Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is to qualify students to critically reflect and to enhance students’ practical skills in working independently with different regimes and concepts as well as statistical data in a certain topic of welfare and social policy. During the term, they have to write an article (review, debate) ready for publication in journals relevant to the field of welfare and social policy.

Contents

The course offers an exercise for scientific writing and argumentation. In this course students make use of the learnings of the previous courses on European welfare regimes and comparative social policy and apply this knowledge when they write their own scientific analyses on selected issues.

In the scientific writing process teachers will guide students' work with individual instructions and consultations. The topic of the article is in students' free choice but it is recommended to be close to the subject of the Master's thesis. The article as such can be written individually or in a team. The topic, content, data and sources will be discussed and supervised in the Moodle. The basic frame for these articles will be introduced during the third Intensive Programme in Linz.

Teaching methods

Teaching method	Contact	Online
Lectures
Independent work

Teaching language

English

Evaluation and evaluation criteria

Numeric 1-5.
The smaller part of the assessment is based on the participation and activity during the contact teaching and on the web-based platform. The majority of the assessment is based on the student's written article.

Study materials

Students will have the main responsibility in collecting and selecting their research materials. Some texts are distributed during the contact teaching and some via the web-based learning platform.

Belongs to following study modules