Community Development and Adult Social Work (5cr)
Course unit code: PCS3005A10S
General information
- Credits
- 5 cr
- Teaching language
- English
Objective
The student
- Is able to relate youth and community development work to practices aiming to address social exclusion
- Is able to relate participatory approaches to adult social work to practices aiming to address social exclusion
- Is able to articulate the relation between youth and community development work and participatory social work and to formulate a concept of professional identity
- Is able to identify the role of knowledge in youth and community development work and social work
- Is familiar with social security and income maintenance (especially in the Finnish context) and the relation of these systems to professional social service work
Content
- Models of youth and community development work
- Participatory models of social work
- Critique of models of youth and community development work and participatory social work
- Professional identity
- Social security and income maintenance in relation to youth and community development and participatory social work