FASS FACULTY COURSES (6 ECTS CREDITS EACH)

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) prepares students intellectually, as unbiased critical thinkers as well as self-confident disciplined professionals within an interdisciplinary framework.

FASS faculty courses are listed in the table below. Students are required to take at least 5 courses equivalent to 15 credit hours or 30 ECTS points.

 THE COURSE DESCRIPTION OF FASS FACULTY COURSES

ANTH 211 Local Cultures, Global Forces                                 

Globalization as a cultural and economic phenomenon emphasizes the historical development of the current world situation and the impact of increasing global interconnection on local cultural traditions.

CULT 202 Textual Analysis/Reading Culture                            

This course teaches the techniques of how to analyze a text in multiple ways as well as the relationship between the construction of a text and culture in which the text is produced.

CULT 208 Modernism/Postmodernism                                      

Modernism and the Postmodernism are designed to introduce students to the theories and practices of modernism and postmodernism. Theories and works studied range from the early twentieth century to the present and much of the focus of the course is on the relationship between film and the avant-garde. The course is theoretically based and investigates the ways in which the modernist avant-garde sought to overturn the realist and naturalist theories of the nineteenth century.

CULT 204 Popular Cultures and Everyday Life                            

This class will seek to explain and exemplify various theoretical approaches to literature and culture by way of popular entertainment

CULT 205 Cultures and Advertisement                                         

This course is a broad interdisciplinary treatment of the role of advertising in society, culture, history, and the economy. It seeks to understand how advertising came into existence, how it has changed over time, and how it has expanded from industrial societies to become a global phenomenon.

CULT 210 Myths of Gender                                                      

This course focuses upon the relationship between man and woman in a historical perspective. It gives historical background information about the gender relations in different cultures and societies.

CULT 212 Oral History                                                             

This course is intended as a practical introduction to oral history. The overarching goal of the course is to provide you with some sense of professionalism as an oral-historian. We will read a little of the history of the field, some theory and techniques, and some models of how to use interviews in historical writing. The emphasis, though, will be on practice. Your main product in this course will be a thoroughly researched and professionally conducted and transcribed oral-history interview.

HART 201 History of Art I                                                       

This course is recommended for all Fine Arts Students. This course is a slide lecture covers the development of architecture, painting and sculpture from the prehistoric period to contemporary times. This class is open to students with an interest in the artistic development of civilization.

HART 202 History of Art II                                                      

This is the second semester of a two-year sequence, which provides painting and sculpture from the prehistoric period to contemporary times. This class is open to students with an interest in the artistic development of civilization.

HIST 203 Women in Pre-Modern Societies                              

This course surveys issues and debates on women's position, roles, and modes of activity in kin-based societies. A position of women will be analyzed in the early empires of Antiquity, in India and the Far East, in Greece and Rome, in medieval Christendom and Islamdom and in the Ottoman Empire.

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POLS 201 Introduction to Philosophy                                     

This course aims to introduce students to the meaning and significance of philosophy. It will deal with fundamental philosophical problems regarding the society and the natural world away from popular modern science. The course will be structured around some traditional philosophical questions such as epistemology, ontology, philosophy of language, evil and goodness, free will, human nature, political philosophy, the nature of knowledge and ethics. These questions will be addressed critically and analytically through readings and discussions of some primary classical philosophical works. Students will be taught to evaluate the philosophical arguments and conclusions in order to develop critical and analytical thinking skills.

IR 203 Great Power Politics                                         

This course analyzes the  processes of concentration of power that have shaped the Great Powers of the 20th century. It covers the following topics: the collapse of the USSR and the new shape of great power politics; economic, political and military factors in the making of great power status; the major agendas, assumptions and problems of the foreign policies of the United States, Russia and the EU changing dynamics and interactions; international and external influences on policy; foreign policy decision-making; the economic, military or diplomatic dimensions of policy; and prospects for new great powers into the 21st century.

POLS 212 Political Participation                                             

This course is primarily designed to explore and engage with the questions of civil society, with the special focus on the issue of how and why we participate in public life. This course examines the networks that connect citizens in a single whole and the way of how structure of social and political interactions evolve. It aims in particular to examine how civil society can have important effects on the functioning of democracy and how it can influence political change.

POLS 221 Nations and Nationalism                                         

The aim of this course is to interrogate some of the most recent and important theorizing on nationalism and see to what extent they make sense in various empirical contexts . The emphasis of the course will be on theorizing nationalism rather than producing quasi-naturalistic explanations of its emergence, success or failure. In addition to reviewing the major theoretical accounts of nations and nationalism, the course will also discuss a multiplicity of empirical cases from Eastern Europe, Middle East, ex-Soviet Union territories and China.

SOC 201 Social Theories                                                         

This introductory sociology course presents an overview of the major theories of society proposed through the 19th and 20th centuries, ranging from classical theory through Marx and Weber to critical theory, hermeneutics and the interpretive tradition, psychoanalysis, structuralism, post-structuralism, post-colonial theory, feminist and post-modernist theories. While the last few decades' decline of master narratives or "grand theories" has fed into the current emphasis on interdisciplinarity, the main premise of this course is that the need for interdisciplinarity brings with it a further need: that of a firm grounding in social theory.

VA 201 Visual Language I                                                       

This course intends to convey the basic knowledge of seeing. Various methods for the organization of visual elements are utilized in the projects produced by students throughout the semester. These projects will be jointly discussed during the studio critiques to develop necessary skills in reading and analyzing visual statements. The material in this course is presented thematically, not chronologically.

VA 202 Visual Language II                                                      

The course introduces the beginning design student the principles of three-dimensional design, techniques, and various materials. Students are assigned projects to develop a basic understanding of translating concepts into 3-dimensional forms.

VA 203 Language of Drawing I                                                

This basic drawing class introduces the student to the notion of mark-making. We will look at the way representations are made, their structure in space, and their context. A range of materials from dry (i.e. charcoals, chalks, pencils) to wet (inks) and various surfaces will be studied.

PSY 201 Introduction to psychology II                                  

This course is a sequel of the course ‘Introduction to psychology I’ (PSY101). It continues to discuss topics that enable students to understand all important areas of psychology. It covers life span development, motivations, emotions, stress management, psychological disorders and their treatment. Students that intend to take more psychology courses will be able to make informed decisions when selecting subsequent classes.

Prerequisite: PSY 101

PSY 202 Research methods in psychology                           

Research methods course introduces methodologies and research techniques used in psychological science. It gives an overview of frequently used research designs and how to relate them to various psychological research questions. Further, data gathering methods are explained as well as their analysis. Basic knowledge of construction, validity, and the reliability of measuring instruments. Also, ethics in psychological instruments and the responsibility of the researchers are discussed. It deals with topics such as concepts theories and hypotheses, ethics of the field research, issues in problem formulation, the process of measurement, sampling, survey research, data analysis and statistics, observational techniques, experimental research, evaluation research, scaling, and writing for research. Three credits.

Prerequisite: __

PSY 203 Basic skills for psychologists                                 

In this course students get training in a number of important (academic) skills for psychologists. These abilities can be split into three groups: oral communication skills, written communication skills and research skills. Argumentation is essential for all three skills. For instance, students get to know how an intake is conducted, and what abilities are necessary to lead an interview with a client.

Prerequisite: __

PSY 204 Biological psychology                                            

Biological (physiological) processes that underlie psychological processes and behavior are dealt with in this course. These include the structure of the nervous system, sensory and motor functions, neural and chemical bases of basic psychological processes such as learning, emotion and memory.

Prerequisite: __

PSY 205 History of psychology                                             

This course addresses the roots of modern psychological thought and methodology, from their origins in philosophy and the natural sciences through the refinement of psychology in its current form. In addition to learning about the major schools of psychology (e. g., Behaviorism, Psychoanalysis), it explores how cultural forces shape psychological theories and the experiences of the women and men who develop them. Few courses can offer as much as the history of psychology course can in terms of an increased awareness of the roots of contemporary psychology. Indeed, the history course offers the best foundation for understanding the present.

Prerequisite: __

SPS 215 Statistics for Social Sciences                                  

This course is a continuation of MATH 203 and it is purposfully designed for students of psychology and political science. This intensive course covers the following topics: the sample mean and variance, random variables, elementary finite probability, the binomial and normal distributions; sampling, point and interval estimation, control charts, hypothesis testing; regression, correlation, t-test, time series, indexing, bivariate distributions and chi-square tests.

ELIT 201 Academic Paper Writing                                           

This course aims to teach students the skills and techniques necessary for writing academic papers. Students will learn how to conduct academic research, how to bring together their own ideas and arguments with secondary sources, and how to quote, paraphrase, summarise and give citations from other works and, most importantly, how to do all of these without committing plagiarism. All of these skills will initially be introduced theoretically to the students, after which they will be expected to apply them by writing an academic paper. Students will see the lecturer of the course frequently throughout their writing process so that they can be guided and advised. By the end of the course, students will be expected to be able to produce coherent, well-organised academic papers, a skill which will be crucial to them throughout their future education.

ELIT 202 Survey of English Literature I                                   

The aim of this course is to give students a basic chronological survey or outline of English literature, from its early beginnings to the end of the 18^th Century. Students will learn about the social, political, historical, philosophical and cultural characteristics, and the prominent and important literary types, artists and works of each historical period. They will read excerpts from various literary works that characterise each period. At the end of this course and its continuing course, Survey of English Literature II, students will be expected to have gained an understanding of the historical course and general characteristics of the English literary tradition. This course will help students to learn their areas of interest and choose their core literature courses accordingly.

ELIT 203 Survey of English Literature II                                  

The aim of this course is to give students a basic chronological survey or outline of English literature, from the end of the 18^th Century to the present. Students will learn about the social, political, historical, philosophical and cultural characteristics, and the prominent and important literary types, artists and works of each historical period. They will read excerpts from various literary works that characterise each period. At the end of this course, students will be expected to have gained an understanding of the historical course and general characteristics of the English literary tradition. This course will help students of the English Language and Literature program to become aware of their areas of interest so that choose their core literature courses accordingly.

ELIT 204 Classical Mythology                                                 

The aim of this course is to introduce students to the qualities, characters and stories of Classical (Greek and Roman) mythology. Students will learn about the characteristics of each important mythological character and stories relating to these characters; they will be shown slides and pictures of the characters and stories that they read about. Since classical mythology is a very important resource in language, literature, psychology and art, this course will be very helpful to students of FASS in their future education where they will encounter many references to the mythological information that they have learned.

ELIT 205 Classical Literature                                                   

This course aims to introduce students to one of the most important and influential phases of Western Literature, namely Classical (Greek and Roman) literature. They will learn about the types of literature produced and the qualities expected from literature during the age and will read a variety of prominent works produced during the Classical era. Since these works have been profoundly influential in Western literature and culture, and references to them can be found in most arts and social sciences, this course will serve as a helpful background to students of FASS.

ELIT 210 Analyzing Text and Context                                      

This course examines a text in an interdisciplinary way. It enables students to approach a text from multiple points of view.

FASS Thesis Manual is designed to assist graduate students and their advisers in the programs of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at International University of Sarajevo in meeting the MA and PhD thesis format requirements established by the FASS Faculty Academic Board. The manual is available in the PDF format in the following link: FASS Thesis Manual

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