SECOND WINTER SESSION
OF INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL FOR YOUNG SOCIOLOGISTS
"SOCIOLOGY TEACHING AS SOCIO-HUMANITARIAN INTERACTION"

2nd Winter Session of International Summer School for Young Sociologists "Sociology Teaching as socio-humanitarian interaction" (February, 1-8, 2003) will be organized for alumni of six previous International Summer Schools and Winter session of the School in sociology for young university lecturers "To the New Paradigms in Social Sciences Teaching" (February, 2001), organized by School of Sociology of Kharkiv V.N.Karazin National University and East Ukrainian Foundation for Social Research and funded by IRF and OSI/HESP (Budapest) (see the List of Summer Schools).

The aim of Session is search and approbation of new methods of interaction between students and lecturers in studying socio-humanitarian disciplines, development of new or updating the existing educational courses in Sociology, teaching materials, new methods of Sociology teaching, processes of students knowledge evaluation and evaluation of teaching quality.

The Session will unite lectures, problem lectures with elements of group discussion, round-table discussions, group discussion, individual consultations on the topic of the Session and presentations by each participant of projects of the innovative courses syllabi in sociology, test methodics, course readers followed by discussions with participation of other participants and the seminar international faculty.

The following courses will be presented during the Session:

The languages of Session - Russian, Ukrainian and English.

The participants will be defined under the results of competition.

The requirements for applicants:

1) to have sociology teaching position in Higher Educational institution;

2) to be an alumni of Summer Schools or Winter Session, organized by School of Sociology of Kharkiv V.N. Karazin National University and East Ukrainian Foundation for Social Research (see the List of Summer Schools);

3) to submit to Organizational committee:

• an application form;
• description of innovative methodic of sociology teaching, project of innovative course syllabi or course readers or test methodic of students' knowledge evaluation in sociology disciplines;
• developed innovative methodic of sociology teaching, new or revised course syllabus, detailed plan (content) of course readers or test methodics of students' knowledge evaluation in Ukrainian, electronic format, approximately 10 days after the end of the Session. If participants do not submit materials by the deadline, they will not be eligible to participate in future faculty initiative activities (Summer Schools, Winter Session, master-classes etc.).

The deadline for submitting documents to Organizational Committee is December 25, 2002.

Teaching materials and test methodics will be published in Collection of methodical materials and placed on the web-site of School of Sociology of Kharkiv V.N. Karazin National University and East-Ukrainian Foundation for Social Research.

18 participants will be awarded. Participants will be provided by accommodation, meal, travel expanses. Winter Session will take place in one of the hotel in Kharkiv Suburb, not far from Kharkiv National University.

The list of Summer Schools alumni of which are welcome to participate in Winter Session:

• "Society in Transition: Social Structure and Social Changes" (1997);
• "Society in Transition: The Limits of Social Engineering" (1998);
• "Society in Transition: Civil Society Coming into Being" (1999);
• "Society in Transition: Metamorphoses of Culture" (2000);
• "Models of Social Development: a Look into XXI Century" (2001);
• "Society in Transition: Social Issues in Sociological Focus" (2002);
• Winter Session "To the new paradigms in Social sciences teaching" (2001)