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Archived Curricula Guide 2008–2010
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PORIP1A Practicing Social Scientific Imagination 6 ECTS
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Learning outcomes

To provide students with the basic facilities for social scientific development of knowledge: independent information retrieval and analysis and production of scientific text. To familiarise students with ways to produce academic speech and text.

Contents

Academic writing, presentation and argumentation are focal points of this course.

Further information on prerequisites and recommendations

The faculty general studies course Topical Questions in Social Science (3 ECTS) must be completed before this course, and Introduction to Scientific Thinking (3 ECTS) and Theory in Social Sciences (5 ECTS) must be taken simultaneously with it. In addition, it is recommended that students have completed Information Acquisition (2 ECTS) and Information Technology (3 ECTS).

Teaching methods

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Seminar 48 h 0 h

Modes of study

Major students participate actively in the seminar (48h), retrieve information independently and produce projects with the help of complementary literature, present their projects and act as opponents to each other.
Minor students complete this course with a literature examination.

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

Study materials

Supplementary literature / compensatory literature, from which minor students select four books: 1. Alasuutari, Johdatus yhteiskuntatutkimukseen. Gaudeamus 2001. 2. Aro, Sosiologia ja kielenkäyttö. Acta Universitatis Tamperensis 1999. 3. Fiske, Merkkien kieli: johdatus viestinnän tutkimukseen. Vastapaino 1992 or a more recent edition from 1996. 4. Granfelt, Kertomuksia naisten kodittomuudesta. SKS 1998. 5. Kinnunen & Löytty (toim.), Tieteellinen kirjoittaminen. Vastapaino 2002. p. 7-28, 51-118, 135-146 and 175-201. 6. Melkas, Sosiaalisesta muodosta toiseen: suomalaisten yksityiselämän sosiaalisuuden tarkastelua vuosilta 1986 ja 1994. Tilastokeskus 2003. 7. Piirainen & Saari, Yhteiskunnalliset jaot. 1990-luvun perintö. Gaudeamus 2002. 8. Ylijoki, Akateemiset heimokulttuurit. Vastapaino 1998.

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