Course Outline
The course provides multidisciplinary training divided into three levels:
- theoretical courses(sociology, psychology, law, history, medicine, economics) to understand situations of need and/or social risk;
- courses in methodology and specific techniques of social work;
- practical experiences of managing the helping relationship, led by experienced social workers, distributed over the three years through:
- an introductory internship (in the first year) accompanied by an orientation workshop for the future profession;
- a professional internship within social services (in the second year);
- an internship in innovative contexts that can constitute new work environments;
- a personal training course;
- seminars and experiential workshops with social workers, service managers and user-experts, i.e. people with direct experience of social hardship.
To obtain the three-year degree, 180 university training credits (CFU) are required , to be acquired, over the three-year period, by passing the evaluation test provided for both the courses and the other supplementary teaching experiences.
Each exam, carried out in different ways depending on the type of teaching, is awarded a certain number of credits, the same for all students, and a grade (expressed in thirtieths) that varies according to the level of preparation.
The final evaluation is expressed in one hundred and tenths.
Frequency
Attendance at all training activities with a professionalizing value (Workshop on orientation to social work; courses of Methodology of social work I, II and III and related laboratory activities; professional internship and internship with related tutoring activities in the classroom) is strongly recommended. Each of these activities is essential for vocational training and it is therefore essential to provide attendance for two thirds of the total number of hours. In case of impossibility for important and justified reasons, it is necessary to contact the teacher and agree on a personalized training plan.