COSS20HKI Community Development and Social Work Methods (5cr)
Code: COS0005B16S-3004
General information
- Enrollment
- 03.03.2020 - 18.03.2020
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 19.10.2020 - 04.12.2020
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 1 cr
- Virtual portion
- 4 cr
- RDI portion
- 4 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Blended learning
- Campus
- Helsinki
- Teaching languages
- English
- Seats
- 0 - 200
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Social Services
- Teachers
- Margarita Sakilayan-Latvala
- Lauri Uljas
- Course
- COS0005B16S
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Evaluation scale
0-5
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 43: Distant learning (preliminary reading assignment)
WEEK 43: Contact teaching
WEEK 44: Collaborate guidance + distant learning: planning and applying arts-based methods in practice and preparing the seminar presentation
WEEK 46: Contact teaching (2 lectures)
WEEK 47: Collaborate guidance + distant learning: planning and applying arts-based methods in practice and preparing the seminar presentation
WEEK 48: Distant learning: planning and applying arts-based methods in practice and preparing the seminar presentation
WEEK 49: Contact teaching: seminars
See detailed timetable in Mydiak.
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.
Exam schedules
There are no exams.
International connections
Need to be agreed with the responsible teacher.
Completion alternatives
Alternative way of completing the study module must be agreed with the responsible lecturer and/or study guidance counselor latest on October 12th 2020.
Student workload
COS is 5 ECTS. This means 133 hours student's work (1 ECT=26,6 hours).
Further information
The student may apply for AHOT/RPL if s/he has similar studies and experience. For the study module in autumn semester 2020, the RPL application period was in spring 2020.