Cognitive Skills:
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
1. explain the meaning of concepts of marginalisation, social exclusion and subculture
2. recognise, identify and explain main theoretical approaches to problems of marginalisation, social exclusion and subcultural social position, and report about advantages and disadvantages of different theoretical approaches
3. explain and discuss main social causes and consequences of marginalisation, social exclusion and subcultural social position
4. connect theoretical perspectives and concepts with concrete problems of certain marginal, socially excluded and subcultural groups
5. indicate and compare main strategies used by individual groups for solving ptoblems of marginalisation and social exclusion
6. formulate main obstacles and/or advanatages of individual strategies for solving problems of marginalisationa nd social exclusion
7. reexamine social factors that cause and maintain pproblems of marginlisation and social exclusion and the challenges that the users of social services are faced with
8. recommend approaches to users of social services taking into consideration social factors of marginalisation and social exclusion
Practical and Generic Skills:
After successfullly mastering the course, students will be able to:
- publicly present acquired knowledge and skills orally and in writing;
- collect and analyse data and information from various sources;
- express themselves in a clear and structured manner while explaining their standpoints;
- present conclusions and recommendations in the formulatin of social policies that address problems of marginalisation and social exclusion
Matching Assessments to Learning Outcomes:
Forms of testing knowledge
1.1. Mid-term examinations
1.2. Written examination
1.3. Oral examination
1.1. Mid-term examinations
Mid-term examinations include testing learning outcomes on the level of recalling, understanding and application of knowledge to new facts. Exam may be passed through three mid-term examinations that will be held duringt he semester, each accounting for up to 20, 25 or 15 grade points respectively. Full-time students are permited to attend mid-term exams if they have one or less absences from respective lecture group.
Mid-term examination will contain single and multiple choice questions, write-in questions and match-with-the letter questions, which require factual knowledge, application of concepts and theories to specific problems/situations and connection of concepts/theories with an appropriate example from literature/practice.
Mid-term exams for students who attend semminars will contain questions that relate to main findings and concepts of articles presented within the semminar sessions.
1.2. Written examination
Includes testing learning outcomes on the level of recalling, understanding and application of knowledge to current events in society. Students who did not pass the exam through mid-term examinations will take written examination during regular examination periods.
Written examination will contain twenty multi-stage questions which require short essay-form answers, asking for demonstration of factual knowledge, explanation of concepts/theories analysed in the course, and application of concepts and theories to problem oriented questions/described situations or examples.
1.3. Oral examination
Students may not take oral examination until they have passed the written part (mid-term examinations or written examination). Oral examination includes questions that require understanding of concepts and theoretical approaches, and their comparison, explanation, clarification and connection of facts. Students may confirm the grade earned in the written examination or demand additional assesment, where they can improve, maintain or worsen the final grade by one grade. In case of unsatisfactory oral examination, students have to take the written examination again.