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Design activity involves coordinating efforts across diverse specialists, representatives from all sectors, and various types of organizations to achieve common goals. This approach requires specialized skills in problem identification, objective setting, team assembly, potential activation, implementation support, resource acquisition, outcome assessment (evaluation), and future challenge identification. The Social Design program prepares you for various roles within project teams. This program builds on years of collaboration between the University of Zielona Góra's Institute of Sociology faculty and partners from social institutions, non-governmental organizations, and private enterprises.

Who Should Consider This Program

This program is ideal for specialists from various fields aspiring to become key contributors and creators in processes implemented by public institutions, social organizations, and private and social enterprises. We recommend this program both to professionals seeking to enhance their project implementation competencies and to those new to this field. We believe our collaborative learning environment helps everyone discover and develop their potential.

What You'll Learn

As a Social Design graduate, you'll be equipped to engage with and influence social, cultural, economic, and political processes. You'll function effectively in organizations both as a project team member and leader, applying competencies in strategic planning, management, public administration, marketing strategies, and more. Specifically, you'll develop skills to:

• Design short and long-term strategies
• Create strategic documents using analytical techniques and programmatic tools
• Manage strategic projects
• Organize and direct diagnostic processes
• Identify, plan, launch, execute, and conclude project work
• Deliver value to project stakeholders
• Build and maintain external relationships through stakeholder engagement
• Design and implement interventions that strengthen cohesion at local, regional, national, and international levels
• Apply comprehensive knowledge of social services and approaches to addressing social exclusion
• Utilize specialized knowledge of institutions and programs supporting community development in Poland
• Perform various project team roles: participant, organizer, manager, and evaluator
• Coordinate and implement community engagement initiatives
• Conduct effective public consultations
• Build and develop social networks
• Work effectively in virtual teams with an understanding of communication effectiveness

Specialization Modules

The second-cycle Social Design program offers two specialization tracks:

• Business Projects
• Community Projects

Core Curriculum (offered in both tracks) includes:

• Design Thinking
• Business and Public Sphere Networking
• Social Behavior Prediction
• Sociobiological Foundations of Social Organizations
• Project Teams
• Social Communication
• Project Monitoring and Evaluation
• Contemporary Social Research Methods
• Data Reporting, Visualization and Presentation
• Social Project Management

Elective Courses include:

• Database Systems
• Conflict Resolution
• Project Development and Fundraising
• Social Influence

Application Requirements

• 2-year professionally-oriented program culminating in a master's degree
• Program capacity: 30 students
• Applicants must hold a completed undergraduate degree
• Admission is based on a ranking system considering: (1) the applicant's graduation score, and (2) the relevance of their prior field of study to the Social Design program, with preference given to backgrounds in social sciences and humanities