6 ECTS credits
151 u studietijd

Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 4023478FNR voor alle studenten in het 2e semester met een gespecialiseerd master niveau.

Semester
2e semester
Inschrijving onder examencontract
Niet mogelijk
Beoordelingsvoet
Beoordeling (0 tot 20)
2e zittijd mogelijk
Ja
Onderwijstaal
Engels
Faculteit
Faculteit Sociale Wetensch & SolvayBusinessSchool
Verantwoordelijke vakgroep
Politieke Wetenschappen
Onderwijsteam
Vjosa Musliu (titularis)
Nadège Boels
Onderdelen en contacturen
0 contacturen Exam
3 contacturen Lecture
8 contacturen Practical exercises
140 contacturen Self study
Inhoud

The Skills Lab aims to bring students and policy makers and civil society together to come up with innovative solutions for complex and often difficult to manage policy problems. The aim is to expose the students with tangible and pressing societal and policy problems and at the same time encourage them to contextualize knowledge that they learn at the university in concrete societal problems. The themes for discussion in the Skills Lab will vary annually. The lecturer of the course will announce a topic at the beginning of the academic year. The aim is for the students to work out a solution in group during the semester and explain these to policy makers or civil society actors involved in a particular area or topic.

Bijkomende info

The Skills Lab does not use one single book or source. Relevant material will be uploaded on Canvas in due time. Importantly, students are required to look up the literature through their own research.

Leerresultaten

Algemene competenties

After completing Skills Lab, students must have achieved the following objectives:

  1. Students can independently follow developments within one or more sub-domains of political science.
  2. Students can independently and critically grasp social developments and problems in politicological terms and translate them into a concrete policy question.
  3. Students can independently make the appropriate methodological choices for answering a policy question.
  4. Students can independently set up a research design and outline the steps in a research plan.
  5. Students can independently carry out a research design to answer a policy question in a scientifically sound manner.
  6. Students can position themselves in a critical manner with regard to international political and policy literature.
  7. Students can independently reflect analytically, nuancedly and critically about current problems and policy developments.
  8. Students can independently report in writing about their research and explain this to students in a scientifically sound manner and answer questions about it.
  9. Students can independently and on the basis of their own research develop a balanced argumentation and formulate and defend a reasoned standpoint.
  10. Students can critically reflect on their research and deal constructively with critical comments from colleagues.
  11. Students are not guided in their research by political or ideological dogmas.
  12. Students conscientiously deal with the intellectual property of others.
  13. Students can use their political insights to make critical comments about stereotypes, platitudes and rushed generalizations.
  14. Students can develop creative policy solutions for complex social problems.

 

Beoordelingsinformatie

De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Andere bepaalt 100% van het eindcijfer

Binnen de categorie Examen Andere dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

  • Project Paper met een wegingsfactor 70 en aldus 70% van het totale eindcijfer.
  • Presentatie met een wegingsfactor 30 en aldus 30% van het totale eindcijfer.

Aanvullende info mbt evaluatie

Students will be evaluated in three ways:

  1. Project paper: the project paper is a group report in which the students describe their solution to the policy problem and substantiate each of the proposed policy measures. 70%
  2. Presentation: During the presentation the group explains to a public of policy makers and peers what their proposed solution to the policy problem is. 30%
  3. Peer feedback: as this course strongly focuses on independent group work, each of the group members will have the opportunity to judge the others. This prevents freeride behavior. A negative peer feedback leads to a negative weighting of the scores for the project paper and the presentation.

Attention: students cannot succeed if they have not submitted their project paper and have not done the presentation.

Toegestane onvoldoende
Kijk in het aanvullend OER van je faculteit na of een toegestane onvoldoende mogelijk is voor dit opleidingsonderdeel.

Academische context

Deze aanbieding maakt deel uit van de volgende studieplannen:
Master of Political Science: European and International Governance: Standaard traject (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)