SPIRU HARET UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Sociology-Psychology

ANALYTICAL PROGRAMS
YEAR I

SPECIALIZATION SOCIOLOGY-PSYCHOLOGY

DAY EDUCATION
DISTANCE LEARNING (D.L.)
LOW FREQUENCY TEACHING (F.R.)

Academic year 2007-2008

 Spiru Haret University Faculty of Sociology - Psychology
accredited by Law no. 443 accredited by Government Decision no. 693 of June 12
from July 5, 2002 2003, published in "Official Monitor", no.
466 from June 30, 2003

ANALYTICAL PROGRAMS
YEAR I

SPECIALIZATION SOCIOLOGY-PSYCHOLOGY

Full-time Education
Distance Learning (D.L.)
Reduced Frequency Education (R.F.)

Bucharest, 2007
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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword 5
Structure of the academic year 8
Disciplines in the first year of study (Full-time, Distance Learning, Part-time) 9
General Sociology - I
General Sociology - II
Methodology of sociological and psychological research
Research methods and techniques
Fundamentals of Psychology - I
Fundamentals of Psychology - II
Neuropsychology
Informatics and its applications in sociology and psychology
Social history
The psychology of education
The history of psychology
Data analysis
Sociology of population and demography
Statistics and its applications in sociology and psychology
Anthropology
English language
French language
Extracts from 'Regulation on the Professional Activity of Students'
Useful addresses

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 Foreword

Presentation of the Faculty of Sociology-Psychology

The faculty conducts its courses, laboratories, seminars, and workshops.

application in a private venue, which has adequate facilities for all forms of
education that currently operates: daytime courses, distance learning (I.D.)
reduced frequency education (F.R.).
For all these forms of education, study methods are designed.
that offers equal opportunities in training and practical formation.
The system of materials and study methods offered by the University is
diversified and elaborated in such a way that students can understand, use and
integrate information at different levels of complexity, as follows:
Course program, developed according to the Curriculum Plan;
●cursul televizatcare, în plus, are avantajul unor informaŃii dublate de
images that engage the student with typical applied aspects through
Television Romania of Tomorrow
the manual of the subject written in the Analytical Program, whose study
ensures adequate provision for the verification of knowledge;
thematic bibliography, which allows extensions to the basic information
the course through the use of specialized works, articles from magazines, etc., which
I mainly find it in the Faculty Library;
●test the application programs executed within the laboratories
profile, the disciplines that include the training of practical skills (laboratories
psychological testing, laboratories of experimental psychology, laboratories
of computer science), which operates in a combined module system for
distance learning and reduced attendance education;
●discussions in specialized circles;
●research projects and/or public opinion surveys in which I am
train all students;
specialization practice.

For students in the I.D. form, communication with teaching staff is

realize live or in online system.

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 Clarifications and recommendations regarding the conduct of university activities

For the subjects included in the curriculum for the second year, there have been
manuals that include, alongside the actual courses, a series of
knowledge that supports the student in understanding and using information:
the presentation of key concepts and some theoretical and/or applicative extensions,
selective bibliography.
For the students of the F.R. form, summary provisions are provided that are
primarily scheduled during the academic breaks, as follows: for the first semester, in the month
December, at the headquarters of the Faculty, starting from December 15, 2007; for the semester
II, in April 2008, starting from the date of the 19th. Synthesis courses are held from
the course holders, who will evaluate the quality of the student's knowledge within
verification through colloquia or exams. The schedule of condensed hours as well as
the scheduling of study groups can be found on the University website at the address:
[Link].
Also, the students of the I.D. form will be able to get in touch with the teachers.
or the tutors of the subjects through the E-mail system, within a calendar that
find on the University site.
On the Television Station Romania of Tomorrow (TvRM), of the Foundation
Romania of Tomorrow, students of form I.D., as well as those of other forms of education
you have access to the educational programs that are correlated with the structure of the year
university. Every week, televised courses are scheduled from
fundamental and specialized disciplines from the second year of study.
Since October 2001, the Faculty of Sociology-Psychology has structured itself
the training and evaluation program through credits.
The number of credits for each of the study subjects is presented.
Once with the study disciplines, it is differentiated according to the status of the disciplines.
of the number of hours of classes and laboratories. Once the forms are successfully completed
of the verification, of the colloquiums or of the exams, the student receives, simultaneously with
note, and a number of credits. The credits aim at the quantitative aspect of assimilation of a
discipline (weight of classes and seminars, other activities during the course)
semester, etc), and exams (grades)
It focuses on the qualitative aspect of student training. In order to be able to advance to the third year of
In order to pass, the student must obtain at least 50% of the total points.
credit for the previous academic year, namely the second year. This number of credits
acumulate constituie o bazăminimăpentru a putea parcurge disciplinele anului III.
Otherwise, if the student has not managed to obtain passing grades in the context of the
three exam sessions: January - February, June - July and August - September
(remaining), in order to accumulate the minimum number of credit points, the student is
declaration of repeater.
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 Specialized practice is mandatory for all forms of education.
and is carried out in a variety of forms and according to programs that are posted at
advertise on the University website.
Students who, in addition to specializing in sociology - psychology, wish to
The obtaining and quality of being a teacher enroll in the training program.
psychopedagogical and methodological training of future teaching staff, carried out by
The Department for the Training of Teaching Staff, according to the legislation
of the current education system. The program concludes with a teaching certificate.
which grants the graduate the right to obtain positions and to work in education
pre-university.
Students from day courses who achieve good results in the sessions
The exams benefit from the awarding of merit scholarships. These are two
types:type A, for those who achieve an overall average upon completion of a study year
between 9.50 and 10, grade B, for students who achieve an overall average between 9
and 9.49. The first type of scholarship is equivalent to the sum of two installments of the annual fee.
of studies, the second with a rate.

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 STRUCTURE OF THE ACADEMIC YEAR
2007 – 2008

FIRST SEMESTER

1 octombrie 2007 – 14 decembrie 2007 Activitate didactică

17 decembrie 2007 – 6 ianuarie 2008 Christmas and New Year Vacation
8 ianuarie 2008 – 26 ianuarie 2008 Didactic activity
28 ianuarie 2008 – 17 februarie 2008 Winter exam session

February 18, 2008 - February 24, 2008 Winter vacation

Second Semester

25 februarie 2008 – 31 mai 2008 Didactic activity

2 iunie 2008 – 29 iunie 2008 Summer exam session

June 30, 2008 - August 31, 2008 Summer vacation

September 1, 2008 - September 14, 2008 Autumn exam session

September 22, 2008 - September 28, 2008 Reexaminations

Clarifications:
During the holidays, synthesis lessons are planned for the students.
part-time education
In distance education, exam sessions are scheduled on a
longer period

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 DISCIPLINES
from the first year of study in day, distance, part-time
(Specialization in Sociology-Psychology)

No. The name of the discipline Evaluation method Credits

crt. session Sem. 1 Sem. 2
Mandatory subjects
General Sociology - I Winter Exam 5
2. General Sociology - II Exam/summer 5
3. Methodology of sociological researchWinter Exam 4
and psychological
4. Research methods and techniques Exam/summer 4
5. The Fundamentals of Psychology - I Winter exam 4
6. Fundamentals of Psychology - II Exam/summer 4
7. Neuropsihologie Winter exam 4
8. Computer Science and its applications in Winter colloquium 4
sociology and psychology
9. Social History Winter exam 4
10. Psychology of Education Colloquium/winter 5
11. The History of Psychology Exam/summer 4
12. Data analysis Exam/summer 4
13. Sociology of Population and Demography Exam/summer 3
14. Statistics and its applications in Colloquium/summer 3
sociology and psychology
Anthropology Colloquium/summer 3
Optional discipline*
16. English language Winter colloquium 3
17. French language Colloquium/winter 3

Two (2) subjects are chosen each semester:

semester I:
Defectology and speech therapy
2. Sports Psychology
3. The psychology of people with special needs
semester II:
The psychology of individual differences
2. Judicial psychology
3. Economic Psychology

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 GENERAL SOCIOLOGY - I

OBJECTIVES
To offer students a general theoretical perspective on sociology as
science
To initiate students in the knowledge and understanding of the main concepts
and paradigms of this fundamental scientific discipline.

THEMATIC CONTENT OF THE DISCIPLINE

1. Sociological perspective. Common (spontaneous) knowledge about society,
good-sense or 'erroneous rationality'. Scientific knowledge. Sociology -
define, origins, becoming. Axiological neutrality and social values. Functions
Sociology. Three ways to view society. The main sociological theories.
Identity, culture, social supports.
2. Research methods in sociology. Methodological principles in research
empirical sociological. Method, technique, procedures, investigation tools.
The content of the concept of methodology. The processuality of sociological knowledge.
3. Culture. Multiple influences of culture. Defining culture. Theories regarding
culture. The elements of culture. The main functions of culture. Evolution
sociocultural.
4. Personal and social identity. What is identity? Social role and
individual identity. How identity is constructed.
5. Socialization. The individual - a social being. What is socialization?
The mechanisms of socialization. Different forms of learning. Agents of socialization.
The consequences of socialization. Social control, deviance, marginality.

SEMESTER TOPICS (DAYTIME EDUCATION)

1. Sociology - the science of modern and contemporary societies.
2. The process of sociological knowledge.
3. Functions of culture.
4. The mechanisms of socialization.

MANDATORY BIBLIOGRAPHY
Carmen Furtună, General Sociology, Foundation Publishing Romania
Tomorrow, Bucharest, 2005.

OPTIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Antohny Giddens, Sociologie, Editura All, Bucureşti, 2000.
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 2. Traian Herseni, Sociology. General Theory of Social Life, Publishing House
Scientific, Bucharest, 1982.
3. Ioan Mihăilescu, Sociologie generală, Editura Polirom, Iaşi, 2003.
4. C.W. Mills,ImaginaŃia sociologică, Editura Politică, Bucureşti, 1975.

Evaluation: Exam, semester 1

Titular:[Link] Furtună

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 GENERAL SOCIOLOGY - II

OBJECTIVES
To shape the operational skills of students with the acquired concepts
the specific language of the field;
To contribute to the stimulation of analytical and interpretative abilities.
of social phenomena and processes.

THEMATIC CONTENT OF THE DISCIPLINE

[Link]şi mobilitate socială.Stratificare socială. Mobilitate socială.
2. Social institutions. Family, relatives, and marriage. Economic life and
work. Politics, power, authority, state, democracy, political party. Education. Science.
Religion.
3. Organizations and their management. Theories about organizations. Management
organizations.
4. Territorial communities. Territorial human communities.
5. Collective behavior and social change. Social movements.
Social change.

THEMATIC SEMINARS (DAYTIME EDUCATION)

1. Social stratification. Theories about stratification.
2. Comparative studies of social mobility.
3. The role of social institutions.
Social change.

MANDATORY BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Carmen Furtună, Sociologie generală, Editura FundaŃieiRomânia de Mâine,
Bucharest, 2005.

OPTIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Antohny Giddens, Sociologie, Editura All, Bucureşti, 2000.
2. Ioan Mihăilescu, Sociologie generală, Editura Polirom, Iaşi, 2003.
3. ***Dictionary of Sociology (coord. Gilles, Ferréol), Polirom Publishing House, Iaș i,
1998.

Assessment: Exam, semester 2

Titular:[Link] Furtună
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 METHODOLOGY OF SOCIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH

OBJECTIVES
Knowing the entire conceptual system with which sociology operates in
the approach to understanding social facts.
Understanding and grasping the specifics of the cognitive endeavor in research
social
Understanding the methodological approach to conducting research activities
concrete sociological.
The acquisition of the rules and methodological principles that underpin the realization
sociological research.

THEMATIC CONTENT OF THE DISCIPLINE

1. Scientific knowledge of social reality. Common knowledge
(spontaneous, everyday): characteristics; the necessity of transitioning to scientific knowledge
social life. The specificity of scientific knowledge. The role of paradigms in research
scientific.
2. Methodological problems of socio-human research. Methodology
empirical socio-human research. The content of the concepts of 'methodology',
"method", "technique", "procedure" and "instrument" of investigation. The areas of
interest in the methodology of sociological research. Methodological principles of
sociological research. Theoretically - empirically, qualitatively - quantitatively in social research
human.
3. Stages of sociological research. Designing sociological research.
Field research itself. Analysis of information; interpretation and explanation
studied social facts.
4. The role of hypotheses in socio-human research. Definition and structure
research hypothesis. Methods for developing research hypotheses. Validity
hypotheses in social-human research.
5. Conceptual analysis. Defining concepts. Types of definitions. Scheme
Operational research: dimensions, variables, indicators. Analysis of the indicators.
definitional.
6. Types of sociological research. Terminological clarifications. Classification
concrete socio-human research. Descriptive research; explanatory research.
7. Measurement and scales in sociology. The place of measurement within the process of
sociological research. Dimensional measurement models. Defining scaling. Classes,
types and forms of scales.

THEMATIC SEMINARS (DAYTIME EDUCATION)

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 1. The areas of interest of sociological research methodology.
2. Theoretical-empirical interdependence in socio-human research.
3. Qualitative-quantitative interdependence in sociological research.
4. Methodological operations required for each stage of the research
sociological.
5. The necessity of operationalizing concepts in sociological research
concrete.
6. The paradigm of operationalizing concepts – Paul F. Lazarsfeld.
7. The stages of operationalizing the concepts.
8. Analysis of the discriminative power of definitional indicators (Stefan
Nowak).
9. Operational schemes carried out for various social domains.
10. Validity of research hypotheses.
11. Research hypotheses stated in terms of: 'If...then...', 'With
the more... the more...
12. The necessity of formulating working hypotheses in sociological research
empirical.

MANDATORY BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. I. Cauc, B. Manu, D. Pârlea, L. Goran, Research Methodology
Sociological. Research methods and techniques, Tomorrow's Romania Foundation Publishing,
Bucharest, 2004.

OPTIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. S. Chelcea, I. Mărginean, I. Cauc, Sociological Research. Methods and
techniques, Destin Publishing, Deva, 1998.
2. I. Mărginean, Designing Sociological Research, Polirom Publishing, Iaşi,
2000.
3. V. Miftode, Introduction to the Methodology of Sociological Research, Publishing House
Junimea, 1982.

Evaluation: Exam, semester 1

Title: University Lecturer Dr. Beatrice Manu

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 RESEARCH METHODS AND TECHNIQUES

OBJECTIVES
Creating skills for the adequacy of research methods and techniques
concrete to various types of social situations.
The knowledge of the methodological steps imposed by the use in research of
any of the sociological methods.
Building capacities to create the necessary tools for harvesting
social information.
The development of skills for analyzing social information and interpreting
social processes studied.

THEMATIC CONTENT OF THE SUBJECT

1. Sociological research and public opinion poll. The specifics of the investigation
sociologiceşi a sondajului de opinie publică: definiŃii; obiect de analiză; valoareşi
Limit. The relationship between surveys, investigations, and sociological research. Types of investigation
sociological.
2. The sociological questionnaire. The questionnaire - technique and tool of
research. Types of questionnaires. Structure of questionnaires. Formulation of questions.
3. The sociological interview. The specificity of the interview in socio-human research.
Criteria for classifying interviews. Methods of using the interview in
socio-human research. Conducting research interviews.
4. Analysis of social documents. Characterization of social documents.
Classification of documents. The value and limits of document usage (numeric,
toothpastes, personal or official) in social-human research.
5. Analysis of communication content. The specifics of the analysis technique.
the content of communication. Units of analysis. Categories of analysis. Stages
research based on content analysis of communication. Analysis methods.
The actual application of the analysis.
6. Method of observation. The specificity of scientific observation. Types of
observaŃie. Reguli de observare.
7. The experiment in socio-human research. The specificity of the experiment
psycho-sociological. Basic concepts in the methodology of the psycho-experiment
sociologic. Types of experiments in socio-human sciences. Stages of research
experimental in psychosociology.

THEMATIC SEMINARS (FULL-TIME EDUCATION)

1. The specificity of the sociological investigation.
2. The role of public opinion polls in the scientific understanding of life
social
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 3. The relevance of the questionnaire technique in sociological research.
4. Distortion factors in the questionnaire-based investigation.
5. The interview as social interaction. Rules for applying the interview in
sociological research.
6. Social documents - a source of information in sociological research.
7. The specifics of the content analysis technique of communication. Stages of research
sociological based on the content analysis technique of communication.
8. Spontaneous observation versus scientific observation. Scientific observation–
experiment psihologic: specificşi elemente distinctive ale celor douămetode de
research.
9. Types of experiments found in psychological research. Stages
experimental research.

MANDATORY BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. I. Cauc, B. Manu, D. Pârlea, L. Goran, Research Methodology
Sociological. Research methods and techniques, Foundation Publishing Romania of Tomorrow,
Bucharest, 2004.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OPTIONAL
S. Chelcea, Methodology of Sociological Research. Quantitative Methods and
qualitative, Economic Publishing House, Bucharest, 2001.
2. P. IluŃ, The Qualitative Approach to the Socio-Human, Polirom Publishing House, Iaşi, 1997.
3. I. Mărginean, Measurement in Sociology, Scientific Publishing House
Encyclopedic, Bucharest, 1982.

Assessment: Exam, semester 2

Title: University Lecturer Dr. Beatrice Manu

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 FUNDAMENTALS OF PSYCHOLOGY - I

OBJECTIVES
Establishing the general theoretical framework for understanding the scientific field,
basic concepts and an overview of the historical evolution of psychology
experimental science.
Establishing the real framework for the manifestation of the human psyche: the psychic system
human; personality; activity.

THEMATIC CONTENT OF THE SUBJECT

1. Introductory problems. The subject of psychology. The branches and objectives.
psychology. The specificity of psychological knowledge.
2. Methods of psychology. Research strategies in psychology. Principles
methodological aspects of psychology.
3. The problem of laws in psychology.
4. The human psyche. The concept of the psychic. The specificity of the human psyche.
5. The human psyche as a system. Conscious - subconscious - unconscious.
6. Processing processes - information management. Sensation. The laws
sensitivity. Perception. The laws of perception. Representation.

SEMINAR TOPICS (DAYTIME EDUCATION)

The specificity of psychological knowledge.
2. Psychological Research.
3. The human psyche as a system.
4. Perception.

MANDATORYBIBLIOGRAPHY
1. M. Golu, Fundamentals of Psychology vol. I and II, Foundation Publishing Romania
Tomorrow, Bucharest, 2004.

OPTIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. M. Golu, A. Dicu,Introducere în psihologie, EdituraŞtiinŃifică, Bucureşti,
1972.

Evaluation: Exam, semester 1

Professor University Doctor Mihai Golu

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 FUNDAMENTALS OF PSYCHOLOGY - II

OBJECTIVE
The students' acquisition of the most important conquests and data of
contemporary psychology about the nature, determinism and laws of the psyche
human behavior.
Training students in real competencies for approach and independent research
related to some current theoretical and applied problems of psychology.

THEMATIC CONTENT OF THE DISCIPLINE

1. Higher cognitive processes. Thinking. Operations. Strategies. Formation.
Noctions. Understanding. Problem solving.
2. Memory. Definition. To remember. Retention-forgetting. Recognition.
Reproduction. Learning.
Imagination. Characterization. Forms. Procedures. Creativity. Structure.
Levels.
4. Energizing and regulatory processes. Communication. Language. Functions and forms
language.
5. Motivation. Definition. Functions. Motivational phenomena. Forms of motivation.
Relationship with performance.
6. Affectivity. Definition. Properties. Classification of affective experiences. Functions.
7. Will. Self-regulation. Voluntary effort. The structure and phases of voluntary acts.
8. Habits. Types. Conditions for formation. Stages of formation. Skills
transfer interference
9. Attention. Definition. Forms. Attributes.
10. The personality system. General characterization: definition; determinants;
guidelines for definition.
11. Dynamic-energetic nature (temperament). Types. Characteristics.
Characterization.
12. Instrumental-operational literacies (skills). Hereditary-acquired.
Classifications. Characteristics.
13. Relational-value dimension (character). The system of attitudes. Classification
attitudes. Characterizations.
14. The unity of the dimensions of personality. Temperament – abilities - character.

THEMATIC SEMINARS (FULL-TIME EDUCATION)

Memory mechanism
2. Voluntary effort. Structure and phases of voluntary acts
[Link].

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 MANDATORYBIBLIOGRAPHY
1. M. Golu, Fundamentals of Psychology vol.1, vol.2, Foundation Publishing
Romania of Tomorrow, Bucharest, 2004.

OPTIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. I. Raduşi et al., Introduction to contemporary psychology, Sincron Publishing
Cluj-Napoca, 1991 (p.93-304).

Evaluation: Exam, second semester

Titular:[Link] Golu

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 NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

OBJECTIVES
The formation of a unified scientific conception regarding phenomena and processes
psychic states, as results of the entirety of the neuroendocrine system, on
the knowledge base of neurophysiological, neurochemical, and neurocybernetic mechanisms
constitutes the essential objective of the course. For reasons related to the profile of the future
specialist, the two branches of science will not be treated separately, but in the form of a
logical syntheses established, with the value of an autonomous educational discipline. In turn
Hey, the internal logic of this synthetic discipline requires reversing the order of the two.
branches of the chosen field specified in the title, as the understanding of specific neuro problems
psychology is conditioned by the understanding of what is specific to neurocybernetics. How,
however, synthesis is not a simple juxtaposition, the specific problems of the two fields...
often appears in the content of this discipline. At the same time, to avoid
confusions of any kind - especially those resulting from inappropriate use - are imposed
defining some notions with a more general character.

THEMATIC CONTENT OF THE DISCIPLINE

1. Introductory concepts.
2. Actual the reflex arc in integration.
3. The anatomical-functional unit of the integrative system.
4. Types of reflex springs.
5. The functions of the neuron.
6. Properties of the neuron. Interneuronal relationships.
7. Neural circuits.
8. Nervous centers.
9. Irradiation and concentration of excitability. Reflex conditioning.
10. The behaviors,
11. The structure of human existence.
12. Ontogenetic aspects.
13. Integration of the human being.

SEMINAR TOPICS (FULL-TIME EDUCATION)

1. The neuron as a thermodynamic system; the neuron as an excitable cell; the neuron
as a secretory cell;
2. Mechanisms involved in ensuring excitability; ion pumps; antiport
Na/H; the closing and opening of ion channels;
3. Membrane electroionic potential; resting potential; potential
of action;

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 4. Interneuronal relationships; synaptic relationships and neural circuits; the arc and the act
reflex; nonsynaptic relationships; radiation and concentration in centers;
5. Organ as the central nervous system.

6. Reflex conditioning; its motivation and role;

7. Mechanisms involved in learning.

MANDATORY BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. C. Stanciu, Introduction to Psychophysiology. Neuroendocrine Integration,
Foundation of Romania's Tomorrow Publishing, Bucharest, 2005.

OPTIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. C. Enăchescu, Neuropsychology, Victor Publishing, Bucharest, 1996
2. C. Stanciu, Biochemical-Ionic Theory of Excitability, Scientific Publishing House,
Bucharest, 1996.

Evaluation: Exam, semester 1

Titular:[Link] Stanciu

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INFORMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN SOCIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY

OBJECTIVES
Developing skills in the efficient use of the computer. Use
The efficiency of the computer means not only having ease of use, but also at the same time
time its effective use as a tool in scientific research. Therefore, it will be put
the focus on the concepts that will be necessary in using the computer for storage
information obtained from a survey, creating diagrams, systematization
information etc. It will also be monitored how students approach the
issues related to the influence of computerization on certain areas of activity such as
in education, economy, medicine, etc.

THEMATIC CONTENT OF THE DISCIPLINE

[Link] concepts about the computer. Brief history, the functioning of a
Basic computer concepts (hardware, software).
2. Text editors. Presentation of some types of text editors: edit,
WordPad, Word, text document from StarOffice. Writing rules. Applications.
realizable with the help of a text editor: forms, tables, fax.
3. Types of spreadsheets. Excel and StarOffice spreadsheet. Introduction
and data processing using a spreadsheet. Databases: definition,
utility. Creating a database in Excel compared to the database in
FoxPro. Database operations: sorting and searching.
4. The usefulness of statistical applications in the analysis of economic phenomena
social
[Link] of informing and transmitting information with the help of
computer. Email, FTP. INTERNET – brief history. Basic concepts in
using the INTERNET: necessary hardware components for connection to
INTERNET. Types of connections: dial-up, LAN.
6. Positive aspects of implementing computers in different sectors
of activity
7. Negative aspects in the implementation of computers in various sectors
of activity

MANDATORY BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. C.M. Pomohaci, Applied Informatics in Sociology and Psychology, Publisher
Foundation of Romania of Tomorrow, Bucharest, 2003.

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 OPTIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. C.M. Pomohaci, Eugenia Vasilescu, Computer Science and Assisted Instruction
calculator,Editura FundaŃieiRomânia de Mâine, Bucureşti, 2002.
2. D.M. Mareş,Bazele informaticii,Editura FundaŃieiRomânia de Mâine,
Bucharest, 2000.

Assessment: Colloquium, semester 1

Professor Dr. Cristian Pomohaci

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 SOCIAL HISTORY

OBJECTIVE
The overall image of the discipline, which is conferred by the object of
research, methods and investigation techniques, research results, production
journalism, the place and role it occupies in the ensemble of social sciences. The concepts and
The new knowledge offered by the course constitutes an important interdisciplinary support, with
an overview for the history of Romanian and universal sociology. The structure of the course is
care are been developed in such a way as to meet both the stated objectives and the following ones
certification: to register in the rationality of the hours assigned to a semester; to offer a volume
sufficient and coherent specialized knowledge; to contribute to the creation of some
skills for scientific investigations in the field, with extensions in other areas.

THEMATIC CONTENT OF THE DISCIPLINE

1. Social knowledge versus the legitimization of social sciences. The purpose
cognitive social sciences. History, philosophy, sociology – convergences and
distinctions. The origins and evolution of social history.
2. Sources of social history. Scientific objectives. Methods and techniques of
research. Sources. Scientific objectives. Research methods and techniques.
3. Expanding the space of social history manifestation. Proliferation
research on oral sources. What is oral history; its scientific relevance;
A brief history of its evolution. Recovery of oral testimonies.
4. Perspective on achieving social syntheses. A pragmatic approach.
social history studies. The middle way or the choice of extremes: parcelization
social synthesis. Time and social space as dimensions of social reality.
The significance of social language.
5. The European destiny of the Romanian world. The territory - a natural given or a
the act of collective will. The interplay of factors and historical conditions. Advance, stagnation and
Return to the Southeast European space. Natural resources – a blessing or a burden
for Romanians. The variable geography of the Romanian space. The evolution of volume and
population structure.
6. Nature, man, Romanian community. The emergence of the human being. The image
of the primitive man. The conditions of the natural environment; the particularities of the Romanian territory;
adaptation to the environment. Ethnic individualization: premises, evolutionary phases, features.
7. The beginnings and evolution of social life. Constraints, restrictions, and factors
favoring human relationships. Early forms of social cohesion.
Multiplication and their development. The genesis and evolution of social differences.
8. Consolidation of the clientelistic system and dependent development. Trends
early periods of peripheralization of Southeast European communities. Migrants
indigenous. Defining a new type of social evolution. The nature and essence of relationships.
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with migrants. The tax system and its effects in the social plan. The village community–
social expression of agricultural communities and anti-dominator reactivity. The succession
dominant types. The "model" of dependent development.
9. Rural and urban communities. Emphasizing the agrarian character of
Romanian society. The genesis, typology and evolution of the Romanian village. The emergence
cities. Hypotheses, and ways of constitution. "The Romanian city" as a product
Autochthon. Influence of endogenous and exogenous factors on territorial communities.
10. Social structures and relations (I). The slow evolution towards modernism.
The agricultural dominance of social structures as a result of the eternalization of the 'problem'
Nărăneș ti. The essence of land relations. 'Local' distinctions.
11. Social structures and relationships (II). Accelerating the rhythms of development
[Link] of the modernization trend: bourgeoisie, working class, classes
the middle. The bourgeois dominance of social and class structures.
12. Society - nation. Some concepts and theories regarding the emergence of society and
the nation. Society as a social system. The genesis and evolution of society and the nation
Romanian. "The national problem" - a primordial social issue. Perspectives and
fulfillments of the national ideal. The unitary national state.

SEMINAR TOPICS (DAYTIME EDUCATION)

1. History, sociology, social history - convergences and distinctions. The origins and
the evolution of social history.
2. Recovering oral testimonies: methods, techniques, relevance.
3. Indigenous migrators. Defining a new type of social evolution.
4. The tributary arrangement.
5. Assume the ways of establishing the 'Romanian city'.
6. The Genesis of the Middle Classes.
7. Concepts and theories regarding the genesis of society. Constitution and evolution
Romanian society.

MANDATORY BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Florian Tănăsescu,Istorie socială,Editura FundaŃieiRomânia de Mâine,
Bucharest, 2004.

SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Traian Herseni, Sociology. The General Theory of Social Life, Bucharest,
Scientific and Encyclopedic Publishing House, 1982.
2. Nicolae Radu, Carmen Furtună and others, Socio-human transformations in Romania
the 20th century. From the traditional community to the post-communist society,
Bucharest, Foundation Publishing House Romania of Tomorrow, 1996.

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 3. Henri H. Stahl, Controversy of Romanian Social History, Bucharest,
1969.

Evaluation: Exam, semester 1

Titular:[Link] Tănăsescu

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 EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

OBJECTIVE
Acquisition of information and specific concepts in the field known as 'Psychology'
of education
Understanding the evolution of the field over time
The ability to compare and take achievements from the field of psychology
education from different cultures
Operating with specific concepts such as: pedagogical psychology, pedagogy
psychological, general and specific intellect, etc.
The transfer of knowledge gained in practice, namely in the analysis of manuals,
different categories of curricula etc.

THEMATIC CONTENT OF THE DISCIPLINE

Moments of the establishment of educational psychology, achieved through the summation of some
contributions come from very different directions: psychological pedagogy, active school,
pedagogical psychology etc.
2. The stages of psychological development: J. Piaget (cognitive development), L.
Kohlberg (dez-voltarea morală), E. Erikson (dezvoltarea psihosocială).
Characterization of school ages.
3. The significance of contributions in the field of educational psychology from different individuals.
Thinkers belonging to the tradition: [Link]. Herbart, E. Muemann, W.A. Lay, etc.
4. Contributions of active school to the field of education: J. Dewey, Ellen Key,
Maria Montessori etc.
5. The place and role of ideological pedagogy in understanding the child’s psyche.
6. The concern for solving the theoretical problems of psychology
pedagogy (the achievements of L.S. Vygotsky, S.L. Rubinstein, A.N. Leontiev).
7. The necessity of integration into educational psychology of both the achievements of psychology
pedagogy, as well as the psychology of education. The problem of teaching technologies.
8. General intellect and specific intellect: definitions, applications in practice
curricular.

TOPIC OF SEMINARS (DAYTIME EDUCATION)

1. [Link]. Herbart. Determinants of pedagogical thinking; representatives in different
Countries (the her-barbarians from the USA, Germany, France, Romania); what remains valid from
Herbartian pedagogical thought to this day.
2. The contribution of Meumann and Lay to the development of educational psychology;
Continuity and discontinuity in the evolution of pedagogical thinking - experiment in
pedagogy; A. Binet and the relationship with classical pedagogical thinking; from experiential to
experiment.
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 3. The active school. Social determinants, representations and developments; modernization
proposed school of "active school"; contribution of the active school to development
the psychology of education and the contribution of psychology to the evolution of the active school.
4. The psychology of education in the U.S. version. The contribution of B.F. Skinner;
programmed learning - the first fully developed psychological pedagogy.
5. Specific intellect problem. General intellect, multiple or from
Spearman and Gardner; specific intelligence for different fields of education;
the problem of constructing the desired anticipated intellect.

MANDATORY BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. N. Radu, A. Ionescu, L. Goran, D. Vasile, Psychology of Education, Publisher
Foundation of Tomorrow's Romania, Bucharest, 2005.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OPTIONAL
1. A. Cosmovici, L. Iacob,Psihologieşcolară,Editura Polirom,
Bucharest, 1999.

Evaluation: Colloquium, semester 1

Title: University Lecturer Dr. Laura Băzărea

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 THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY

OBJECTIVES
Understanding and operating with various psychological perspectives as a intertwining of
theoretical, problematic and ideative, hypothetical and experimental, invariant
flexible.
The understanding of the genesis of contemporary Psychology not as a succession of
attempts and theorizing, but as the genesis of a major system of concepts through
problematic, study, verification and validation.
The understanding of thinking about the psyche in the great historical periods before
focusing on the scientific experiment, when concepts were supported by philosophical ideas,
physiological and sociological.
Assimilation of the main 'invariances', paradigms, definitions, problems,
Solutions and applications that mark the evolution of psychology as a science.
Knowledge of prominent personalities, with major contributions to
the progress of Psychology, of their epoch and work.
Conducting comparative studies of concepts and methodologies
various systems for understanding approaches as compatible alternatives in
certain grades.

THEMATIC CONTENT OF THE SUBJECT

1. Epistemological premises of divergent thinking in Psychology.
The problem of the objective, method, product, evolution and the relationship with others
Science. Criteria for defining systems and theories in Psychology. Classicism and
Neoclassicism. Phenomenology, paradigm, change, the Odoblejian model of
Ties of fact - theory.
[Link] ideas within ancient philosophy. Conceptual frameworks in
the psycho-logical thinking of the ancient Orient, psycho-physiology, ethics, epistemology.
The soul as the essence and principle of life in ancient Greece: the school of 'physicists' from
Milet, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, the Eleatic school, Democritus; sophists and Socrates; Plato,
Aristotle, Epicurus Lucretius. Ideas about the soul in the doctors of antiquity.
[Link] Ages and the Renaissance. Aurelius Augustinus – the last thinker of the world
old; Avicenna; Roger Bacon; Thomas Aquinas; Tommaso Campanella; Leonardo da
Vinci; Fr. Bacon; Th. Hobbes; Descartes; Malebranche; Pascal; Spinoza; J. Locke.
4. Psychological thinking during the 'French materialism' period
the 18th century. Condillac; La Mettrie; Cabanis; D'Holbach; Helvetius;
Diderot.
5. Associationism. Th. Hobbes, G. Berkeley, D. Hume, Fr. Bacon, Th.
Brown, J. Mill, J. St. Mill, Al. Bain, H. Ebbinghaus; I. P. Pavlov, Vl. Bechterev;
Ed. L. Thorndike, Ed. R. Guthrie.

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 6. Psychological Structuralism: Fr. Brentano, G. Fechner, H. Helmholtz, W.
Wundt, Ed. Titchener, C. Stumpf, O. Külpe, Ed. Boring.
[Link]Ńionalism:Fr. Galton, Ch. Darwin, G. Romanes, C. L. Morgan,
[Link], J. Baldwin, W. James, Ed. L. Thorndike, J. Dewey, R. Woodworth.
8. Behaviorism: preparatory ideas for Darwin, Morgan, Loeb, Descartes, La
Metrie, Cabanis, Comte, Cattell, Thorndike, Pavlov; Watson the founder
behaviorism; A. Weiss, Hunter, Lashley, Tolman, Guthrie and C. Hull.
[Link] psychology: Fr. Brentano, Ch. Ehremfels, W. James, J. Dewey, G.
E. Müller, D. Katz. Founders: Wertheimer, Katz. Founders: Wertheimer, Köhler,
Koffka, K. Lewin.
[Link]: Precursors – Leibniz, Goethe, Fechner, Darwin; beginners
Herbart, Schopenhauer, Charcot; founder – S. Freud; developments by Adler, Jung,
Fereczi, Fank, Horney, Sullivan, Fromm.
11. American humanistic psychology. "The Psychology of Action" - a trajectory
conceptual pregnant in Contemporary Psychology: P. Janet, L.S. Vygotsky
A.N. Leontiev, J. Piaget, J.P. Guilford. Creatology - a perspective on
potential and actions humane: A. Osborn, W. Gordon,
S. Parnes, E.P. Torrance.
12. The history of psychology in Romania. The pre-experimental and
modern

THEMATIC SEMINARS (FULL-TIME EDUCATION)

1. The importance of Plato for the genesis of modern psychology. Work.
Psychological concepts. Theory of Ideas. The myth of the cave – text analysis.
2. Aristotelian conception in the genesis of the psychological idea. Work. Analysis of
On the Soul. The Aristotelian conception of psychic processes.
3. Associationism versus Gestaltism. The premises of Associationism as
paradigm and current in psychology. Associative conception. Critiques brought
Associationism by the representatives of Gestaltism. The premises of the idea.
gestaltist.
4. Structuralism versus Behaviorism and Functionalism. Analysis
comparative analysis of texts - W. Wundt, W. Jones, J. Watson.
5. Psychoanalysis. The epistemological rupture produced by S. Freud. The work of S.
Freud - text analysis. Contributions and critiques. C.G. Jung and A. Adler.
Neopsychanalysis.
6. "The Psychology of Action". Conceptual Trajectories: J. Piaget, L.S. Vygotsky, P.
Janet. Analizăde texte.
7. The Romanian psychological school. C-tin Rădulescu-Motru, Gh. Zapan, M.
Ralea, V. Pavelcu - text analysis. Consonantist psychology - Sh. Odobleja.

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 MANDATORY BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Gr. Nicola, The History of Psychology, Foundation Romania of Tomorrow Publishing House,
Bucharest, 2004.

OPTIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Aristotle, On the Soul, Scientific Publishing, Bucharest, 1996.
2. Laertios Diogene,Despre vieŃileşi doctrinele filosofilor, Editura Polirom,
Iaşi, 1997.
3. Ion Mânzat,Istoria psihologiei universale,Editura Titu Maiorescu,
Bucharest, 1994.

Evaluation: Exam, semester 2

Titular:[Link] Nicola

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 DATA ANALYSIS

OBJECTIVES
- Familiarizing students with the use of the concepts taught in Computer Science and
Statistics for the analysis and interpretation of data resulting from processing
data collected from the field
Familiarizing students with new methods of data presentation and how to
that these can be done with the help of the computer.
Developing skills in computer use in processing work
and data analysis

THEMATIC CONTENT OF THE DISCIPLINE

1. Introductory course. The role and place of data analysis in sociological research.
Data analysis as a path between the data included in primary statistics and the information that
it brings us closer to the understanding of the phenomenon.
2. Data presentation tools: Diagrams, charts and their role in
data analysis
3. Classic statistical instruments for data processing: statistical indices,
parametric statistical tests, correlations, regressions. The danger of forced 'mathematization' of
research.
4. Other statistical instruments for data processing: Nonparametric tests:
median test, sign test, Wilcoxon test. Non-parametric correlation tests.
5. Storage instruments and presentation of results. Databases,
Graphs.
6. Specialized programs in sociological research. Presentation of SPSS.
Data entry in SPSS. Creating charts in SPSS. Similarities and
differences between SPSS and Excel.
7. Data processing using the computer. Creating a database of
data in SPSS and in Excel. Statistical functions in SPSS. Statistical functions in Excel.
The inclusion of these in the research report.
8. Case studies
9. Completion of the research. Partial conclusions, final conclusions. New directions
of continuing the research.

MANDATORY BIBLIOGRAPHY
C. Pomohaci, Informatics used for applications in sociology and
psychology, Foundation Publishing House Romania of Tomorrow, Bucharest, 2007.
2. C. Pomohaci, Daniela Pârlea, Data Analysis, Foundation Romania Publishing
From Tomorrow, Bucharest, 2007.
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 OPTIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. P. Rateau, Methodologizing Experimental Statistics, Polirom Publishing House, Iaș i,
2004.
2. T. Rotariu, G. Bădescu, I. Culic, E. Mezei, C. Mureşan, Statistical Methods
applied social sciences, Polirom Publishing House, Iaşi.
3. T. Rotariu, P. IluŃ, Sociological investigation and opinion poll, Publishing House
Polirom, Iaș i, 1997.

Evaluation: Exam, semester 2

Titular:[Link] Pomohaci

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 SOCIOLOGY OF POPULATION AND DEMOGRAPHY

OBJECTIVE
The course aims to provide a coherent set of information regarding the population
as a subsystem of the global social system, the main variables and phenomena
demographics and the ways of analyzing and measuring them, as well as
The significant characteristics of the state and movement of the population at the internal level
international.

THEMATIC CONTENT OF THE DISCIPLINE

1. Demographic Science.
2. The distribution of the population on Earth.
3. The population number.
4. The structure of the population according to demographic characteristics.
5. Natalitate. Fertilitate. NupŃialitate. DivorŃialitate.
6. Population mortality.
7. The migratory movement of the population.
8. Population - resources - environment.
9. Theories about population.
10. Demographic policies.

SEMINAR TOPICS (DAYTIME EDUCATION)

1. The history of demography.
2. Factors that influence territorial spread and population density.
3. The modern population census.
4. The importance of the "age pyramid" in demographic analysis.
5. The evolution of birth and death rates before and after December '89.
6. Infant mortality - an indicator of quality of life.
Causes and consequences of migration.

MANDATORY BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dan Roşca, Introduction to the Sociology of Population and Demography, Publishing House
Institute of Tomorrow's Romania, Bucharest, 2003.

OPTIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Nicolae Ilinca,Geografie umană, Editura Corint, Bucureşti, 1999.

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 2. V. Sora, I. Hristache, C. Mihăescu, Demography and Social Statistics
Economic Publishing, Bucharest, 1996.

Evaluare:Examen, semestrul 2

Titular:[Link] Roşca

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 STATISTICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN SOCIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY

OBJECTIVES
Training students on the use of statistical methods and techniques
the appropriation of mathematics with its application in social sciences. Knowledge
the main methods and classical statistical techniques, useful in concrete research
and the analyses that are required in the social field.

THEMATIC CONTENT OF THE DISCIPLINE

1. Elements of mathematical statistics. Statistical population. Data grouping.
FrecvenŃăabsolută, frecvenŃărelativă. FrecvenŃe cumulate. Serii statistice.
Characteristics: mode, median, arithmetic mean, variance. Theoretical distributions
experimental distributions. Linear, quadratic, log-linear adjustment. The method of least squares
Gauss's square mice.
2. Random variable. Definition of random variable. Operations with variables.
random. Independent random variables. Typical values of random variables:
valoarea medie, mediana, modul, abaterea de la medie, dispersia, abaterea medie
square. Covariance. Correlation coefficient. Rank correlation. Coefficient
Spearman's correlation. Kendall's coefficient. Correlation coefficients.
partial and multiple.
3. Regression analysis.
4. Dependency Analysis (Causal). Recursive models (of the Simon type, H.
Blalock, R. Boudon, Duncan and Alker
5. Research and statistical analysis. The census, the survey, the investigation
social, monograph. Building statistical indicators. Analysis of series
interdependent. Dispersion analysis.
6. The statistical survey. The basic characteristics of the statistical survey. The basis of
survey. Sampling. Sampling methods. The survey in homogeneous populations
neomogene. Grad de reprezentativitate. Nivel de încredere. Tehnici de eşantionare.
Types of sampling. Types of errors. Organizing a survey. The file of a survey.
Building a survey base. Building a model of national sampling.
Processing and analysis of survey data. Methods for improving the obtained results
in the statistical survey.
7. The opinion questionnaire (psychosocial). Types of questions. Analysis
scale. Construction of scales. Response errors. Non-responses. Analysis
informational sociological questionnaire.
[Link] test in the theory and practice of surveys. Hypothesis testing
null. Confidence interval. The "t" test. (Student, χ2, etc.).
9. Qualitative analysis of random variables.

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 10. Modern methods in the study of social systems. Aggregate indicators.
Multicriteria elections and Arrow's theorem. Elements of stability theory
structure and morphogenesis (René Thom).

THEMATIC SEMINARS (DAYTIME EDUCATION)

1. Operations with events. Definition of probability. Frequencies.
2. Classic probability schemes (Poisson, Bernoulli, polynomial, balls)
returned
3. Valoare medie, mediana, modul, abaterea, dispersia, abaterea medie
square, covariance, correlation coefficient.
4. Distribution function. Distribution density. Normal law.
5. Elements of mathematical statistics.
Research and statistical analysis.
7. Significance test in the theory and practice of the survey.

MANDATORY BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. P. Alexandrescu,Statistica socială,Editura Paralela 45, Piteşti, 2004.

OPTIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. D. Sandu, Statistics in Social Sciences, University of Bucharest, 1992.
2. T. Rotariu, P. IluŃ, Sociological survey and opinion poll, Publisher
Polirom, Iasi, 1997.
3. T. Rotariu, G. Bădescu, Applied Statistical Methods in Social Sciences, Publishing House
Polirom, Iaș i, 1999.
4. S. Chelcea, The Methodology of Sociological Research. Quantitative Methods and
qualitative, Economic Publishing, Bucharest, 2001.
5. D. Porojan,Statisticaşi teoria sondajului, EdituraŞansa, Bucureşti, 1993.

Assessment: Colloquium, semester 2

Title: Conf. Univ. Dr. Petruş Alexandrescu

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 ANTHROPOLOGY

OBJECTIVES
Introduction of a course in social and cultural anthropology in the curriculum
students in sociology psychology aims at: understanding man and society from
anthropological perspective: man integrated into his culture; acquiring a serious
theoretical forms (knowledge of all currents, schools, anthropological theories,
the way anthropological knowledge has grown) and at the same time modeling
future researchers according to their own calling of cultural anthropology - to be
direct knowledge, on-site, based on 'field' (field-work); integration
anthropological perspectives of the socio-logical and psychological in explaining some
phenomena; modeling a new attitude in understanding others - other cultures,
human groups, but they face their own culture; the use of theoretical tools and
the own conceptual of anthropology in understanding the world we live in; attraction
students in research activities.

THEMATIC CONTENT OF THE DISCIPLINE

1. Cultural and Social Anthropology - Overview. Birth
anthropology. The object of cultural anthropology. The specificity of knowledge
anthropological.
2.Şcoli, curenteşi reprezentanŃiI. Marea Britanie. SUA. FranŃa. Germania
3. Schools, currents, and representatives. France. Germany
4. Anthropological research. Themes, fields, subfields. Methods of
research in cultural anthropology. The comparative approach. Observation and description.
The stories of life (biography, autobiography, ethnobiography)
5. Culture - the symbolic order of the world. Symbol. Sign. Signified. Order.
and symbolic order. Cultural complex. The fundamental categories of understanding:
time, space, classification, type, number etc.
6. Central themes of cultural and social anthropology I: Myths, rituals,
rituals, ceremonies, celebrations.
7. Central themes of cultural and social anthropology II: Religion.
Systems of prohibitions (taboos). Classification systems (totems).
8. Central themes of cultural and social anthropology III: Systems of
symbolic exchange. The gift. The sacrifice. Kinship. The family. The domestic group.
9. Central themes of cultural and social anthropology IV: Systems of
symbolic efficacy. Magic. Mana. Witchcraft. Shamanism.
Current themes in anthropology. Identity and ethnic identity. Nation
and nationalism. Localization and globalization. Traditional visions of the world vs.
stereotypical visions of the world.
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 THEMATIC SEMINARS (FULL-TIME EDUCATION)
1. The relationships of anthropology with ethnography, ethnology, and other social sciences
humanities: psychology, psychoanalysis, sociology, history, the history of religions, linguistics,
archeology
2. The Institutionalization of Anthropology in Romania
3. Anthropological research in Romania. Traian Herseni, Ancient forms of
Romanian folk culture
4. Anthropological research in Romania. Ion Ionică, Dealul Mohului.
Wedding ceremony in Olt.
5. Analysis of myths. Applications in the study of Romanian mythology
6. The report of nature-culture. Symbolic order (cultural) – cosmic order
(natural). Ex: The Romanian popular calendar. Customs from the life cycle.
Habits in the agricultural cycle
7. Mapping of cultural facts. The Romanian ethnographic atlas
8. Research on the structure of collective property in the region of Vrancea, Banat
of mountain Bistriț a-Năsăud

MANDATORY BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. J. Copans, Introduction to Ethnology and Anthropology, Polirom Publishing House, Iaşi,
1999
2.***Dictionary of Ethnology and Anthropology, Polirom Publishing House, Ia ș i, 2000
3. V. Mihăilescu, Anthropology. Five Introductions, Polorim Publishing, Iaș i,
2007
4. M. Eliade, Treatise on the History of Religions, Humanitas Publishing, Bucharest, 1992

OPTIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY:
1. E. Cassirer,Eseu despre om, Humanitas, Bucureşti, 1994.
E. Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Polirom Publishing House,
Iaşi, 1995
3. J. Goody, European Family. An Attempt at Historical Anthropology.
Polirom Publishing House, Iaşi, 1998
4. C.C. Harris,RelaŃiile de rudenie, Editura Du Style, BucureŃti, 1998
5. P. Stahl, Tribes and villages from Southeast Europe, Paidea Publishing, Bucharest,
2000
6. Ghe. Şişeştean, Anthropology and Sociology of the Sacred, Lekton Publishing
Zalău, 2002
7. A. Van Gennep,Rituri de trecere, Editura Polirom, Iaşi, 1996

Assessment: Exam, semester 2

Title: University Lecturer Dr. Monica Popa

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 ENGLISH LANGUAGE

OBJECTIVE
For beginners:
Introduction to: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Ensuring a progressive evolution until reaching an average level at
the end of the year.
Acquiring a good portion (approx. 1/3) of the active vocabulary, of approx. 1300-1500
words from the semi-active of approximately 1000 words from grammatical structures.
For advanced users:
Verification and consolidation of previously acquired knowledge.
Vocabulary. Teaching of new lexical knowledge, in order to acquire understanding.
a vocabulary of about 1000 active and compound words over 500 words
significant and the corresponding grammatical structures.
- Grammar. In addition to the repetition - in different forms - of the known structures,
it will advance in the knowledge of the elements of grammar previously acquired, through new
skills.
Teaching vocabulary and grammar and their active acquisition.
Grammar. In addition to the repetition - in different forms - of the known structures,
it will advance the knowledge of the grammar elements previously acquired, through new
knowledge.
Acquisition and use of an active vocabulary based on the essential vocabulary of
English language, in speaking (dialogue), writing (compositions) etc.

THEMATIC CONTENT OF THE DISCIPLINE

1. Listening. Presentation of vocabulary and checking its acquisition as:
pronunciation and intonation.
2. Speaking – carrying out an exercise as extensively as possible, together with
the professor and individual (outside of class), for proper mastery of speaking - the role
self-effort, in order to achieve the best possible outcome.
3. Reading - presentation and acquisition of phonetic transcription, for acquisition
correctness of pronunciation and intonation. The difference between the Romanian and English languages.
4. Writing acquisition of correct writing - after listening, speaking and
reading, through intense exercises during classes and especially individually, through copying,
dictation and various other writing exercises. Spelling rules.
[Link] modale: forma simplă şi continuă, forma afirmativă, interogativă,
negative
6. Pronouns: personal, declension, demonstrative
7. The numeral: cardinal, ordinal
8. The imperative (correspondence with the subjunctive)
[Link] hotărât: folosire, regulişi excepŃii
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 10. Indefinite article: use, rules, and exceptions
11. The noun: number, regular and irregular, spelling, endings (written)
pronounce), different forms of plural, case.
12. The adjective: invariant, comparison (monosyllabic, disyllabic, multisyllabic),
irregular (good, bad etc)
13. The verb (extension): regular and irregular verbs, the continuous aspect (past,
future), modes: conditional, subjunctive, infinitive (long, short, usage),
conjugation: passive, active, tense concordance, contracted form, comparison
between the grammars of Romanian and English languages, modal verbs
[Link]: timp, loc, aşezarea lor
[Link]: location, use
16. Diverse: expressing time (hour), short and entire answers, who/what, as
demonstrative subjects, possessive adjectives and pronouns, adjectives and pronouns: there is,
some, any, no + compounds, word order in sentences, changing categories
grammatical (verb/noun, adjective/noun), disjunctive questions.

MANDATORY BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. R. Stefan, S. Marcoci, R. Vasilescu, E. Beldea, Come along, Publishing House
Foundation for Romania of Tomorrow, Bucharest, 2005.
2. G. GălăŃeanu,Sinteze de gramaticăengleză,Editura Humanitas,
Bucharest, 2002.

OPTIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Victor Hanea, V. Ştefănescu-Drăgăneşti, Quick English Course
Romanian Publishing House, Bucharest, 1992.
2. Roxana Alexandrescu, Learning for Life - Just Another Way Past one
A.S.E., Bucharest, 1995.

Evaluation: Colloquium, semester 1

Professor: University Lecturer Dr. Elisabeta Marcoci

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 FRENCH LANGUAGE

OBJECTIVES
Acquiring reading, oral communication, and written communication skills in the language
French
Reinforcement of previously acquired knowledge of French grammar.
Developing communicative practices.

THEMATIC CONTENT OF THE DISCIPLINE

[Link]-professional relationships
2. Situations of current oral and written socio-professional communication
3. Morphosyntax of the proposition - thematic content (Salute, inform oneself;
["Make contact, inquire;","Ask for directions;","At the hotel;","Phone;","To oneself"]
["complain about his room","Take the train","Take the plane","Call a taxi","Take"]
le métro; Prendre un verre; Chez le boulanger; Chez l’épicier; Chez le boucher;
["Buy a gift","At the restaurant","At the post office","Shopping"]
4. Morphosyntax of the proposition - linguistic content (The article: defined,
indefinite, partitive; The noun; The qualifying adjective; The degrees of meaning of
the adjective; The agreement of the adjective; The possessive adjective and the demonstrative adjective;
["The numeral adjective;","Exclamatory adjectives;","Indefinite adjectives;","The pronoun;"]
Personal pronouns - object; The reflexive personal pronoun and the pronoun
possessive; The adverbial pronouns; The demonstrative pronouns; The verb; The
simple indicative tenses (present, future, imperfect, past composed;
The imperative; The present conditional
5. Morphosyntax - Communicative practices (Greet; Introduce oneself; Take
congé; Poser des questions; Demander son chemin; Refuser; Conseiller /
{"recomander / suggérer":"recommend / suggest","Se renseigner":"Inquire","Téléphoner":"Call","Demander à quelqu'un de faire":"Ask someone to do"}
["something","to complain / to express satisfaction","to suggest","to ask for an opinion"]
(to give an opinion)

MANDATORY BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Emilia Bondrea, Carmen Dumitriu, The Company in Situations, Publishing House
Foundation of Romania of Tomorrow, Bucharest, 2004.
2. S. Drăgoi Făinişi, Emilia Bondrea, French in Situations, Publishing House
Foundation of Tomorrow's Romania, Bucharest, 2004.
3. Teodora Cristea, Emilia Bondrea, Elements of French Grammar,
Foundation Publishing House Romania of Tomorrow, Bucharest, 2004.

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 OPTIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. M. Saraş, M. Ştefănescu, Practical grammar of the French language, Publishing House
ŞtiinŃifică şi Enciclopedică, Bucureşti, 1976.
2. I.P. Cenuşe, G. Lupchian, D. Neguş, French language for people of
business, Expert Publishing, Bucharest, 1993.

Assessment: Colloquium, semester 1

Title: Univ. Lecturer Corina Diaconescu

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 EXTRACTS FROM THE "REGULATION"
REGARDING THE PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY OF STUDENTS

Art. 18. At the beginning of each academic year, the management of the faculties brings to
the knowledge of students in the subjects provided in the curriculum for the year
respectively study, forms of knowledge assessment (exam, colloquium,
check on the course structure of the academic year, as well as the criteria for
promotion based on the system of transferable credits.
Art. 19. The academic year is made up of two semesters, the duration of a semester
lasting 14 weeks, with the exception of the last semester of the final year, which, having
In view of the graduation exam, it may have a shorter duration, established by the councils.
faculties (but not less than 11 weeks).
Art. 20. At Spiru Haret University, 3 exam sessions are organized:
winter session, summer session, autumn session. Volume and level
The required knowledge for exams and colloquia is established in accordance with the curriculum.
the analysis of the respective discipline.
Art. 22. Examination and other forms of knowledge assessment provided in
the curriculum of a study year is supported, free of charge, in the established sessions
for the respective academic year, according to the structure of the academic year.
Art. 23. Students have the right to attend the exam/colloquium only if they ...
they have fulfilled all professional obligations (practical work, projects, papers, etc.)
stabilized through the analytical program of the respective discipline and fulfilled all obligations
financing (tuition fee, examination fee for retakes, accommodation in the dormitory, etc.).
Art. 32. The enrollment of the student in the next year of study is done, at
request, on the condition that it (he/she) obtains this in the academic year
precedent, at least 50% of the total credit points provided in the plan of
curriculum of the academic year (mandatory and optional subjects).
Art. 34. The student who repeats the year is equated, upon request,
the exams/colloquiums passed in the previous academic year.
Art. 35. Remaining exams/colloquia from the previous year or years of study
can be supported, at the written request of the student and with the approval of the faculty management,
in the sessions established by the structure of the academic year or in special pre-sessions
organized over the following university years, with the payment of the established fee
University Senate.
Article 37. Based on a written request, approved by the faculty dean, the student
may support, in the sessions provided by the university year's structure, an exam of
increase of the grade in one or more subjects that he/she has previously passed, in the year
study fee, paying the fee set by the University Senate. The exam of
grade increases are granted to the subjects in the academic year in which the student is enrolled
registered. In the situation where the student demonstrates a higher level of preparation, the professor

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The examiner records in the subject catalog the increased grade obtained and
mention: grade increase. When awarding the merit scholarship, it is taken into consideration
the first promotion note obtained, and not the increased one.
Art. 38. At Spiru Haret University, the curricula are organized
according to the transferable credit system. Credits are a numeric value
allocated to a field of study, a value that designates the volume of work of
student's participation in classes, seminars, laboratories, projects, study
individual, exam preparation, practical activities/clinical internships etc., sufficient and
necessary to ensure the assimilation of the respective discipline.
Art. 40. The number of mandatory credits for a year of study, obtained at
the mandatory and optional disciplines amount to 60, for all forms of university studies
of license.
Art. 41. They are declared graduates of the faculty and may register for the exam of
Only students who have passed all exams from all years of study receive the license.
obtaining the 180 necessary credits. (...)
Art. 45. Transfer to Spiru Haret University of students from
authorized or accredited specializations from other higher education institutions,
it is done by September 25 of the calendar year, under the conditions of fulfillment
criteria set forth in this Regulation for its own students (art. 32), with
recognition of the study periods completed and with the obligation of supporting
resits or difference exams. The transfer is approved by
President of the University.
Article 46. Within the Spiru Haret University, students can transfer from one
transfer to another university, with identical or similar profiles, from one form of education to another
(zi, reduced frequency, distance learning) within the same faculty, with support
difference exams. Transfer requests must be submitted at least one week in advance.
before the opening of the academic year, at the secretariats of the faculties that are to
the student receives approval from the dean of the faculty from which they are leaving
the student is approved by the dean of the faculty who accepts him/her.
Art. 49. The professional activity of the day student(s),
from reduced attendance education or distance learning can be
interrupted in motivated cases, at their request, without being considered a repeat.
with the approval of the faculty dean. The academic situation of these students is concluded
with the mention: interruption of studies. Re-enrollment for that year is done in
base of the interruption request, with the payment of the tuition fee and does not require another
approval.

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 USEFUL ADDRESS

Rectorate: Spiru Haret University

Bucureşti, Str. Ion Ghica, nr. 13, Sector 3
Telefoane: [Link], [Link]
E-mail: info@[Link]

Faculty of Sociology - Psychology

Bucureşti, B-dul Basarabia, nr. 256, sector 2.
Telefoane: [Link], [Link]
E-mail: ushsp@[Link], ushsp_id@[Link]

Department for Teacher Training

Bucureşti, Str. Ion Ghica, nr.13, Sector 3
Telefoane: [Link], [Link]
E-mail: ushdppd@[Link]

Spiru Haret University Club

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