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Faculty of Humanities AGH University of Science and Technology GENERAL PRESENTATION. Faculty of Humanities. The Faculty of Humanities in AGH – UST offers both full time and extramural studies in t wo disciplines: a three-year BA programme in sociology , with the specialization
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Faculty of Humanities AGH University of Science and Technology GENERAL PRESENTATION
Faculty of Humanities The Faculty of Humanities in AGH – UST offers bothfull time and extramural studies in twodisciplines: • a three-year BA programme in sociology, with the specialization in Multimedia and Social Communication • a graduate two-year MA programme in sociology, with the specialization in Multimedia and Social Communication • a graduate two-year MA programme insociology, with the specialization inEconomic Sociology: State, Markets, Institutions • a three-year BA programme in cultural studies,with the specialization in New Media and Intercultural Communication • agraduate two-year MA programme in cultural studies,with the specializationin Culture of New Media
Faculty of Humanities SOCIOLOGY with the specialization in Multimedia and Social Communication
Faculty of Humanities SOCIOLOGY with the specialization in Multimedia and Social Communication The specific advantage of our Faculty in relation to other sociology programmes consists in the bloc of courses related to media studies, Public Relations issues, multimedia techniques, advertisement and promotion. Students attend also mandatory courses in fundamentals of computer science, databases development, multimedia presentations, computer graphics, picture and sound laboratory.
Faculty of Humanities SOCIOLOGY with the specialization inEconomic Sociology: State, Market, Institutions
Faculty of Humanities SOCIOLOGY with the specialization inEconomic Sociology: State, Market, Institutions At present, growing labor market demand thespecialists with social science competences, equipped with skills to analyze and diagnose variousrelationships between social processes and the economy. This specialty will allow for a combination of classical university education with the ability to carry out a sociological analysis of practical social determinants of specific business processes. Obtaining a master's degree graduates should have knowledge of the logic of interconnectedness of the economy and its social environment, built on the basis of the canon of sociological knowledge.
Faculty of Humanities Internet Technologies Public Relations Advanced Techniques of Computer Based Data Analysys Communication Cultural Antropology SOCIOLOGY Summary
Faculty of Humanities CULTURAL STUDIES with the specialization in New Media and Intercultural Communication
Faculty of Humanities CULTURAL STUDIES with the specialization in New Media and Intercultural Communication Our culturalstudies have the distinguishing value of focusing on the communication aspect of culture. Alongside the classical subjects, the curriculum offers a diverse bloc of courses related to media expertise, culture anthropology, Public Relations, persuasion techniques and problems of intercultural interpretation, as well as new tools of intercultural communication.
Faculty of Humanities CULTURAL STUDIES with the specialization inCulture of New Media
Faculty of Humanities CULTURAL STUDIES with the specialization in Culture of New Media Cultural studies with the specialization in New Media are designed for all those students who want to obtain competence in the field of culture management and application of modern computer and web technologies in combination with indispensable culture expertise. This specialization allows students to perceive cultural values and paradigms in two principal dimensions: in the traditional order and the inter-medial (virtual) perspective.
Faculty of Humanities Media Studies Religion Studies Cyberculture and Cybersociety CultureAnimationand Management CULTURAL STUDIES summary New Media’s Art
Faculty of Humanities The main research areas An innovative subject area at AGH-UST is research projects within the wide scope of humanities, whose characteristic feature is combining knowledge from the broad field of social sciences and humanities with the knowledge related to modern information and communication technologies applied in various domains of social and economic life.
Faculty of Humanities • Within the framework of the discipline of information and knowledgesociety, the main area of analysis is the influence of communication transformations on the functioning of economic organizations, new forms of civic activities in contemporary world. • The research areas in the field of sociology, psychology and philosophy comprise research into the reflection of economic, social and cultural transformations in contemporary sociology. • The discipline of political and historical sciences comprises social and political transformations in the 20th and 21stcenturies.
Faculty of Humanities Within the framework of the research areas listed above, projects dealing with the following subjects are conducted: • the formation of information society, • education and professional careers of AGH-UST graduates, • aging of Polishsociety, • living conditions and social activities of AGH-UST students with disabilities, • spirituality and analysis of cultural messages, • marriage and family life transformations in Poland, • the influence of new technologies on democracy, the institutionalization of local self-governing bodies in Poland, sociological analysis of the genesis and structureof Polish entrepreneurship, the analysis of the conditions of the Polish labour market, as well as the issues of social dialogue. • Individualresearchprojects of thefacultymembersarealsoavailable on thiswebsite.
Faculty of Humanities Therearecurrentlytworesearchgrantsfinanced by the Ministry of Science and HigherEducation conductedattheFaculty of Humanities: • I love NH. Thegentrificationin old part of Nowa Huta districtinKrakow, Poland. Project Director - dr Jacek Gądecki. • Electronic democracyatthelocallevel. Theuse of Internet by localgovernmentstructures. Project Director - Professor Leszek Porębski. • Contemporary Roma womenin Poland - identities, decision-making and life choices: qualitativeresearch of ethnictransformation of Bergitka Roma and Polska Roma femaleleaders. Supervisor’s grant. Project Director- Professor Maria Szmeja. Researcher and Doctoral Student - Ms Agata Anacik.
Faculty of Humanities New methodological and research possibilities have been created by the establishment of the Faculty of Humanitiesof the Research Center for Bridging Technology and Society whose one of the aims is to conduct empiricalresearch commissioned by external institutions. Center Director: Maria Nawojczyk, Ph.D.
Faculty of Humanities Accomplishments The Faculty of Humanities became a platform of exchange of scholars and students interested in contemporary social and cultural transformations in Central and Eastern Europe. We closely collaborate with universities in Ukraine, Georgia, Germany, Macedonia. Among others, students from Mexico (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Queretaro) who are interested in Europe come to us to participate in our summer school “Arts and Culture”.
Faculty of Humanities In the Faculty of Humanities, students have the opportunity to participate in courses taught by Visiting Professors from various countries (France, the US, India). The Faculty organizes public lectures given by well known representatives of the worlds of politics and social sciences, the examples being, in 2010, Professor David Ost (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, the US), a highly recognized specialist in the systemic transformations in post-communist societies, and American statesman and political scientist, political adviser to three American presidents, Professor Morton Halperin.
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