CIVICA Showcase Assignment

The Showcase Assignment is a mandatory component of the CIVICA Engage Track and must be completed before graduation. It is your opportunity to demonstrate how the knowledge and skills gained through your studies can contribute to addressing societal challenges.

Through this assignment, you showcase your civic engagement and illustrate the value of the social sciences in improving European societies. You apply your learning to a topic of your choice, highlighting how academic knowledge can create real-world impact.

The assignment consists of two components: a public dissemination piece (“Spread the Word”) and a personal reflection.

1. Spread the Word

In this component, you communicate your CIVICA Engage Track experience to an external audience.

You will create and publish a media piece of your choice (e.g. article, video, podcast) on a topic relevant to European societies. The aim is to reach beyond CIVICA channels and demonstrate your civic engagement to a broader audience. Examples of such pieces can be found on the CIVICA.eu webpage.

2. Reflection Piece

This component focuses on your personal learning journey within the Engage Track.

You will produce an analytical reflection on what you have learned and how you have learned it. The format is flexible (e.g. essay, video, podcast, as agreed with the course director), with a maximum length equivalent to 10 minutes of reading, viewing, or listening.

Your reflection should:

Analyse your learning outcomes and personal development
Draw on concepts or tools from the social sciences or humanities
Demonstrate critical thinking about your experience
Support and Submission

You may receive feedback from the course director by submitting work in progress in line with the suggested assignment deadlines. These deadlines are intended as guidance for students who wish to receive feedback during the semester.

Both components can also be submitted together at any point before the final submission deadline at the end of the term, with or without prior preparatory submissions.

Certification

Students who complete all Engage Track requirements, including the Showcase Assignment, receive a CIVICA Certificate issued by the CIVICA Secretariat. Completion of the Engage Track is also recorded in the SSE diploma supplement.

Course Administrator: Alexandra.Butanescu@hhs.se

General entry requirements

Students select relevant literature individually, based on their chosen European challenge.

Grading Criteria (Pass/Fail)

To receive a Pass, the Showcase Assignment must:

Engage with at least one social sciences/humanities-related concept that you might have encountered in the CIVICA Engage Track, in each of the showcase components. In other words, any theory or concept from the disciplines taught at SSE and CIVICA schools are relevant.

Demonstrate mastery of conceptual tools from the humanities or social sciences by employing accurately and critically one or more such tool in each showcase component.

Document an extensive process of analytical reflection on your overall experience with the CIVICA Engage Track, including, but not limited to learning processes and outcomes, the evolution of goals and values, and an understanding of civic engagement in general and of European challenges in particular.

Communicate effectively about one social challenge to a specific audience where effective communication entails: a clear and consistent social/rhetorical purpose, a message tailored to the needs and abilities of the particular audience, and richly informed by the knowledge base developed through the CIVICA Engage Track/ your education in social sciences and or humanities.

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