6 ECTS credits
180 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1023287BNR for all students in the 2nd semester
at
a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.
- Semester
- 2nd semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Enrollment Requirements
- Students who want to enroll for this course, must have passed ‘Critical thinking in Sociology’ and must have obtained at least 30 ECTS-credits on bachelor level.
- Taught in
- English
- Partnership Agreement
- Under interuniversity agreement for degree program
- Faculty
- Faculty of Social Sciences & SolvayBusinessSchool
- Department
- Sociology
- External partners
- Universiteit Gent
- Educational team
- Jannick Demanet
(course titular)
Karlijn Soppe
- Activities and contact hours
- 30 contact hours Lecture
150 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
- Course Content
Education is one of the most central institutions in society. It serves the function of socializing new generations, but also of selecting and allocating students to take their place in the labour market. By many, education is seen as the key institution which ensures social mobility in society, but in many countries, conversely, education has been reproducing inequality, rather than diminishing it.
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. 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, school effects studies, teacher turnover, teacher-student interactions and classroom management.
- Course material
- Digital course material (Required) : Digital reader, specific content to be communicated at the start of classes
- Additional info
Not applicable.
- Learning Outcomes
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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.
- Grading
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The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Written Exam
with a relative weight of 100
which comprises 100% of the final mark.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
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.
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Social Sciences: Sociology