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| Semester |
E2025
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| Subject |
International Bachelor Study Programme in Social Science
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| Activity type |
basic project
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| Teaching language |
English
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| Registration |
Studerende på 1. semester bliver automatisk tilmeldt. Hvis du skal tage kurset igen, og ikke går på 1. semester, skal du kontakte sib-exams@ruc.dk. Students on their 1st semester will be registered automatically. If you are taking the course again and are not on your 1st semester, please contact sib-exams@ruc.dk. |
| Detailed description of content |
Basic project 1 provides students with the core academic tools for doing project work. The project is academically anchored in social sciences and the students must identify a social science problem, which they qualify in their problem formulation with references to existing literature. In Basic Project 1, the students are introduced to academic practices such as reading academic literatur, correct referencing and the students must learn how to do a literature review. Furthermore, Basic Project 1 is supported by Basic Course 3 Social Science Methods (see Moodle for more information), where students are introduced to some of the methodological tools that they use in their project work. |
| Project Process |
The semester starts with an introduction to the project, the methods course and the subject courses, where the SIB coordinator and the course leaders explain how the semester's courses and the project are connected. The students will be taught how to work with the project's learning objectives and to identify themes that they are interested in exploring further in a project. Students are also taught various project competences to strengthen their project group collaboration. During the intensive days, known as project formation, the students work with different themes and issues that they may want to investigate during the semester. During the project formation, the individual student identifies a societal issue that they will investigate further together with 3-6 other students, with whom they form a project group. The students in the project group alternate between working independently on different elements of projects, working in the project group and meeting with the supervisor. The supervisor gives feedback to the group based on the written material the project group has submitted prior to meeting. The supervisor may also ask about the dynamics between the members of the project group. |
| Expected work effort (ECTS-declaration) |
A student is expected to work 405 hours on a 15 ECTS project. The 405 hours include semester introduction, project formation, workshop and group project work, including problem area seminar and internal evaluation. The group project work entails literature search, reading and literature review, preparing feedback, supervision meetings, group project meetings, writing the project report, exams etc. Each member of the project group is expected to work 405 hours on the project. |
| Course material and Reading list |
The project group in collaboration with the supervisor will identify the reading that will be used in the project report. |
| Evaluation- and feedback forms |
Feedback is an important part of the project work and takes place in different ways throughout the project. Peer-to-peer feedback occurs continously in the project group, for example when the students discuss some of the literature they have read, or when the project group talks about the empirical data collection and analysis. The project collaboration is essentially about giving and receiving feedback. The supervisor is also an important source of feedback. Initially, the supervisor provides feedback on the group's project ideas and problem formulations. Later the supervisor provides feedback on the literature review, theory, methods and analysis. Feedback is given both through supervision meetings and written comments on drafts. The students actively participate in the mid-term evaluation where they give feedback to another project group and receive feedback from this group and another supervisor. This feedback helps to qualify the project work and help the project group move forward with the project. The students receive exam feedback that they can use in future project work. Moreover, the Study Board regularly evaluates the project. Here, the students' evaluation is important for developing the project in relation to the learning objectives and the project process. |
| Head of studies/academic coordinator |
Helene Dyrhauge (dyrhauge@ruc.dk)
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| Administration of exams |
SIB Registration & Exams (sib-exams@ruc.dk)
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| Responsible for the activity |
Helene Dyrhauge (dyrhauge@ruc.dk)
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| ECTS |
15
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| Learning outcomes and assessment criteria |
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| Mandatory or elective |
Project |
| Overall content |
The purpose of the project work is to introduce the student to the problem oriented project work. The students have to write a project which develop, justify and examine a social scientific problem formulation using scientific literature. The class finds a common theme for their project work. |
| Teaching and working methods |
The main teaching method consists of project supervision, where each project group meets with their assigned supervisor for individual appointments. The project supervision is complemented by a project supporting process which includes the following elements:
The specific content of the individual elements of the project supporting process will be published in Moodle. The student participates in the midterm evaluation. |
| Form of examination |
Oral group exam for the participants in the project.
The starting point for the oral exam is the project report and any supplementary material. The exam includes individual presentations within one of the topics selected by the examiner, which will be communicated to the students no later than 3 working days prior to the exam. Each individual presentation including questions may last up to 5 minutes. A dialogue between the student(s) and the assessors about the project, will be conducted after the individual presentation(s). There may be posed questions related to the subject area of the project report and the attached study portfolio. The assessment is individual and is based on the project report, any additional material and the student´s oral performance. Permitted group size: 3-6 students. The character limits of the project report are: For 3 students: 60,000-100800 characters, including spaces. For 4 students: 81,600-122400 characters, including spaces. For 5 students: 81,600-122400 characters, including spaces. For 6 students: 108,000-141600 characters, including spaces. The character limits include the cover, table of contents, abstract, bibliography, figures and other illustrations, but exclude appendices. The project report must include an abstract in English, that is part of the assessment and a group based study portfolio. Time allowed for the exam including time used for assessment is for: 3 students: 75 minutes. 4 students: 90 minutes. 5 students: 105 minutes. 6 students: 120 minutes. Permitted support and preparation materials at the oral exam: All Assessment: 7-point grading scale Moderation: Internal co-assessor. |
| Form of Re-examination |
Samme som ordinær eksamen / same form as ordinary exam
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| Exam code(s) | |
| Last changed | 08/07/2025 |
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