COSS19HKI Community Development and Social Work Methods (5cr)
Code: COS0005B16S-3003
General information
- Enrollment
- 01.03.2019 - 18.03.2019
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 18.11.2019 - 20.12.2019
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 5 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Unit
- EDUCATION
- Campus
- Helsinki
- Teaching languages
- English
- Seats
- 0 - 100
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Social Services
- Teachers
- Margarita Sakilayan-Latvala
- Marianne Nylund
- Vesa Vainiomäki
- Scheduling groups
- Ryhmä A (Size: 23 . Open UAS : 0.)
- Ryhmä B (Size: 23 . Open UAS : 0.)
- Small groups
- Ryhmä A
- Ryhmä B
- Course
- COS0005B16S
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Objective
The students will be able to
- identify and recognise different social work and community work methods and their theory base
- use different types of art-based and creative methods to empower service users and communities
- use socio-cultural animation approach in community work and social work
- apply community work and social work methods in diverse communities
Content
Contents
- Theory base of community work and social work methods
- Art-based and creative methods in social work and community work
- Socio-cultural animation as a community work and social work method
- Applying of work methods in diverse communities
Location and time
WEEK 44: Distant learning (preliminary reading assignment)
WEEK 45: Contact teaching
WEEK 46: Distant learning: planning and applying arts-based methods in practice and preparing the seminar presentation
WEEK 47: Distant learning: planning and applying arts-based methods in practice and preparing the seminar presentation
WEEK 48: Contact teaching: seminars
Materials
To be defined at the beginning of the study module.
Teaching methods
SPECIFIED CONTENTS:
Theory base of community work and social work methods
Art-based and creative methods in social work and community work
Socio-cultural animation as a community work and social work method
Applying of work methods in diverse communities
MODES OF LEARNING
Lectures
Group assignment.
Seminar
ASSIGNMENT:
The group will apply art-based and creative methods with service users in a working life context. In the seminar the groups will present the art-based and creative methods used with working life and service users.
Employer connections
Diak's pedagogy of participatory and research-oriented development is applied in the study module.
Completion alternatives
An essay about art-based and creative methods in social and community work. Applying one method in practice and writing a reflective report about the use of the method in practice.
Further information
The student may apply for AHOT/RPL if s/he has similar studies and experience.