SBVA4000 Supervised Professional practice and Critical reflection Course description

Coursework requirements from MALK4000-401 must be approved to participate and submit coursework requirements in MALK4000-402

On successful completion of the course, the student has the following learning outcomes classified as knowledge, skills and competence:

Knowledge

The student

• can describe and discuss useful units of analysis in social interaction in working life and daily life
• can describe how to factor in the difference between intended and actual results, and discuss confirmation bias and selective perception; fuzzy causality, and problems with self-assessment
• can describe and discuss the relational perspective on behavior
• can describe and discuss the concept of causal attribution
• can describe and discuss the topics of causal attribution, Future Time Perspective, Perceived Self-Efficacy, rule governed behavior, self-direction, influence and persuasion, and The Dunning-Kruger effect

Skills

The student

• can analyze important variables that influence individual behavior, including self- talk and self-rules

Competence

The student

• can observe and adapt to how their own behavior affects the behavior of others

Teaching and learning methods include lectures, discussions, individual reports and workshop/seminars. Students read selected texts in advance for each day of class, and everyone is expected to participate in class through questions and through joining in discussion.

The following required coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam:

• 4 individual written assignments, each with maximum 6000 keystrokes.

Individual written examination with invigilation, 4 hours. Exam questions are in English. Students may submit their exams in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English.

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Grade scale A-F

One internal and one external examiner will assess all exams.

The exam papers are assessed by one internal and one external examiner.

At least 25% of the exam papers will be assessed by two examiners. The grades awarded for the papers assessed by two examiners form the basis for determining the level for all the exam papers.

Signe Ylvisaker and Berit Bergheim.