Reflective Processes in Professional Practice (PHD301)


Course description for study year 2025-2026. Please note that changes may occur.

See course description and exam/assesment information for this semester (2024-2025)
Facts

Course code

PHD301

Version

1

Credits (ECTS)

5

Semester tution start

Autumn

Number of semesters

1

Exam semester

Autumn

Language of instruction

English

Content

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

After completing the course, students should:

Have advanced knowledge of ethical issues in professional work.

Have advanced knowledge of contextual and critical processes in professional work

Skills:

After completing the course, students should:

Be able to identify, emphasize and analyze ethical dimensions of professional work

Be able to recognize and reflect on contextualized (-local, national, and international) understandings and challenges within professional work

Be able to apply concepts and theories in respectively health, education, welfare, and social work research in fruitful ways

Competences:

After completing the course, students should:

Demonstrate substantial scholarly and professional integrity and sustained commitment to the development of new ideas or processes at the forefront of health, education, welfare, or social work.

Be able to identify new and relevant ethical challenges and conduct their research with academic integrity.

Required prerequisite knowledge

Participants must be enrolled in a PhD programme.

Exam

Form of assessment Weight Duration Marks Aid
Course paper 1/1 Passed / Not Passed

Course teacher(s)

Course teacher:

Solveig Botnen Eide

Course coordinator:

Siv Oltedal

Method of work

Open for

The course is open to interested PhD candidates at the University of Stavanger and other universities. Single Course Admission to PhD-Courses.

Course assessment

The faculty decides whether early dialogue should be conducted in all or selected groups of courses offered by the faculty. The purpose is to gather feedback from students for making changes and adjustments to the course during the current semester. In addition, a digital evaluation, students’ course evaluation, must be conducted at least once every three years. Its purpose is to collect students` experiences with the course.

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