PORIP1A Practicing Social Scientific Imagination, 5 ECTS

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PORIP1A Practicing Social Scientific Imagination 5 ECTS

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Department of Pori
Curricula 2008 – 2010

PORIP1A Practicing Social Scientific Imagination 6 ECTS

Belongs to following study modules

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.

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

Teaching method	Contact	Online
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.