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ECTS - PWSZ im. Witelona w Legnicy

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The Witelon University of Applied Sciences in Legnica - Field: Political science<br />

<strong>ECTS</strong> Course Catalogue 2010/2011<br />

<strong>ECTS</strong> credits<br />

2<br />

1. Course title<br />

Choice of Lectures - Political life pathologies.<br />

2. Course contents<br />

The boundaries of pathology. Violence in totalitarian, authoritarian and democratic systems. Genocide. History<br />

conspiracy theory and the idea of conspiracy in shaping political power. The problem of participation in power<br />

by people with mental problems. Manipulation mechanism. Manipulation examples in authoritarian and<br />

democratic systems. Politicians’ faith in manipulation processes. Irrational factors used in relations of authority<br />

and political community. Functioning deviation of institutions upholding : courts, police, prosecution, lawyers,<br />

bailiffs. Objective and subjective factors of bureaucratization. Corruption as a central phenomenon that<br />

contributes to state and society destroy. The ways of fighting with corruption in the past and today. Phenomenon<br />

of mafia.<br />

3. Prerequisites<br />

None<br />

4. Learning outcomes<br />

Graduate understands the existence of political practice area that has deviant character. Student can indicate on<br />

existing in this scope problems, determine their scale in global as well as local extent. He or she can make an<br />

est<strong>im</strong>ate of pathological phenomena sources, their objective and subjective character.<br />

5. Recommended reading<br />

Calvi Fabricio, Życie codzienne mafii od roku 1950 do następnych dni, Warszawa 1993.<br />

Dobrowolski Zbysław, Korupcja w życiu publicznym, Zielona Góra 2001.<br />

Doktryny i ruchy współczesnego ekstremizmu politycznego, pod red. Edwarda Olszewskiego, Lublin 2004.<br />

Kwaśniewski Jerzy, Patologia społeczna [w:] Encyklopedia socjologii, T 3, Warszawa 2000.<br />

Podgórecki Adam, Patologia życia społecznego, Warszawa 1969.<br />

Robins S. Robert Post Jerrold M., Paranoja polityczna (psychologia nienawiści), Warszawa 1999.<br />

6. Type of course<br />

Obligatory/elective<br />

7. Teaching team<br />

Department of Political Science<br />

8. Course structure<br />

Form Number of hours Semester Year<br />

Lecture 30/18 IV II<br />

Classes<br />

Laboratory<br />

Project<br />

Seminar<br />

Other<br />

Total student’s<br />

workload<br />

9. Assessment methods<br />

Credit<br />

10. Language of instruction<br />

Polish<br />

60<br />

778

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