HACT40660 Orientation Period-Warsaw

Academic Year 2023/2024

Located in the capital of Poland, University of Warsaw is the best and largest institution of higher education in Poland. Each year, the University provides education to approximately 55,000 students. Candidates are offered a broad range of courses in the fields of humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, as well as many interdisciplinary courses combining knowledge and skills of many disciplines. The leading concepts of the University’s activity are the unity of teaching and research, and the harmonious development of all branches of knowledge represented in its curriculum. The University of Warsaw community includes 3,000 foreigners: students, doctoral students, employees and grantees of, among others, the Erasmus and Erasmus Mundus programmes.

The Master Programme in Humanitarian Action is run jointly by the Faculty of Law and Administration and the Institute of International Relations, both offering their expertise in different aspects of the humanitarian action, in particular international law, civil protection and international security. NOHA University of Warsaw is closely cooperating with many stakeholders from the humanitarian sector in Poland, including Polish Humanitarian Action, Polish Red Cross and the Department of Development Co-operation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland.

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Learning Outcomes:

Thematic specialisation: Armed Conflicts and Humanitarian Action

The specialisation deals with armed conflicts as a specific environment in which humanitarian assistance is provided. Its aim is to describe the character of contemporary armed conflicts and problems related to establishment and functioning of peace and stability operations. Students would also learn about different aspects of protection of civilians, including the question of effective prevention of mass atrocities as well as of different models of justice and reconciliation in post-conflict societies. This means that during the specialisation students would broaden their knowledge about International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law as well as Security Studies in general.

Advanced management (I): Financial and labour law in humanitarian action
Advanced management (II): Mechanisms of financing humanitarian and development assistance
Contemporary peace and stability operations
Methodology and research methods in humanitarian studies
Reconciliation in a post-conflict society
Prevention of human rights atrocities
Protection of civilians in armed conflicts
Transformation of war - characteristics of contemporary armed conflicts

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

400
Small Group

50
Seminar (or Webinar)

30
Specified Learning Activities

70
Autonomous Student Learning

200
Total

750
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Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations
Learning Requirements:

This module is part of the MSc Humanitarian Action (X438, FT) programme, also know as the NOHA Masters. Students need to successfully complete coursework from semester 1 in order to participate in mobility to University of Warsaw


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Equivalents:
Orientation Period-Warsaw (RDEV40660)


 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade

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