Code: | MSOCI025 | Acronym: | SOCTER |
Active? | Yes |
Responsible unit: | Department of Sociology |
Course/CS Responsible: | Masters in Sociology |
Acronym | No. of Students | Study Plan | Curricular Years | Credits UCN | Credits ECTS | Contact hours | Total Time |
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MSOCI | 35 | MSOCI - Study Plan | 1 | - | 6 | - |
Knowledge about the course main theoretical and methodological issues, emphasizing the new forms of organization of the space and the territory; raising awareness towards the importance of territory interdisciplinary perspective; emphasize the global nature of urban and social change, considering the phenomena of social and geographical mobility, migration, ethnicity, culture and lifestyles; knowledge of new forms of representation and traits of social rural space; initiation to operational knowledge in order the conception of research projects and professional intervention.
Deepening of theories concerned with specific issues of territory sociological analysis; development of a critical and reflexive attitude in terms of territory; comprehension of the new social and cultural features of contemporary cities; ability to integrate knowledge and solve problems, particularly in metropolitan, urban and rural planning, in the context of multidisciplinary teams.
1. The emergence of the problematic of space and territory: historical and cultural factors
2. Analytical dimensions of the territory and interdisciplinarity
3. The sociological approach of the territory
4. Main transformations in territory: the limits of the dichotomy rural versus urban and the
operacionalization of the concept of urbanization.
5. Social structures and spatial structures: practices, representations and appropriations of the spaces.
6. Local Identities and cosmopolitan spaces. From ruralities to etnolandscapes.
The classes have a theoretical and practical component (TP) and are complemented by specific bibliography and pedagogical tools (slides, texts, ST outputs, developed summaries, conferences).
Still be held Tutorial Sessions (ST), consisting in the analysis of texts from key authors and aiming to question and deepen the course contents.
Designation | Weight (%) |
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Exame | 50,00 |
Participação presencial | 15,00 |
Trabalho escrito | 35,00 |
Total: | 100,00 |
Designation | Time (hours) |
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Estudo autónomo | 74,00 |
Frequência das aulas | 54,00 |
Trabalho de investigação | 34,00 |
Total: | 162,00 |
Exam: 50%
Essay: 35%
Presence and participation in classroom: 15%
Exam: 50%. Work in tutorial sessions: 50%. Minimum mark: 10 in each component.
The students who, according to the law are not abe to attend the classes must get in touch with the teacher at the begining of the year. Those studentswill be evaluated by an exame and a thematical report. Each of these components has 50% weight. The exam dates as well as the reports presentation will be the same applied to all the other students.
For the purpose of improving classification only considers the assessment of the written component, the improvement must be performed for all predicted written works. For this purpose remains unchanged the classification obtained in component of participation in the classroom.