Geopolitics Field of study: International Studies in Political Science and Diplomacy
Programme code: W3-S1MS21.2.2022

Module name: Geopolitics
Module code: G
Programme code: W3-S1MS21.2.2022
Semester:
  • winter semester 2023/2024
  • winter semester 2022/2023
Language of instruction: English
Form of verification: course work
ECTS credits: 3
Description:
The subject is to build geopolitics knowledge for students who started political science at the 1st degree of studies. The object is to present geopolitics as a specific and interdisciplinary research approach that examines the relationship between the centre of power (not necessarily the state) and space (mainly geographic). The main research areas of geopolitics focus on five thematic threads: (1) spatial rivalry, (2) economic rivalry, (3) concepts of international order, (4) geopolitical codes and (5) geopolitical ideas.
Prerequisites:
The student should have the basic knowledge acquired during his secondary education, including the state and international relations theory. Simultaneously, the listener should know at least the introductory political science terms.
Key reading:
1. Strategy and geopolitics : understanding global complexity in a turbulent world / by Mike Rosenberg, Bingley : Emerald Publishing 2017 2. Globalization : theory and practice / ed. Eleonore Kofman and Gillian Youngs, London; New York : Pinter Publishers 1996. 3. Global politics : an introduction / ed. by Charlotte Bretherton and Geoffrey Ponton, Oxford ; Cambridge : Blackwell 1996. 4. The idea of Central Europe : geopolitics, culture and regional identity / Otilia Dhand, London 2018 5. Contemporary geostrategic and geopolitical issues in Europe and Russia / Oskar Krejči, Ján Koper, Dalibor Vlček, Banská Bystrica : Faculty of Political Sciences and International Relations, Matej Bel University 2011 6. Haverluk Terrence, Beauchemin Kevin M., Mueller Brandon A., The Three Critical Flaws of Critical Geopolitics: Towards a Neo-Classical Geopolitics, ‘Geopolitics’ 2014, vol. 19, p. 19-39. 7. Overland Indra, The geopolitics of renewably energy: Debunking four emerging myths, ‘Energy Research & Social Science’, 2019, vol. 49, p. 36-40. 8. Overland Indra, Future Petroleum Geopolitics: Consequences of Climate Policy and Unconventional Oil and Gas, 2015, DOI: 10.1002/9781118991978.hces203 9. Geopolitics: grounded in the past, geared toward the future / ed. by Leszek Sykulski, Częstochowa : Polish Geopolitical Society, 2013. 10. Brzezinski Zbigniew, The Grand Chessboard. American Primacy and Its Geostategic Imperatives, Basic Book 1997.
Learning outcome of the module Codes of the learning outcomes of the programme to which the learning outcome of the module is related [level of competence: scale 1-5]
Can propose hypothetical geostrategy for a simulated situation of the state. [G_K_1]
 MS_1_K02 [3/5] MS_1_K03 [3/5] MS_1_K04 [3/5] MS_1_K05 [3/5]
Can help decision-makers to solve problems of contemporary concepts of the international order. [G_K_2]
 MS_1_K02 [4/5] MS_1_K03 [4/5] MS_1_K04 [4/5] MS_1_K05 [4/5]
Can explain the evolution of Cold War Geopolitics. [G_U_1]
 MS_1_U01 [4/5] MS_1_U02 [4/5] MS_1_U08 [4/5]
Can describe the emergence and conditions of geopolitics postmodern. [G_U_2]
 MS_1_U01 [5/5] MS_1_U02 [5/5] MS_1_U03 [5/5] MS_1_U07 [5/5] MS_1_U08 [5/5]
Can analyze "old" and "new" actors of contemporary geopolitics. [G_U_3]
 MS_1_U01 [3/5] MS_1_U02 [3/5] MS_1_U03 [3/5] MS_1_U07 [3/5] MS_1_U08 [3/5]
Can explain geopolitical codes and geoeconomics. [G_U_4]
 MS_1_U01 [4/5] MS_1_U02 [4/5] MS_1_U03 [4/5] MS_1_U07 [4/5] MS_1_U08 [4/5]
He/she has the linguistic competence to orient himself in the world of geopolitics in a foreign language. [G_U_5]
 MS_1_U10 [4/5]
Has basic knowledge of the theory of geopolitics [G_W_1]
 MS_1_W01 [5/5] MS_1_W03 [5/5] MS_1_W14 [5/5] MS_1_W15 [5/5]
Has basic knowledge of classical and modern geopolitics [G_W_2]
 MS_1_W02 [5/5] MS_1_W07 [5/5] MS_1_W14 [5/5] MS_1_W15 [5/5] MS_1_W17 [5/5]
Know some essential classic Polish geopolitical theories [G_W_3]
 MS_1_W01 [3/5] MS_1_W07 [3/5] MS_1_W14 [3/5] MS_1_W15 [3/5] MS_1_W18 [3/5]
Type Description Codes of the learning outcomes of the module to which assessment is related
Credit [G_w_1]
The verification of learning outcomes is precisely defined in the syllabus created for the module.
 G_K_1 G_K_2 G_U_1 G_U_2 G_U_3 G_U_4 G_U_5 G_W_1 G_W_2 G_W_3
Form of teaching Student's own work Assessment of the learning outcomes
Type Description (including teaching methods) Number of hours Description Number of hours
discussion classes [G_fs_1]
- moderated discussion, - explanatory description, - roundtable discussion, - the "brainstorming" method, - debates, - analysing and solving practical and theoretical problems.
 30
Students’ own work includes: - reading the necessary literature for the course, - activity during classes, - preparation of oral presentations, - preparation for the completion of the course.
 45 Credit [G_w_1]
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