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Collegium Civitas is an independent university located at the heart of Warsaw, the Polish capital. It is a growing institution of higher education which has been ranked as one of the best in the country for the last five years. It is a university which champions an interdisciplinary approach to study programs and which offers courses both in Polish and English.

Collegium Civitas is proud of its lecturers and visiting professors who maintain a highly professional level of instruction, whilst encouraging and supervising students' individual work on specific topics. The University also takes pride in its vibrant student community and supports numerous student initiatives. The President and Vice-Presidents of Collegium Civitas clearly recognize that the most valuable assets of the University are its lecturers and students, and they promote the creative atmosphere of rewarding contact between those who teach and those who study. This atmosphere is facilitated by the dedicated work of administrative officers, whose daily efforts are appreciated by all.

The courses in English held at Collegium Civitas are not a gratuitous tribute to recent fashion or simply a translated analogue of the courses taught in Polish. They constitute a separate track of study, on which students not only forge their communicative skills in English - thus becoming fully prepared to undertake careers within international organizations and enterprises - but also acquire special knowledge on distinctive subjects from experts at the frontline of theoretical and experimental research in social sciences.

Studies in English at Collegium Civitas are comprised of two departments: the Department of International Relations and the Department of Political Science. The departments' faculties embrace lecturers and researchers who are the University's employees, as well as those who work at the Polish Academy of Sciences. The Departments also attract visiting professors from different universities, located from Japan to the United States. Both Departments pursue two primary goals in the creation of their study programs and curricula: to provide solid and comprehensive education in a given field of social sciences and to ensure that students are made conversant with the most topical and significant issues of the modern world.

Within Studies in English, potential students may apply for a place on one of four degree programs:

• 2-year MA in International Relations • 2-year MA in Political Science • 3-year BA in International Relations • 3-year BA in Political Science

Upon being accepted as a student by Collegium Civitas, the student will be required to complete 180 credit points if she is a student of the First Cycle (i.e. enrolled on one of the 3-year BA degree programs) or 150 credits points if she is a student of the Second Cycle (i.e. enrolled on one of the 2-year MA degree programs). Students who have completed their BA degree at Collegium Civitas are required to obtain 120 credit points during their final two years of study.

It is often the case that students enrolled on one of the 2-year MA programs approach the Coordinator of Studies in English seeking to transfer the grades and credit points gained in previous places of study. Such requests are readily satisfied, on an individual basis. The number of credit points to be collected during the two years of the MA program can not, however, be reduced to less than 120.

All courses held within both the Department of International Relations and the Department of Political Science fall into two groups: obligatory and elective. The obligatory courses are usually introductory courses (especially during the first year of study), basic courses, and advanced and specialist courses. The specialist courses are compulsory for students who have chosen their specialization (2-year MA students decide on their specialization during the application procedure).

For the 2006/2007 academic year, the Department of International Relations is offering three specialization topics, in European Union, Diplomacy, and Strategic Studies, while the Department of Political Science is running two specialization topics, in Comparative Politics and Political Communication.

Elective courses may earn fewer credit points than obligatory courses, particularly the advanced courses. Collegium Civitas adheres to the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). On average, each course completed gains for the student a total of four credit points. The duration of an average course is thirty academic hours, resulting in classes being held once a week for two hours during any given semester. There is an increasing, albeit still small, number of 15-hour courses, which run over half a semester.

Apart from the obligatory and elective courses, there are also mandatory language courses worth two credit points each. Students are required to take and complete courses in two different foreign languages during their period of study at Collegium Civitas as MA students and in one foreign language as BA students. Physical education is mandatory for the MA students, though it earns no credit points. The writing and submitting of either a BA or MA thesis provide a student with additional credit points. Within one semester a student is required to collect a minimum of 26 and maximum of 36 credit points.

Below is a list of obligatory and elective courses which are held by the Departments of International Relations and Political Science. The reason why there is one list for the two Departments is that because the studies at Collegium Civitas are sensitive to the needs and aspirations of students and the interdisciplinary approach is encouraged, many courses run by one Department may be attended by students of the other and vice versa. At the beginning of each semester students are expected to register for their courses online. During the registration period students are invited to consult departmental staff as to which courses would most satisfy their interests.

Which of the presented courses are on the curriculum is decided at the beginning of each semester. The curriculum is usually enhanced through special courses given by visiting professors. Since the quality of study programs is one of the main priorities of Collegium Civitas, all changes will be made only for the benefit of students.

The list of obligatory and elective courses below is not meant to intimidate potential students, but rather to attract and engage them. We hope that by reading the titles of courses offered by Collegium Civitas our future students come to the conclusion which we have long entertained: years spent at Collegium Civitas are fascinating, educationally rewarding, full of opportunities to meet interesting people, and invaluable to the future life and career plans of students.

LIST OF THE OBLIGATORY COURSES

1. American Presidency: the Institution and the People 2. Communication Techniques & Organization of the Diplomatic Service 3. Comparative Government 4. Comparative Legal Traditions 5. Culture, Organizations and Institutions 6. Democracy and Multiculturalism: Individuals, Affiliations and Values 7. Econometrics 8. Economics 9. Electoral Systems and Electoral Behaviour 10. Foreign Policy of Poland 11. Game Theory 12. Gender and Nation 13. Globalization � Democracy � the Nation State in European Context 14. History of Diplomacy 15. International Economics 16. International Mass Media 17. International Organizations 18. International Public Law 19. International Relations in the Middle East and Persian Gulf 20. Introduction to European Integration 21. Introduction to International Relations 22. Introduction to Law 23. Introduction to Politics: A Comparative Perspective 24. Introduction to Sociology and Politics 25. Language, Persuasion, Politics 26. Latin America: History and Present 27. Mathematics 28. Multicultural Image of the World 29. Orientalism & Occidentalism: Mirrors of Otherness in Europe and Asia 30. Philosophy 31. Political Ideas of Modernity & Post-Modernity 32. Political Leadership in Comparative Perspective 33. Political Leadership in the USA 34. Political Marketing & Advertising 35. Political Mythology: Rituals, Symbols & Icons in the Construction of Power 36. Political Obligations in Liberal Democracies: Why Should We Follow State Injunctions? 37. Political Parties and Party Systems 38. Post-Communist Transitions in Ukraine and other Post-Soviet States 39. Public Administration 40. Reckoning with the Past: Should Justice be Sacrificed for Peace? 41. Self-Interest in Human Affairs: Rational Choices, Symbolic Predispositions and Moral Commitments 42. Social and Economic Geography 43. Social and Political Aspects of European Integration 44. Strategic Studies 45. Strategic Studies � Games 46. Theories of Democracy 47. Theories of Economic, Political and Cultural Elites 48. Theory of International Relations 49. World Economic History 50. World History 1914 - 1945 51. World History since 1945

LIST OF THE ELECTIVE COURSES

1. Africa in the 21st Century 2. Comparative Welfare States 3. Discrimination and Tolerance in Eastern and Central Europe: Polish-Jewish Relations in the 20th Century 4. Ecology in the Modern World 5. Focus on the Present World 6. Foreign Policy of the United States 8. Indian Civilization 9. Institutions and Decision-Making in the EU 10. International NGOs 11. International Trade Security 12. Introduction to International Business 13. Japan: Tradition, Culture, Society 14. Marketing and Society 15. Media & Democracy: A Transatlantic Perspective 16. Media & Ethnic Conflict 17. Modern Jewish History 18. Music Cultures of the World 19. Persuasive Communication 20. Polish Lifestyle and Thought 21. Political Campaigning in Western Europe, Poland and the US 22. Political Media Effects 23. Sociology of Gender 24. Sociology of Post-Soviet Society 25. Soundtrack of Our Times: From Rags to Rap 26. Techniques of Negotiation 26. The Third Reich and the Holocaust of European Jews: Perpetrators, Victims and Bystanders