230114 UE M3 Theories of the welfare state (2025W)

Performance assessment is based on preparation for the exercise sessions and active participation, giving presentations on a selected topic, providing feedback on other students' presentations, and writing a seminar paper based on the exercises that have been carried out.
The partial requirement "seminar paper" must be submitted via Moodle by February 28, 2026. If this partial requirement results in a negative evaluation of the entire course, you will be allowed to improve it. You will receive feedback with criteria that must be met for the partial requirement to be reassessed positively. These criteria must be fulfilled by April 19, 2026, at the latest, by resubmitting the improved partial requirement via Moodle. If you miss the deadlines or fail to meet the criteria, you will receive a negative evaluation.
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Note from SPL Sociology:
Students do not have a fundamental right to a fixed percentage of permissible absences in courses with continuous assessment, regardless of the reasons. A rule regarding the extent of compulsory attendance may be established by the instructors of the course with continuous assessment. All students who have been admitted to a course must be assessed unless they have withdrawn in good time or can provide a valid reason for not withdrawing immediately after the obstacle has been removed. If such a reason exists (e.g., prolonged illness), students may be withdrawn from the course even after the deadline has passed. The course instructor decides whether there is a valid reason. The request for withdrawal must be submitted immediately. All partial performances must be completed. Plagiarism software (Turnitin in Moodle) may be used as part of the assessment. The use of AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) to create texts is only permitted with the approval of the course instructor. To ensure good academic practice, the course instructor may require students to participate in an oral reflection (“grade-relevant discussion”) on the seminar paper they have submitted, which must be successfully completed. If a partial performance has been obtained by deception, e.g., cheating on an exam or test, plagiarizing a written paper, or forging signatures on attendance lists, the entire course will be graded as “not assessed” and recorded accordingly. This and other provisions can be found in the section on study regulations: https://satzung.univie.ac.at/studienrecht/. If you have already failed a course with continuous assessment three times and wish to register for a fourth attempt, please contact the Sociology Student Services Office during the registration period (see additional information “Third repeat of courses with continuous assessment” https://soziologie.univie.ac.at/info/pruefungen/# c56313)