| Detailed information |
| Original study plan |
Master's programme Joint Master's Programme in Comparative Social Policy and Welfare 2012W |
| Objectives |
(*)The course's 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.
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| Subject |
(*)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.
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| Criteria for evaluation |
(*)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.
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| Methods |
(*)- Participation in classroom work
Introductory face-to-face lectures will be given, but the 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.
Attendance obligatory: 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.
Teaching methods: As mentioned above, an introductory face to face lectures will be given, but majority of instructions and feedback are web-based. The workload are following: choose and acceptance of topic, first draft, supervisors comments and students rewritten version.
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| Language |
English |
| Study material |
(*)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.
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| Changing subject? |
No |
