BA degree programme

WSUS students, on their graduation and due to the knowledge acquired during the course of their studies in social sciences and in methods and techniques of communicating, will possess professional skills and competences, which they will find useful and sufficient while organising activities related to building information systems for any entities of social, political and economic life in relation to their environments.
Full-time students during their first year of study take general compulsory courses. Click here to get more information on the courses and their ECTS credits. As of the second year of study they can choose one of the following specializations:

Specialisation: Journalism
On graduation, after a three-year BA degree programme in journalism where theoretical and practical classes/workshops are run by experienced press, radio and television journalists, WSUS graduates can successfully find employment in the field of media or in public relations as spokespersons for firms and institutions, or in advertising and marketing agencies. Students leave the School enriched and equipped with knowledge on contemporary political, social, economic, cultural and media reality.

Specialisation: Editing
WSUS graduates with BA degree in editing are thoroughly trained and get their editorial competences in the complex preparation of a text for printing. They are potential future staff members in the publication market.

Specialisation: Information Broker
WSUS graduates with BA degree in information broker are thoroughly trained and get their competences in professional searching, verifying and disseminating all sorts of information; For more information click here.
They will use effectively the most modern informational and searching systems (Horizon, VTLS, Sowa, MOL etc.) that help to organize work of contemporary science information centres and also prepare databases on different carriers (print, CD-ROM/DVD or online). They will learn how to organise access to external Polish and foreign sources of electronic information (e.g. on-line books, periodicals or fulltext databases) and how to function and use programs processing their own information services.
They will be familiar with digital techniques, mass memory, metadata structures and with management of digital libraries and their contents. Students will be equipped with skills they can find useful in e-CultureNet.
The proposed system and scope of education take into consideration current changes in Polish and world science information structures, which are more and more often becoming modern archiving or information management centres that use in their activities electronic technologies, including the Internet. Thus, students that take this specialisation will be well prepared for a job with a future, a new one on the Polish job market that allows for creating individual job places by means of self-employment.

Whether a particular specialisation is carried out during a given academic school year depends on the number of students that are interested in taking a particular specialisation. BA titles are granted on a successful pass in the diploma examination pursuant to section VII, articles 41-48 of the School’s Regulations.


Supplementary Master’s Studies (second-cycle degree programme) The supplementary Master’s degree programme in the field of Journalism and Social Communications at the Poznan School of Social Sciences is indented to prepare students to work in all areas of social communications e.g.: as spokespersons or promotion and advertising specialists and to meet new challenges related to the development and expansion of mass media communications in social life. There is a big demand for press and media officers with a good working knowledge and applied communication skills in order to cooperate with media, and create a proper media image, personal marketing and cooperation with media institutions that run their educational activities. Click here to get more information on the courses and their ECTS credits.
Graduates of the supplementary Master’s degree programme in the field of Journalism and Social Communications are thoroughly prepared to work as journalists and also to undertake duties not only related to press, radio or television but also to public institutions, advertising and promotion agencies and institutes that run educational activities.

The supplementary Master’s studies are the continuation of BA studies. MA titles are granted in the field of Journalism and Social Communications on successful pass in the diploma examination pursuant to section VII, articles 41-48 of the School’s Regulations.

Diploma examination
Students are required to complete all course units and obtain a credit or a pass in all subjects according to the obligatory curriculum (lectures, seminars and classes) and also obtain a positive grade for their diploma theses before they can take the final diploma examinations, which are carried out by a commission appointed by the Dean. Members of the commission are: a chairman, a diploma thesis supervisor and its reviewer. The date of the examination is determined by the Dean.
The diploma thesis is an oral examination. The final grade is the sum of the following: ½ of arithmetic mean of all pass and exam grades that are part of the obligatory curriculum; ¼ of diploma thesis grade and ¼ of diploma examination grade.

Painting
Specializations:
Easel Painting
Wall Painting
Canvas Painting
Stained-glass
Textile Art (gobelin, tapestry, wall textile)

Design
Specialisations:
Clothes Design
Jewellery Design
Applied Graphics
Graphic Design and Photography
Unique Product Design

Interior Decorating
Specialisation:
Interior and Exhibition Design

Courses for students are run by well-known artists and educators from the Academies of Fine Arts in Poznan, Warsaw and Lodz as well as academic staff from the Poznan School of Social Sciences (WSUS). Particular emphasis is put on educating students in the field of applied art, where students acquire particular profession enabling them to find future employment at different national and foreign institutions. At the Faculty of Art students can take a course of pure art with the following specialisations: Easel Painting and Textal Art (gobelin, tapestry, wall textile).

After the first year of study, which is the general one, students choose their fields of studies and specialisations. It is worth noticing that students acquire and develop their skills at drawing and painting studios run by outstanding artists. These skills students can find useful while performing applied disciplines. There are two modes of study: full-time and part-time.

Each WSUS graduate with a BA degree at the Management and Marketing Faculty is thoroughly prepared to effectively organize company’s marketing activities and manage business entities in free market conditions. The acquired knowledge on theoretical bases of such disciplines as economics, management, company’s development and operation strategy planning as well as HR management enables students to become the specialists who can organize and implement company’s strategies, build connections with the company’s environment and independently manage promotion departments and advertising or PR agencies.
Students are also equipped with practical skills of how to manage cultural institutions, thus on their graduation they can become not only future theatre, museum or library managers but also private gallery or sponsoring company owners. The education system applied in WSUS follows the EU standards. It also takes into consideration the social-economic situation on the job market where there is a big demand for resources with managerial skills as well as for people being able to successfully conduct business talks, mediate in conflict situations and build the image of a company.
The School offers students one of the following specialisations:
Negotiator
PR / Promotion Manager
Media Manager
Culture Manager (individual mode)
Security and Public Order Management
Management in Self-Governing Organizations

Specialisation: Negotiator
WSUS graduates with BA degrees in negotiations become qualified specialists who can successfully conduct business talks, mediate in conflict situations, adequately assess the external situation of a company and properly build its image.

Specialisation: Media Manager
WSUS graduates with BA degrees in media management are equipped with skills enabling them to run successfully press agencies, radio or TV stations or to become qualified specialists in marketing departments or in media management.

Specialisation: Culture Manager
WSUS graduates with BA degrees in culture management are equipped with skills enabling them to manage culture institutions effectively. To perform this task successfully the unquestionable support is the knowledge of negotiation techniques, principals of how to run advertising campaigns and how to draw up contracts for sponsorship. Culture managers are potential directors of theatres, museums or libraries as well as private gallery or sponsoring company owners.

Specialisation: PR/Promotion Manager
WSUS graduates with BA degrees in PR/promotion management are equipped with professional skills enabling them to competently create company’s relations with its environment and independently manage promotion departments and advertising or PR agencies.

Security and Public Order Management
WSUS graduates with BA degrees in Security and Public Order Management are equipped with professional skills enabling them to apply for a job at public institutions dealing with safety, organization and protection at work in all business entities that have in their structures departments responsible for health and safety in the workplace.

Management in Self-Governing Organizations
WSUS graduates with BA degrees in Management in Self-Governing Organizations are equipped with professional education enabling them to apply for a job in the structures of local authorities, public institutions, self-governing organizations, local, professional and employee organizations (the European Union included), in different associations, foundations and other business entities as well as in small and medium-sized enterprises.

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