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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Sociology & Anthropology
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
liron Shani
Coordinator Office Hours:
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Liron Shani
Course/Module description:
This workshop will deal with the relationship between social scientists and society and the general public. During the workshop we will get to know and experience a variety of ways to make science accessible (lectures, blogs, podcasts, opinion articles, social networks and more), we will discuss the tensions (real and imagined) between popular science and research, between activism and research and applied and academic research. We will meet guest lecturers from a variety of fields and approaches, we will get to know the prominent theories and articles on the topics of accessibility of science and sociology and public anthropology and more. The final assignment of the course will be to create a project to make social research accessible.
Course/Module aims:
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Students will be able to create a project to make social research accessible
Students will be able to take part in the public debate through social studies
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Course/Module Content:
What is science accessibility? What is public sociology and anthropology? Academy-society relations, between popularity and complexity, activism and research, academia and applied anthropology, social media, public debate, institutional critique, importance of storytellers
Required Reading:
On the course website
Additional Reading Material:
On the course website
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 15 %
Participation in Tutorials 10 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 35 %
Research project 20 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 20 %
project
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