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Master 2022/2023

Youth Participation

Category 'Best Course for Career Development'
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'
Type: Compulsory course (Modern Social Analysis)
Area of studies: Sociology
When: 2 year, 2 module
Mode of studies: offline
Open to: students of one campus
Instructors: Yana Krupets
Master’s programme: Modern Social Analysis
Language: English
ECTS credits: 3
Contact hours: 28

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The focus will be done on the analysis of the concepts of civic engagement/civic participation/citizenship and the specificity of youth civic engagement/participation in modern societies. During the course, we will learn about theories that describe modern civic participation, citizenship, including a digital one. We also consider the relations between the youth, society, and the political sphere. The course will present the theoretical backgrounds of studying youth civic participation in the modern world and will include the practical part of conducting an empirical analysis of youth civic participation and personal student's experience.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • The aim of this course is to discuss the concept of youth civic participation in the context of modern societies and globalization. The focus will be done on the analysis of the theoretical concepts and personal experiences of being a citizen.
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • - identify socially significant problems and propose solutions to them based on the use of relevant scientific theories, concepts,approaches and social technologies
  • - improve and develop his/her intellectual and cultural level
  • be able to conduct professional (including research) activities in the international environment
  • be able to identify the needs and interests of social groups, propose mechanisms for their coordination among themselves for the development of social communities
  • identify and discover patterns, invent new ways and instruments of professional activity
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Civic participation/engagement/citizenship
  • Youth participation
  • Civic participation in the digital era
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking In-class participation
    In-class participation – activity during seminars + collective presentation of the readings
  • non-blocking Homework
    Homework – autoethnographic analysis of student's citizenship and civic participation
  • non-blocking Exam
    Exam: in the format of a written essay
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2022/2023 2nd module
    0.5 * Exam + 0.25 * Homework + 0.25 * In-class participation
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • The Oxford handbook of citizenship edited by Ayelet Shachar, Rainer Bauböck, Irene Bloemraad, Maarten Vink. (2017).
  • The Oxford handbook of citizenship edited by Ayelet Shachar, Rainer Bauböck, Irene Bloemraad, Maarten Vink. (2017). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.490782183

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Kalu N. Kalu. (2017). Citizenship : Identity, Institutions, and the Postmodern Challenge. Routledge.
  • Terkla, D. G., & O’Leary, L. S. (2014). Assessing Civic Engagement : New Directions for Institutional Research, Number 162. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=957017