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 2022-2023 Semester 1

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: Community and Otherness
• Szymon Wróbel: Philosophy in the Process of Making Concepts: Nothing but Matter
• Agata Bielik-Robson: Derrida and Agamben: Two Philosophical Paradigms of Late Modernity

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 
  • 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)

• Andrzej Leder: Logic and Trauma X – Traumatic encounter – the global space of events

• Galia Chimiak, Magdalena Grabowska, and Su-Ming Khoo (NUI – Galway): Specialization in Bridging Academic and NGO Research
• Mikołaj Ratajczak and Matthew Chambers: Academic Writing and Publishing in Philosophy and Social Theory [not offered this semester]
• Agnieszka Cianciara: European Studies: Theories and Concepts [not offered this semester]
• 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
• Danilo Facca, Matthias Roick, Luisa Brotto, Valentina Lepri, Alicja Bielak (Centre for the History of Renaissance Knowledge): Social Bonds. Practical Philosophy and the Problem of Living Together in Early Modernity
• Ilona Wysmułek: Doctoral Study Group – GSSR Program for Ukraine
• Piotr Binder: Qualitative Data Analysis with MAXQDA

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.