The degree course includes 12 ECTS in the study plan to be obtained between the second and third year of the course, to be allocated to activities of the student's free choice.
These credits give the student the opportunity to complete his or her preparation in the field of social work with professionalizing training activities, enriching it with knowledge relevant to social work, which derives from the encounter with field, work and life experiences.
The free-choice activities for which the student can request accreditation are, for example:
- Further periods of Internship or experimental internship.
- Activities such as volunteering, civil service and certified workshops, seminars or training courses, related to social work, organized by the University or other bodies.
- Workshops organized specifically for students of the degree course in Social Work Sciences, on topics that vary over the years. For example: personal training, grief processing, social work in the field of alcohol-related problems, senile dementia, immigration, for the independent life of disabled people, with families in a situation of debt, in the penitentiary environment.
- On a residual basis, the free choice activities may consist of additional university courses, with the related exams.