Bachelor 2024/2025

Intellectual Landscapes: Society and Arts of Rule

Type: Elective course (Political Science and World Politics)

Area of studies: Political Science

Delivered by: Department of Political Science and International Affairs

Where: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

When: 3 year, 4 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Герцо-Виноградская Анастасия Игоревна

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course of the practically oriented seminars aims to introduce students to a range of the political and intellectual concepts, their emergence, evolution and the contemporary usage in political, public and social discussions. The course seeks to highlight the historic and social contexts as well as dynamic changes and multifaceted usage of the concepts in a variety of discourses. The course deals with the so-called "complementary" concepts/ideas such as politeness, taste, the sublime alongside with purely political ones such as monarchy, duty, republicanism. The innovative element of the course includes listening to the authentic audio materials (podcasts) that elucidate the concepts and provide comprehensive view of the historicsetting, social and cultural milieu that generated or adopted and transformed them, seekingresolution for the pressing challenges of the moment. The course offers the students ampleopportunities for active engagement with the course by encouraging them to produce presentations, organise discussions and analyse the concepts in the contemporary pan-European contexts.The course comprises 4 lectures and 8 seminars.Entry requirements: knowledge of the English Language at Upper-Intermediate/B2 level.