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Management of Social Intervention Projects II

Code: 101123 ECTS Credits: 6
2025/2026
Degree Type Year
Sociology OB 3

Contact

Name:
Joel Marti Olive
Email:
joel.marti@uab.cat

Teachers

Albert Terrones Ribas

Teaching groups languages

You can view this information at the end of this document.


Prerequisites

We advise students to pass Gestió de Projectes d'Intervenció Social I before taking this subject.


Objectives and Contextualisation

Gestió de Projectes d'Intervenció Social I and II have been designed in order to introduce professional skills within the Sociology Degree, particularly in the field of social projects. 

Their main objectives are:

- To integrate social intervention within the conceptual and methodological frameworks of the social sciences and social intervention.
- To identify the context in which social intervention takes place, both in terms of the diversity of stakeholders (public administrations, the third sector, consultants, associations, etc.) and with respect to the diversity of areas, objectives and approaches.
- To learn the application of tools and techniques for the design, development and evaluation of social intervention projects.

Gestió de Projectes dIntervenció Social II addresses the third objective and focuses on methods and techniques for diagnosing, designing, managing, and evaluating social interventions, taking into account the role of political, technical, and citizen actors in these processes.


Competences

  • Analysing the problems arising from the implementation of public policies and conflict situations by recognising the complexity of the social phenomena and political decisions affecting democracy, human rights, social justice and sustainable development.
  • Applying the concepts and approaches of the sociological theory, specially the explanations of social inequalities between classes, between genders and between ethnic groups, to the implementation of public policies and to the resolution of conflict situations.
  • Respecting the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
  • Searching for documentary sources starting from concepts.
  • Students must be capable of managing their own time, planning their own study, managing the relationship with their tutor or adviser, as well as setting and meeting deadlines for a work project.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Demonstrating to what extent their influence is important to the design or evaluation of a social intervention project.
  2. Differentiating the underlying inequalities of specific policies or conflicts.
  3. Relating the concepts, methods and techniques used to analyse culture with general theoretical and methodological debates.
  4. Respecting the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
  5. Searching for documentary sources starting from concepts.
  6. Students must be capable of managing their own time, planning their own study, managing the relationship with their tutor or adviser, as well as setting and meeting deadlines for a work project.

Content

PART I. THE DESIGN OF SOCIAL PROJECTS

1. Social projects. Basic concepts.

2. Diagnosis: gathering and analysing data

3. Objectives and project theory 

4. Planning: programming, organization, resources and funding

5. Communication, implementation and monitoring

6. Evaluation

 


PART II. THE PARTICIPATORY APPROACH IN SOCIAL INTERVENTION

7. Fundamentals of participatory methodologies in social intervention

8. Stages of a participatory design. Stakeholders and levels of work.

9. Participatory tools

 

 


Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Lectures 17 0.68 5, 1, 2, 3, 4
Workshop 35 1.4 5, 1, 2, 6, 3, 4
Type: Supervised      
Grop tutorials 6 0.24 5, 6, 3, 4
Type: Autonomous      
Exam preparation 25 1 5, 1, 2, 6, 3, 4
Reading 10 0.4 5, 1, 2, 6, 3, 4
Team work 55 2.2 5, 1, 2, 6, 3, 4

Project design, practical cases and debates are at the center of the learning process of this course. Lectures and reading sessions and readings are aimed, on the one hand, at providing the necessary tools for practical learning, as well as at consolidating the acquisition of the theoretical and methodological knowledge that it entails.

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.


Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Design of a social intervention project 50% 0 0 5, 1, 2, 6, 3, 4
Seminars Part II 20% 0 0 5, 1, 2, 6, 3, 4
Written exams (two) 30% 2 0.08 5, 1, 2, 6, 3, 4

Continuous assessment for the course is based on the completion of the following activities:

- Design of a social intervention project

  • Each team may choose the topic of their project.
  • The project will be divided into three submissions: (1) diagnosis, objectives, and theory of change; (2) planning; and (3) final review and evaluation. Each submission will receive feedback, although the final grade will be based on the complete project as a whole.
  • Carrying out the project involves both tasks outside the classroom and the active participation of teams during class sessions (which will serve as team-working spaces). Therefore, this active participation is mandatory.
  • If the project is linked to an external organization, it may be developed following the Service Learning (SL) or Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) models.

- Two individual tests, scheduled throughout the semester, each with equal weight.

- Practical activities related to Block II of the syllabus, which will include in-class activities and an individual exercice to be submitted as a video.


Single assessment

Following the criteria of the CCPP and Sociology Faculty, and in line with the teaching strategy, this course does not applies single assessment system.


Conditions for passing the course:

- Regular class attendance is necessary toensure proper course follow-up.

  • Although occasional absences do not need to be reported, any situation that prevents regular attendance must be communicated in advance so that alternatives can be considered.

  • Given the cumulative nature of the work plan, in the case of occasional absences, the team must ensure the presence of at least one team member. Additionally, knowledge and completed tasks must be shared with all team members to avoid disrupting the development of the sessions.
  • At the end of the course, each assessment activity must reach a minimum grade of 5 out of 10. The final grade will be based on the weighted average of all assessment activities.

Reevaluation

  • Assessment activities may be retaken through similar tasks. The maximum final grade obtainable in a reevaluation will be 5.


Not assessed

Students who fail to complete any of the assessment activities will receive a "Not Assessed" grade on the final record.


Use of Artificial Intelligence

Restricted use: For this course, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is permitted only for support tasks such as information search, idea generation, writing assistance (text structuring and editing), and internal coherence checking.

  • Any AI-generated content must be clearly identified, specifying the tools used and including a critical reflection on how these tools have influenced both the process and the final result.
  • Lack of transparency regarding AI use will be considered academic dishonesty and may lead to partial or full penalties on the activity grade, or more serious sanctions in severe cases.
  • The student or group must be able to explain and justify any idea, argument, or content in their work at all times. If they are unable to do so, this may be considered evidence of improper AI use.

Plagiarism and other irregularities

Any irregularity that could significantly affect the grade of an assessment task will result in a grade of 0 for that task. If multiple irregularities occur in the same course, the final grade for the course will be 0.

 


Bibliography

Disseny i avaluació de projectes 

Alegre, Miquel Àngel et al. (2017). Guia pràctica d'avaluació de programes del tercer sector social. Ivàlua.

Àlvarez, Alexandre (2017). Extracte del curs de gestió de projectes. Diputació de Barcelona.

Blasco, Jaume (2009). Com iniciar una avaluació: oportunitat, viabilitat i preguntes d'avaluació. (Guies pràctiques sobre avaluació de polítiques públiques; 1). Ivàlua.  

Crespo, Ramon; Sampériz, Abel; Pujadas, Carol (2020). Nous relats per a la planificació i l'avaluació: res tan pràctic com una bona teoria. Ajuntament de Barcelona.

Direcció de Serveis de Formació (s/d). Gestió de projectes. Diputació de Barcelona. 

Mille Galán, Josep Maria (2015). Manual bàsic d’elaboració i avaluació de projectes (Útil Pràctic 25). Ajuntament de Barcelona, Torre Jussana.

Posavac, Emil J. (2015). Program evaluation: Methods and case studies. Routledge.

Oms, Montserrat; Ramos, Xavier (2020). Planificació i avaluació d’un projecte. Agència Catalana de Joventut.

Project Management Institute (2013). Guía de los fundamentos de la dirección de proyectos (5a ed.). Project Management Institute.

Ortegon, Ernesto; Pacheco, Juan; Prieto, Adriana (2005). Metodología del marco lógico para la planificación, el seguimiento y la evaluación de proyectos y programas. CEPAL.

Simone, Beth (2022). Como resolver problemas públicos. Una guía práctica para arreglar el gobierno y cambiar el mundo. Galaxia Gutenberg.

 

 

Participatory methods

Martí, Joel (2016). Investigación-acción. Introducción a la perspectiva, diseño y métodos. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (disponible al Campus Virtual)

Martí, Joel, Jorba, Laia (2011). Tècniques participatives per al debat grupal.Diputació de Barcelona. 2a ed. rev.

Burns, Danny; Howard, Jo; Ospina, Sonia, M. (2022). The SAGE Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry. Sage Ed.


Software

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Groups and Languages

Please note that this information is provisional until 30 November 2025. You can check it through this link. To consult the language you will need to enter the CODE of the subject.

Name Group Language Semester Turn
(SEM) Seminars 1 Catalan second semester morning-mixed
(SEM) Seminars 51 Catalan second semester afternoon
(TE) Theory 1 Catalan second semester morning-mixed
(TE) Theory 51 Catalan second semester afternoon