Introduction to Social Sciences

Code:

E101

Acronym:

ICS

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Sociology of Education

Instance: 2015/2016 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	First degree in Educational Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LCED	74	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	6	57	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This curricular unit constitutes a moment of initiation to the knowledge in the Social Sciences, outlining at the same time lines of complementarity with the disciplines of this first semester and of continuity with the others of the subsequent study plan.

 In this way, the following objectives defined for the UC are:

 A) Communicate theoretical perspectives and concepts essentials to the understanding of the human being as a bio-socio-cultural being;

 B) Communicate theoretical perspectives and concepts essentials to the understanding of science as a particular form of knowledge and as scientific practice

 C) Draw attention to the specific procedures of an epistemological, theoretical, methodological and ethical nature

 D) Situate socio-historically the construction of the Natural Sciences and the emergence of Social Sciences, and some of the more persistent debates

 E) Contribute to the construction of a mentality that perceives educational phenomena as social phenomena and as particular expressions of more general social processes, using History, Anthropology and Sociology

 F) To mobilize themes emerging from social reality that allow reflecting on the specificity of human reality as a social reality, rehearsing the epistemological rupture with naturalistic, idealist and ethnocentrist explanations

 G) Stimulate the development of the sociological imagination

 H) Adopt working methodologies with responsibility, autonomy, cooperation;

 I) Initiate contact with formal academic procedures

Learning outcomes and competences

At UC it is expected that students will be able to:

 A) acquire fundamental knowledge in Social Sciences;

 B) reflect on the specificity of human reality as a socio-educational reality;

 C) understand scientific knowledge as a social construction of reality

 D) understand the specificity of anthropo-socio-historical knowledge in its logic of scientific research;

 E) develop habits of observation, interpretation and analysis on different sources to rehearse the epistemological break with naturalism, idealism and ethnocentrism; Sociological imagination and critical self-knowledge (beliefs, stereotypes, values);

 F) demonstrate competences of theoretical articulation and critical analysis in relation to socio-educational situations; To research relevant bibliography with autonomy; To produce structured and analytically sustained written documents, reflecting a rigorous, coherent and ethical

 G) develop self-knowledge (beliefs, stereotypes, values ​​...) and procedures of critical self-reflection

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Not aplicable

Program

1. Understanding the specificity of human reality as a social reality: individual, society, nature, cultures

 

1. The Social Sciences as a particular form of knowledge about social reality - introduction to the problem of scientific-social knowledge as construction and to processes of rupture with common sense

2.1. Explain the social by the social: from the resistances and obstacles to knowledge in the Social Sciences to the processes and instruments available for breaking with the evidences of common sense

 

1. Unit of the social and plurality of social sciences

 

1. The logic of the scientific construction of knowledge in social sciences

4.1. To deconstruct dichotomies nature / culture, individual / society from empirical research in Social Sciences

Mandatory literature

BARRIO, José; Elementos de Antropologia Pedagógica. , Madrid: Ed. RIALP, 1998
Berger Peter L.; A^construção social da realidade. ISBN: 85-326-0598-2
DURKHEIM, Émile (1875); As regras do método sociológico, Lisboa: Presença, 2001
Giddens Anthony; Sociologia. ISBN: 972-31-1075-X
LARAIA, Roque; A cultura, um conceito antropológico, Rio de Janeiro: Zahar Editores, 1986
Lahire Bernard; L.esprit sociologique. ISBN: 978-2-7071-5235-0
Rocha Cristina; As^mulheres e a cidadania. ISBN: 972-24-1437-2
NUNES, Adérito Sedas; Questões preliminares sobre as Ciências Sociais, Lisboa: Presença, 1987
Santos Boaventura de Sousa; Um^discurso sobre as ciências
Silva Augusto Santos 570; Metodologia das ciências sociais. ISBN: 978-972-36-0503-7
Pinto José Madureira; Propostas para o ensino das ciências sociais. ISBN: 972-36-0321-7

Comments from the literature

Not aplicable

Teaching methods and learning activities

The classes are theoretical-practical, including the presentation of contents and the participation of the students in the issues addressed.
The reading, interpretation and analysis of texts is used in the time of contact as a strategy of explicit and informed integration of the learning, being stimulated its deepening in the autonomous work.

The debates in the classes, via audiovisual, documentary or experiential sources, are understood as propitious to the development of reflections to reinforce the theoretical-practical articulation, the analytical rigor, the comprehension of the complexity and the diversity of points of view and critical sense.

In this UC, the evaluation is distributed with final exam.

Writing, as a way of explaining the integration of students' learning, converges to group work (30%), articulation and reflection of contents at the end of each program topic, and a final individual exam (70% ), About the given program, both with classification objectives.

Software

Não aplicável

keywords

Social sciences > Educational sciences > Research methodology

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Exame	70,00
Trabalho escrito	30,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	102,00
Frequência das aulas	45,00
Trabalho de campo	15,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

The possibility of using the distributed evaluation modality assumes the presence in at least 75% of the hours of contact.

The cases provided for by law, namely the student workers, are exempt from verification of the attendance conditions mentioned above, and these should contact the teacher 20 days after the beginning of the semester.

Calculation formula of final grade

The classification of the individual final exam is carried out on a 0-20 scale and will have a weight of 70% in the calculation of the final grade of the CU.

The classification of the small group work is done on a 0-20 scale and will have a weighting of 30% in the calculation of the final grade of the CU.

Final classification (30% + 70%) = 100%

The fraud committed in the performance of a test - in any of its modalities - implies the annulment of the same and the communication to the competent statutory body for possible disciplinary proceedings.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Students who are not attending classes and who by law may be exempt from them must submit to the final exam to carry out the written test to demonstrate that they have the knowledge and skills required and defined in the curricular unit record.

The performance of this test will take place during the evaluation period.

The students in these circumstances should contact the teacher for clarification and definition of their evaluation

Internship work/project

Not aplicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students who are not attending classes and who by law may be exempt from them must submit to the final exam to carry out the written test to demonstrate that they have the knowledge and skills required and defined in the curricular unit record.

The performance of this test will take place during the evaluation period.

The students in these circumstances should contact the teacher for clarification and definition of their evaluation

Classification improvement

Students can improve the final classification of this course only once, at the time of appeal and according to the modality to be agreed with the teacher.

The final grade in the course unit is the highest, between the one that had been obtained initially and that resulting from the improvement of classification made.

Observations

Not aplicable