This course provides an overview of useful theoretical perspectives when analysing citizens' encounters with welfare systems and the street level bureaucrats, both in the Nordic countries and internationally.
Admission requirements
There are no specific requirements for this course.
How to apply
International exchange students select courses when applying for exchange.
Application deadline: 15 April.
Content
The course covers theories on individual agency, social networks, social reproduction, and social change, social construction, and interactional processes. The theories will be applied on current issues in welfare society and in social policy. The course invites active discussions on how to apply select theories to analyse and interpret people’s experiences with the state, market, family and organised civil society as welfare providers.
In this course we acknowledge the diversity of experiences that people have in their encounters with social welfare. We address the importance of class, gender, ethnicity, age, disability and sexuality and the intersectionality of these factors for people's opportunities to be full and active members of society.
Teaching methods
The course will comprise a mix of lectures and active student involvement. Students will end the course with a paper and a presentation in which they discuss one of the theories covered in the curriculum. There will be a meeting set aside for student presentations.
Course description
For more information about this course, take a look at the course description (student.oslomet.no).
Costs
There is no semester fee for exchange students.
Exam and assessment
The student's learning outcome will be assessed on the basis of an individual six-hour written school examination.
Questions about this course?
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