6 ECTS credits
154 h study time
Offer 2 with catalog number 4015160FNR for all students in the 2nd semester
at
a (F) Master - specialised level.
- Semester
- 2nd semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Taught in
- English
- Faculty
- Faculty of Social Sciences & SolvayBusinessSchool
- Department
- Sociology
- Educational team
- Sylvie Gadeyne
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
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18 contact hours Lecture
20 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
134 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
- Course Content
The course consists of a lecture series of prominent national and international scholar in social sciences. Starting from a European perspective different social and population issues with important implications for society, politics, social security, social geography and are addressed by national and international scholars who are be invited for a lecture. These include, among others, debates concerning low fertility, population ageing, migration, social classes, social inequalities, big data, non-citizen citizenship, etc. State of the art scientific research on the different topics will be the starting point for the lecture series.
- Course material
- Digital course material (Required) : Slides of the lectures, Provided by the lecturer on Canvas
Digital course material (Required) : Reader consisting of several articles, book chapters and/or other relevant publications, Provided by the lecturer on Canavs
- Additional info
A list of relevant articles from scientific journals, book chapters and other relevant publications will be compiled. The list of mandatory literature will be annually renewed.
For more information about the concrete organisation of the course: see Canvas.
- Learning Outcomes
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Algemene competenties
- Students become acquainted with important social and population issues in Europe, their background and consequences
- Students become familiarized with state of the art sociological and demographic research and learn how the empirical cycle (research questions, theories, data collection and analyses, interpretation and discussion) is implemented in social research
- Students understand social and population issues as complex, interwoven and important phenomena
- Students learn to reflect, critically evaluate and discuss social research
- Students learn to debate on social and population issues
- Students develop a critical attitude regarding social phenomena and populations issues
- Grading
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The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Written Exam
with a relative weight of 75
which comprises 75% of the final mark.
- Essay
with a relative weight of 25
which comprises 25% of the final mark.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
Not applicable
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Sociology: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Educational Sciences: Standaard traject
Master of Teaching in Social Sciences: politieke wetenschappen en sociologie (90 ECTS, Etterbeek) (only offered in Dutch)