Кто читает:: Департамент теоретической экономики

Статус:: Курс обязательный

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Преподаватель

Ананьин Олег Игоревич

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Abstract

The course taught in the first year of the master’s program, serves as its “core class” whose fundamental goal is twofold – to develop understanding of the nature, potential and limits of social sciences, and to elucidate the links between political, economic, and philosophical components of the PEP program. The course does count on the students’ anterior basic familiarity with philosophy, economics and political science, as well as on their advancement in these academic disciplines through taking other respective classes offered by the program and coordinated with the Research seminar. The Seminar’s aspiration is to propel the students’ grasp of the constitutive disciplines of PEP through its own devices thereby contributing to the fulfillment of the fundamental interdisciplinary mission of PEP. It is aiming at strengthening students’ intellectual outlook, cultivating skills of critical thinking, professional and public discussion.

Learning Objectives

Provide skills of synthesizing methods of research which are conventionally believed to fall within the purview of separate compartmentalized social disciplines and philosophy (as a distinct sort of “knowing”); ability to pursue a “problem-driven” rather than “method-driven” strategy of research
Enhance ability of independent, critical, and innovative thinking
Enhance student’s soft skills of writing academic essays in conformity with the internationally established standards, of mastering rhetorical strategies and presentation techniques
Provide a platform for discussion of students’ research proposals, literature reviews and term-works
Provide a platform for master-classes of leading scholars

Expected Learning Outcomes

Know differences and similarities between the QCA and other comparative methods (Mill’s Methods and the comparative historical analysis etc.)
Practical ability to design, assess the quality and analyze the results of fthe QCA in the comparative social research
Students to be able to criticize and evaluate the quality of outcome of QCA studies
knows, how to use QCA in political research
A student is able to develop a research paper and prepare its public presentation
A student is able to develop a research proposal
A student is able to develop an outline of a research paper
A student is able to differentiate different approaches to public policy design and strategy development. S/he knows principles and methods of growth diagnostics applied in development studies, international experiences with assessment and implementation of large-scale projects, role of interdisciplinary approach in such cases, ways of its realization
A student is able to differentiate different types of social studies, forms adequate expectations about its strengths and weaknesses. S/he is aware of the differences between natural and social sciences, knows basic epistemological strategies, applied in political science and economics
A student understands mechanisms through which objective knowledge and ideological preconceptions are interconnected; knows of possible errors in concept formation leading to wrong generalizations; applies rules and norms of professional ethics regulating behaviour of a researcher facing value-based challenges.

Course Contents

Introduction to Epistemology of Social Sciences
Value Judgments in Social Sciences
Applied Social Sciences and Interdisciplinarity
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

Assessment Elements

Seminar activity
In-class essays
In-class presentations
Project

Interim Assessment

2024/2025 4th module
0.2 * In-class essays + 0.2 * In-class presentations + 0.3 * Project + 0.3 * Seminar activity

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

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Authors

BABAYAN VALERIYA VITALEVNA
Karpich Yuliya Vladimirovna
PETROV IVAN IGOREVICH
SHISHKINA ALISA ROMANOVNA
Ananin Oleg Igorevich

Магистерская программа «Политика. Экономика. Философия / Politics. Economics. Philosophy»

Локальный омбудсмен

Международная аккредитация

Research Seminar