GLCb1016 Combating Global Social Challenges and Risks: Practical Workshop

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. et Mgr. Marcela Petrová Kafková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Adéla Souralová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Lucie Vidovićová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Adéla Souralová, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Supplier department: Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Prerequisites
none
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The aim of this practical workshop is to provide the students to make use of the theories and approaches that they taught in obligatory and optional courses about sociological and anthropological perspectives about global challenges (especially GLCb1006 and GLCb1009). The course is divided into four blocks in which the students will discuss particular topics, including, but not limited to: Social exclusion and marginalization, global migration in local context, global demographic changes and local responses, processes in urban space. The course will include also excursions and visiting expert from the praxis. The emphasis is put on the students group projects and cultivation of their ability to contribute to the formulation of the potential solutions to global challenges. The role of the applied social research will be discussed and students will use its principles for their group projects.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, a student will be able to:
- identify the social global challenges and their roots
- formulate the solutions to global challenges
- work in groups to create group projects
- address stakeholders and formulate the actions
- critically thinking about the existing praxis and policies
Syllabus
  • The course is divided into four blocks in which the actual social topics will be discussed.
  • Block 1: Social exclusion and marginalization (education, labour market, housing, health care)
  • Block 2: Global migration in local context (academic mobility, refugees, religion, employment)
  • Block 3: Global demographic changes and local responses (ageing)
  • Block 4: Processes in urban space (ghettoization, gentrification, etc.)
Literature
  • L. Bickman & D.J. Rog (Eds.). (2009). The SAGE Handbook of Applied Social Research Methods. London: SAGE:
  • Benedict, Burton. “The Significance of Applied Anthropology for Anthropological Theory.” Man, vol. 2, no. 4, 1967, pp. 584–592.
  • Scudder, Thayer. 2010. Global threats, global futures: Living with declining living standards. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
  • Steele, S.F. and Price, J. (2008) Applied Sociology: Terms, Topics, Tools and Tasks, Belmont: Thomson Higher Education.
  • ERIKSEN, Thomas Hylland. Engaging anthropology : the case for a public presence. London: Bloomsbury, 2013, xii, 148. ISBN 9781845200657. info
Teaching methods
excursions, class discussion, workshop, group projects
Assessment methods
class activity, four group projects, presentations
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
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