Adam Mickiewicz University

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Teaching

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Degree programs

Taught in Polish

B.A Program in Sociology

M.A Program in Sociology

B.A Program in Social Work Studies

International

Ph.D Program in Sociology

(full time and part-time, graduate and postgraduate)

Specializations

Visual sociology

Sociology of family and social problems

Sociology of contemporary civilization

Sociology of United Europe

Sociology of local government

Market and public opinion research

...and

Variety of courses, including:

Cultural anthropology

Economics

Gender Studies

Intercultural communication

Sociology of Contemporary Art

Public Relations

Techniques of filmmaking and montage

Human Resources

Social gerontology

Sociology of politics

Courses in English (AMU-PIE)

Cities and Social Integration

Public Spaces in Contemporary Cities

Environmental Sociology

Sociology of Multiculturalism

Risk in Modern World

Social psychology and its application to Polish society

Xenology. Mapping Otherness in Contemporary Culture

and...

Student exchange programs and scholarships

MOST: national student exchange program offering possibility to study sociology at one of 17 Polish universities

ERASMUS: international student exchange program offering possibility to study sociology at one of 13 foreign universities

Scholarships include: scientific and sports scholarships, bursaries and other forms of financial aid for students, including special assistance for young (future) sociologists with disabilities

Other forms of intellectual cooperation

Visual Sociology Workshop

Students Sociological Scientific Group

The Fledgelings Sociological Disscussion Club

Introductory Sociological Workshops for Freshmen

Internet-based student sociological journal

Researching

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11 independent departments covering a wide range of sociological subdisciplines (national and ethnic relations, sociological theory and history of sociology, family, everyday life, visual and material culture, contemporary civilization, economy and local government, social problems, social work, methods and techniques of sociological research)

50 members of academic staff including 20 professors of sociology

...mainresearchareas

Sociology of body and medicine

Sociology of senescence and solitude

Theoretical and practical problems of social work

Gender studies

Information society and sociology of technology

Sociology of borders and borderland

Sociology of things and studies of material culture

...

Visual sociology

Urban sociology

Sociology of family and marriage

Sociology of the everyday

Sociology of religion and morality

Sociology of economics and social structures

Sociology of culture and analysis of cultural phenomena

...and ongoingresearchprojects

The Invisible City: visual database and analysis of bottom-up creative actions of urban dwellers in 5 largest polish cities www.niewidzialnemiasto.pl

Re-photographing Poznan: analysis of social collective memory and social change dynamics through re-photographing chosen public spaces in Poznan (executed by Visual Sociology Workshop team in cooperation with City Council as a part of Euro 2012 project)

Social Inequality and Why It Matters for the Economic and Democratic Development of Europe and Its Citizens. Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe in Comparative Perspective EUREQUAL (international research project in cooperation with University of Oxford Department of Politics and International Relations)

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Homelessness and social exclusion

Studies of disability, social politics and occupational activation of disabled

Studies of identity and barriers in communication in multicultural context

Analyses of privatization processes and modern forms of capitalism

European Higher Education for the World 2: studies of international students’ mobility and brain gain (in cooperation with University of Zaragoza and Liebniz University of Hannover)

We cooperated with...

Oxford University, Great Britain

Leeds University, Great Britain

Cambridge University, Great Britain

University of Galway, Ireland

Lund University, Sweden

Rovaniemi University of Applied Sciences, Finland

Mainz University, Germany

Humboldt University, Germany

World Bank

European Parliament

Welecturedat...

University of Florida, USA

New School of Social Research, New York, USA

University of New England, Armidale NSW, Australia

Universite de Haute Bretagne, France

University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Naryn State University, Kyrgyzstan

High Professional School Leeuvarden, Holland

Stanford University CA, USA

New Mexico State University, USA

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Trondheim University, Norway

Guadalajara University, Mexico

Weare...

Sensitive to the everchanging social context that we both inhabit and investigate

Modest when it comes to talking about our successes (let them speak on our behalf!)

Avid fans of everything social, no matter how banal, mundane or unpleasant this social would be

Resourceful students, teachers and researchers asking and finding answers to our questions where there seems to be nothing left to find

Tolerant and open to our growing interdisciplinarity, knowing that it can only mean to learn more and to understand better

Thank you