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Current Issues in Social Anthropology, Sociology or Social Work
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:2.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:25:17
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | KF_034 | LQF level: | Level 8 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 4.00 | ECTS: | 6.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Sociology | Target Audience: | Sociology; Communication Science; Social Welfare and Social Work; Public Health; Political Science; Social Anthropology | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Klāvs Sedlenieks | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 16 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 32 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Bachelor's or Master's level introductory courses in the field of the student specialisation to the degree that provides good working knowledge about the well-developed issues inn that field. | ||||||||
| Objective: | The aim of the course is to develop a stimulating and supportive framework in which students under guidance of the course teachers and in close cooperation with the supervisor of the student acquire knowedge about the current issues in the area connected to their doctoral thesis and develop skills and competencies working with this information in connection to their doctoral thesis. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Current issues, introductions: how to find and analyse them | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Professional communities as incubators of cutting-edge issues | Classes | 3.00 | other | |||||
| 3 | Reflection of cutting-edge problems in academic periodicals of the field | Classes | 6.00 | other | |||||
| 4 | Reflection of cutting-edge problems in academic non-periodical publications the field | Classes | 6.00 | other | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | During the course students independently research, present to the colleagues, reflect and summarise information about the cutting-edge issues in the field connected to their research field. The course work (exam) consists of a chapter for the doctoral thesis (max 10 000 words). | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Activie participation in seminars and the quality of the exam paper. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students can enumerate the most important wide-spectrum and specialised periodicals in the field of their doctoral project, know their specialisation and specifics of the publications. Students know the most imporatnt topics covered by these journals in connection to their doctoral project. Students know the most important non-periodical publications (books) of the recent years in connection to their topic. Students know and where possible are participating in the activities of the local and international professional organisations that are relevant to their topic. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students can find, analyse and compile cutting-edge issues regarding a particular topic. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students use the acquired knowledge to develop their research project. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Bernard, H Russell. 2006. Research methods in anthropology: qualitative and quantitative approaches. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Galvan, Jose L. un Melisa Galvan. 2017. Writing literature reviews: a guide for students of the social and behavioral sciences. 7. izd. London: Routledge. | ||||||||
| 2 | Efron, Sara Efrat un Ruth Ravid. 2018. Writing the literature review: a practical guide. The Guilford Press. | ||||||||
