Admission requirements
Mandatory course for students enrolled in the bachelor’s programme Security Studies.
Description
In Integrated project 1, students will be challenged to integrate the knowledge and understanding they have gathered in the first year courses and apply these to a case in a group project. The central theme of this course is physical violence and public order. Students will choose present-day challenges related to violence and public order, and will develop artefacts aimed at addressing these problems and rendering change according to the principles and methods of Design Science. The course consists of 2 lectures and 12 Integrated Project Labs.
The two lectures will introduce students to the topics of violence and public order. In the first lecture the complexity of violence and public order will be unpacked by zooming in on key concepts, the scope, risk factors involved, as well as the actors and stakeholders that play a role when discussing these topics. The second Integrated Project lecture is geared towards giving students tools to study violence, help them select a researchable violence related problem to work on in the Integrated Project labs and introduce students to the available and proper methods to study violence. This lecture will build upon instructions given in the corresponding course Research Methods 1 on Design Science.
In the twelve labs student will study one particular artefact form such as a change campaign or a short film. They will learn how these artefact forms can be used to generate change, which strategies can be employed and how to best address their target audience. Specialists from the field will be invited to talk about their experiences with these artefacts and the topic of violence and public order.
Course objectives
Students will be able to identify and contextualize a contemporary physical violence and public order threat, explain the scope of the threat, understand which actors and stakeholders are involved and recognize the associated risk factors.
Students will be able to develop an artefact according to the principles of design science intended to prevent, mitigate and manage the risk factors of a contemporary violence challenge.
Students will be able to identify the levels of risk intervention and potential target audiences to generate social change related to violence and public order threats.
Students will be able to compose a basic systematic literature review.
Students will be able to apply project management skills as well as teamwork skills to the project.
Students will be able to show awareness regarding ethical and social dilemmas involved in the case study.
Timetable
On the right side of programme front page of the E-guide Bachelor Security Studies you will find links to the website and timetables, uSis and Blackboard.
Mode of instruction
Lectures, lab sessions, project / field work.
Attending the lab sessions is mandatory. Missing more than 3 sessions will lead to a fail.
Course Load
Total study load of 280 hours
Two plenary lectures: 6
Twelve lab sessions: 36
Project / field work: 42
Self-study hours (including assignment): 196
Assessment method
Academic paper: 40%
Participation: 10%
Presentation portfolio: 50%
Students must receive at least a 5.50 for both the academic paper and the presentation. The calculated grade must be 5.50 to pass the course.
Attendance is mandatory. Missing more than 3 sessions will lead to a fail.
In case of a fail, no grades will be given, only a fail. This implies that a resit will not lead to a pass.
More information will be available on the Blackboard page.
Resit
Students will be permitted to resit the paper and/or presentation if they have a grade lower than 5.50 or with permission of the Board of Examiners. Due to its nature it is impossible to resit the 10% participation grade.
The resit for the paper will take the same form. The resit for the presentation portfolio will be an alternative assignment.
Transitional Arrangement
Students who participated in the course ‘Integrated Project 1’ in academic year 2018-2019, but did not manage to pass the entire course, keep their passed partial grades for the academic paper and presentation components obtained in year 2018-2019 during year 2019-2020. Students who passed the presentation component in year 2018-2019 keep their participation grade during year 2019-2020. Students who passed the academic paper in year 2018-2019, but did not manage to pass the presentation component cannot take their participation grade to year 2019-2020.Failed partial grades should be obtained in 2019-2020 and cover the course content offered in year 2019-2020.
Blackboard
Course page will be available one week in advance.
Reading list
To be announced on Blackboard.
Registration
Use both uSis and Blackboard to register for every course.
Register for every course and workgroup via uSis. Some courses and workgroups have a limited number of participants, so register on time (before the course starts). In uSis you can access your personal schedule and view your results. Registration in uSis is possible from four weeks before the start of the course.
Also register for every course in Blackboard. Important information about the course is posted there.
Contact
drs. C. Kofman, course coordinator c.j.kofman@fgga.leidenuniv.nl