To develop an advanced interdisciplinary understanding of the main approaches and theories of European integration and an ability to apply them to the enlargement of the European Union (EU).

Lectures 36 h + exam (3 ECTS) 5 Sept - 24 Oct; essay seminar 6 h (5 ECTS) 10 - 17 Nov.

Compensations:

International Relations:
KVPOA3, Wiener - Diez (3 ECTS) or Wiener - Diez and Bindi/Vogt - Maier (5 ECTS)

Political Science: VALTA7, 3-5 ECTS.

The 5 ECTS option is meant ONLY for the students of ERS/CBU programme.

Lectures (18 h) + written assignment = 3 ECTS.

Priority will be given to the students of ERS/CBU programme for whom the course is obligatory.

Priority will be given to the students of ERS/CBU programme for whom the course is obligatory.

The course will be organised in connection with the CBU autumn school in Tampere (autumn 2011) and spring school in St. Petersburg (spring 2012).

The course is availbale only for students of the ERS/CBU Master's programme majoring in International Relations.

Kurssilta voi olla poissa enintään 3 kertaa.

This is a 5-credit course designed for both graduate students and undergraduate and exchange students. The major theories of media ethics from around the world are introduced, and applied to important cases and issues today.  All ethical theories are seeking to be global, and each contributes to the primary ethical principles for the media:  truth, human dignity, and non-violence. Approximately 15 pages of reading are required for each class. There are 3 short writing assignments and students will keep a diary of the lectures. A final essay of 2000 words is required based on the lectures and readings.

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In recent ten years, new media technologies have changed a significant number of cultural practices on the global and local scales. This course, studying Russian new media culture of the 2000s, aims to analyze specific features of the cultural forms and processes, connected with the wide-spread digital technologies. Focused on the phenomenon of the "Ru.net" (the conventional name for the Russian Internet segment) it interprets transformations of the social life and culture in Russia under the influence of the new means of communication.

Themes and subjects:

• Historiography of the Russian new media culture

• Recent developments in new media technologies and web 2.0 culture

• Communication on the Ru.net. "Netiquette"; rules of the online social behavior

• Representations of the self: constructing a virtual person

• New media communities: social and cultural features

• Russian social nets: Cases of V kontakte and Odnoklassniki

• Russian blogosphere. Case of the "Lifejournal.com culture"

• Twitter, microblogging and instant messengers

• State and civil society on the Net

• Activism, political and civic movements on the Ru.net

• New media and linguistic culture: Transformations of the Russian language

• Phenomenon of the new media literature: "Neterature"

• New media art and music

• Consumption and entertaining culture 2.0

The course is organized in cooperation with Aleksanteri Institute's Russian and East European Master's School.

Lecture topics:

12.9. Heino Nyyssönen: Introduction, theory, method
14.9. Heino Nyyssönen: Rhetorics, concepts and history 
19.9. Heino Nyyssönen: Structures and discourses
21.9. Jenni Mäenpää: Photojournalism, and online survey
26.9. Arja Rosenholm: Cultural studies as an option
28.9. Pami Aalto: Interview methods

Literature for the joint lectures and seminar (all disciplines):

Klotz - Prakash, Qualitative Methods in International Relations a Pluralist Guide. Palgrave 2008.

Literature for the discipline specific (International Relations) seminar:

Sprinz - Wollinsky, Models, Numbers, and Cases: Methods for Studying International Relations. University of Michigan Press 2004

Chandler, Semiotics: The Basics. Routledge 2004.

Perelman, The Realm of Rhetoric. University of Notre Dame Press 1982.

Czarniawska, Narratives in Social Science Research. Sage 2004.

Fairclough, Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research. Routledge 2003.

George and Bennett, Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences. MIT Press 2005.

King et.al., Designing Social Inquiry. Princeton University Press 1994.

Tetlock et.al., Unmaking the West: ?What-If?? Scenarios That Rewrite World History. University of Michigan Press 2006.

Ackerly - Stern -True (eds.), Feminist Methodologies for International Relations. Cambridge University Press 2007.

Navari (eds.), Theorising International Society. Methods in English School Theory 2009.

In recent ten years, new media technologies have changed a significant number of cultural practices on the global and local scales. This course, studying Russian new media culture of the 2000s, aims to analyze specific features of the cultural forms and processes, connected with the wide-spread digital technologies. Focused on the phenomenon of the "Ru.net" (the conventional name for the Russian Internet segment) it interprets transformations of the social life and culture in Russia under the influence of the new means of communication.

Themes and subjects:

• Historiography of the Russian new media culture

• Recent developments in new media technologies and web 2.0 culture

• Communication on the Ru.net. "Netiquette"; rules of the online social behavior

• Representations of the self: constructing a virtual person

• New media communities: social and cultural features

• Russian social nets: Cases of V kontakte and Odnoklassniki

• Russian blogosphere. Case of the "Lifejournal.com culture"

• Twitter, microblogging and instant messengers

• State and civil society on the Net

• Activism, political and civic movements on the Ru.net

• New media and linguistic culture: Transformations of the Russian language

• Phenomenon of the new media literature: "Neterature"

• New media art and music

• Consumption and entertaining culture 2.0

The course is organized in cooperation with Aleksanteri Institute's Russian and East European Master's School.

Objectives:

To provide the student with a general understanding of empirical research methods and research process in social sciences.

The module provides the student with basic abilities to understand empirical research conducted with various methods, to evaluate the methodological choices and research results.

Modes of Study: book exam on

Gilbert, Nigel (2008): Researching Social Life. SAGE Publications

The book exam is available in the Electronic Exam Service (see under School of Social Sciences and Humanities/General Studies). The exam is available starting from 28.9.2011.

ERS/CBU students NB! Enrollment via NettiOpsu 22.8.-23.10.2011.

Lectures 10 h and seminar 10 h. The seminar is for ERS/CBU students only.

ERS2: lectures and seminar, 5 ECTS
KVPOA3: lectures, 2 ECTS.

The goal of the course is to provide conceptual and theoretical tools that shed light on how the interaction of great and small powers has historically shaped the Northern European region; to apply the conceptual and theoretical tools to the contemporary context where supranational integration and regionalization both at the interstate and substate level challenge traditional great and small power dynamics; to provide necessary prerequisites for the students for assessing and examining international dynamics in Europe's north independently.

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Kurssi suoritetaan yhtä aikaa seminaarin kanssa.

Russia's historical research goes through changes. One of the key findings has been a new perspective to the research of the Cold War. Earlier this field was dominated by the western-oriented research of history of international relations and diplomacy. Instead of the old (western, super power) bipolar viewpoint, the new research concentrates on eastern perspective and focuses on the levels and actors below the super power and block politics. The assessment of actors and their relations from the eastern viewpoint has changed the perception especially towards the role of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

The picture of the rest of the world's impact on the internal development of Russia has altered when a new perspective and a longer time span are examined. Interaction and cooperation, transfer of knowledge and learning has become new themes of the research of Russian history. This course introduces the history of the Soviet Union/ Russia in the light of these new findings. Russian history is filled with different continuums, interruptions, new beginnings and changes. Now their significance may be re-evaluated. The lecture examines the history of the Soviet Union to the modern Russia; from Khrushchev and Cold War to Medvedev's policies and economic aspects of the contemporary Russia. Common themes, such as the modernization, will be considered in the course.

The course is organized in cooperation with Aleksanteri Institute's Russian and East European Master's School.

The first two sessions of the IR thesis seminar I are part of the CBU autumn school. Therefore, these seminar sessions will be joined by the students of St Petersburg State University and Petrozavodsk State University.

The course will be organised in connection with the CBU spring school in Petrozavodsk (spring 2012) and autumn school in St- Petersburg (autumn 2012).

The course is availbale only for students of the ERS/CBU Master's programme majoring in International Relations.

This course discusses the role of journalism in the changing economic, political, cultural and technological landscape of the 21st century, shaped by increasingly transnational relations and trends. On the one hand journalism is shaped by the forces of "globalization", on the other hand it is a (relatively) active agent in these processes. We will look at both of these issues and try to link questions concerning journalism with broader debates and conceptualizations of social theory.

We start with locating journalism in the context of modernity, then look at the emergence and challenges of professional journalism. Then we move on to think about transnational trends and journalism in four dimensions: 1) economy, 2) politics/representation, 3) culture/identities and 4) technology/networks.

Normally, the lectures take from 9:15 to about 11 or 11:30, depending on the amount of intelligent discussion we produce.

Passing the course will require

1) active participation at the lectures

2) knowledge of readings (distributed through Moodle)

3) short assignments (mostly weekly)

4) Submission of a final course paper (5 pages) by March 9.

Fri 20.1. 9.15-11:30.

Introduction: Journalism, modernity and the transnational

* What is journalism: a contextual definition?

* Globalization/ transnationalization: its interfaces to journalism

* Obstacles and opportunities

Friday 27.1. 9:15-11.30

Professionalism and Ideology: The journalistic field?

* Emergence of the profession?

* Journalistic field and its autonomy?

* Transnational ? transcultural dimensions/characteristics

Friday 3.2. 9:15- 11:30

Economy: structural characteristics

* Crisis of journalism? Public solutions?

* Transnational media economies and journalism?

* Journalism and the financial crisis

Friday 10.2. 9:15-11:30

Politics/Representation

* Journalism and political power

* Source-relations

* structures and events

* journalism and climate change (summits)

Friday 17.2. 9:15-11:30

Culture/Identity

* Communication and culture?

* Mediatization, globalization and identities

* Diasporic communities

Friday 24.2. 9:15-11.30

Technology /Networks

Friday 9.3.

DEADLINE FOR FINAL PAPERS!

Friday 16.3. 9:15-11.30.

Concluding session

Over the last 30 years a new distinctive trend has become apparent in fiction and visual arts which is often referred to as "horror genre". However, the specificity of this genre as well as a coherent explanation of its popularity has not been delivered yet by cultural studies. On the contrary, there are multiple explanations of the current popularity of vampires. Analyses of particularities of the "horror genre" and vampire fiction and movies will help conceptualize this new trend as "Gothic aesthetics".

In the first part of the course we will consider importance of vampires as the most popular nonhumans. Post-Soviet and the US vampires' bestsellers will be compared to analyze what the figure of monster signifies in contemporary culture. Differently from the US productions, post-Soviet fiction and movies populated by all kind of nonhuman monsters reveal the work of suppressed memory of Stalinism and describe a new social order emerging in post-Soviet Russia. The course will consider post-Soviet fiction and movies as a particular source to study historical memory.

The second part of the course will be focused on the origins of Gothic Aesthetics which departed from Gothic novel and works by Russian classical writers. We will examine why nightmares became am important theme for several outstanding writers such Charles Robert Maturin, Nikolay Gogol and Feodor Dostoevsky and how literary experiments conducted by these outstanding writers with their readers and their protagonists influenced contemporary culture. 

The course is organized in cooperation with Aleksanteri Institute's Russian and East European Master's School.

Over the last 30 years a new distinctive trend has become apparent in fiction and visual arts which is often referred to as "horror genre". However, the specificity of this genre as well as a coherent explanation of its popularity has not been delivered yet by cultural studies. On the contrary, there are multiple explanations of the current popularity of vampires. Analyses of particularities of the "horror genre" and vampire fiction and movies will help conceptualize this new trend as "Gothic aesthetics".

In the first part of the course we will consider importance of vampires as the most popular nonhumans. Post-Soviet and the US vampires' bestsellers will be compared to analyze what the figure of monster signifies in contemporary culture. Differently from the US productions, post-Soviet fiction and movies populated by all kind of nonhuman monsters reveal the work of suppressed memory of Stalinism and describe a new social order emerging in post-Soviet Russia. The course will consider post-Soviet fiction and movies as a particular source to study historical memory.

The second part of the course will be focused on the origins of Gothic Aesthetics which departed from Gothic novel and works by Russian classical writers. We will examine why nightmares became am important theme for several outstanding writers such Charles Robert Maturin, Nikolay Gogol and Feodor Dostoevsky and how literary experiments conducted by these outstanding writers with their readers and their protagonists influenced contemporary culture. 

The course is organized in cooperation with Aleksanteri Institute's Russian and East European Master's School.

Priority is given to international degree students, otherwise the selection criterion is the number of credits.The final course lists will be posted on the Language Centre's notice board and website on january 5th.

The course explores Soviet and post-Soviet Russian films in their ideological and imaginative relationships to different historical and political contexts. The course aims at making students familiar with how gender is used as an analytical tool in film analysis, and how feminist film theories can be used in specific contexts of film-production and various national film practices. The course will also examine how Soviet and Russian films of the 20th c. textually negotiated and re-negotiated conditions of being, belonging and becoming for gender and ethnic identity in Soviet trajectories of domination and subordination and post-Soviet transformations. The course will include discussions of politics of representation of gender, race and ethnicity in Soviet and Russian popular cinema of different genres (comedy, adventure, adaptation, historical and combat films) as venues for developing fantasies of cultural identity, gender normatives and racialiased social stereotypes. The course will particularly attend to the construction of race and Orientalist discourse in Soviet popular cinema.

The course is organized in cooperation with Aleksanteri Institute's Russian and East European Master's School.

This interdisciplinary course familiarizes students with the Russian gender system and its historical development from the Soviet era to the present day and with discussions in feminist theory and methodology. It traces gendering practices in different spheres of life and examines how gender intersects with other differences, such as nationality, ethnicity, sexuality, and class. It also examines how gender has demarcated the boundaries between the private and the public spheres at different times and political circumstances, and how gender has structured and been structured in social and cultural transformations. The course consists of lectures and group discussions based on course readings.

The course is organized in cooperation with Aleksanteri Institute's Russian and East European Master's School.

The course explores Soviet and post-Soviet Russian films in their ideological and imaginative relationships to different historical and political contexts. The course aims at making students familiar with how gender is used as an analytical tool in film analysis, and how feminist film theories can be used in specific contexts of film-production and various national film practices. The course will also examine how Soviet and Russian films of the 20th c. textually negotiated and re-negotiated conditions of being, belonging and becoming for gender and ethnic identity in Soviet trajectories of domination and subordination and post-Soviet transformations. The course will include discussions of politics of representation of gender, race and ethnicity in Soviet and Russian popular cinema of different genres (comedy, adventure, adaptation, historical and combat films) as venues for developing fantasies of cultural identity, gender normatives and racialiased social stereotypes. The course will particularly attend to the construction of race and Orientalist discourse in Soviet popular cinema.

The course is organized in cooperation with Aleksanteri Institute's Russian and East European Master's School.