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AIK01MK25JKL/VAR Basis of adult and youth social work (5 cr)

Code: AIK0105A20S-3039

General information


Enrollment

23.09.2024 - 13.10.2024

Timing

13.01.2025 - 23.02.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

2 op

Mode of delivery

60 % Contact teaching, 40 % Distance learning

Unit

Sosionomitutkinnot

Campus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

0 - 333

Degree programmes

  • BA of Social Services, Diaconal Work
  • BA of Social Services, Christian Youth Work

Teachers

  • Sirpa Ylönen
  • Vesa Vainiomäki
  • Tiina Häkkinen

Groups

  • JKL-S24sosn
  • JKL-S24sosd

Objective

Students
• are familiar with phenomena related to poverty and underprivileged individuals as well as structures and processes causing marginalisation
• are familiar with the possibilities and challenges of adult and youth social work in preventative, outreach and rehabilitative work
• understand the significance of managing the daily life and promoting inclusion in customer work
• know how to analyse the realisation of human rights as they work with people in various life situations.

Content

• poverty and underprivileged individuals as well as the state of being underprivileged passed down from one generation to the next
• social problems
• structures and processes causing marginalisation
• basis of preventative, outreach and rehabilitative adult and youth social work
• management of daily life and inclusion
• human rights

Evaluation scale

0-5