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Summary of the Profile
General Description:
Objective(s) of a study programme:
To prepare specialists of political sciences who are able to analyse political processes in the country and in international politics and to competently compare and assess political phenomena in different fields of social life and who possess well-formed skills of acting in political organisations and institutions.
Learning outcomes:
1) The knowledge of the main paradigms, approaches, and research methods of political science, the development and changes in political ideas, the contemporary political systems, and the regularities of the structural framework and the functioning of the state government institutions and organisation.
2) The knowledge and understanding of the characteristics of functioning of the Lithuanian political system, place and role in the contemporary system of international relations.
3) The ability to examine political phenomena at different levels of theory and practice in strict accordance with the standards, principles, and norms of academic ethics.
4) The ability to interpret and update the analysis of political events and domestic and foreign policies and programmes.
5) The ability to provide the political community with knowledge and information, to form its general political culture and public spirit.
6) The ability to apply and deepen the knowledge and abilities acquired during the studies by means of effective mastering of the information and guiding resources and the lifelong learning structures.
Activities of teaching and learning:
Lectures, seminars, projects, reports
Methods of assessment of learning achievements:
Credit, exam, colloquium, report
Framework:
Study subjects (modules), practical training:
Intro to Political Science; Intro to Public Administration; Political History of Modern Times; Sociology; Philosophy; Lithuanian Political System; Lithuania‘s Foreign Policy; Political Parties and Ideologies; History of Political Thought; Social Research Methods; Intro to International Relations; Theories of State; Political Psychology; Political Technologies; Third World Problems; European Politics; Course Paper; Political Philosophy; Internship; Comparative Politics; Political Sociology; Bachelor's Final Thesis.
Specialisations:
None
Optional courses:
Elective field of study courses; freely elective courses; elective courses in political science (Political Participation; Social Policy; Public Relations; History and Theories of Nationalism).
Distinctive features of a study programme:
1. The programme volume reduced (from 240 to 210 ECTS) by preserving the advantages of the programme and opening up the viability of the interdisciplinary relationships between the courses in terms of theory, methodology, and applied aspects.
2. Study programme is oriented towards a broad range of the courses of humanities and social sciences in order to provide the programme graduates with the opportunities of greater professional, qualification mobility, and target adjustment to the fast transformations of the labour market.
Access to professional activity or further study:
Access to professional activity:
Graduates can work as civil servants and elected politicians at all levels of state governing institutions and elected bodies: in municipalities, the Parliament, Ministries, political parties, and public institutions. Political scientists can work in non-governmental organizations, as public relations consultants and experts, as political reviewers, commentators, and analysts in media institutions: editorial boards of newspapers, magazines, radio and television, and e-media.
Access to further study:
Access to the second cycle studies.
