CGS3000 Career guidance and social justice
- Number of credits5
- Teaching semester2024 Autumn
- Language of instructionEnglish
- CampusLillehammer
- Required prerequisite knowledge
None.
- What is meant by social justice? And what are the different ways in which this term can be used and misused?
- How do our careers interact with notions of wealth, power, politics and justice? How does the concept of ‘neoliberalism’ as well as other related concepts such as ‘class’, ‘patriarchy’, ‘heteronormativity’, ‘racism’ and ‘hegemony’ help us to understand this?
- How can career guidance contribute to social justice, undermine it, or do both at the same time?
- What problems is career guidance designed to address? What, in other words, is ‘the problem’ represented to be? What implications do such representations have on your thinking and action?
- How do you reconcile the task of helping individuals and groups find their place in the world as it is, while struggling for a world as it could and should be?
- What practices, models and theories can be used to support emancipatory forms of career guidance.
- What practices, models and theories exist in career guidance which have the potential to undermine social justice?
- How will digitalisation and digital social media affect, contribute or challenge guidance for social justice?
Learning Outcome
By passing the course, the student has achieved the following total learning outcomes:
The student
- Have thorough knowledge about different concepts of social justice.
- Is able to explain what problems career guidance is designed to address.
- Will outline a range of ways in which career guidance contributes to social justice.
- Is able to discuss how digitalisation and digital social media affect, contribute or challenge guidance for social justice.
The student:
- Is able to analyse and communicate the professional and ethical issues associated with different modes of career guidance practice.
- Is able to lead the design and delivery of social justice career guidance.
- Is able to analyse and navigate the professional and ethical issues associated with social justice and career guidance whilst working with students and clients.
The student:
- Is able to discuss how different concepts of social justice inter-relates with career guidance
- Is able to communicate the value of a social justice approach to career guidance
- Is able to contribute to new thinking in the field of social justice career guidance.
- Interactive lectures and seminars
- Student presentations and discussions
Students are required to
- Have full attendance record at lectures and workshops during the one-week summer school.
- Produce an input in advance of the summer school explaining their background and interest in social justice.
- Work throughout the summer school with their peers to develop a resource or practice idea.
- Trial their resource or practice idea after attending the summer school.
Student will be expected to submit a report, film or photo-essay summarising how they have put the ideas that they have learnt during the summer school into practice. This should include a formative evaluation of how it went and a critical reflection on their next steps.
There is a graded scale from A to F (F is a fail grade).
| Form of assessment | Grading scale | Grouping | Duration of assessment | Support materials | Proportion | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Practical examination | Passed - not passed |
Reading list
No reading list available for this course