ASOK15438U Scandinavian Welfare Regime: Challenged by Europeanization and Globalization

Volume 2018/2019
Education

MA Theory and Themes (MSc Curriculum 2015)
 

Course package: Welfare, Inequality and Mobility
 

BA-Undergraduates from foreign countries (exchange students) can sign up for this course.
 

Creditstudents must be at master level

Content

The aim of the course is to enable the students to critically evaluate the merits of the particular way welfare provisions and entitlements are organized in Scandinavia.

The course assesses to shich degree Scandinavian welfare states can still be characterized as women friendly and promoting equality within an environment of European Union and global challenges. Emphasis is on historical and contemporary developments

Learning Outcome

Knowledge:

Students will be provided a thorough knowledge of the benefits and challenges of welfare provision in Scandinavia.

Skills:

Students will develop empirical analytical skills that enable them to critically assess the pros and cons of the particular welfare organization in Scandinavia.

Competences:

Students will acquire rigorous empirical insights that will lead to strong analytical competences viz-á-vis a particular geographical region in a sociological perspective.

Literature

See Absalon

Lectures and exercises
This course has limited space
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Course Preparation
  • 70
  • Exam
  • 96
  • Lectures
  • 28
  • Preparation
  • 12
  • Total
  • 206
Continuous feedback during the course of the semester

Students are expected to be active in class

Credit
7,5 ECTS
Type of assessment
Written assignment
Individual/group.
Free written take-home essays are assignments for which students define and formulate a problem within the parameters of the course and based on an individual exam syllabus. The free written take-home essay must be no longer than 10 pages. For group assignments, an extra 5 pages is added per additional student. Further details for this exam form can be found in the Curriculum and in the General Guide to Examinations at KUnet.
Exam registration requirements

Sociology students must be enrolled under MSc Curriculum 2015 to take this exam.

Credit students must be at master level.

Marking scale
7-point grading scale
Censorship form
No external censorship
Exam period

Find more information on your study page at KUnet.

Exchange students and Danish full degree guest students please see the homepage of Sociology; http://www.soc.ku.dk/english/education/exams/ and http://www.soc.ku.dk/uddannelser/meritstuderende/eksamen/

Re-exam

At re-exam, the form of examination is the same as ordinary exam.
If the form of examination is ”active participation” the re-examination form is always “free written take-home essay

Criteria for exam assesment

Please see the learning outcome