Core Elective Courses – min. 12 ECTS

Goals of the course: 

• This course aims at sharpening students’ perception of diversity by identifying all kinds of cultural signs, signals and artefacts, such as shops, restaurants, cultural spaces, characteristic /symbolic places, organizations, neighbourhoods, etc. – in a way this is ethnographic fieldwork in an urban setting.
• Diversity will be approached in different ways: readings, enquiries, personal observation, art production.

Content of the course:

• Students will explore concept of diversity and Super-diversity and its corollaries, such as equality of chances, non-discrimination, etc. through readings, class discussions and ethnographic fieldwork observations.
• The basic theoretical developments around the core concepts (Super-diversity and intercultural communication) will be introduced in the first half of the course. After that, students will prepare a mini-ethnographic fieldwork.

Goals of the course: The aims of this course are:

• To introduce students to the methods of analysis in moral, political and legal philosophy, as applied to business ethics.
• To enhance student’s critical reasoning skills, as applied to ethical issues in business.
• To improve student’s ability to productively engage in discussions of difficult and controversial ethical questions.
• To improve student’s ability to analyze complex ethical issues in business.

Content of the course: This course covers the various legal, economic and ethical issues in the creation of wealth. Managers in today’s world must concern themselves with ethical issues, because unethical business practices create legal risks and thus causes damages to shareholders, employees, customers, and society. Additionally, this course explores the concept of values, morality, and conduct in creation of wealth via commerce and moreover, we will explore different cultural beliefs in all aspects of business from the fiduciary responsibility of management to shareholders, consumer rights, corporate governance and social responsibility. Readings in the course will be drawn from classical and contemporary economists and philosophers and will cover issues involving the origin and justification of private property, the role of prices and opportunity costs in market exchange, the regulation of commerce, corporate governance, freedom and equality, and the relationship between humankind, economy, and the state. Special attention will focus on legal cases involving ethical issues in business.

Goals of the course: The course aims to provide an overview of the main practices and developments of e-government and e-democracy. Additionally, the course provides the students with several practical skills in digital service design and cyber security, as well as understanding the major e-government regulations and practices, detecting misinformation campaigns in the media, and using digital tools for civic participation.

Content of the course: The major concepts and notions of e-government and e-democracy. Contemporary digital societies and their features. The main framework and regulations of e-government in Estonia (and other selected countries). Cyber hygiene and everyday cyber behaviour. Cybersecurity. Digital service design – the concepts, notions, target groups and users. Digital service design - good practices for the public, private and the third sector. AI and digital services. E-elections – accessibility and safety. E-democracy and the tools for e-participation. Cyber-attacks against elections and disinformation campaigns. Geopolitics and the new digital challenges. E-government in Estonia – the evolution and contemporary challenges.

Goals of the course: To create an opportunity to put the acquired knowledge into practice and to acquire skills through social entrepreneurship abroad, concentrating on business development and project management practice, and to create prerequisites for independent professional development.

Content of the course: Traineeship abroad may be carried out in organisations where one can do development work for social entrepreneurship in one or many fields. Before going abroad for traineeship, the student, school (supervisor of the traineeship) and placement organisation agree on the conditions and content of the traineeship abroad.