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Opportunities for Sociology

The Department of Sociology have partnered with Rise at Manchester Met to curate some opportunities particularly aimed at enabling their students to succeed within and beyond their degrees.

You can gain valuable skills and experience, and even better, engagement with these experiences is rewarded formally as part of your degree transcript. So get involved now, take every opportunity and Rise at Manchester Met.

Below or a subset of opportunities from our much bigger offer. Remember, you’ll need to register for Rise before you can access these.

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Our activities give students to ability to engage with more sustained opportunities to learn and gain experience, and accumulate larger allotments of Rise points. Here are a selection we think might be of particular interest to you:

Gain Skills with Self Study in a range of Rise Intensives relevant to your course
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Self Study Kit: Teach your self a skill at your own pace
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Behavioural Design
Learn about the applied principles of Behaviour Design; the ways in which design principles can be used to positively change the behaviour of individuals, communities and societies.
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Self Study Kit: Teach your self a skill at your own pace
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40 You will earn 40 bronze points for completing this activity.
Demystifying Open Data
There is a wealth of data that is created for and about us and the communities in which we live. Although much of this data is available publically as open data it is often hard to locate, with the tools and understanding needed to interpret and use it unduly difficult.
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40 You will earn 40 bronze points for completing this activity.
Building Cultural Competence
A course to increase your understanding of culture, diversity, prejudice and inclusion as part of your journey to becoming more culturally competent.
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40 You will earn 40 bronze points for completing this activity.
Introduction to Systems Thinking
Systems thinking gives us the tools we need to make sense of systems and analyse the context of problems – useful skills for those wanting to change things for the better.
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40 You will earn 40 bronze points for completing this activity.
How to be a Community Advocate and Make Change
Learn to listen to, and advocate for, communities and the people within them – and to bring about real change.
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40 You will earn 40 bronze points for completing this activity.
Alternative Perspectives on Education
Explore ways to engage with learning outside of mainstream and formal learning environments.