Higher education and intercultural relations 20-KUDU-MA-HEI

Week 1:
Week 2: Humboldt’ian model of university

Week 3: J. H. Newman and the university

Week 4: Clark Kerr and the model of “entrepreneurial university”.

Week 5: The room for religion in universities

Week 6: Universities and the processes of secularization

Week 7: The civic mission of the universities

Week 8: Higher education policy and sustainable development agenda.

Week 9: The crisis of welfare state and higher education policy

Week 10: Shaping higher education policy in the post-transformation countries

Week 11: Reforms of higher education policy in Poland

Week 12: Universities and new trends in creating the knowledge society

Week 13: Building the international higher education

Week 14: The university of the future: main trends in current higher education policy

Week 15: Final essay consultation

Module learning aims

- Introduction to the cultural contexts of higher education policy. - Delivering the basic knowledge about the selected ideas of the university - Critical analysis of the cultural roles of tertiary education institutions.

Major

Intercultural communication

Methods of teaching for learning outcomes achievement

- Comparative case study method. - critical analysis method

Cycle of studies

2nd cycle

Module type

compulsory

Year of studies (where relevant)

Year 2

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences

- Accomplished B.A. in humanities or social science.

Course coordinators

Cezary Kościelniak

Assessment criteria

Final essay.

Bibliography

Altbach: American higher education in the twenty-first century: Social, political, and economic challenges, 1998
Altbach: Globalization and the university, F&T 2009.
Nussbaum: Cultivating Humanities, HUP 2007.
Sommerville: Decline of the Secular Universities, OUP 2006.
The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State, OUP 2010.

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