History of the Faculty
1964 - the establishment of the Department of Political Science, Maria Curie-Sk?odowska University
1975 - the transformation of the Department of Political Science into the Inter-University Institute of Political Science, Maria Curie-Sk?odowska University
1980 - starting full-time MA programmes in political science
1990 - starting extramural MA programmes in political science
1991 - the transformation of the Inter-University Institute of Political Science into the Institute of Political Science, Maria Curie-Sk?odowska University
1992 - acquisition of the right to confer a doctoral degree
1993 - the transformation of the University's Institute of Political Science into the Faculty of Political Science, Maria Curie-Sk?odowska University
2000 - starting a full time MA programme in international relations
2001- acquisition of the right to confer a postdoctoral degree i.e. PhD (habil.) and the right to motion for the conferral of an academic title
The origins of the Faculty of Political Science date back to 1964, when Prof. Dr habil. [postdoctoral degree] Grzegorz Leopold Seidler was Rector of Maria Curie-Sk?odowska University. It was then, with consultation with the Rector, that Dr Jan Szreniawski, a member of the Law and Administration Faculty's academic staff, started organizing the Department of Political Science. The Department's first academic staff were Józef Juszczy?ski, Edward Olszewski, Bogus?aw Paw?owski and Ziemowit Jacek Pietra?, all MA's.
After five years, in1969, Dr Albin Koprukowniak, associate professor and historian from the University's Faculty of Humanities, was appointed Head of the Department. He managed, after many years of endeavours, to integrate similar departments at the Medical Academy, Agricultural Academy and the Lublin Technical University. On 14 June 1975 the Inter-University Institute of Political Science at Maria Curie-Sk?odowska University was established. Its academic staff, whose numbers considerably increased, taught a course in fundamentals of political science. Along with philosophy and political economics, it formed the so-called humanities block taught obligatorily at all state-owned universities and colleges.
An important event in the development of political science at Maria Curie-Sk?odowska University was the starting of a five-year full-time MA programme in political science in 1980. At the same time the Inter-University Institute became, in the structure of the University, an institute with the status of a faculty. A year later, for the first time a member of the Institute's staff, associate professor Ziemowit Jacek Pietra?, PhD was elected Director of the Inter-University Institute, which he headed until January 1982. He was dismissed after the imposition of martial law. This post was taken by associate professor Edward Olszewski, PhD who remained Director until 1990. In June 1990 Prof. Dr habil. Jan Jachymek was elected Director of the Inter-University Institute. In the same year an extramural MA programme was started. On the motion of the Institute Board, on 8 June 1991 the University's Academic Senate passed a resolution, which changed the name of the Inter-University Institute into the Institute of Political Science.
Under the new conditions of systemic transformation the Institute was intensely developing. In the 1990s seven academic staff received the title of full professor, several were appointed associate professors, over a dozen received a postdoctoral degree (Dr habil.) , and many were awarded doctoral degrees. In April1992 the Central Commission for the Scientific Title and Degrees granted the Institute the right to confer a doctoral degree in humanities, with specialization in political science. In the same year on13 November the first public defence of a doctoral dissertation was held at the Institute of Political Science.
As the scientific position of the Institute clearly expanded and strengthened, the Institute Board made endeavours to transform the Institute into the Faculty of Political Science. The efforts were crowned with success by the University Senate's resolution of 20 January 1993. The open inaugural sitting of the Faculty Board was held on 26 February 1993 at 10.00 hours in the Ignacy Daszy?ski lecture hall in the building, which houses the Faculty at Plac Litewski 3. The sitting was attended by: His Magnificence Rector of Maria Curie-Sk?odowska University, Prof. Dr habil. Eugeniusz G?sior, Vice Rector - Prof. Dr habil. Jerzy Bartmi?ski, Deans of Faculties: Humanities - Prof. Dr habil. Zygmunt Ma?kowski, Economics - Prof. Dr habil. Jan Zalewa, Law and Administration - Prof. Dr habil. Marek Kury?owicz, and Chemistry - Prof. Dr habil. Andrzej D?browski. Prof. Dr habil. Jan Jachymek, the then Director, was elected the first Dean of the Faculty of Political Science. Since 1999/2000 Prof. Dr habil. Ziemowit Jacek Pietra? has been the Faculty's Dean..
In the course of its development the structure of the Faculty changed. In the early 1980s the then Inter-University Institute consisted of five research teams: Contemporary International Relations, Theory of Politics and Political Organizations, Contemporary Political Movements and Political Thought, Socio-Economic Policy and Studies of Poles Living Abroad. The Teams were subsequently transformed into Departments. In the late 1980s there were six of them: International Relations, Political Thought of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Political Movements and Doctrines, Political Systems, Ethnic Studies, and Sociology of Politics. In the 1990s new Departments were added: Department of Journalism, Department of Human Rights, and Department of Local Government and Policies.
Currently, the Faculty of Political Science employs 75 teaching and research staff, of which 19 are habilitated doctors [postdoctoral degrees] (including seven titular full professors), 31 staff with PhD and 25 MA holders. For comparison: in 1980 there were 45 academic staff with only five senior (tenured) members while in 1990 - 48 and 12 respectively. The Faculty's academic staff cooperate with ca. 200 scientific centres both at home and abroad. The Faculty organizes over a dozen scientific conferences annually. For the last several years it has held Category A awarded by the Committee for Scientific Research. The Faculty is housed in a beautifully restored, detached building, the Radziwi?? Palace, with the overall area of 2400 square metres. The Faculty's premises and equipment enable the full implementation of research and teaching goals.
From the academic year 1999/2000 on, research conducted by the Faculty's academic staff concentrates on two main, leading areas :
Poland during the systemic transformation
Europe in the face of challenges of the 21st-century
The crowning of the Faculty's development and achievements was the decision of the Central Commission for the Scientific Title and Degrees, which in March 2001 granted the Faculty full academic rights, that is the right to confer a postdoctoral degree (Dr habil.) and to motion for the conferral of the scientific title. At the same time in the academic year of 2000/2001 a new course was started: a five-year full-time MA programme in INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. In 2001 the Faculty should also receive accreditation for the field of study of POLITICAL SCIENCE.
The Faculty of Political Science, Maria Curie-Sk?odowska University, is currently the only faculty bearing that name at the Polish universities. Programmes in political science are offered at those centres at the faculties with different names: in Warsaw at the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science, in Kraków at the Jagiellonian University's Faculty of Law, while in Wroc?aw and in Pozna? at their Faculties of Social Science.
After five years, in1969, Dr Albin Koprukowniak, associate professor and historian from the University's Faculty of Humanities, was appointed Head of the Department. He managed, after many years of endeavours, to integrate similar departments at the Medical Academy, Agricultural Academy and the Lublin Technical University. On 14 June 1975 the Inter-University Institute of Political Science at Maria Curie-Sk?odowska University was established. Its academic staff, whose numbers considerably increased, taught a course in fundamentals of political science. Along with philosophy and political economics, it formed the so-called humanities block taught obligatorily at all state-owned universities and colleges.
An important event in the development of political science at Maria Curie-Sk?odowska University was the starting of a five-year full-time MA programme in political science in 1980. At the same time the Inter-University Institute became, in the structure of the University, an institute with the status of a faculty. A year later, for the first time a member of the Institute's staff, associate professor Ziemowit Jacek Pietra?, PhD was elected Director of the Inter-University Institute, which he headed until January 1982. He was dismissed after the imposition of martial law. This post was taken by associate professor Edward Olszewski, PhD who remained Director until 1990. In June 1990 Prof. Dr habil. Jan Jachymek was elected Director of the Inter-University Institute. In the same year an extramural MA programme was started. On the motion of the Institute Board, on 8 June 1991 the University's Academic Senate passed a resolution, which changed the name of the Inter-University Institute into the Institute of Political Science.
Under the new conditions of systemic transformation the Institute was intensely developing. In the 1990s seven academic staff received the title of full professor, several were appointed associate professors, over a dozen received a postdoctoral degree (Dr habil.) , and many were awarded doctoral degrees. In April1992 the Central Commission for the Scientific Title and Degrees granted the Institute the right to confer a doctoral degree in humanities, with specialization in political science. In the same year on13 November the first public defence of a doctoral dissertation was held at the Institute of Political Science.
As the scientific position of the Institute clearly expanded and strengthened, the Institute Board made endeavours to transform the Institute into the Faculty of Political Science. The efforts were crowned with success by the University Senate's resolution of 20 January 1993. The open inaugural sitting of the Faculty Board was held on 26 February 1993 at 10.00 hours in the Ignacy Daszy?ski lecture hall in the building, which houses the Faculty at Plac Litewski 3. The sitting was attended by: His Magnificence Rector of Maria Curie-Sk?odowska University, Prof. Dr habil. Eugeniusz G?sior, Vice Rector - Prof. Dr habil. Jerzy Bartmi?ski, Deans of Faculties: Humanities - Prof. Dr habil. Zygmunt Ma?kowski, Economics - Prof. Dr habil. Jan Zalewa, Law and Administration - Prof. Dr habil. Marek Kury?owicz, and Chemistry - Prof. Dr habil. Andrzej D?browski. Prof. Dr habil. Jan Jachymek, the then Director, was elected the first Dean of the Faculty of Political Science. Since 1999/2000 Prof. Dr habil. Ziemowit Jacek Pietra? has been the Faculty's Dean..
In the course of its development the structure of the Faculty changed. In the early 1980s the then Inter-University Institute consisted of five research teams: Contemporary International Relations, Theory of Politics and Political Organizations, Contemporary Political Movements and Political Thought, Socio-Economic Policy and Studies of Poles Living Abroad. The Teams were subsequently transformed into Departments. In the late 1980s there were six of them: International Relations, Political Thought of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Political Movements and Doctrines, Political Systems, Ethnic Studies, and Sociology of Politics. In the 1990s new Departments were added: Department of Journalism, Department of Human Rights, and Department of Local Government and Policies.
Currently, the Faculty of Political Science employs 75 teaching and research staff, of which 19 are habilitated doctors [postdoctoral degrees] (including seven titular full professors), 31 staff with PhD and 25 MA holders. For comparison: in 1980 there were 45 academic staff with only five senior (tenured) members while in 1990 - 48 and 12 respectively. The Faculty's academic staff cooperate with ca. 200 scientific centres both at home and abroad. The Faculty organizes over a dozen scientific conferences annually. For the last several years it has held Category A awarded by the Committee for Scientific Research. The Faculty is housed in a beautifully restored, detached building, the Radziwi?? Palace, with the overall area of 2400 square metres. The Faculty's premises and equipment enable the full implementation of research and teaching goals.
From the academic year 1999/2000 on, research conducted by the Faculty's academic staff concentrates on two main, leading areas :
Poland during the systemic transformation
Europe in the face of challenges of the 21st-century
The crowning of the Faculty's development and achievements was the decision of the Central Commission for the Scientific Title and Degrees, which in March 2001 granted the Faculty full academic rights, that is the right to confer a postdoctoral degree (Dr habil.) and to motion for the conferral of the scientific title. At the same time in the academic year of 2000/2001 a new course was started: a five-year full-time MA programme in INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. In 2001 the Faculty should also receive accreditation for the field of study of POLITICAL SCIENCE.
The Faculty of Political Science, Maria Curie-Sk?odowska University, is currently the only faculty bearing that name at the Polish universities. Programmes in political science are offered at those centres at the faculties with different names: in Warsaw at the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science, in Kraków at the Jagiellonian University's Faculty of Law, while in Wroc?aw and in Pozna? at their Faculties of Social Science.
