SN4200 Understanding Citizens' Street-level Encounters with the Welfare State Emneplan

This course provides an overview of useful theoretical perspectives when analysing citizens' encounters with welfare systems and the street level bureaucrats, both in the Nordic countries and internationally. The course covers theories on individual agency, social networks, social reproduction, and social change, social construction, and interactional processes. The theories will be applied on current issues in welfare society and in social policy. The course invites active discussions on how to apply select theories to analyse and interpret people’s experiences with the state, market, family and organised civil society as welfare providers.

In this course we acknowledge the diversity of experiences that people have in their encounters with social welfare. We address the importance of class, gender, ethnicity, age, disability and sexuality and the intersectionality of these factors for people's opportunities to be full and active members of society.

Language of instruction is English.

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Fagplanen tilhørende dette emnet er lagt til emne MGNA4100 Naturfag og naturfagdidaktikk 1.

Naturfag og naturfagdidaktikk 2 gir studentene avansert og inngående kunnskap om systemer og kretsløp i naturfag, samt arbeid med å tilrettelegge for utvikling av systemtenkning hos elever i grunnopplæringen. De vil også få utdypende kunnskap i hvordan de ivaretar sikkerhet og miljøhensyn i organisering av undervisning og undervisningsmateriell. Studentene vil arbeide med tema som omfatter og integrerer de ulike fagområdene i naturfaget. I tillegg vil de erfare ulike måter å gjøre naturfaget relevant for elevmangfoldet i skolen.

The teaching takes place with in-person attendance on campus. The course will comprise a mix of lectures and active student involvement. Students will end the course with a paper and a presentation in which they discuss one of the theories covered in the curriculum. There will be a meeting set aside for student presentations.

The following coursework requirement must be completed and approved by the given deadline for the student to take the exam.

• Coursework 1. One individual written paper

The student present and discuss one of the theories covered in the curriculum, The paper must have a scope of 6 pages (Calibri, pt.12, 1,5 line spacing).

If the individual written paper has not been approved, the student will be allowed to submit an improved version one time by the given deadline.

• Coursework 2. Individual presentation

The student present the paper in one of the two final meetings, with feedback from lecturers and classmates.

The exam in the course is an individual supervised exam of 6 hours.

No aids are permitted.

Individuell muntlig eksamen i ca. 30 minutter.

Ny/utsatt eksamen

Ny/utsatt eksamen arrangeres som ved ordinær eksamen.

Ingen hjelpemidler tillatt.

Det benyttes en gradert karakterskala fra A til E for bestått og F for ikke bestått eksamen.