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CORE COURSES AND SPECIAL COURSES:

• Media and Communacation Studies;
• Introduction to Journalism // Journalists' Ethics;
• Introduction to Journalism // Role of Journalists and Media in a Democratic Society;
• Introduction to Journalism // Belarusian, European and American Legislation on Media;
• History of Journalism;
• Modern Experience in European Journalism and Media;

WORKSHOPS AS PART OF “COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES” COURSE:

• Media and Ideologies;
• Manipulation of Public Opinion;
• Media and Elections.

JOURNALISM TECHNICS WORKSHOPS:

• Basic Reporting and Newswriting:
• Topics Development;
• What constitues News?
• Information Gathering;
• Interviewing;
• Structure of News Articles and Different Genres of Journalism (news, analises, opinions and commentary).

SPECIAL WORKSHOPS:

• Journalism in newspapers (“Newspaper” Project);
• Radiojournalism;
• TV journalism;
• Multimedia and Internet;
• Public Relations.

COLLOQUIUMS

Preview preparation by students of essays on different topics analyzed in courses, special courses or during workshops.

LANGUAGE COURSES:

• Polish;
• English.

BASIC COURSES (MODERNITY)

• Modernity as a social research topic;
• Genesis of modern urbanization in Belarus (end of the 19th — beginning of the 20th centuries);
• Modernity trends in Belarusian Arts at the first half of the 20th century;
• Soviet modernization in Belarus in 60s and 70th of the 20th century: anthropological approach;
• Modernization of the “second” Europe;
• Philosophy of History.

TOTALITARIANISM IN THE 20TH CENTURY AND BELARUSIAN INDEPENDENCE:

• History, Theories and Practices of Totalitarianism;
• Homo Sovieticus;
• Peasant anti-communist movement in Belarus in 1920th;
• After World War II anti-communist underground movement in Belarus;
• Origins of an independent Belarusian society (50s and 80ts of the 20th century);
• Belarusian history of 1953—1964: “liberalism” of the authorities and self-defending society;
• Independent and democratic society as a self-regulating system.

BELARUSIAN OPPOSITION AND INDEPENDENT INITIATIVES
IN BELARUS IN 1965—1991:

• Folk movement and “samizdat” literature (1980—1987);
• Political movements, workers' movement (1988—1991), origins of the Belarusian parliamentarism (1990—1991);
• Opposition to the Soviet regime in Belarus under the global crisis of communism (1965—1991);
• Belarusian non-censored editions in 1960—1980;
• History of Resistance and Democratic movements in Central Europe and Russia.

HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE:

• Modern History of European Democracies;
• European Union and European Integration.

SPECIAL COURSES AND WORKSHOPS:

• Belarus under occupations in the 20th century;
• Displaced Belarusian Cultural Values;
• Techniques and instruments of historic research;
• The general theory of document;
• “Oral History” Project;
• “Journal” Project.

multi-cultural studies and translations on social sciences

BASIC COURSES:

• Theory of literature and literary analysis;
• Belarusian cultural tradition;
• Contemporary European continental thinking;
• European studies.

SPECIAL COURSES:

• History of Belarusian thinking/philosophy;
• Post-modern Philosophy and Belarusian Post-modernity;
• Belarusian émigré literature;
• Hermeneutics;
• Semiotics;
• Post-Colonial thinking;
• East Central Europe : Philosophy/literature;
• Tartars/Islamic civilization;
• Jewish civilization;
• Indian civilization.

SPECIAL WORKSHOPS:

• Reading and Writing of Literary/Philosophical texts;
• "Journal” Project;
• Literary/philosophical texts translation.

LANGUAGE COURSES:

• Polish and English languages (available for students of all specializations).

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