Academic Year/course:
2023/24
274 - Degree in Social Work
26160 - Work, Social Rights and Social Movements in Modern Society (19th and 20th Centuries)
Syllabus Information
Academic year:
2023/24
Subject:
26160 - Work, Social Rights and Social Movements in Modern Society (19th and 20th Centuries)
Faculty / School:
108 - Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y del Trabajo
Degree:
274 - Degree in Social Work
ECTS:
5.0
Year:
4 and 3
Semester:
Second semester
Subject type:
Optional
Module:
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1. General information
The aim of this subject is for students to acquire a basic knowledge of key processes that characterise current society, providing a historical perspective: the dynamics of the labour market; conflict and social movements and their contribution to the construction of citizenship.
These approaches and goals are aligned with the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations Agenda 2030 (https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/es/), Goal 3: Health and wellness; Goal 4:Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 10: Reduction of inequalities; Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities; Goal 12: Responsible production and consumption ; Goal 13: Climate Action; Goal 16: Peace, justice and solid institutions and Goals 17: Alliances to achieve the goals.
2. Learning results
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Knows and critically understands the main aspects of social and power imbalances and inequalities and of the mechanisms of discrimination and oppression (economic, gender, ethnic and cultural).
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Knows and critically understands conflicts and the contribution of social movements to social and political change.
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Ability to analyse and assess the way in which social imbalances and inequalities affect human relations and generate situations of differential need, malaise, precariousness, vulnerability, segregation, marginalisation and exclusion that influence the composition and evolution of social movements.
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Ability to understand the relationships between social processes, socio-occupational activities, care and the environment. It is able to establish synergies with other social sciences.
3. Syllabus
BLOCK: WORK AND SOCIAL ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY.
Unit 1: Labor and social issues. The construction of citizenship.
Unit 2: Work in the 20th century.
BLOCK: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY.
Unit 3. The concept of social movement. Types and functions.
Unit 4: Workers' movements.
Unit 5: The new social movements: Feminism.
Unit 6: The new social movements: The U.S. Civil Rights Movement. The student movement of May 68. The sixties in the USA. The sixties in Eastern Europe.
Unit 7: The new social movements: Transnational movements. The indignant. Movements campesinos. Environmentalism and pacifism.
4. Academic activities
- Master classes (1 group): 25 hours (two hours per week/10 weeks).
Theoretical sessions in which the contents of the subject program are explained.
- Type 2 practical classes (two groups): 25 hours (two hours per week/10 weeks).
Reading, critical commentary and discussion of readings and documentaries.
- Type 6 practical classes: 7 hours.
Bibliographic recovery work on one of the topics of the program.
5. Assessment system
Two evaluation modalities are proposed:
1. Summative assessment.
At the end of the program, students must take a test that will combine argumentative and multiple choice questions (true or false, etc.) of the theoretical contents, practical and of the texts or specialized readings worked on in the theoretical and practical classes of type 2. In addition, you must submit a bibliographic retrieval work on a theme or topic related to the program.
Breakdown of the summative assessment:
-classroom work throughout the semester (1.5 points).
-Test exam: 1.5 points.
-Argumentative examination question: 1.5 points.
-Test: 2.5 points.
-Argumentative question: 2.5 points.
2. Single or global assessment:
At the end of the semester, students must take a test that will combine questions argumentative and multiple-choice questions (true or false, etc.) on the theoretical content, practical content and texts or specialised readings worked on by the rest of the group in the theoretical classes and type 2 practices. In addition, you must submit a bibliographic retrieval work on a theme or topic related to the program.
Single assessment:
- Internship type 2 (4.5 points):
- Theory:
- Internship type 6: 0.5 points