2662 - Social Planning
Course information
- Title
- Social Planning
- Course number
- 2662.23
- Academic year
- 2024-2025
- ECTS
- 10.00
- Level
- Bachelor
- Faculties
- History and Social Sciences
- Educations
- BA in History, BSSc in Political Science, BSSc in Social Sciences
- Prerequisites
- Students must have completed the required courses in social science (2 years), or have equivalent qualifications
- Language of instruction
- Faroese
- Registration
- Students on the fifth semester of Bachelor of Social Science in Social Science are automatically enrolled. Applicants for an individual course must apply via the Student Service Center at lss@setur.fo
- Beginning date
- Thursday, September 5, 2024
- End date
- Sunday, December 1, 2024
Academic content
- Purpose
- The purpose of the course is to provide students with knowledge and understanding of social planning in a broad sense, i.e. how ideological and political processes contribute to intended societal development. The course provides theoretical insight into collective decision-making, sustainability, and livelihood for different social groups from a historical and comparative perspective, as well as insight into research methods in social planning.
- Learning outcomes
- When completing the course students should be able to: • Explain main theoretical approaches in social planning. • Explain the historical development of social planning as a field. • Structure, discuss and communicate knowledge about social planning.
- Content
- • Planning and social governance, and planning as a democratic tool in urban planning and housing, as well as in municipal, local, and regional development. • Planning and culture, business and daily life in urban and rural areas, in a comparative and spatial perspective. Theory on the interrelations between structural social change and public policy, for instance regarding democratic participation, social mobilization, technology, gender, and power.
- Learning and teaching approaches
- The course is based on the distributed bibliography, which is examined through lectures, discussion, and exercises.
Assessment
- Assessment method
- Oral examination based on a written project assignment (4000-5000 words), and the course bibliography
- Examination (internal/external)
- External
- Grading scale
- 7-scale
- Exam date/dates
- The written assignment is due for submission on the 9th of December 2024, and the oral exam is set for the 19th of December 2024.
- Deadline for withdrawal from exam
- Thursday, September 5, 2024
Academic responsibility and teachers
- Academic responsibility
- Olga Biskopstø
- Teachers
- Olga Biskopstø, Ragnheiður Bogadóttir