The course is connected to the following study programs

  • PhD Programme in Social Sciences

Teaching language

English and/or Norwegian depending on course participants

Recommended prerequisites

Participants must be enrolled in a PhD programme.

Course contents

Professional work within health, education, welfare, and social work develops within local, national, and international contexts. Reflexivity is to see and understand oneself within a context. Through this course the students will develop their ability to reflect, theorize and understand themselves and professional work. Students will be encouraged to develop and problematize their subjectivity in relation to their background and professional position, and to explore and challenge different understandings of professionalism. The students will develop a contextual and ethical awareness that can inform their current PhD project.

The aim of the course is to enable participants to strengthen their critical reflection and increase their understanding of interactional, contextualized, situational and collaborative practices. To enhance reflective processes the course will provide knowledge about ethics, contexts, and social interaction.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge:

After completing the course, students should have advanced knowledge of

  • ethical issues in professional work.

  • contextual and critical processes in professional work

Skills:

After completing the course, students should be able to

  • identify, emphasize and analyze ethical dimensions of professional work

  • recognize and reflect on contextualized (-local, national, and international) understandings and challenges within professional work

  • apply concepts and theories in respectively health, education, welfare, and social work research in fruitful ways

Competences:

After completing the course, students should:

  • Demonstrate substantial scholarly and professional integrity and sustained commitment to the development of new ideas or processes at the forefront of health, education, welfare, or social work.

  • Be able to identify new and relevant ethical challenges and conduct their research with academic integrity.

Examination requirements

Students need to attend three full days of the course. Presence is mandatory (MP). If students do not fulfill the MP requirement, students will have to pass an assignment given by the course coordinators to take the course exam.

Teaching methods

Lectures, seminars, group work and individual work – adapted to different modes of study. There will be sessions where students will be given assignments. Students will receive feedback on their work from other students and from the course coordinators.

Evaluation

The course coordinator decides, in cooperation with the student representative, the form of student evaluation and whether the course is to have a midway or end of course evaluation in accordance with the quality system for education, chapter 4.1.

Offered as Single Standing Module

Yes. Subject to availability or capacity.

Assessment methods and criteria

Course paper approximately 5000 words. The paper will be assessed as a pass/fail. A pass is equivalent to the grade B or better. Detailed criteria wil be avaiable in Canvas.

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