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MALKA215 Kompleks menneskelig atferd Emneplan

Engelsk emnenavn
Complex Human Behavior
Studieprogram
Masterstudium i atferdsvitenskap, deltid
Masterstudium i atferdsvitenskap - spesialisering i innovasjon og implementering
Masterstudium i atferdsvitenskap - spesialisering i begreper og anvendelse
Omfang
10.0 stp.
Studieår
2024/2025
Timeplan
Emnehistorikk

Innledning

After completing the course, the candidates are expected to have the following knowledge, skills and general competence.

Knowledge

Candidates have sufficient knowledge on

• Theories and research connected to political, economic, technological, cultural, and social developments in the media field

• The development of the different media professions and their practices

• Theories and research traditions connected to media production

Skills

Candidates can

• Place their own research project in a journalistic and/or media studies theoretical and research tradition

• Reflect over the relationship between media development and media production as a research field and practice field

General competence

Candidates are capable of

• Communicating with researchers in the field and other students conducting projects in other (sub)fields than their own

• Identifying foundational theoretical issues of relevance to media development and media production

Forkunnskapskrav

The course consists of seminars, lectures, and independent study. The pedagogical approach involves active participation in seminars and lectures, presentation of one’s own work, and providing feedback to others’ presentations on the basis of the research literature and lecture topics.

The seminar form supports the candidates’ practical training in presenting their own research and commenting on others’.

Læringsutbytte

Active participation in the seminars is necessary to adequately understand the course material and themes. Participation is therefore mandatory, and candidates are expected to attend all days of teaching and required to attend at least 80 percent of teaching days. In special cases of documented illness, the course leader may accept exceptions to this requirement. In these cases, lack of participation can be substituted with alternative arrangements such as active reading of the relevant syllabus literature.

Course requirements are assessed as confirmed or not confirmed. The course requirement must be completed and confirmed within the given deadline in order to have the right to submit a final essay.

Arbeids- og undervisningsformer

Confirmed participation in the course and accepted final essay gives 5 ECTS credits.

Candidates will be assessed on the basis of an essay of approximately 4000 words (Arial / Calibri font size 12, spacing 1,5) that will be submitted 1 month after the course is concluded. Essays must be submitted within the given deadline, without extensions. Exceptions are made only in the case of illness (documented by sick leave). In these cases, an extension equaling the length of the sick leave can be granted (upon application).

Arbeidskrav og obligatoriske aktiviteter

All examination support material is allowed as long as source reference and quotation technique requirements are applied.

Vurdering og eksamen

Assessment is pass/ fail. If All examination support material is allowed as long as source reference and quotation technique requirements are applied. an essay is graded fail, the candidate can resubmit a revised essay within a given time period.

Hjelpemidler ved eksamen

The final essay is assessed by the course lecturer(s).

Vurderingsuttrykk

The target group for the course is candidates in the PhD programme in Social Sciences, following the journalism and media studies specialization, at OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University, but it will also be open to other students enrolled in a ph.d.-program who wish to study the field in-depth.

External applicants must submit a summary of approximately one page with information on their PhD project (other other project/ area of interest), with a description of their topic, method, theoretical approach, and why the course is relevant for their project.

Sensorordning

All answers are assessed by one examiner.

An external examiner is used regularly, at a minimum of every third completion of the course. When selecting answers for external evaluation, a minimum of 10 percent of the answers shall be included, with no fewer than 5 answers. The external examiner’s assessment of the selected answers shall benefit all students.