KJM2400 Biochemistry Course description

After completing the course, the student should have the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student has advanced knowledge of

• social protection strategies, in particular related to major social risks: unemployment, sickness, disability, lack of a provider, child abuse, and old age
• the interplay between protection provided by the state, the voluntary sector, the family and the market
• principles of social insurance and health insurance
• strategies for providing residual or universal social and health assistance
• the extended family as a risk-managing institution
• problems with social protection coverage and strategies for extending coverage
• strategies for efficient delivery of health and social services
• policy evaluation methods in health and social care

Skills

The student can

• identify similarities and differences in social and health protection strategies in high-, middle-, and low-income countries
• investigate the arguments for and against public management, public/private partnerships, outsourcing and other strategies with regard to the delivery of publicly provided health and social services
• analyse processes of social/health policy implementation
• evaluate social/health policy outputs and outcomes

General competence

The student is able to

• participate in the debate on how to organise and implement social welfare and health policies, in a national as well as international context
• participate in the discussion of which evaluation strategies that are most useful in various contexts, with regard to evakuations of social welfare and health policies, in a national as well as international context
• participate in the debate concerning how to frame health and social policy goals across countries and cultures

The course builds on KJPE1300 General Chemistry and KJM1400 Organic Chemistry.

The teaching takes place with in-person attendance on campus. The course is organised into a series of lectures and seminars. Students are expected to play an active role. Lectures are given by the course lecturer and invited lecturers. Students will also be required to present papers, and discuss course themes during lectures and seminars.

The following coursework requirements must have been approved in order for the student to take the exam:

• Coursework 1: The student must submit a coursework requirement of at least 1700 words, written individually or in groups of max 4 students. The coursework paper must be approved by the course lecturer.
• Coursework 2: The coursework paper is to be presented at a seminar, or poster session, or zoom gathering. Participation in the seminar, or poster session, or zoom gathering is mandatory.

All required coursework must be completed and approved by the given deadline for the student to take the exam. If the coursework requirements have not been approved, the student will be given one opportunity to submit an improved version by a given deadline.

A student who is absent from the presentation will have to submit a compensatory coursework requirement within a given deadline.

The exam in the course is a supervised exam of 6 hours.

Ingen hjelpemidler er tillatt.

Grade scale A - F

The exam is graded by an internal and an external examiner.

A random selection consisting of at least 25% of the exam papers will be graded by both an internal and external examiner. This will inform the grading of the remaining exam papers.

Einar Øverbye

One internal examiner. External examiners are used regularly.