Master 2024/2025

Youth Participation

Type: Elective course (Modern Social Analysis)

Area of studies: Sociology

Delivered by: Department of Sociology

Where: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

When: 2 year, 2 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Yana Krupets

Master’s programme: Modern Social Analysis

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The focus will be done on the analysis of the concepts of civic engagement/civic participation/citizenship and the specificity of youth civic engagement/participation in modern societies. During the course, we will learn about theories that describe modern civic participation, citizenship, including a digital one. We also consider the relations between the youth, society, and the political sphere. The course will present the theoretical backgrounds of studying youth civic participation in the modern world and will include the practical part of conducting an empirical analysis of youth civic participation and personal student's experience.

Learning Objectives

• The aim of this course is to discuss the concept of youth civic participation in the context of modern societies and globalization. The focus will be done on the analysis of the theoretical concepts and personal experiences of being a citizen.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• - identify socially significant problems and propose solutions to them based on the use of relevant scientific theories, concepts,approaches and social technologies
• - improve and develop his/her intellectual and cultural level
• be able to conduct professional (including research) activities in the international environment
• be able to identify the needs and interests of social groups, propose mechanisms for their coordination among themselves for the development of social communities
• identify and discover patterns, invent new ways and instruments of professional activity

Course Contents

• Civic participation/engagement/citizenship
• Youth participation
• Civic participation in the digital era

Assessment Elements

• Participation in the seminars
  Activity during seminars and preparation for the seminars (readings, analysis of empirical cases). All work should be also registered in written format.
• Autoethnography
  Auto-ethnographic analysis of personal experience and identity in the field of civic youth participation
• Final essay
  Exam is passing in the format of analytical essay

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 2nd module
  0.2 * Autoethnography + 0.5 * Final essay + 0.3 * Participation in the seminars

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• The Oxford handbook of citizenship edited by Ayelet Shachar, Rainer Bauböck, Irene Bloemraad, Maarten Vink. (2017).
• The Oxford handbook of citizenship edited by Ayelet Shachar, Rainer Bauböck, Irene Bloemraad, Maarten Vink. (2017). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.490782183

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Kalu N. Kalu. (2017). Citizenship : Identity, Institutions, and the Postmodern Challenge. Routledge.
• Terkla, D. G., & O’Leary, L. S. (2014). Assessing Civic Engagement : New Directions for Institutional Research, Number 162. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=957017

Authors

• KRUPETS Iana NIKOLAEVNA