Master 2025/2026

Political Science

Type: Elective course (Politics. Economics. Philosophy)

Delivered by: School of Politics and Governance

When: 1 year, 1 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Ilya Gorelskiy

Language: English

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The goal of this bridging course is to familiarize students with the basic concepts of political science. As part of the course, attention will be paid to: (1) the nature of politics and the concept of “political”; (2) the basic interpretations of power, legitimacy and authority; (3) the paradigms of political science, the methodological features of institutionalism and the approaches to the definition of institutions; (4-5) the states and the parties as one of the main units of political science analysis; (6) the consideration of typologies of political regimes; (7) the concepts of political culture and political modernization. The work of students during the course is focused on their independent acquaintance with the proposed reading, which is the starting point for their active participation in seminar discussions.