New online courses are launched on the Ipsilon Uni portal of distance education of Saratov University. They have been developed by the university teaching staff members using the technologies of the Jalinga self-recording studio as part of the implementation of the Priority 2030 development programme. SSU students have an opportunity to enroll in courses and master them for free.
All courses include video lectures, additional materials, tasks for current control and final certification. Mastering the courses takes from 4 to 10 weeks. The courses can be used as additional material for the development of disciplines or individual modules within the main curricula. In addition, after successfully completing the courses and passing the final exams, students can count on regrading of the relevant disciplines included in their main curriculum.
An online course titled The vectors of Russian state policy aimed at forming national identity: a historical retrospective (authors: Associate Professors of the Department of National History and Historiography Vladimir Khasin and Anton Luchnikov).
The course is dedicated to authorities relations in Russia from a historical perspective, the mechanisms of constructing its institutional environment, demonstrates the principles and forms of communication between the government and the society. Russia is a multiethnic environment where an important function of the government is to ensure harmonious communication that can unite and enlist the efforts of diverse groups, which often differ in cultural, historical, confessional, and social respect. The course demonstrates the peculiarities of interaction and mutual influence of Russia and the surrounding environment, its place in global geopolitics, and the dynamics of historical development. It will be useful to historians, political scholars, journalists, and all those who are interested in preserving sustainable civil peace in multinational Russia.
An online course titled The biophysics of electromagnetic ionizing and non-ionizing radiation (author: Associate Professor of the Department of Medical Physics Andrei Rytik).
The course members will find out about the main aspects of the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with physical environments and biological objects. It considers ossible mechanisms of this interaction in all sections of the electromagnetic scale. Special attention is paid to the use of electromagnetic radiation in medicine for diagnosis and therapy. The course material can be used for the preparation of laboratory work, flexibly focused on different levels of training of students. The course may be of interest to specialists and scientists conducing the research in computer diagnostics in biomechanics, biophysics, bioengineering and medical physics, postgraduates and undergraduates of relevant specialties.
An online course titled Social mythology: analysis and creation of a myth (authors: Professor of the Department of Theoretical and Social Philosophy Sophia Tikhonova and Associate Professor of the Department of Theoretical and Social Philosophy Dennis Artamonov).
The course is based on a communication approach that allows us to identify the complexity of social mythology due to the development of communication tools and the emergence of new forms for the objectification of mythological meaning. The authors pay special attention to the mythology of the modern consumer society. Social mythology not only determines the ontological level of ideas about social reality, but is also a tool for controlling and manipulating the behaviour of the society. Modern mythology combines both spontaneous myth-making processes and purposeful conscious production of myths. The course reflects the social and philosophical tradition of the study of myth as a phenomenon of social life.
An online course titled The legal support of public control in the Russian Federation (author: Associate Professor of the Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law Elena Berdnikova).
Public control is one of the dynamically developing institutions of democracy and at the same time an effective way to protect human and civil rights and freedoms. The course offers students to gain basic knowledge in the legal support of public-legal relations with the participation of authorities and civil society institutions. They will learn how to protect human and civil rights and freedoms using the tools of public control. New knowledge will expand the professional horizons of lawyers. Confident knowledge about the organisational and procedural aspects of public control will be useful to a wide range of citizens, will help to defend and protect their legitimate interests.
Those who wish to take online courses can apply in their personal account on the Ipsilon Uni portal (BaRS) via the Tech.support section – Enroll in an online course. In the message, you must specify the name of the selected online course. Registration is open until November 1, the number of places for each course is limited.
