Learning outcomes
The courses aim 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 ready for publication in journals relevant to the field of welfare and social policy. A written article (review, debate) to be published in adequate Journal.
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 issue.
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 and 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 Intensive programme.
Teaching methods
| Teaching method | Contact | Online |
| Lectures | ||
| Independent work |
Introductory face to face lectures will be given, but majority of instructions and feedback are web-based. The workload consists of the following: choosing and receiving acceptance of a topic, first draft, supervisors' comments and a final rewritten version.
Teaching language
EnglishModes of study
Attendance obligatory, that is, students are required to attend both the lectures and the online activity. Absence will cause some extra work that will be defined by the teacher later on.
Evaluation and evaluation criteria
Numeric 1-5.The smaller part of assessment is based on the participation and activity during the contact teaching and on the web-based platform. The majority of the assessment is done 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.
