The aim of the course is to acquaint student with selected concepts of policy analysis trough a practical case study in one policy sector and cross sectorial coordination related to selected case.  The student should familiarize oneself with substance of professional work and practices, as well as, special features of organization and management within in one policy sector. After the course student has gained expertise in one policy sector and one branch of policy analysis. In addition, student is able to identify the concepts used in the case study as part of policy analysis literature as well as recognize the problems related to sectorial approach.  With the help of recent literature on selected concepts and substance area students are able to map the backgrounds and explain the approaches in resent policy initiatives.

Tuesdays at 12-14

places for max. 10 master level exchange students. Priority is given to exchange students of faculty of management.

The exam dates and places are following: 
 1st exam: Mon 4 - Dec- 2017 at 8 - 12, Main building  D10a+b
 2nd exam: Tue 19 - Dec- 2017 at 16 - 20, Main building  D10a+b
 3rd exam: Mon 8 - Jan- 2018 at 8 - 12, Main building  D10a+b

Please sign up through NettiOpsu at least seven (7) days before the exam.

Contents
- The past, the present and future of behavioral research in management accounting;
- The methodologies and methods used in research;
- Different behavioral themes, e.g. motivation, participation, organizational climate, emotional
intelligence.

19.8.-5.9.2017

The teacher will give you the Moodle key after you have been accepted to the course.

Modes of study
- Exercises (essays and cases) online in English. Do exercises in a given order 1-8 and return
them one by one by using tools in Learning 2 (Moodle). The teacher will send comments and
evaluation by Moodle.
- A written exam at the end of the course in English. You can take an electronic exam in
December/January after getting through all the eight exercises.

After completing the course, students will understand the unique characteristics of American political system and the role of Congress in it, as well as understand the limits of presidential power in American foreign policy. Students will have a sound understanding of the evolution of American foreign policy institutions and legislative-executive relationship in forming American foreign policy, including the use of American military power. The course will focus on American post-World War II foreign and security policy, and special attention will be paid to American post-9/11 foreign policy and the effects of partisan polarization and domestic politics to legislative-executive relations.

Indicative Lecture Content 

September 26:  1966. If a Woman Says ‘Perhaps’: The Great Political ‘Seduction’ and Rafael Paasio gets the Centre Party into Bed

Virolainen quotes Lenin but Einari Karvetti is unhappy. The Popular Front years; the ‘liberation of middle beer’; farm amalgamation and the exodus to Sweden and the ‘deep south’. The passing of agrarian Finland? Ämmänsaari 1968; Eero Raittisen ‘vanha holvikirkko’; SALT talks: the US and USSR negotiate whether to negotiate in Helsinki (and Vienna!). Podgorny’s visit and the Soviet’s failure to recognise Finnish neutrality.

October 3: 1970: The Finnish ship sails away from the Nordic Common Market

The ‘V’ linja: Väätäinen, Vasala, Viren and Vennamo. Did Veikko Vennamo really sink Nordek? The electoral ‘earthquake’ and the start of populism as a ‘family business’; Irwin Goodman; the Haukivuori relay; and Kekkonen takes to the television to roast the Communists. TUPO.

October 10: 1977: Why did superman fail to get the job?

The multiple aspects of Finlandisation: patronage, censorship and self-censorship. Westerholm forces a presidential election. The ‘midsummer bomb’ and ‘yleiset syyt’. Did the Kremlin really keep the Conservatives in opposition? Veikko and Manu in Jäähalli. Ilkityö in Kotka. Kekkonen rejects a Soviet approach for joint military ‘manoeuvres’

October 24: 1987 What was in the safe?

Manu and the ladybirds in Vaasa. The ‘Aids election’. Koivisto versus Väyrynen and a non-socialist coalition. From red-green to red-blue cabinets; Schism on the radical left: DEVA, Esko-Juhani Tennilä and the road to Vasemmistoliitto. Gorbachev recognises Finnish neutrality. Esko Almgren’s version of events.

October 31: 1992 Finland at 75: the ‘Kannuksen Kennedy’, a Nieminen gold and the ‘pulla index’

Did Nokia save Finland? From the depths of recession to ‘kännykä Suomi’.  The new liturgy: neutrality is replaced by ‘military nonalignment and a credible national defence’. Soft and hard security. Salolainen flops; Sundqvist implodes and so on to Lipponen

November 7: 1994 The EU Referendum, the ‘no butters’ and guess who?

As I said to Jacques Delors! Esko Aho and the airport taxi. Olli Rehn’s parents; the Estonian ferry disaster; Korhonen and Kainuun Sanomat; cocktails on the Royal Yacht Brittania. The Greens and ‘kyllä, mutta’; LFAs.

November 14: 1998 Onpa kiihkeä kosinta: the Centre beats the competition to sign a former ‘Miss Finland’

Tanja Karpela, celebrity candidates and the increasing mediatisation of politics. Finland becomes a founder-member of EMU and VL has a new chair. Why were ‘rainbow coalitions’ necessary? Uosukainen and her ‘water bed’.

November 21: 2000. What’s the most common word in the Finnish language? Answer: Kekkonen

The new Finnish constitution coincides with the centenary of Kekkonen’s birth. The end of semi-presidential government? The Kekkonen legacy. The first female Finnish president. Johannes Virolainen dies at 86. Iraqgate and the end of the social democratic hegemony

November 28: 2012 Finland According to Paavo Väyrynen: A Prophet in the Wilderness?

Neutrality (the Väyrynen version); Euroscepticism and the post-referendum filibuster; the Nordic Community; the minister, MEP and founder of the Citizens’ Party. Why Väyrynen has been good for Finland! Soini and the Social Democrats

December 5: Finland at 100: Independence, For What, So What?

Why, exactly, should we celebrate on December 6? What is the measure of the Finnish achievement? How independent has Finland really been? Punainen viiva. When electoral turnout is below 1907, how ‘well’ is Finnish democracy? How independent is Finland today? Aalto- Saara not Alvar; Tom of Finland; Vesa-Matti Loiri; the ‘Finland brand’. A marsalkka beer?

Email registration essential by September 20, 2017.

This course is centered on finding political scenarios and debates in fictive texts. Politics is an integral part of many fictive texts, and often used to reflect real world issues, debates, and political scenarios. Many seminal works of science fiction, for example, extrapolate political issues like authoritarianism, surveillance, loss of privacy, ecologism, pacifism, militarism, and so on into contexts where they can be addressed in ways less suited for traditional political science. Indeed, these works often comment on the issues of their time through fiction.

During the course the students will receive weekly readings for analysis and reflection. After the course, the students are expected to better understand how politics can be presented in fiction, and how these fictional politics can be used to make sense of actual political events. The students will be more adept at spotting political scenarios and reconstructing them in various contexts. 

The language of the course is English, so students are expected to be reasonably proficient in reading and writing academic texts in this language. English degree programme students can join students of Political Science on the course for a richer mutual understanding of disciplines and the texts.

Enrollment via email to teacher responsible. Students admitted in order of registering, but political science students prioritized. Optimal group size is 20 students. Deadline for enrollment is 06.09.2017.

Active participation in the seminars, topical presentation in seminar, and essay (9-12 pages) for 5 ECTS.

This module consist of lectures, independent reading and a miniconference organized at the very end of the module. Each lecture is dedicated to a particular approach to International Political Economy as an academic field of study. The students are required to familiarize themselves with a set of required pre-readings before coming to the lecture. At the lectures, the relevance of IPE as a field of study is illustrated in the context of contemporary issues within the global economy: international trade agreements, the rise of the BRICS, labor migration, privatization of health care, transformation of the welfare state, etc. The students write an essay on one of these topics and present their essays at a conference organized at the end of the course.

Lectures, independent reading, essay writing and a closing conference with student presentations.

The course includes a written asignment

This course is primarily for:

- Master students in Management and Organization studies

- Master level exchange students of Faculty of Management (business studies)

- Third year bachelor level exchange students of Faculty of Management (business sudies) who have completed KATMAA13 Service Marketing course in period I can also enroll. Completing KATMAA13 is a prerequirement for exchange students if you have not completed an equivalent course at your home university.

few places for master level business exchange students

Contents of the course

The following topics will be discussed during the course:

- Changes of organizing work

- Distinction between the terms leader and leadership

- History of leadership research

- Forms of collective leadership

- Embodiment in leadership

- Sociomateriality in leadership

- Leadership-as-Practice

This course is for Master students in Leadership for Change. The course is also held in I period for Master students in Management and Organizations (in Finnish).

A very limited number of Master level exchange students with suitable business management studies backround may be accepted to the course.

This course offers a way of analysing European integration as a process, and deepens the participants’ knowledge of the most important theories of European integration and of disintegration. Particular emphasis will be put on the consequences of integration and disintegration on the external relations of the EU and international relations more widely.

The course introduces students to the use of rational choice theory and formal modelling in the study of international relations.  Students are provided with tools from decision theory and game theory and shown how to use them in analysing a wide range of topics related to international relations.

The course follows closely the textbook, beginning with easy examples of decision theory and gradually progressing into more sophisticated game theoretic models. Each stage will include empirical examples of applying the newly introduced analytic methods into current international problems such as armed conflict, trade sanctions, terrorism, global warming and nation-building.

Email enrollment by 20 October (henrikki.heikka@kolumbus.fi). Please include your name and degree programme at UTA.

The course offers students a possibility to engage in a participatory simulation of the EU decision-making and legislative process beginning with the suggestion proposed by the European Commission to the adoption of the legislative dossier. In the end, students will be able to understand the differences and operational logic of each major European institution, familiarise themselves with the ordinary legislative procedure, as well as learn in-depth about the functioning of the European Union as a whole.

Mandatory registration also via e-mail by 15.10.2017.

Active participation in the lessons is required from the students. In addition, the students are required to write smaller 400 word papers in preparation for some of the lessons as well as a longer final essay of 2000 words.

This course offers a way of analysing European integration as a process, and deepens the participants’ knowledge of the most important theories of European integration and of disintegration. Particular emphasis will be put on the consequences of integration and disintegration on the external relations of the EU and international relations more widely.

Teaching

13.11. 12-14

14.11. 12-14

15.11. 12-14

16.11. 12-16 (workshop)

17.11. 10-12 (results & conclusions)

+ independent essay writing, deadline for the essay (about 2500 words) 15 December 2017

Students are required to familiarize themselves with assigned study materials before the lectures.

Taught at the Tampere Autumn School (13-17 November 2017) and Petrozavodsk Summer School in May 2018. More exact times to be announced.

Taught at the Tampere Autumn School (13-17 November 2017) and Petrozavodsk Summer School in May 2018 (20-26 May 2018). Continues during the academic year 2018-19.

The CBIR seminars are compulsory for CBIR double degree students.

This participatory course begins by choosing an acute international crisis. After a theory lecture, the selected conflict will be interpreted through Edward Said’s ‘contrapuntal reading’. In this type of analysis, a phenomenon is examined on multiple directions simultaneously, with the aim of finding a mutual understanding (‘reading’) of the conflict that takes into consideration the contrasting perspectives.

The course is composed of an obligatory theory lecture, seminar sessions, group work and an extended final seminar where the concluding contrapuntal reading of the conflict will be performed.

In order to pass the course, the participants need to attend the theory lecture, final extended seminar as well as three other seminar sessions. Furthermore, the participants are required to produce a group presentation and an essay. Places are limited in this course (max 15) and filled in the order of registration.

We can still accept a few more students to this course! If you are interested, please send a message to eveliina.permi@uta.fi

The course consists of lectures, two problem-based learning (PBL) tutorials with a brief research paper to be written and delivered among participants, as well as writing of a team essay and a presentation in a closing seminar.

HUOM hallintotieteen ja julkisen talousjohtamisen tutkinto-opiskelijat:

Opintojakso HALHAS21 Governing hybrid organizations voi sijoittua tutkinnossa joko valinnaisiin opintoihin tai vaihtoehtoisesti osaksi julkisen talousjohtamisen tai hallintotieteen maisteriopintoja seuraavasti: HALHAS21 kurssin (5 op) suorittamalla voi korvata julkisen talousjohtamisen opintosuunnassa kurssin HALJTS04 Julkinen talousjohtaminen ja muuttuvat hallintorakenteet (5 op) ja hallintotieteessä HALHAS19 Johtamisen ja julkisen politiikan tutkimus ja ajankohtaiset kysymykset (10 op) puolet suoritusvaihtoehdosta 1 (Strategia ja muutoksen johtaminen). Toinen 5 op suoritetaan tenttimällä vastuuopettajan kanssa sovittava kirjallisuus. 

Course is offered only for a selected number of doctoral students, exchange students, and KOHAMA students.

Note: MAX 5 exchange students with suitable background in social sciences can be accepted to the course.  

Enrollment: send an email to yohannes.mehari[at]staff.uta.fi by 10th January 2018 and explain why you should be enrolled to this course.

Teaching schedule and lecture rooms will be updated only to Moodle course area.

Course is offered only for a selected number of doctoral students, exchange students, and KOHAMA students.

Note: MAX 5 exchange students with suitable background in social sciences can be accepted to the course.  

Enrollment: send an email to yohannes.mehari[at]staff.uta.fi by 29th January 2018 and explain why you should be enrolled to this course.

Teaching schedule and lecture rooms will be updated only to Moodle course area.

The course is primarily a web-based course. An introductory (compulsory) lecture will be held on Jan 26, 2018 at 12-15 (Pinni A1081). 

- How and why legal environment affects business
- Law principles of contracting and business negotiations in international context
- Corporate governance in limited liability companies
- Legal framework of tax planning and tax-related risks in cross-border business

open for master level exchange students

Political and social trust are often seen as important determinants or elements of a functioning democracy and citizens well-being. But what is trust, and how it actually influences citizens and the political system? The purpose of the course is to give students a comprehensive picture of the concept of trust and its relevance in political science. The course starts with a conceptualization of trust, both as a political and social concept. After the conceptualization, measuring trust is analysed, and main results concerning survey evidence on trust discussed. The course goes then on with discussing the relevance and role of trust in international relations, trust in comparative perspective, the relationship of trust to political inequality and its relevance in explaining the rise of right wing populism. The course provides students analytical tools to study trust and an extensive knowledge of the relevant literature.

The course aims to present the key elements to understand French politics.

Why has the election of Macron in 2017 been considered as a cataclysm for the French political class? What happened in 1981 that radically changed the country? Why do we consider the French parliament as a weak legislature? What is the relationship between the president and the prime minister?

The objective of this course is to introduce the students to the politics of France from the foundation of the Fifth Republic in 1958 to the new political class in 2017. This course will thus discuss concepts such as semi-presidentialism, weak legislature, two-party system and many others. The first part of the course will discuss the institutions and actors in French politics. The second part will focus on the main events that shaped the country. Every concept will be discussed in a comparative perspective to highlight the similarities of the French political system with other countries such as Romania, Portugal and, to a certain extent, Finland.

Email registration to the teacher essential by 3 January, 2018.

This course will adopt a flipped classroom. The teacher delivers instructional content outside of the classroom. Research is conducted at home and students will engage in concepts and applications in the classroom with the guidance of the instructor. The evaluations of students will be based on multiple-choice question tests that will take place every week (answers will be randomly collected) and on the involvement in teamwork during the working sessions.

Course is offered only for a selected number of doctoral students, exchange students, and KOHAMA students.

Note: MAX 5 exchange students with suitable background in social sciences can be accepted to the course.  

Enrollment: send an email to yuzhuo.cai[at]staff.uta.fi by 26th February 2018 and explain why you should be enrolled to this course.

Teaching schedule and lecture rooms will be updated only to Moodle course area.

Course description

Contents: 

- Risk management trends

- Long term risks

- Economics theories for risks

- Financial crisis management

- Measuring risk in financial markets

- Risk management in financial markets

- Risk management in corporate finance

open for master level exchange students

Contents:

Corporate Global Citizenship; Corporate Social Responsibility; Global issues and changemarkers; Understanding and Critiquing Social Entrepreneurship and Social Intrapreneurs; Political roles, Political CSR, Business and Human rights; Stakeholder Relationships and Corporate Citizenship; Addressing Environmental Constrains; Values in Management Practice; Shared Value; Global Standards; Global Challenges.

Lectures:

Thursday 5.4. at 16-18
Tuesday 10.4. at 10-12
Thursday 12.4. at 16-18
Tuesday 17.4. at 10-12
Thursday 19.4. at 16-18
Tuesday 24.4. at 10-12
Thursday 26.4. at 16-18
Thursday 3.5. at 16-18
Tuesday 8.5. at 10-12
Tuesday 15.5. at 10-12

This course is primarily intended for

• master's students of responsible business,
• master's students of management and organization studies (this course can be registered as course KATJOS49 Current issues in Management and Organisations)
• master's students of leadership for change master's programme, and
• master's students of politics (this course can be registered as course POLVOS23)

The course is also open for exchange students and others interested.

The class will look at the concept of trust in international relations theoretically as well as through examining a number of case studies from diplomatic history. The relevance of trust for contemporary issues in world politics will also be discussed.

Multilateralism can be understood as a cooperative form of decision-making on issue areas where supranational authority does not exist but where coordinated action is necessary. It is ideally an institutional arrangement that ensures global governance in a non-discriminatory manner wihtout regard to particularistic interests. Regionalism on the other hand refers to the different forms of regional cooperation among states that are drawn together through geography, politics, culture and transnationalism and most importantly, the benefits of cooperation. European integration process is the most developed form of regionalism and as such has served as a stepping stone for global cooperation. Under US leadership, the transatlantic region has been instrumental in developing the current structures of multilateralism and global governance. However, while population growth and climate change (among other things) necessitate even stronger cooperation, multilateral institutions like United Nations and World Trade Organization are being sidelined by regional organizations. Moreover, under Trump administration the former champion of liberal institutionalism has turned its back on multilateralism at the same time as the EU struggles with internal political and economic crisis.  This course provides tools to analyze current affairs of regional and global governance within the framework of comparative regioanalism and comparative institutional analysis. Studend also learns to set their analytical skills in practice through a policy paper workshop.

- Lectures and instruction, 12 hours  - Seminar work, 12 hours - Individual and group work about 100 hours to be used for the following: a) individual reading of course material about 6 research articles, b) 300 word commentaries of each article, c) group work: preparing and presenting a policy brief, d) 1800-2500 word individual essay or policy paper.

The module includes lectures, seminars and independent reading, complemented by independent research/essay writing or practical workshops.

The module is divided in three parts.

The first consists of 4 lectures providing a historical overview of the emergence of refugees and forced migration as a contemporary “governance issue”, as well as a theoretical and methodological introduction to refugee studies as an interdisciplinary area in social sciences.

The second part of the course consists of 4 seminars, in which, after a short introduction by the teacher, students engage in group discussions, short presentations and other activities on the following topics: 1. Humanitarian innovation: what is left of refugee aid? 2. The promotion of refugee self-reliance and entrepreneurship: critical approaches to the refugee camp as an ‘economic space’. 3. The role of the private sector in refugee aid: examples from Jordan, Sweden, and Finland.  4. The role of political activism and volunteering in spaces of hospitality and refuge.

In the third, applied part of the module, students can choose between activities:

1. Writing an essay on a topic of their choice.

2. Taking part in an art/research workshop on migration organized in Tampere, 2-5 May 2018.

Lectures, seminars and workshops require a limited amount of independent reading to be completed before the sessions. Material for the seminar activities includes not only academic texts, but also policy reports, press, videos and art work.

Schedule

6.3.-25.4.2018, Tuesdays 13-16

Art/research workshop 3-4 May 2018.

Taught at the Petrozavodsk Summer School in May 2018. More exact schedule to be announced.

According to the United Nations, climate change is the greatest challenge of our time. In this course we explore some central political, legal and moral questions related to climate change, with an emphasis to global climate ethics. How does climate change affect people, states, and international affairs? How negative climate effects could be regulated and mitigated at regional and international level? Who bears the greatest responsibility for climate change? What rights the most vulnerable people and states have? How the future of just climate governance would look like? By looking at these and related questions this course offers an overview of key debates in climate ethics and politics literature, and introduces students to essential questions of global climate justice.

Enrollment via email to responsible teacher by 15.2.2018. Maximum 15 students are admitted.

The language of instruction is English.

Contents:

Corporate Global Citizenship; Corporate Social Responsibility; Global issues and changemarkers; Understanding and Critiquing Social Entrepreneurship and Social Intrapreneurs; Political roles, Political CSR, Business and Human rights; Stakeholder Relationships and Corporate Citizenship; Addressing Environmental Constrains; Values in Management Practice; Shared Value; Global Standards; Global Challenges.

Lectures:

Thursday 5.4. at 16-18
Tuesday 10.4. at 10-12
Thursday 12.4. at 16-18
Tuesday 17.4. at 10-12
Thursday 19.4. at 16-18
Tuesday 24.4. at 10-12
Thursday 26.4. at 16-18
Thursday 3.5. at 16-18
Tuesday 8.5. at 10-12
Tuesday 15.5. at 10-12

This course is primarily intended for

• master's students of responsible business,
• master's students of management and organization studies (this course can be registered as course KATJOS49 Current issues in Management and Organisations)
• master's students of leadership for change master's programme, and
• master's students of politics (this course can be registered as course POLVOS23)

The course is also open for exchange students and others interested.