Discovering challenges in urban areas (5 cr)

Code: SX00FD74-3001

General information

Enrollment: 02.12.2024 - 15.12.2024
Registration for the implementation has ended.

Timing: 01.01.2025 - 31.07.2025
Implementation is running.

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 5 cr

Local portion: 5 cr

Mode of delivery: On-campus

Unit: (2019-2024) School of Wellbeing

Campus: Myllypurontie 1

Teaching languages: English

Degree programmes: Social Services (in English)

Teachers: Smarika KC

Teacher in charge: Smarika KC

Groups: SXG23S1
Degree Programme in Social Services päivä

Course: SX00FD74

Implementation has 9 reservations. Total duration of reservations is 32 h 0 min.

Time	Topic	Location
Mon 20.01.2025 time 09:00 - 11:45 (2 h 45 min)	Discovering challenges in urban areas SX00FD74-3001	MPA5024 Oppimistila
Fri 31.01.2025 time 13:00 - 16:00 (3 h 0 min)	Discovering challenges in urban areas SX00FD74-3001	MPA4010 Oppimistila
Fri 07.02.2025 time 12:45 - 16:00 (3 h 15 min)	Discovering challenges in urban areas SX00FD74-3001	MPA4010 Oppimistila
Tue 11.02.2025 time 13:00 - 16:00 (3 h 0 min)	Independent Group Work Discovering challenges in urban areas SX00FD74-3001	MPC5014 Oppimistila
Wed 12.02.2025 time 12:45 - 16:00 (3 h 15 min)	Discovering challenges in urban areas SX00FD74-3001	MPA6012 Oppimistila
Mon 24.02.2025 time 13:00 - 16:00 (3 h 0 min)	Discovering challenges in urban areas SX00FD74-3001	MPA5020 Oppimistila
Tue 25.02.2025 time 12:15 - 16:00 (3 h 45 min)	Independent Group Work/ Discovering challenges in urban areas SX00FD74-3001	MPA6019 Oppimistila
Thu 27.02.2025 time 09:00 - 16:00 (7 h 0 min)	Independent work / Discovering challenges in urban areas SX00FD74-3001
Mon 03.03.2025 time 13:00 - 16:00 (3 h 0 min)	Seminar / Discovering challenges in urban areas SX00FD74-3001	MPA4010 Oppimistila

Changes to reservations may be possible.

Objective

The students are familiar with critical and post-structural theories concerned with globalization, urbanization, and the meaning of place and place-making in everyday urban life from early childhood to late adulthood. The students are able to identify social phenomena that occur in urban areas due to globalisation. The students develop their familiarity with the urban city further through field activities and assignments.

Content

Theoretical perspectives on processes of economic, political, and social globalisation. Place and place-making in urban areas. Introduction to ethnographic methods. Qualified empathy and practice ethnography. The role of the Bachelor of Social Services as narrator. Storytelling in sociocultural work in urban areas . Using storytelling to change systems. Simple Finnish vocabulary and phrases used in when discussing urban contexts and methods.

Location and time

Tentative Schedule, changes may occur

20.01.2025 9.00 - 11.45 MPA5024 Orientation (compulsory attendance)
31.01.2025 13.00 - 16.00 MPA4010
07.02.2025 13.00 - 16.00 MPA4010
11.02.2025 13.00 - 16.00 MPC5014 (INDP WK)
12.02.2025 13.00 - 16.00 MPA6012
24.02.2025 13.00 - 16.00 MPA5020
25.02.2025 12.00 - 16.00 MPA6019 (INDP WK)
27.02.2025 09.00 - 16.00 INDP WK
03.03.2025 13.00 - 16.00 MPA4010 FINAL SEMINAR

Materials

TBA

Teaching methods

Lectures, reading materials, reading reflection work, group work, group discussions.

Employer connections

N/A

Exam schedules

N/A

International connections

Based on International research Urban SOS Erasmus+ project training materials

Completion alternatives

N/A

Student workload

27h/credit

Content scheduling

see above

Further information

N/A

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Framework of evaluation is as an attachment in the Curriculum's description.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed