SO-2-042

• Social services 2010 - Variations and innovations in social work
• Social services 2012 - Variations and innovations in social work
• Social services 2014 - Variations and innovations in social work
• Social services 2015 - Variations and innovations in social work

Swedish

Compulsory

Second

1

5 cr

The aim of the course is to examine the conditions for participation and social inclusion of individuals and groups in a changing society

At the end of the course the student is expected to be able to

- demonstrate a deeper knowledge and understanding related to the living conditions of individuals and different groups in society.
- demostrate an deeper understanding over programmes and strategies in the fiels of social welfare and health.
- give examples on how participation and social inklusion among individuals and diffrent groups could be enhanced on local level in society.

Welfare society and late modernity
Poverty, marginalization, social exlusion
Programms and strategies in the field of social welfare and health

Approved for studies at Arcada.

None

Lecures, seminars, written assignments

Furlong, A. and Cartmel F. 2007 Young people and social change: new perspectives. Buckingham: Open university Press.

Giddens, A. 1991 Modernity and self-identity: Self and society in the late modern age. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Ministary och social affairs and health, 2011 Socially sustainable Finland 2020. Strategy for social and health policy.

• Lectures - 2 hours
• Individual- and group instruction - 4 hours
• Small-group work - 20 hours
• Individual studies - 89 hours
• Internet-based studies - 20 hours

• Total workload of the course: 135 hours
• Of which autonomous studies: 135 hours
• Of which scheduled studies: 0 hours

Virtual self studies

To pass the course the student should pass the following examinations:

Welfare municipality as arena for participation and social inklusion. Individual seminar paper and oral presentation at seminar 20.5.2015.

Deadline for the written report: 18.5.2015. Presentations on seminar: 20.5.2015

Attendance is mandatory at seminars. Justifiable non-attendance to be compensated for with substitute assignments as instructed by the teacher.

Examination will be based on
-active participation in seminars
-oral presentation
-seminarpaper based on course literature

• Rosengren Åsa
• Sigfrids Ingmar

Rosengren Åsa

https://arcada.itslearning.com/ External link

No limit

12 months after course has ended

9.12.2015
11.2 2016