Europeans and their believs. Introduction to public opinion analysis
General data
Course ID: | WS-PO-E-ETBIPOA |
Erasmus code / ISCED: | (unknown) / (unknown) |
Course title: | Europeans and their believs. Introduction to public opinion analysis |
Name in Polish: | Europeans and their beliefs. Introduction to public opinion analysis |
Organizational unit: | Institute of Political Science |
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ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): |
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Language: | English |
Subject level: | elementary |
Learning outcome code/codes: | enter learning outcome code/codes |
Short description: |
The course is designed for students who are interested in the way people form and update their beliefs and to what social phenomena it leads. The aim of the course is mainly the transfer of basic skills of analysing public opinion. Course content includes the following topics: characteristics of good surveys, basic principles of survey responses analysis, determinants of opinions and attitudes, usage of contingency tables. During the course, students will have an opportunity to develop knowledge, analytical and soft skills. This applies to the understanding of other people, improving introspection skills, raising awareness of the presence of differences between people and obtaining skills to explain these differences. |
Full description: |
The course is designed for students who are interested in the way people form and update their beliefs and to what social phenomena it leads. The aim of the course is mainly the transfer of basic skills of analysing public opinion. Course content includes the following topics: characteristics of good surveys, basic principles of survey responses analysis, determinants of opinions and attitudes, usage of contingency tables. During the course, students will have an opportunity to develop knowledge, analytical and soft skills. This applies to the understanding of other people, improving introspection skills, raising awareness of the presence of differences between people and obtaining skills to explain these differences. |
Bibliography: |
Boudon, Raymond, The Origins of Values. Transaction Publishers, 2001 Donsbach, Wolfgang, Michael W. Traugott (eds). The SAGE Handbook of Public Opinion Research. SAGE Publications Ltd, 2008. Glynn, Carroll J., Susan Herbst, Robert Shapiro, Garrett O’Keefe. Public Opinion. Boulder: Westview Press, 1999. Page, Benjamin I., Robert Y. Shapiro. The Rational Public: Fifty Years of Trends in Americans’ Policy Preferences. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1992. The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. |
Efekty kształcenia i opis ECTS: |
1. Knowledge about main mechanisms of public opinion 2. Ability to find data about public opinion 3. Ability to interpret public opinion data |
Assessment methods and assessment criteria: |
Final grade: 50% test 50% final project |
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