6 ECTS credits
180 u studietijd

Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 1023287BNR voor alle studenten in het 2e semester met een verdiepend bachelor niveau.

Semester
2e semester
Inschrijving onder examencontract
Niet mogelijk
Beoordelingsvoet
Beoordeling (0 tot 20)
2e zittijd mogelijk
Ja
Inschrijvingsvereisten
Students must have taken ‘Critical Thinking in Sociology’, before they can enroll in this course.
Onderwijstaal
Engels
Onder samenwerkingsakkoord
Onder interuniversitair akkoord mbt. opleiding
Faculteit
Faculteit Sociale Wetensch & SolvayBusinessSchool
Verantwoordelijke vakgroep
Sociologie
Externe partnerinstelling(en)
Universiteit Gent
Onderwijsteam
Jannick Demanet
Isis Vandelannote (titularis)
Onderdelen en contacturen
30 contacturen Hoorcollege
150 contacturen Zelfwerk en -studie
Inhoud

Education is a central institution in society. It serves three functions: qualification, socialisation, and selection. This course is focused on providing students with a thorough and detailed introduction to the sociology of education. In the first part, we discuss the most important classical and contemporary theoretical frameworks in the sociology of education, after which we discuss the three functions of education at length. In the second part, classes are organized around specific topics within the sociology of education, including inequality of opportunity related to social class, gender, and ethnicity. Every year, contemporary topics in the sociology of education are discussed.

Studiemateriaal
Digitaal cursusmateriaal (Vereist) : Digital reader, specific content to be communicated at the start of classes
Bijkomende info

Not applicable.

Leerresultaten

General competences

Upon completion of this course, students will have learned the following competencies

  • To have insight in classical and contemporary sociological thinking about education
  • To be able to process sociological explanations about education independently
  • To be able to critically assess the strengths and weaknesses of classic and contemporary sociological accounts of education
  • To be able to apply sociological explanations about education to concrete real-world case studies

More specifically, the course addresses the following program-specific learning outcomes:

  • LO1: knows and can elaborate on the most important theories, currents and concepts prevailing in the domain of the social sciences.  
  • LO2: knows the historical developments that have occurred in the fields of sociology, political sciences and communication sciences over time.  
  • LO3: knows the cross-sections, the intersections and the cross-fertilisations that exist amongst the different social sciences.  
  • LO4: knows the historical, political, juridical and socio-economic structures that shape the activities and define the agency of political institutions, private and public social organisations and media-organisations in Europe.  
  • LO5: knows and can explain the multilayered and complex character of social, political and media-related facts and phenomena.  
  • LO8: can interpret and analyse contemporary social phenomena and problems and can take position, relying on contemporary theories in the domain of the social sciences, in debates on them.
  • LO10: can critically position their research against the theories that prevail in the international social sciences literature, including recent developments and innovations in these literatures.
  • LO11: can, independently, identify, gather and critically process relevant sources and literature on a specific social sciences research topic.
  • LO12: can, with limited supervision, apply social theories and concepts to a well-delineated, socially and scientifically relevant research topic in the domain of the social sciences.  
  • LO16: can report, independently, on their research in both oral and written form.  
  • LO18: can reflect on and evaluate their learning process and research and can deal with criticism in a constructive manner. 

Beoordelingsinformatie

De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Schriftelijk bepaalt 100% van het eindcijfer

Binnen de categorie Examen Schriftelijk dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

  • Written Exam met een wegingsfactor 100 en aldus 100% van het totale eindcijfer.

Aanvullende info mbt evaluatie

Formative assessment

  • Interactive lectures. Students process scientific texts before coming to class, and their questions and comments will be used as input for interactive lectures, forming the basis for the group discussion, peer-to-peer learning, and application of the subject matter to everyday examples

Summative assessment

  • Written exam (100% total mark). Students will take a written examination for this course. In this exam, it is assessed whether students can explain the theoretical approaches in their own words, discuss them in a critical manner, and apply them to new case studies.
Toegestane onvoldoende
Kijk in het aanvullend OER van je faculteit na of een toegestane onvoldoende mogelijk is voor dit opleidingsonderdeel.

Academische context

Deze aanbieding maakt deel uit van de volgende studieplannen:
Bachelor of Social Sciences: Year 3: Orientation Sociology (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)