Code: | 1OP07 | Acronym: | ESoc |
Keywords | |
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Classification | Keyword |
OFICIAL | Economics |
Active? | Yes |
Responsible unit: | Agrupamento Científico de Economia |
Institution Responsible: | Faculty of Economics |
Acronym | No. of Students | Study Plan | Curricular Years | Credits UCN | Credits ECTS | Contact hours | Total Time |
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LECO | 21 | Bologna Syllabus since 2012 | 3 | - | 3 | 42 | 81 |
LGES | 13 | Bologna Syllabus since 2012 | 3 | - | 3 | 42 | 81 |
Students should learn the main concepts and models of economics and social policy and understand the importance and potentials of social economy and different regimes of welfare state. Students should also be able to analyse issues of inequality, poverty and exclusion and the need for compatible social policies. Students should be able to identify topics and methodologies essential to understand economics and social policy, being provided with information regarding the Portuguese, European and international contexts.
Students should develop scientific research skills and critical reflection regarding social economy and social security, a capacity to analyse social reality and specific economic problems, as well as stimulate teamwork skills.
- Social economy, third sector and non-profit sector - Conceptualization and characterisation. Importance and activities. - Models of social policy and of social intervention by the state. - Specificities of the third sector regarding the state and the market, as well the challenges of social state. - Inequalities, poverty and exclusion in Portugal and the European Union and the need for compatible social policies.
- Social economy’s potentiality regarding employment, local development, social cohesion and the fight against exclusion. - Innovation, social entrepreneurship and volunteering. - Corporate citizenship, ethics and social responsibility, social inclusion and sustainability. - Alternative and sustainable ways in production, trade, consumption and financing. - Solidary finance and micro-credit as active social policies in promoting micro-entrepreneurship and fighting unemployment and poverty. - Challenges of a social, solidary, plural and ethical economy by thinking in new economic paradigms.
The full list of readings will be provided in the classes, in accordance with the research interests of students and the objectives of the program.
- Theoretical-practical classes consisting of explanation, analysis and discussion. - Presentation of the main issues of the subject, in which students shall participate by analysing and discussing these issues. - Completion of a written and group research assignment on an issue covered by the subject under the lecturer’s guidance, which is to be presented orally in class. - Individual monitoring of learning, appointment of bibliographic material, presentation of articles to be read and discussed, support to the work being done and corresponding supervision.
Designation | Weight (%) |
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Participação presencial | 15,00 |
Teste | 30,00 |
Trabalho escrito | 55,00 |
Total: | 100,00 |
Designation | Time (hours) |
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Estudo autónomo | 15,00 |
Frequência das aulas | 39,00 |
Trabalho de investigação | 27,00 |
Total: | 81,00 |
- written reports partial, written and group research, written test.
- final exam.
- The students’ participation in the reading and discussion of texts, as well as in the oral presentation of their research assignments, - Written reports partial (20%); - Completion of a written and group research assignment on an issue covered by the subject under the lecturer’s guidance (60%); written test (20%).
- final exam.