Table of contents

The course is connected to the following study programs

Teaching language

Norsk

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

  • Offer a written or verbal account of the development of influential feminist critiques of traditional epistemology
  • Describe central approaches within feminist epistemology, such as feminist standpoint theory, feminist postmodernism, and feminist empiricism
  • Reflect on feminist critiques of the valorization of objectivity, emotional detachment, abstraction, value-neutrality, and control in scientific research
  • Have familiarity with the roles of epistemic privilege, epistemic authority, and epistemic injustice in the social production, classification, institutionalization, dissemination, and evaluation of knowledge

Contents

The course will enable the student to provide good academic and organized education in social studies in primary school. The purpose of social science in school is to develop the pupils' awareness that they are part of a historical context and that collective and individual choices in the past and present can affect the community and their own life situation. The pupils will also develop awareness of the relationships between production and consumption, and be able to assess the consequences of resource use on the environment and sustainable development.

The course addresses human history until today, focusing on historical conflicts, development and social change at national and global levels. Geography emphasizes national and local natural geography, focusing on different landscapes, natural landscapes, climate and industrial routes, as well as social changes related to settlement and the environment. Through the work of geographical areas and selected historical epochs and events, the course will focus on understanding the interaction between people, society and nature in historical and geographical perspectives.

Teaching and learning methods

The education is collective based. The teaching is characterized by the variation between lectures and seminars, including conversation, subject didactic reflections, group work, exercises, presentations, etc.

Further description of other work requirements will be given through the University's Learning Platform at the start of the semester.

The course is expected to have a workload of 400 hours.

Examination requirements

Three passed work requirements. One of the work requirements in the course must be related to practice. One of the work requirements in the course should also be used as part of a bachelor's thesis. This work requirement must have a subject didactic theme.

Examinations

48-hour individual home ecam, which counts 60% of final grade.
4 hour individual school exam, which counts 40% of final grade.

Student evaluation

The person responsible for the course, in consultation with the student representative, decides the method of evaluation and whether the courses will have a midterm- or end of term evaluation, see also the Quality System, section 4.1. Information about evaluation method for the course will be posted on Canvas.

Reduction of Credits

This course’s contents overlap with the following courses. A reduction of credits will occur if one of these courses is taken in addition:

Course Reduction of Credits
SV-141 – Social Studies 1: Introduction to History and Geography, Grades 1-7. 12
SV-158 – Innføring i samfunnsfag og fagdidaktikk. 10
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