Strategies of Social Change - course description

General information

Course name	Strategies of Social Change
Course ID	14.2--D-SoSC-S22
Faculty	Faculty of Social Sciences
Field of study	Sociology
Education profile	academic
Level of studies	Second-cycle studies leading to MS degree
Beginning semester	winter term 2022/2023

Course information

Semester	1
ECTS credits to win	2
Course type	obligatory
Teaching language	english
Author of syllabus	dr Anna Mielczarek-Żejmo

Classes forms

The class form	Hours per semester (full-time)	Hours per week (full-time)	Hours per semester (part-time)	Hours per week (part-time)	Form of assignment
Class	15	1	-	-	Credit with grade
Lecture	15	1	-	-	Credit with grade

Aim of the course

Acquainting the student with the problems of sociological theories of social change. Sociological analysis of social changes skill. Kowledge of the basic principles of programming and implementing positive social changes.

Prerequisites

Scope

The concept of social change
Development. Progress. Regress.
Theories of social change
Cognitive functions of research on social change
Social change in the assumptions of the social policy of Poland and the EU (social economy, revitalization, deinstitutionalization, etc.)
Development strategies – basic principles of creating documents
Evaluation of the implementation of the objectives of strategic documents

Teaching methods

Working with text, group work, workshop methods, seminar lecture, mobile methods (study walk, study visit, field game), e-learning, blended learning

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description	Outcome symbols	Methods of verification	The class form

Assignment conditions

Lectures

FORMA ZALICZENIA ĆWICZEŃ	UWAGI
Zaliczenie na ocenę	Tak
Written test	In the form of open and / or closed questions
The scope of the material for the written test	According to the syllabus presented during the first lesson
Rules for passing the written test	Minimum threshold of requirements to obtain 50% of points
Principles of obtaining the grade from the lecture	The grade from the lectures is the grade from the written test

Exercises

FORMA ZALICZENIA ĆWICZEŃ	UWAGI
Zaliczenie na ocenę	Tak
Individual or group written work or individual or group project (according to the rules presented during the first class)
Individual or group written work	Analysis of a selected case using a selected theoretical concept (work in the classroom)
Assessment criteria	Appropriate structure and language of the paper, use of sources, compliance with the topic, use of an appropriate theoretical concept
Individual or group project	Project of using a selected tool (method, technique) to introduce positive social changes in a selected group or local community (work in progress Turing les sons with the teacher and without the teacher)
Assessment criteria	Appropriate structure and language, compliance with the topic, development of basic elements (problem description, purpose, time perspective, selection and description of the tool for introducing changes, rules for monitoring and evaluation of the process)
Principles of obtaining the grade from the lecture	The final grade for the exercises is a grade for a written or group work or an individual or group project

Final grade

Lecture + exercises ending with obtaining a grade.	The condition for obtaining a positive final grade is obtaining a positive grade from the exercises and the lecture (3.0-5.0.)
Rules for obtaining the final grade	The final grade is the arithmetic mean of grades from exercises and lectures.

Notes

Modified by dr Tomasz Kołodziej (last modification: 30-04-2022 17:39)

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