University of Wroclaw

Bachelor in European Cultures

The European Culture program is intended for both European citizens as well as students from other parts of the world. The curriculum of the program is designed to open the possibility for all interested in the cultural life of the Continent to consciously participate in European social and cultural life. Which means that candidates are not expected to possess detailed knowledge of an academic nature, but to be open-minded and curious enough to work together to understand the cultural and social world around them. All courses will be provided in English. The rules concerning payment of tuition are regulated by the relevant rules of the University of Wrocław.

1st Year Autumn

Obligatory subjects:

• Historian as a priest or a craftsman? Historiography in Europe through centuries
• Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic age: the first Western globalism
• The Origins of Theatre
• Introduction to Methodology of Social Research
• Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
• Introduction to the History of European Art

Optional subjects

• Warfare and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome
• Health and Illness in Europe through centuries

1st Year Spring

Obligatory subjects

• Introduction to Polish History and Culture
• Introduction to Intercultural Education
• Introduction to Classical Archeology
• Methodology of Art History

2nd Year Autumn

Obligatory subjects

• Postsocialism in Central/Eastern Europe
• Multicultural Education: Theory and Practice
• History of Nationalism
• Work of Art and its Context
• Cross-cultural psychology

Optional subjects:

• Warfare and Society in Modern European History
• European History of Travelling
• Private life in Ancient Greece and Rome
• Women in the European Public Sphere (18th-20th centuries)

2nd Year Spring

Obligatory subjects:

• BA Seminar
• Great Discoveries of Modern Archeology
• Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th-18th centuries – culture and society
• Polish Cinema – History

Optional subjects:

• Everyday life in Greek and Roman Antiquity
• Shared or Separate Past(s)? Medieval East Central Europe
• Communication strategies and means of persuasion in the modern era. Case: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
• Work of Art in Period of Transition. Art History around 1900 in Central Europe
• Memory studies – history and practice
• Work of Art in the Digital Era

3rd year Autumn

Obligatory subjects:

• Intercultural communication
• Poland in the in the Era of Partitions (1772-1918)
• Europe and the United States until WWII
• Polish-Jewish relations in the 20th century
• East Central Europe under the Soviet Domination (1945-1989)

Optional subjects:

• History of Contemporary Art
• East Central Europe in the Time of Empires and the Era of World Wars (1815-1945)
• Anthropology of Europe

3rd Year Spring

Obligatory subjects:

• Poland in the in the Era of World Wars (1914-1945)
• Propaganda of the communist regime in Poland (1944-1989)
• "From guerrillas to happenings". History of the Democratic Opposition in Poland
• Selected topics of psychology

Optional subjects:

• Polish Theatre
• Americanization and anti-Americanism in Europe after 1945
• "Spring will be ours". Poland in the Era of Communism (1944-1989)
• Resistance, dissent & opposition in East-Central Europe. History and legacy

A graduate will be a suitable candidate for a vast range of workplaces demanding mediation between people and organizations of different cultural capitals: in the Human Resources and Public Relations departments of multinational corporations and public administration, in cultural institutions and tourism, and last, but not least, in journalism.