Lectures in the academic year 2016 / 2017:

 L1: Basics of presenting science and technology

Journ. W. Niedzicki

How to present yourself and your accomplishments? How to grab the audience? What to do with your hands? Why students fall asleep during a lecture? What is the selling of science? Is it worth to take care of advertising? Who is manipulating us? These and other questions will be answered by a science journalist, Wiktor Niedzicki. There is a chance that the audience will not fall asleep. Lectures will be combined with practical exercises in front of the camera, attempts to write promotional texts and organize press conferences. Participants will find out how a spokesperson works, and what to do in an emergency situation. Let us be better than our competitors!

 L2: Multimedia artistic creation

Prof. S. Wieczorek (ASP)

Digital techniques are developing exponentially. Science creates new, incredibly effective, tools. This phenomenon reduces role of the workshop, and simultaneously it increases role of the imagination. Today in the art world nobody asks you about your experience. Instead you are asked want a great thing you are going to create. What is your idea? Digital techniques offer an opportunity to anyone for their “five minutes”. Is any idea worth promoting? How to estimate it and who has to do it? The modern racing world opens new opportunities for artists, but it raises a lot of questions as well. We do not know often how to respond to all this. The area at stake (as well as experience of working with students from the Academy of Fine Arts) will be the subject of my lectures.

 L3: Culture on daily and special occasions

Journ. W. Niedzicki

Who is a cultured man? From opera to social gathering. How behaviour patterns in the field of culture have changed over the years? Influence of science and technology onto culture’s transformation. The shortest history of music and mass-media. We will try to find answers to the following questions: to take a bath or not to take bath? How to behave at a party? Who should greet first?

 L4: GMO according to the recent research

 Prof. K. Niemirowicz – Szczytt (SGGW) with her research team

The aim of the course is to present the latest information and data on the methods of preparation of micro-organisms, plants and animals that are genetically modified. In addition it aims to show ways to verify presence of the transgene and its expression as well as level and prospects of the use of transegene organisms, security measures for a restricted use and a controlled release of GMOs into the environment. The course presents also evolution of the legislation concerned in Poland and abroad. The lecturers are experts in the field of research on GMOs.

 L5: Arts and culture in view of the information society

Prof. W. Włodarczyk (ASP)

Aesthetics, ethics, politics and mass-media in the information society. New forms of artistic expression and the role of art in a society where electronic media and “virtual reality” are present: architecture, fine arts and film. Socio-cultural aspects of development of communication technology and organization.

 L6: Digital economy

Dr. hab. M. Goliński (SGH)

The development of information technology (IT), which began more than half a century ago and has accelerated considerably in the last two or three decades is causing profound changes in virtually all areas of human activity, intensely affecting the economy, society, culture and politics. Increasingly, information is defined as the fourth factor of production. Information, especially digital information, is different in many ways from other goods and services. Yet information is still subject to the laws of economics. The purpose of this course is to explore some of the economics of information and understand how they affect changes in modern economic structures, strategies of companies and their business models. Rapid and radical changes represent an opportunity but can also be a threat. Knowledge of basic economic and technology IT principles will be one of the key success factors. The lecture is intended to explain students the importance of information, IT and digitalization in the modern economy and the possibilities of using IT as a tool for strategy development. Presented are the basic issues and problems related to the economics of information, the information society and digitalization, as well the importance of IT in the company’s strategy. The course closes with a discussion of the strategic importance of IT.

 L7: Effects of television news media

Dr. S. Strzelecki

The course is designed to identify and group the effects of television news media. Students will gain insight into the process of information emitted into the air. This should allow to critically analyze the medium at question. They will be able to detect the meaning of the content of the message, resulting from use of television access technology. I will be considering the effect of the medium as a result of the impact of a specific access technology (medium) on the content of the message. The observations that I conducted while working as a TV news cameraman are as follows: the effects of television medium generate redundant information relevant to the topic on the air, to a large extent independent of the intentions of the promoters of the TV content.

 L8: Sociology of risk

Dr. hab. F. Kampka (SGGW)

Risk is an inherent part of human existence. It accompanies us in everyday situations (e.g. lifestyle, health, communications) and life choices: school, occupation, partner. Taking the risk means possibility of either success or defeat. Changes taking place in the modern society and the progress of science and technology makes it one of the most required social competences: ability to identify and assess risk, communicate effectively about it and eventually reduce the risk.