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Academic Workshop
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:1.00
Study Course Accepted:21.02.2024 08:40:00
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | SZF_057 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Politics | Target Audience: | Political Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Māris Andžāns | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 5 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 10 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 10 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 20 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 30 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 5 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 10 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 10 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 20 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 30 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | General knowledge on international relations and diplomacy, as well as on research methods. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To enhance overall students' academic knowledge, skills and competencies in international relations and diplomacy. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Topical issues of international relations and diplomacy | Lectures | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 5.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 2 | Topicalities of international relations research methods and research at large | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 5.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Topical issues of international relations and diplomacy | Lectures | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 5.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 2 | Topicalities of international relations research methods and research at large | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 5.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Preparation for workshops according to the guidance provided by the lecturer. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Activity in workshops and lectures – 30%. Quality of answers in workshops – 70%. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students will carve future scenarios and development of empirical phenomena, based on advanced knowledge acquired in the study course on international relations’ theoretical and methodological aspects and comprehension of empirical phenomena. Students will navigate across the most significant international relations’ issues in current context. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students will individually conduct analytical work of large scale, by critically selecting and objectively evaluating sources and arriving at objective and neutral solutions. Students will endeavour in a professional team, that will include leading group work, persuading others on own opinion and motivating others along with coordination of multiple simultaneous tasks. Students will conduct individual work of a large scale when a range of tasks of varying importance and complexity should be performed. Acquired skills will include work planning, task prioritization skills, as well as stress resilience skills. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students will develop and discuss innovative solutions to be used in solving the most important problems of international relations. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Visa literatūra ir angļu valodā un piemērota gan latviešu, gan angļu plūsmas studentiem | ||||||||
| 2 | Kurki, Milja, Wright, Colin. Chapter 1. International Relations and Social Science. In: Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, Steve Smith (eds). International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 13-34. | ||||||||
| 3 | Blaikie N. Designing social research: the logic of anticipation. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Popper, Karl. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. N.Y.: Routledge, 2002 (published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005). Pp.3-34. | ||||||||
| 2 | Serena Bertogliatti. What is the significance of the fourth debate in the contemporary discipline of IR? Has it, and should it, be transcended? What is the significance of meta-theoretical debates for IR theory and research? | ||||||||
