News, Society and Politics: Project Work

The students will write a research paper where they analyse a question related to news, society, and politics. The paper is required to be up to 25 pages (9000-9500 words). The person responsible for the course decides at the start of the semester whether the research paper may be written individually or as a group work. A group project requires a more extensive research paper and it should be possible to separate the contributions for the purpose of grading. All students have to make an oral seminar presentation which critially examines theories, methods and results from the curriculum.

To improve the students’ understanding of how theory and empirical observations interact in political science research on the topic of news, society and politics.

2 hours of lectures/seminars per week throughout the semester and term paper supervision. All the activities that are organised in the course are compulsory.

Form of assessment: Research paper and written exam. The term paper counts for 2/3 of the grade, the written exam for 1/3. If you fail or want to re-take the exam, you would have to re-take both parts.