Values In Political and Social Life 2751-KONJA-VPSL

Hours with a lecturer (2.5 ECTS): a) Classes - 30 hours b) Direct preparation for classes under the guidance of a lecturer, including analysis of literature and source materials - 15 hours c) Individual and group consultations regarding topic selection and presentation of posters or mind maps - 10 hours d) Discussing progress in preparing posters or mind maps and providing ongoing feedback - 5 hours e) Discussing and evaluating posters or mind maps - 5 hours. Student's own work hours (2.5 ECTS): a) Reviewing the subject literature/preparing for the final test - 25 hours b) Ongoing preparation for exercises, reading press and online materials - 15 hours c) Preparing posters or mind maps - 20 hours d) Making up for absences or correcting posters or mind maps - 5 hours.

Student: W1: has advanced knowledge of the values and legal principles important globally, and particularly in Europe and the European Union W2: is familiar with globalisation and regionalisation processes related to values W3: knows the main rights and freedoms regulated in the International Human Rights Covenants of 1966, the European Charter for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU and their possible limitations W4: knows different forms of discrimination, democracy and rule of law definitions and their core elements, the main categories and functions of human rights, with the meaning of social justice, tolerance and cultural diversity

Student: U1: has language skills - speaks and writes coherently and transparently at the B2 level of the European System of the Description of Language Education about the issues connected with the subject of the course and can justify his/her own opinions U2: can search, evaluate and process information about values from written and electronic sources U3: can interpret the basic legal acts concerning values U4: can analyse the role of particular values and their interactions

Student: K1: understands the need for further learning K2: thinks and acts in a creative way

During the course the following teaching methods will be applied: 1. passive methods connected with gaining knowledge (remembering) – Power Point presentations or articles to be read or video films to be watched at the beginning or before the meeting 2. active work with a text – fragments of legal text will be read by a lecturer or a student and the rest will ask questions about it to understand its content, analyse it and then apply in practice 3. search methods – inter alia the intelligent guesswork where the students will present their own solutions to the problems and then compare them with the reality e.g. statistics; the so-called traffic lights where students are given green and red cards and if their answer to a question is “yes” they raise a green card and if “no” they raise a red card; snowball method where students work on solution of the probelm of their own, then in pairs, in larger gropus and finally in the whole class 4. the problem method where the students will try to find the reasons for the current situation 5. additionally paper and case study methods will be applied

- informative (conventional) lecture
- participatory lecture
- problem-based lecture

- brainstorming
- round table
- presentation of a paper
- seminar
- case study

To fully understand the issues discussed during the course Values in Political and Social Life, the student should have a general knowledge of the history of Europe after World War II..

Assessment methods:
1. Student attendance and activity during classes, including student participation in discussions on a given topic, participation in the so-called Intelligent guessing and spotlights, participation in group work (15 points, 1 point for activity during one meeting) - U2, U3, U4
2. Preparing four posters or mind maps on a given topic for the entire group, which will then be presented during class (10 points for each poster or mind map, 40 points total) - U1, K1, K2
3. Final test consisting of 20 questions (multiple-choice and true/false questions, each worth 1 point) - W1, W2, W3

Total 75 points
75 - 69 - very good
68 - 62 - good+
61 - 55 - good
54 - 48 - satisfactory+
47 - 38 - satisfactory
37 and below - failed

Selected books and articles:

1. W.Arts, L. Halman (2004), European Values at the Turn of the Millenium, Leiden- Boston.
2. S. Lucarelli & I. Manners (red.) (2006)Values and Principles in European Union Foreign Policy, Routledge.
3. J. Richardson (2002), The European Union in the World — A Community of Values, Fordham International Law Journal, 26,1: 12-35.
4. R. Kołatek (2018), The principle of human dignity in the primary and secondary legislation of the European Union, Zeszyty Prawnicze, 2(58): 29–44.
5. S. Fredman (2016), Substantive equality revisited, International Journal of Constitutional Law, 14, 3: 712–738.
6. F. Hendriks (2010), Vital Democracy A Theory of Democracy in Action, Oxford Univeristy Press.
7. A. Magen, L. Pech (2018), The rule of law and the European Union [in:] Handbook on the rule of law, eds. Ch. May, A. Winchester, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 235-256.
8. S. D. Scott (2011), The European Union and Human Rights after the Treaty of Lisbon, Human Rights Law Review, 11, 4: 645-682.
9. K. Nicolaidis, J. Viehoff (2015) Social justice in the European Union: the puzzles of solidarity, reciprocity and choice [in:] Europe’s Justice Deficit?, eds. D. Kochenov, G.de Búrca, A. Williams, Hart Publishing, pp.277-294.
10. Gabriel N. Toggenburg (2008), The Debate on European Values and the Case of Cultural Diversity, Minorities Research, 2: 109-129.

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