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Title: 4 Open Society Institute International Higher Education Support Program Academic Fellowship Program


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4 Open Society InstituteInternational Higher
Education Support ProgramAcademic Fellowship
ProgramCross-Regional Discipline Meeting of AFP
FellowsPolitical Science and International
Relations
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Introduction to political science
  • First year BA introductory course (ECTS)
  • Obligatory course of the first semester
  • Total of teaching 60hours in 12 weeks divided in
    5 classes per week
  • The course gives 8 credits (through student
    attendance, written exams, class and seminar
    activities, papers and essays).

3
Introduction to political science Introductory
course
  • Basic course of political science studies
  • Complex and large area of studies
  • - as a science
  • - as discipline
  • - as summary of sub disciplines

4
Course Aims
  • To study the fundamental issues of political
    science
  • To study the role and the function of political
    science as a social science with all its sub
    disciplines
  • To study the evolution and development of
    political phenomena

5
Course objectives
  • To provide basic knowledge of
  • political concepts and
  • empirical methods of analysis
  • To understand
  • the origin and development of political thought
    and phenomena

6
The role in a wider curriculum
  • The introduction to political science represents
    the basic frame of the political science studies
    aimed to provide
  • - knowledge
  • - methods of empirical analysis
  • regarding the key concepts of political
    phenomena and fundamental political issues

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The structure of the course The introductory
part
  • The introductory part contains general problems
    of constitution of the political science
  • Key topics
  • - the concepts of Political science studies
  • the methodology and methods of research
  • - the analysis of important approaches of
    political area of study

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The second part
  • The second part includes the evolution of
    political thought
  • Key topics
  • origins and evolution of the earliest political
    thought
  • The theoretical framework of the contemporary
    political thought

9
The third part
  • The third part contains essential themes for
    understanding political issues, phenomena and
    institutions
  • the forms and carriers of political power
  • political theories and ideology
  • - origins of political government
  • origins of the modern political systems

10
Teaching methodology
  • The teaching methodology concentrates on lectures
    and power point presentations, presentation of
    video materials, discussions, individual and
    group presentations.

11
Sources and resources
  • Mandatory hand book
  • Additional texts
  • Video materials
  • Newspapers

12
Literature
  • The obligatory bibliography of 450 pages consists
    of
  • - hand book (written by our Universities
    professor)
  • additional literature (written in Serbo-Croatian
    or English language)
  • optional literature (additional texts, internet
    materials, newspapers )

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Literature
  • The hand book contains the fundamental concepts
    and analysis of general scientific discipline of
    policy.
  • The additional texts are parts of different hand
    books written in Serbo-Croatian or in English
    that enrich the substance of the subject.

14
Literature
  • The Video materials - movies tied up to the
    topics of the lectures
  • Newspapers and Internet materials- for actual
    political themes connected to the lectures

15
Recommended literature
  • Dimitar Bajaldziev, Politologija, 2000,Skopje
  • Andelko Milardovic, Uvod u Politologiju
  • Axford, Barrie/ Browning, Garry K./ Huggins,
    Richard/ Rosamond, Ben/ TurnerJohn, Uvod u
    politologiju, Politicka kultura, 2002, Zagreb
  • Weber Max, Politika kao poziv, 1999, (Policy as a
    name) Jesenski i Turk, Zagreb

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Additional Literature
  • Held, David, Demokratija i globalni poredak,
    Filip Vinjic, 1997, Beograd
  • Tocqueville, Alexis, O demokraciji u Americi,
    Biblioteka Politicka misao i Informator, 1995,
    Zagreb
  • Held, David, Modeli demokracije, kolska knjiga,
    1990, Zagreb
  • Gjorgji Ivanov, Ljubomir Frchkovski, Contemporary
    Political Theories, 2003,Skopje

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Problems
  • Scarce publication of texts in Macedonian
    language
  • No updates materials
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