ASOA15078U Scandinavian Welfare Regime: Challenged by Europeanization and Globalization

Volume 2019/2020
Education

Elective Course
 

Course package (MSc 2015):
Welfare, Inequality and Mobility

 

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.

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Lectures and exercises
This course has limited space
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Exam
  • 60
  • Lectures
  • 28
  • Preparation
  • 118
  • 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 either BSc Curriculum 2016 or MSc Curriculum 2015 to take this exam.

Credit- and Exchange students can be at both bachelor and 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

Written assignment with one or more NEW questions asked.

Criteria for exam assesment

Please see the learning outcome