukielski: Recent Political History of Central-Eastern Europe

(These optional courses are compulsory in the Psychology programme)

• Krzysztof Hanusz: Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology
• Piotr Radkiewicz: Advanced Statistical Analysis 
• Grzegorz Pochwatko: Current Research in Social Psychology
• Psychology in Modules:
  • R Balas: Cognitive Psychology
  • E Domaradzka: Personality Psychology and Individual Differences 
  • Ł Okruszek: Neurophysiological Basis of Behaviours

(These optional courses are not compulsory in any PhD programme)

• Galia Chimiak, Magdalena Grabowska, and Su-Ming Khoo (NUI – Galway): Specialization in Bridging Academic and NGO Research (SPANR)
• Mikolaj Ratajczak and Matthew Chambers: Academic Writing and Publishing in Philosophy and Social Theory
• Agnieszka Cianciara: European Studies: Theories and Concepts
• Jagna Brudzińska:  Phenomenology
• Pawel Dobrowolski: Programming PsychoPy Experiments with Python
• Hisaki Hashi (University of Vienna): Post-modern Buddhist Philosophy from the Viewpoint of Comparative 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

Optional Courses also Taught in the University of Lancaster MA Programme

• Radosław Markowski (SWPS): Political Sociology
• Michał Federowicz and Michał Sitek: Economy and Society
• Magdalena Grabowska, Adrianna Zabrzewska (IFiS PAN) Gender Equality and Women’s Agency in Eastern Europe: Social and Economic Perspectives
• Leslie Holmes (University of Melbourne): Organized Crime and Human Trafficking
• Leslie Holmes (University of Melbourne): Corruption
• Jan Pakulski (University of Tasmania): Elites and Leaders in Contemporary Politics
• Radosław Markowski (SWPS): Backsliding into Authoritarianism

Optional Courses Outside of GSSR

Courses may also be taken at other Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Poland or abroad (Erasmus+, Fulbright etc). For details, please contact John Fells, GSSR’s Academic Director.