Preliminary program:

1.  Practicalities & introduction to the course / Aart-Jan Riekhoff (17.9.2014)

2. Nordic welfare model and universalism / Anneli Anttonen (24.9.2014)

3. The Nordic healthcare system from a comparative perspective / Katri Sieberg (1.10.2014)

4. Nordic child care policies / Katja Repo (8.10.2014)

5. Labour markets and employment in the Nordic countries / Aart-Jan Riekhoff (15.10.2014)

Period break, no lecture (22.10.2014)

6. Care of older people / Lina Van Aerschot (29.10.2014)

7. Income inequality in Nordic countries / Elina Tuominen (5.11.2014)

8. The idea of universal basic income in the context of the Nordic welfare state / Johanna Perkiö (12.11.2014)

9. Wrap up, instructions for essays / Aart-Jan Riekhoff (19.11.2014)

On Wednesdays at 14-16 o'clock, Pinni B1097
except on 8.10. Päätalo A1.

Course contents:

• The history, development and present situation of Finnish social welfare system
• Social welfare services
• Social work and social work methods in different contexts
• Social problems and future challenges for service development

Teaching methods:

• Orientative lectures (15 hours + seminar 12 hours)
• Course assignments (individual and group assignments)
• Study visits (5-6 different social work/service fields) in small groups
• Seminar with a presentation
• Virtual learning space Moodle is used for discussions and background material

Assessment methods:

• Active participation in the lectures and study visits
• Making of assignments
• Presentation in the seminar

Required/Recommended reading:

• Articles related to the course themes and field visits is given via moodle.
• Links to further information are provided in moodle. 

Language: The course is entirely in English.

Year of study:
Free

This course is available for exchange students.

Teaching place:
TAMK University of Applied Sciences
Classroom HO-29
Department of Social Services and Wellbeing
Kuntokatu 3, 33540 Tampere

Lecturers
Juha Santala
Jenni-Mari Räsänen

Teaching
Lectures and study visits 25 h

Seminar 12 h

The course can accommodate 30 students. If more students want to attend, priority is given to students in social work and socionom programs and the order of enrolment so that those first enrolled have the priority. Enrolment ends on 4th September.

Content and program:

Orientative lectures and classroom work (mornings) Classroom HO-29 & excursions (afternoons)

Thu 11.9. 9-15  Introduction
The main characters of Finnish social welfare
Lunch break
Excursion: Children's day care (in small groups)

Thu 18.9. 9-15  A short history of Finnish social work
Instructions to task 3 (articles)
Lunch break
Excursion: Adult social work services

Thu 25.9. 9-15  Social work and work methods in different contexts
Introduction to task 4 (essay on a chosen theme)
Lunch break
Excursion: Services for the elderly

Thu 2.10. 9-15  Social problems and future challenges
Lunch break
Excursion: Sociocultural work with girls/boys/men/women (in small groups)

Thu 9.10. 9-15  Summaries of the articles, reflections and discussion
Lunch break
Excursion: Social Stand-By Services & Detoxification Unit (to be confirmed)

Tasks

1. Differences and similarities between the system in Finland and in your country (in teams), 2-4 pages
2. What did you learned in the places you visited? The most important findings (two students together), 2-4 pages
3. Reading articles and course materials, summarizing and introducing them to others in small groups
4. Essay on a specific theme, 5-6 pages and presentation in the seminar                     

Enrolment to the course 18.8. - 5.9.2014
- UTA students: enrolment in NettiOpsu

- TUT and TAMK students: enrolment with electronic form:
(the form is available during the enrolment period)

The aim of the course is to examine, how ideas of identity are created, reinforced and modified in European history. This question will be studied from different viewpoints and time periods. The focus will be on the questions of language, politics and religion. These questions will be examined in different time periods and topics. Students will learn to use key concepts concerning European identity in history. Course takes place in web-based international and local study groups.

Prerequisites:

Students are required to have access to the Internet and possess elementary computer skills. They must be able to communicate in English, in writing.

Enrolment starts on August 15. at 12.00 and ends September 11. 2014.

Enrolment starts on August 15. at 12.00 and ends September 11. 2014.

A new seminar for PhD-students and advanced students from any discipline, interested in social theory broadly conceived. During fall 2014 we will be reading Michel Foucault's lectures on the birth of biopolitics (La naissance de la biopolitique). The text will be available via moodle for registered participants.

Registration for the seminar on theoretical social research: Foucault, fall 2014

The first meeting is 24.9 (Pinni B3109), after that we meet 1.10. (chapters 1 & 2) (Pinni B3109) and then every second week (Pinni B3117), reading two chapters of the text for each meeting. Should be fun.

SOS6.4.1 / SOSM6.4 Feminist Methodology, 5 ECTS
Monday 8-Sep-2014 - 10-Nov-2014 weekly at 12-14

Places:

8.9.2014 – 13.10.2014 Main building, A4

20.10.2014 – 3.11.2014 Main building, A3

10.11.2014 Pinni B 3116

Objectives: The course will deepen the students´ knowledge about feminist epistemology and methodology. The students will understand the central discussions of situating knowledge and the meaning of experience and commitment in relation to knowledge. The students can relate the readings of empirical research to larger debates on knowing and apply this to their own studies.

Modes of study: Active participation in the lectures and a lecture diary. The teaching material will be available in Moodle.

Programme:

8.9. Sari Irni: Introduction to the theme & guidelines

15.9. Kalpana Wilson: Race/Gender and Embodiment

22.9. Kalpana Wilson: Transnational Solidarity and Feminist Research

29.9. Jaana Kuusipalo: Equality Policies and Intersectionality: Methodologial Perspectives

6.10. Sari Irni: Sex, Sports, and the Differences that Matter

13.10. Tuula Juvonen: Queer Feminist Methodology

20.10. A period break/no lecture

27.10. Sanna Rikala: Researching Gender and Mental Health. Methodological challenges

3.11. Riikka Homanen: Ethnography and researching difference

10.11. Marjo Kolehmainen: Intersectionality and Social Class

No enrolment required. The key for entering Moodle will be given at the first lecture.

Lectures

Monday 8-Sep-2014 - 10-Nov-2014 weekly at 12-14

Places:

8.9.2014 – 13.10.2014 Main building, A4

20.10.2014 – 3.11.2014 Main building, A3

10.11.2014 Pinni B 3116

Registration to the course 4.-25.8.2014. For registration, visit Sosnet website.

Korvaa 5 op valinnaisista opinnoista.

Preliminary program:

1.  Practicalities & introduction to the course / Aart-Jan Riekhoff (17.9.2014)

2. Nordic welfare model and universalism / Anneli Anttonen (24.9.2014)

3. The Nordic healthcare system from a comparative perspective / Katri Sieberg (1.10.2014)

4. Nordic child care policies / Katja Repo (8.10.2014)

5. Labour markets and employment in the Nordic countries / Aart-Jan Riekhoff (15.10.2014)

Period break, no lecture (22.10.2014)

6. Care of older people / Lina Van Aerschot (29.10.2014)

7. Income inequality in Nordic countries / Elina Tuominen (5.11.2014)

8. The idea of universal basic income in the context of the Nordic welfare state / Johanna Perkiö (12.11.2014)

9. Wrap up, instructions for essays / Aart-Jan Riekhoff (19.11.2014)

On Wednesdays at 14-16 o'clock, Pinni B1097
except on 8.10. Päätalo A1.

Aim: To provide students with basic understanding about different perspectives to social work activity in different social contexts, as well as regarding the relationship between local and global in social work.

Form of Educ. Lecture seminars, readings and assignments given by the teachers.

Target group: Undergraduate students

Language: English

Course programme (Click the link to view the related information)

Study materials: Articles delivered and materials designed by the teachers.

Mode of studying: Active participation in at least 75% of lecture seminars, readings and assignments.

Completion: Active participation in the lecture seminar and accomplishment of the tasks given. Participation in the introductory lecture is necessary, because the information about the course and tasks will be given by the teacher. Students write a reflective essay (3-4 pages, in English or in Finnish) on their cultural identity.

Course coordination: Kaisa-Elina Kiuru.

Feedback: Written feedback from students in English or in Finnish.

Reading assignments: Informed by the teacher in the beginning of the course.

Course contents:

• The history, development and present situation of Finnish social welfare system
• Social welfare services
• Social work and social work methods in different contexts
• Social problems and future challenges for service development

Teaching methods:

• Orientative lectures (15 hours + seminar 12 hours)
• Course assignments (individual and group assignments)
• Study visits (5-6 different social work/service fields) in small groups
• Seminar with a presentation
• Virtual learning space Moodle is used for discussions and background material

Assessment methods:

• Active participation in the lectures and study visits
• Making of assignments
• Presentation in the seminar

Required/Recommended reading:

• Articles related to the course themes and field visits is given via moodle.
• Links to further information are provided in moodle. 

Language: The course is entirely in English.

Year of study:
Free

This course is available for exchange students.

Teaching place:
TAMK University of Applied Sciences
Classroom HO-29
Department of Social Services and Wellbeing
Kuntokatu 3, 33540 Tampere

Lecturers
Juha Santala
Jenni-Mari Räsänen

Teaching
Lectures and study visits 25 h

Seminar 12 h

The course can accommodate 30 students. If more students want to attend, priority is given to students in social work and socionom programs and the order of enrolment so that those first enrolled have the priority. Enrolment ends on 4th September.

Content and program:

Orientative lectures and classroom work (mornings) Classroom HO-29 & excursions (afternoons)

Thu 11.9. 9-15  Introduction
The main characters of Finnish social welfare
Lunch break
Excursion: Children's day care (in small groups)

Thu 18.9. 9-15  A short history of Finnish social work
Instructions to task 3 (articles)
Lunch break
Excursion: Adult social work services

Thu 25.9. 9-15  Social work and work methods in different contexts
Introduction to task 4 (essay on a chosen theme)
Lunch break
Excursion: Services for the elderly

Thu 2.10. 9-15  Social problems and future challenges
Lunch break
Excursion: Sociocultural work with girls/boys/men/women (in small groups)

Thu 9.10. 9-15  Summaries of the articles, reflections and discussion
Lunch break
Excursion: Social Stand-By Services & Detoxification Unit (to be confirmed)

Tasks

1. Differences and similarities between the system in Finland and in your country (in teams), 2-4 pages
2. What did you learned in the places you visited? The most important findings (two students together), 2-4 pages
3. Reading articles and course materials, summarizing and introducing them to others in small groups
4. Essay on a specific theme, 5-6 pages and presentation in the seminar                     

Enrolment to the course 18.8. - 5.9.2014
- UTA students: enrolment in NettiOpsu

- TUT and TAMK students: enrolment with electronic form:
(the form is available during the enrolment period)

Course outline:

29.10. Classes in History, Harri Melin

5.11. Entrepreneurs in Russia, Jouko Nikula

12.11. Social inequalities in Russia, Mikhail Chernysh

19.11. Class and Culture, Saara Ratilainen

26.11. Classes and Media, Jukka Pietiläinen

03.12. Classes in contemporary Russia, Harri Melin

Social emotions (5 ECTS)

Wed 5th of Nov - 17th of Dec 2014 weekly at 9-12 Linna 6017.

In everyday life different emotions and sensations are often seen as individual, personal and as lacking of social or political significance. This course has as its point of departure an idea of affects, emotions and senses as socially, culturally and historically shaped and potentially collective. The social significance of affects, emotions and senses is examined as well as the ways how they are linked with wider structures of power. Attention is paid to such questions as how affects, emotions and senses participate in the production of gender, sexuality, ethnicity and class. In addition, the methodological challenges of studying non-lingvistic, non-conscious and embodied experiences and systems of meaning-making are discussed.

This interdisciplinary course combines different research traditions such as sociology of emotions, feminist theories of affect, social scientific approaches to the body, anthropology of the senses and critical psychology. Themes are approached though preliminary readings, traditional lectures, group discussions and different practical tasks.  The course also aims at developing new and experimental approaches to collective learning. The course, being targeted mainly at students who have a basic understanding of social research, can be used to compensate both intermediate and advanced level courses upon agreement. Active participation in lectures and exercises is required to pass the course. In addition, the students are expected to compose a learning journal.

Enroll by e-mail (marjo.kolehmainen@uta.fi) 31.10.2014 at the latest (max. 30 students)

The aim of the course is to examine, how ideas of identity are created, reinforced and modified in European history. This question will be studied from different viewpoints and time periods. The focus will be on the questions of language, politics and religion. These questions will be examined in different time periods and topics. Students will learn to use key concepts concerning European identity in history. Course takes place in web-based international and local study groups.

Prerequisites:

Students are required to have access to the Internet and possess elementary computer skills. They must be able to communicate in English, in writing.

Enrolment starts on August 15. at 12.00 and ends September 11. 2014.

Enrolment starts on August 15. at 12.00 and ends September 11. 2014.

The course exists of different parts:

1. The course starts from explaining supply and demand on a perfect labour market, while continuing by explaining that the perfect labour market does not exist, especially not in the context of European welfare states. The labour market is not a market like any other where the usual laws of supply and demand apply. It is a domain of extensive government intervention. There are different institutions that make the labour market “imperfect”. The theoretical workings of different labour market institutions, as well as their outcomes in terms of efficiency and equity, will be explained. Attention will be paid to a set of specific and important labour market institutions, while ways of measuring and comparing them will be presented. The most important institutions include: a. Wage setting mechanisms b. Unemployment benefits c. Employment protection legislation d. Minimum wage e. Active labour market policies f. Working hours regulation g. Education and training h. Pensions and retirement It will also be shown that there are interactions and complementarities between these institutions that shape labour market outcomes and that one can identify labour market regimes, just like there are welfare state regimes.

2. In the second part of the course, the focus will shift to different threats to economic growth, employment and the welfare state, and the role that labour market policies play in the debates addressing these threats. Ageing populations, globalization, technological change, individualisation, and the current financial and economic crisis all have an impact on how countries organise their labour markets. Moreover, governments have used these threats as arguments for introducing reforms. The course will pay attention to the different ways these threats can impact labour markets and the types of policy responses that have been launched in different countries.

3. Reforming labour market institutions is often slow and complicated. This partly has to do with different groups in society that are well-organised and that have an interest in upholding the status quo. These groups include labour market organisations such as trade unions and employer representatives, but also for example middle-class voters and pensioners’ organisations. When policy-makers initiate reforms, they often have to take into account the interest of such parties, depending of course on how policy processes are organised in a specific country.

The course will pay attention to how decision-making processes are organised in different countries and what roles various interest organisations can play in these. The course will consist of a series of seminars where lectures will be combined with discussions on the basis of the literature that the students are required to read in preparation. Apart from reading some articles that serve as a theoretical background, the main focus will be placed on critically reading policy-oriented reports and publications. These include recent publications of the OECD (e.g. the Employment Outlook), the European Commission and other international organisations, as well as national governments. In this way, the students can familiarize themselves with current debates and different ways of conducting policy-oriented research.

Preliminary schedule of the course (topics):

1. Introduction & practicalities. What are labour market policies/institutions? What do they do and why do they matter in the welfare state?
2. Wage-setting: the state, employers and unions. Minimum wage
3. Job and income protection: employment protection legislation and unemployment benefits
4. Smoothening transitions I: Active labour market policies, education and training.
5. Smoothening transitions II: Retirement
6. Challenges of post-industrialism. Labour markets during the crisis
7. The political economy of labour market reforms. Instructions for final assignment
8. How to write a policy report?

Classes on Mondays from 14:00 to 16:00 in Linna K109, except for November 3 in Linna 4013

A new seminar for PhD-students and advanced students from any discipline, interested in social theory broadly conceived. During fall 2014 we will be reading Michel Foucault's lectures on the birth of biopolitics (La naissance de la biopolitique). The text will be available via moodle for registered participants.

Registration for the seminar on theoretical social research: Foucault, fall 2014

The first meeting is 24.9 (Pinni B3109), after that we meet 1.10. (chapters 1 & 2) (Pinni B3109) and then every second week (Pinni B3117), reading two chapters of the text for each meeting. Should be fun.

SOS6.4.1 / SOSM6.4 Feminist Methodology, 5 ECTS
Monday 8-Sep-2014 - 10-Nov-2014 weekly at 12-14

Places:

8.9.2014 – 13.10.2014 Main building, A4

20.10.2014 – 3.11.2014 Main building, A3

10.11.2014 Pinni B 3116

Objectives: The course will deepen the students´ knowledge about feminist epistemology and methodology. The students will understand the central discussions of situating knowledge and the meaning of experience and commitment in relation to knowledge. The students can relate the readings of empirical research to larger debates on knowing and apply this to their own studies.

Modes of study: Active participation in the lectures and a lecture diary. The teaching material will be available in Moodle.

Programme:

8.9. Sari Irni: Introduction to the theme & guidelines

15.9. Kalpana Wilson: Race/Gender and Embodiment

22.9. Kalpana Wilson: Transnational Solidarity and Feminist Research

29.9. Jaana Kuusipalo: Equality Policies and Intersectionality: Methodologial Perspectives

6.10. Sari Irni: Sex, Sports, and the Differences that Matter

13.10. Tuula Juvonen: Queer Feminist Methodology

20.10. A period break/no lecture

27.10. Sanna Rikala: Researching Gender and Mental Health. Methodological challenges

3.11. Riikka Homanen: Ethnography and researching difference

10.11. Marjo Kolehmainen: Intersectionality and Social Class

No enrolment required. The key for entering Moodle will be given at the first lecture.

Lectures

Monday 8-Sep-2014 - 10-Nov-2014 weekly at 12-14

Places:

8.9.2014 – 13.10.2014 Main building, A4

20.10.2014 – 3.11.2014 Main building, A3

10.11.2014 Pinni B 3116

14.01.2015 Eero Ropo: Finnish Education System

21.01.2015 Elina Bonelius: Finnish Art History in a Nutshell

28.01.2015 Hannu Sinisalo: Cultural Boundaries of Finnishness and Ethnic Minorities in Finland

04.02.2015 Toni Lahtinen: Finnish Literature

11.02.2015 Seija-Leena Nevala-Nurmi: Finnish History – Finns and Finland between East and West

18.02.2015 Juho Kaitajärvi-Tiekso: Finnish Popular Music

25.02.2015 Tomi Nokelainen: Technology and Innovation in Finland: Current Issues and Future Challenges

04.03.2015 Ari Vanamo:  Finland – Living in and from the Forests

11.03.2015 Ulla-Maija Koivula: Finnish Welfare and Social Services

18.03.2015 Jyrki Jyrkiäinen: Special Features of Finnish Mass Media

24.03. Tuesday at 16-18: Exam

01.04. Wednesday at 18-20: Retake

Enrolment to the course 24.11. - 11.1.2015
- UTA students: enrolment in NettiOpsu

- TUT and TAMK students: enrolment with electronic form:
(the form is available during the enrolment period)

Contact person: Coordinator of international education, Anna Wansén-Kaseva

LECTURE TOPICS

Introduction to main concepts

• Conflict and its solution in human life  
• Security: individual, group and cultural dimensions  
• Theories of human mind
• Tutorial for students’ work (presetations in February)

Psychological knowledge in war-fare  

• War propaganda
• Nature, aims and consequnces of torture  
• Research on soldiers’ psyche  

Reconsiliation, thruth and justice  (Learning diary)

• Forgiveness: theories, models and empirical research                             
• Models of change: competences, values, emotions and attitudes
• Examples of reconsiliation process  

Human development: indications for peace education  (Learning diary)

• Child development for empathy, aggression and socialization 
• Cultural differences in parenting and socialization

Conflict resolution: psychological and group processes

• Cooperation and competitive orientations 
• Cycles of violence and
  •  Practicing group process skills

Psychological consequences of war: implication for peace building

• Mental health and resilience
• Posttraumatic symptoms and posttraumatic growth
  • Students’ presentations (topics and material agreed in January)

Students’ presentations

• Topics and material agreed in January

Priority is given for the degree students in Master's programme in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research (in order of enrolment).
If places are available, students outside the programme are selected in the following order:
- UTA degree students from other programmes
- UTA exchange students
Prerequisites:
- Master level students who have a very good academic English and good background knowledge in the field of study.

The course is an advanced introduction to theories and methods of dance anthropology and ethnochoreology.

Further information: petri.hoppu@uta.fi

Teaching:

Mon 26.1. at 9–15

Tue 27.1. at 9–16

Wed 28.1. at 9–16

Thu 29.1. at 9–13

Fri 30.1. at 9–13

Lectures, seminars, group work, written assignment based on lectures and literature.

The goal of the course Introduction to Criminal Justice is to provide students with means to understand the phenomenon of crime and its control in Finland; we will not delve deeply into any single topic, rather there will be a broad overview of many topics. This will be accomplished through thought-provoking lectures and discussion of the controversies and challenges of crime, some potential solutions and the machinations of justice.

The objective of the course is to provide the student with an understanding of the processes and institutions of criminal justice in the society as well as means to critically to evaluate their roles and functioning. Hence, the course aims to offer a broad foundation of knowledge to pursue more comprehensive and rigorous analysis in advanced courses.

Situation at the labour market in Russia is still conditioned by character of labour relations formed in the Soviet Union. Transformation of economic-political system in the second half of 1980s led to gradual overcoming of ‘relic’ forms of out-economic compulsion in the labour sphere and forming labour market. Labour market as a global socio-economic system has essentially transformed on the way to the socio-oriented market economy; however, it has not yet measured up the western liberal model of labour relations. Mismatch between formal and informal labour market institutions led to forming ineffective models of behavior from the part of social subjects, fixation of these models and creation of sustainable ineffective establishments.

Content of the course:

1. Introduction to the course. Russian model of labor market: general description.
2. Historical aspects and specificity of the Russian labor market’s development. From administrative-command to the market economy and to the human-oriented labor market.
3. Transitive economy, decentralization of power, transformation of regional labor markets and imbalance in their development.  
4. Institutional modernization of Russian labor markets.  
5. The Employment Policy in Russia.
6. Formal and Informal Employment in Russia.
7. Unemployment.
8. Mobility of work places. Dynamics. Migration.
9. Quality of Employment.

The course materials such as power point presentations, articles and other
materials will be saved on the online learning platform of the course. In the
Moodle it is offered also a discussion forum for all the participants of the
course.

Students from other master's degree programmes are welcome to join the course. 

Tue 12am-4pm

Teaching is based on lectures (10 hours) and seminars (14 hours). Lectures provide theoretical knowledge on particular themes related to gender in society. In seminars, the same themes are explored more thoroughly on the basis of readings, group discussions and exercises. The teaching material will be available in Moodle.

17.3 Course guidelines; basic concepts of Gender Studies

24.3 Gendered care in globalised societies (Tiina Vaittinen)

31.3 Seminar presentations

7.4 Easter break: no lectures

14.4 Gender and Politics in Finland  (Jaana Kuusipalo)

21.4 Gender in Work (Päivi Korvajärvi)

28.4 Gender, Nature and Society

For students of 1st-3rd grades and for exchange students

14.01.2015 Eero Ropo: Finnish Education System

21.01.2015 Elina Bonelius: Finnish Art History in a Nutshell

28.01.2015 Hannu Sinisalo: Cultural Boundaries of Finnishness and Ethnic Minorities in Finland

04.02.2015 Toni Lahtinen: Finnish Literature

11.02.2015 Seija-Leena Nevala-Nurmi: Finnish History – Finns and Finland between East and West

18.02.2015 Juho Kaitajärvi-Tiekso: Finnish Popular Music

25.02.2015 Tomi Nokelainen: Technology and Innovation in Finland: Current Issues and Future Challenges

04.03.2015 Ari Vanamo:  Finland – Living in and from the Forests

11.03.2015 Ulla-Maija Koivula: Finnish Welfare and Social Services

18.03.2015 Jyrki Jyrkiäinen: Special Features of Finnish Mass Media

24.03. Tuesday at 16-18: Exam

01.04. Wednesday at 18-20: Retake

Enrolment to the course 24.11. - 11.1.2015
- UTA students: enrolment in NettiOpsu

- TUT and TAMK students: enrolment with electronic form:
(the form is available during the enrolment period)

Contact person: Coordinator of international education, Anna Wansén-Kaseva

Transnational Islam in the West

Globalization of Islam and the growth of transnational Muslim communities in the West have become heated political issues with consequences that challenge in multiple ways Western societies. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world and the Western states feel increasing challenges as they attempt to monitor and direct the construction of Islam in the transnational minority contexts.

The course is constructed around the following questions: what kinds of social and political developments explain the increasing public debate on Islam in the West? What kinds of perceptions on Islam dominate this debate? What can be said of the historical developments that explain Islam’s increasing presence in the West  from the cold war to the cyber age?

Before the beginning of the course the selected students are expected to view a BBC documentary on the life of Prophet Muhammad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8kQw1gtyQQ
and answer the following question (approximately 400 words in English or Finnish)
How did the documentary shape your perception on the early history of Islam?
The assignments should be handed in via e-mail to marko.juntunen@uta.fi before the first lecture.

Course introduction:

The course is based on a comparative study between Finland and France, within EU context. The study compares essentially young women's situation, but also reflects upon youth transition to adulthood in general. The course introduces students to research conducted in advanced societies on youth transition to adulthood and the supposed prolongation of youth. In the different lectures, the actual patterns and markers of transition to the stage of adulthood are examined, based on up-to-date studies. The lectures analyse the current phenomenon of youth extension and changes within the stage of transition itself. The course enlarges towards contemporary socio-economic restructuring and highlights the influence it bears upon young people's routes of integration within the wider social sphere.

Teaching methods:

Lectures on Mondays; time: 14-16, room 5026 (Linna building)

Seminars on Fridays; time: 12-14 (or 12-15), room 5026 (Linna building)

Exception: the seminar on Friday 17th April will be hold in room K110 (Linnan building, ground floor)

The teaching occurs via lectures (12 hours) and seminars (12 to 16 hours). The lectures provide theoretical knowledge on particular themes related to youth transition to adulthood. In the seminars, the themes are explored deeper during group discussions based on questions and/or reading material, and students will give presentations on a small project (and project results) they are required to carry out.

Attention! Depending on the number of students taking part in the course, on some Fridays, the seminars will last longer (3 hours instead of 2 hours), so that all students get the chance to present their project.

The very last seminar should take place on Thursday 30th April, as Friday 1st of May is a bank holiday. However, if most students cannot attend on 30.4 due to their participation in other courses, the date will be changed to Monday 4th of May.

Course assessment:

The final grade is based on the scale 1-5, on the following requirements:

- Attendance and participation: Lectures and seminars attendance, active participation in the discussions: 2 op. (Students can miss up to two classes maximum).

- Project + project presentation: 2 op.

- Project report: 1 op.

Project + project presentation: Students in groups of 2 to 4 are required to carry out a small project based on issues related to the course – some topics are provided, but students can also choose their own topic (as long as the theme is related to the course). Students are expected to investigate a particular question (linked to the lecture themes) and answer to it concretely, for instance by putting in practice some research methods, such as: short interviews (eg. interviewing fellow students, siblings, parents and/or grand-parents, etc…); making small questionnaires; comparing some statistics or an issue related to youth between one’s home country and another country; visual research methods (using photography and filming). It is also possible, for instance, to examine documentaries related to youth and show the key parts to the class (that implies, for instance: what does the documentary shows? What can we learn about the youth? How young people are portrayed?). Each group of students is free to explore the methods they want. Each group will then give a presentation (max. 30 min long) about their project and explain how they proceeded and show their results to the class.

Project report: Each group is required to write a 10-page long report on the development of their project, as a group (one report per group). They must explain why they chose a particular topic, which methods (and why) they used to enquire the question, the results they obtained, how the whole process developed, and what they learned. The report should also be connected to the reading material (provided in the course and/or own literature sources) so as to offer a richer analysis.

Length: 10-12 pages long.

Course content:

-Lecture 1:

Introduction to youth transition to adulthood and the phenomenon of the prolongation of youth, information about the course in general and the course assessment (conducting a small project based on the course, with the help of the course reading material & writing a report about it).

-Seminar 1:

Discussing existing theories on youth transition and course assessment.

-Lecture 2:

Youth extension in figures (what the statistics show) (figures based on European sources of data, and Finland and France); contextualising today's youth transition to adulthood (what are the societal conditions within which young people become adult today); discussion about the present socio-economic situation and socio-structural changes that affect youth transition to adulthood.

Invited speaker: Laura Neuvonen – discussing the case of Spain

-Seminar 2:

Presentations (based on small project); discussion on issues raised during the lecture

-Lecture 3:

1) Doing comparative research; general information about Finland and France (socio-economic and historical backgrounds)

2) Looking at the process of school-to-work transition, differences between university systems, and how this can affect integration into the labour market.

-Seminar 3:

Project presentations; discussing cross-country research and the process of school-to-work transition in different countries.

-Lecture 4:

Integrating the labour market (illustrated with the youth situation in Finland and France); young people's current expectations from working life; dilemmas regarding integration into working life, with a focus on young women (issue of discrimination).

-Seminar 4:

Project presentations; discussing young people's strategies of integration in the labour market and value given to work.

-Lecture 5:

1) Leaving the parental home; becoming independent (financially and residentially); possibilities and difficulties to reach a fully autonomous status; plans for family formation; women’s additional dilemmas when both willing to work and to have children.

2) Becoming an adult today; re-conceptualising concepts (youth and adulthood); young people's new perspectives on transition to adulthood and on being an adult; new pathways to adulthood.

-Seminar 5:

Project presentations; discussing today's young people's possibilities and attitudes towards living arrangements and settling down, and starting a family.

-Lecture 6:

An example of research-into-practice based on a new project that attempts to develop cooperation between youth researchers and youth workers. Bridges are indeed lacking between researchers and practitioners working on the field.

Invited speaker: Annina Kurki – the youth workers’ perspective on youth transition to adulthood

-Seminar 6:

Project presentations; discussing new patterns of transition and changes among social concepts; course conclusion.

Maximum 25 students.

The course on “Comparative Criminal Justice II” provides University of Tampere students with the opportunity to study comparative crime and punishment issues with students from Marquette University Milwaukee USA, Appalachian State University North Carolina USA and Finlandia University Michigan USA, The students will be instructed as a collective with instructional responsibilities being shared by Dr. Richard Jones of Marquette University Milwaukee USA, Dr. Barbara H. Zaitzow of  Appalachian State University, Dr. Richard Gee of Finlandia University Michigan USA and I sharing instructional responsibilities.

This course will look at the criminal justice system within a global context.  The course will look at theories of criminality, deviance and punishment within socio-political context of the different countries studied as well as the comparison between the countries.  Within this framework, students will examine theories of crime including but not limited to: the learning theory, corporate crime, and restorative justice.

The course is directed primarily at upper division undergraduate students, but would also be beneficial to master’s level students. It is appropriate for students majoring in sociology, criminology, social welfare and justice, and political science, or any students with a career interest in criminal justice.

The course will utilize a variety of teaching methods, including lectures, discussions, videos, guest speakers and tours of prisons in Finland, Estonia and St Petersburg Russia.  These countries were chosen because of the contrasting style of responding to crime between/ among the Russia (very harsh punishment), Finland [Gentle Justice] and Estonia that is emerging from the Soviet system and moving towards the Nordic system (a penal system of three countries with three different extremes). We will also analyze the USA penal system, another Western country with a very harsh punishment policy. 

Students will be evaluated based on daily journals and reflections, as well as a final paper that should be completed after return from Russia.

METHODOLOGY

The course is designed as both lecture and discussion.  Evaluation will be based on:

A) A class journal (notes from lecture/discussion).

B) A reaction paper that builds off course materials or reflects upon those materials.  

Classroom activities will be designed to encourage students to play an active role in the construction of their own knowledge and in the design of their own learning strategies.

We will combine short lectures with other active teaching methodologies, such as group discussions, cooperative group solving problems, analysis of video segments depicting scenes relevant to criminology topics and debates. Class participation is a fundamental aspect of this course. Students will be encouraged to actively take part in all group activities and to give short oral group presentations throughout the course.

This joint course with the USA visiting group focuses on:

1. Analyzing how crime and deviance are shaped by individual and social factors
2. Examining and analyzing how culture and general ideology influence criminal justice policy and practice.
3. What myths are created regarding crime and criminals, and the role of government and media in constructing crime myths.
4. Examining and analyzing how society perpetuates deviant and criminal behavior.
5. Understanding the criminal justice policy and practice in Finland, Russia, Estonia and USA.
6. Exploring the response to crime, with specific focus on corrections and policing in Russia, Estonia, Finland, and the United States.  

The fifteen days lectures/seminars will provide a practical component, with guest speakers (including criminal justice practitioners, former inmates, and other experts), videos, Training Institute for Prison and Probation Services, and tours of prisons in Finland, Estonia and St. Petersburg Russia.

Classes meetings

Lecture Rooms: Please see under title "Teaching"

Lectures:

Excursions: trips to Finnish Open Prison and trip to St. Petersburg Russia Prison through Estonia.

*The three-day (two nights) excursion to Estonia old prison and Female Prison.

*The four-day visa free excursion to St. Petersburg Russia old and new Prisons.

*For further information on combined student price for both excursions will be posted later.  

Travelling Agent responsible for both excursions is www.aikamatkat.fi

Course requirements:

All Students are required to participate in class discussion and readings.

Presentations: Each student is also expected to do a short presentation, using the required reading materials that will be sent to registered students in advance.

1. Daily Diary of activities including notes from lecture and discussion.
2. Final paper integrating the overall course experience. 

Registration

To register, the first 15 students to send in a synopsis of their interest in the course and their academic background to ikponwosa.ekunwe@uta.fi will be accepted.

Compensations:

Course is available for all the students at the University of Tampere. It will be offered as part of Studies on Society and Culture is a multi-disciplinary study module within the School of Social Sciences and Humanities.

Compensations in certain studies:

North American Studies: NAM-III Law and Politics

Degree Programme in Social Sciences: Optional studies or compensations on certain courses agreed with teacher responsible

Degree Programme in Social Work: Optional studies

During the course students will go through a set of important discussions on places, homes and houses in classical and contemporary anthropological writings, both through theoretical and empirical material. The aim of the course is increasing students’ 

understanding on what are the different ways places, homes and houses are dealt with and what are the function, relevance and interrelation of those concepts in anthropological research in contemporary world. 

While the main emphasis will be on transnational and translocal aspects of belonging, students will learn to look beyond the traditional idea of home and house as sites of dwelling, fixity and security, and instead will be introduced to the idea of homes and houses as sites of ambiguity, fluidity and complexity. The course will address the political, physical, emotional and symbolic aspects of making of homes, houses and places. The central empirical learning material to the processes of belonging and home-making is the case of migrant background Russian-speakers in Estonian-Russian border-town Narva (teacher’s own research site).

Max. 25 students, both Finnish and international will be accepted to the course. The preference will be given to those who have background in social anthropology or other related social sciences.

The course will include lectures, seminars, readings, web-based learning, home assignments, final individual or team project.

Key Contents: classical and contemporary theories of place, space, home and house; home-making; housing; house societies; homelessness; memory and nostalgia in home-making; transnational and translocal, postcolonial, Soviet and postsocialist subjectivities in home-making; emotional/symbolic/material/political aspects of home-making and belonging

Situation at the labour market in Russia is still conditioned by character of labour relations formed in the Soviet Union. Transformation of economic-political system in the second half of 1980s led to gradual overcoming of ‘relic’ forms of out-economic compulsion in the labour sphere and forming labour market. Labour market as a global socio-economic system has essentially transformed on the way to the socio-oriented market economy; however, it has not yet measured up the western liberal model of labour relations. Mismatch between formal and informal labour market institutions led to forming ineffective models of behavior from the part of social subjects, fixation of these models and creation of sustainable ineffective establishments.

Content of the course:

1. Introduction to the course. Russian model of labor market: general description.
2. Historical aspects and specificity of the Russian labor market’s development. From administrative-command to the market economy and to the human-oriented labor market.
3. Transitive economy, decentralization of power, transformation of regional labor markets and imbalance in their development.  
4. Institutional modernization of Russian labor markets.  
5. The Employment Policy in Russia.
6. Formal and Informal Employment in Russia.
7. Unemployment.
8. Mobility of work places. Dynamics. Migration.
9. Quality of Employment.

The course materials such as power point presentations, articles and other
materials will be saved on the online learning platform of the course. In the
Moodle it is offered also a discussion forum for all the participants of the
course.

Students from other master's degree programmes are welcome to join the course. 

Creative Methods in Qualitative Research is an innovative course that builds on qualitative research to add arts-informed complementary methods such as photography, collage, poetry, theatre, drawing and other art forms to deepen and enrich research and to engage study participants in an inquiry process that is both meaningful and empowering.  

Students will be asked to do some preparatory reading prior to the start of the course and to continue to read material for each class session. There will be some short class lectures, video clips, small group and class discussions and experiential activities during each of the class sessions.

Course plan and reading materials

The course is aimed at students who have prior knowledge of qualitative research. It is suitable for students who are completing their intermediate studies, or doing advanced or phD studies.