Networks II

Course Objective

The learning objectives of Networks II are directed at designing a response or practical intervention and the implication for implementation. In addition, collaboration of disciplines and linking insights of different disciplines are important learning aims.
Basic knowledge and understanding
1. Students have basic knowledge and understanding of the affordances of social media, interpersonal processes in social media use, romantic relationships through social media, and human-computer processes on social media.
2. Students have a basic knowledge and understanding of the different type of social media interventions: individual level, group level and induction level.
Applying knowledge
3. Students are able to develop a description of an intervention or solution and to apply their knowledge to practical needs. In addition, they are able to pinpoint implications for the implementation by taking into account different disciplinary views.
Making judgement
4. Students are able to value the contributions of different disciplines to a proposed intervention.
5. Students learn to understand how their own discipline contribute to an intervention on complex social issues. By collaborating with other disciplines, students show that they are able to combine their knowledge from different disciplines in order to design an effective intervention. In a product made by a group, they are able to demonstrate a multidisciplinary, yet holistic approach.
Skills
6. Students are able to collaborate with others who employ different perspectives from their own with the aim to design a response or an intervention that covers these different disciplinary insights and that may be more effective than a single disciplinary approach.
7. Students are able to communicate in writing an intervention that includes different disciplinary angles and can explain how the participating disciplines contribute to the intervention.

Teaching Methods

Lectures and workgroups

Method of Assessment

The assessment is based on:
• Short paper (25% of the final grade): the quality of a short paper (minimum of 1500 words) about an intervention, advice or response to of the real life case made by the peer group. The paper has to be 5,5 or higher (on a 10 point scale). The quality of the short individual assignments for work group sessions 1 and 2, and differences in contributions during the workgroups may be used to differentiate grades of the different group members. When groups or individual group members do not pass the workgroup assignment, they need to do a resit, which necessarily also requires a new topic.
• Exam (75% of the final grade) that consists of 30 multiple choice questions (75%) and 5 open ended questions that require a few paragraphs long answer to a question (25%).

Target Audience

• Second-year bachelor students of FSW at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (elective)
• Exchange students