Explore how your objectives across three areas personal, professional, and academic interrelate: Social Science Assignment, UCC, Ireland

Task 1.

Explore how your objectives across three areas personal, professional, and academic interrelate.

It helps you to consider the overlap between academic, personal, and professional areas. The example is set out below.

Task 2: What am I curious about?

Take a few minutes to make a note of the issues and questions that make you feel curious about studying the social sciences.

You might consider issues/questions from one module or the entire course.

Are there particular aspects of your own experience or of issues, problems or phenomena in society that you hope the module will help you to understand?

Provide an overview of these in your portfolio.

Task 3: 

Quickly read through the article. Concentrate on following the logic of the argument so that you understand it

1. What is the central argument?
2. What are the underlying assumptions?
3. What are the premises and do you judge them to be true?
4. Is the argument valid?

Task 4:

Making Notes The Sociological Imagination: Portfolio Activity – Bad habits Watch the DUE video and make notes on the following.

1. What does the narrator say about the acronym DUE as a means to understand ‘bad habits’ such as smoking and overeating?
2. Explain in your own words how these ‘bad habits may be understood as a disease or a social issue or as the result of individual weaknesses.
3. Each of these understandings suggests very different courses of action. What might these be?