Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Current Issues in Social Anthropology, Sociology or Social Work
Course Code
KF_034
Branch of Science
Sociology and social work
ECTS
6.00
Target Audience
Communication Science; Political Science; Public Health; Social Anthropology; Social Welfare and Social Work; Sociology
LQF
Level 8
Study Type And Form
Full-Time
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Klāvs Sedlenieks
Structure Unit Manager
Ieva Puzo
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts
Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv
About Study Course
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.
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.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.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
1.Students can find, analyse and compile cutting-edge issues regarding a particular topic.
Competences
1.Students use the acquired knowledge to develop their research project.
Assessment
Individual work
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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).
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Activie participation in seminars and the quality of the exam paper.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
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Current issues, introductions: how to find and analyse them
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
6.00
Contact hours:
32 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam
Bibliography
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.