State-international-public: European values and norms determining interdisciplinary university module (STIPENDIUM)

A roleplay provided the participant the task to form 3 teams of 10+ people and to prepare files with the profound background of the next issues:

1. Concepts and models of democratic theories.
2. The monitor democracy: does it work?
3. Functions of monitor democracy in politics (if any).
4. Law-making and monitor democracy.

Each team had different task:

1. to persuade at the developed countries’ examples that the monitor democracy works and it is extremely necessary to develop and implement it in Ukraine;
2. to convince that it is useless theory;
3. to deny any democracy at all and advocate any other form (anarchy, totalitarian etc.).

Such activity, first of all, contributes much to proficiency. Any knowledge is better adopted via games, especially intellectual with serious professional tasks and expert demands to the material. PhD students must demonstrate ability to provide necessary information, to argue, to conclude, as well as demonstrate adequate awareness, commitment, tolerance, team work.