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Master of Social Services and Health Care, Development and Management of Health Care and Social Services, Fall, 2023: SSYS23

Code: SSYS23

Degree:
Master's degree in Health Care and Social Sciences

Degree title:
Master of Health Care
Master of Health Care
Master of Health Care
Master of Social Services

Credits:
90 ects

Duration:
2.5 years (90 cr)

Start semester:
Autumn 2023

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Code Name Credits (cr) 2023-2024 2024-2025 2025-2026 Autumn
2023
Spring
2024
Autumn
2024
Spring
2025
Autumn
2025
1. / 2023 2. / 2023 3. / 2023 4. / 2024 5. / 2024 6. / 2024 1. / 2024 2. / 2024 3. / 2024 4. / 2025 5. / 2025 6. / 2025 1. / 2025 2. / 2025 3. / 2025
SSYS23-1
 Developer of Professional Practice

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34
YS10001 Developing Leadership 8 8 8 4 4
YP10001 Strategic Planning and Management 5 5 5 2.5 2.5
YS10002 Orientative Studies 2 2 2 1 1
YT10001 Self-Management 1 1 1 0.5 0.5
YS10010 Leadership Development Plan 1 1 1 1 0.5 0.5
YP10002 Proactive Management Methods 5 5 5 2.5 2.5
YP10003 Management of Human Resources 5 5 5 2.5 2.5
YS10003 Research-Based Development 7 7 7 3.5 3.5
SSYS23-2
 Researching Developer of Professional Practice

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20
YS10004 Financial Management 5 5 5 2.5 2.5
YS10005 Developing Service System in Social Services and Health Care 5 5 5 2.5 2.5
YS10006 Renewable Immediate Leadership 5 5 5 2.5 2.5
YS10007 Managerial International Competence 5 5 5 2.5 2.5
SSYS23-3
Complementary Studies

(Choose ects: 5)

5 5 5 2.5 2.5
YS10009 New Winds of Recruitment 5 5 5 2.5 2.5
YS10011 Social and Health Care Practice in Management and Leadership 5 5 2.5 2.5 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3
YS10012 Perspectives on Management 5 5 2.5 2.5 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3
SSYS23-4
Expert Practitioner

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31
YS10008 Leadership Development Plan 2 1 1 1 0.5 0.5
YY10002 Thesis Planning 5 5 5 2.5 2.5
YY10003 Thesis Implementation 20 20 20 10 10
YY10004 Thesis Finalising 5 5 5 2.5 2.5
Total 90 34 40 26 17 17 20 20 26 0 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 0 0 10.1 10.1 10.1 10.1 0 0 13 13

Due to the timing of optional and elective courses, credit accumulation per semester / academic year may vary.

Shared competences of UAS Master's degrees 2022

In Finnish universities of applied sciences, the competences of degrees have been defined as programme-specific competences and shared competences. Competences refer to extensive competence modules, which are combinations of individual knowledge, skills and attitudes. Programme-specific competences form the basis of a student's professional expertise. Shared competences are common competence areas for different programmes and degrees, and they create the foundation for operating in a workplace, cooperation and the development of expertise.

1 Learning to learn

The graduating student promotes their own and their community's continuous learning and competence development, drawing on knowledge from different fields and the opportunities of digitalisation.
- Is able to assess and develop their expertise diversely and in a goal-oriented manner at different stages of their career and life.
- Is able to acquire, critically assess and produce information while taking into account the perspectives of different fields.
- Is able to develop and manage goaloriented, continuous learning in their community.

Developing Leadership
Management of Human Resources
Renewable Immediate Leadership
2 Operating in a workplace

The graduating student is able to develop and manage their work community and reforms working life.
- Is able to develop and manage multidisciplinary teams and work communities.
- Is able to develop the communication and interaction culture of work communities.
- Is able to develop and manage the comprehensive well-being of a work community.
- Utilises the opportunities of technology and digitalisation in development and management.
- Promotes the resilience of a work community.

Developing Leadership
Leadership Development Plan 1
Management of Human Resources
Renewable Immediate Leadership
Social and Health Care Practice in Management and Leadership
Leadership Development Plan 2
3 Ethics

The graduating student assesses and promotes the realisation of ethical principles and values of their field of profession, taking equality and non-discrimination into account.
- Is able to promote ethically sustainable activities and the realisation of ethical reflection in their different operating environments.
- Promotes the realisation of the ethical principles and values of their field.
- Makes decisions taking individual, communal and societal perspectives into account.
- Promotes the realisation of diversity and accessibility.
- Implements the principles of responsible conduct of research and promotes their application in their work community.
- Is able to manage societally influential activities based on ethical values.

Orientative Studies
Self-Management
Leadership Development Plan 1
Social and Health Care Practice in Management and Leadership
Leadership Development Plan 2
Thesis Finalising
4 Sustainable development

The graduating student develops and manages sustainable and responsible operating methods in their work and promotes sustainable change in their work community and society.
- Is able to apply the knowledge and future visions of sustainable development comprehensively as a basis for sustainable solutions.
- Is able to analyse and assess systemic dependencies of complex multidisciplinary problems and the different dimensions of solutions
- Is able to manage the search, implementation and establishment of sustainable solutions and operating models in their work community.

Financial Management
Developing Service System in Social Services and Health Care
5 Internationality and multiculturalism

The graduating student is able to develop and manage multicultural and international operating environments and networks.
- Is able to develop operating methods that take multiculturalism into account in their work community.
- Is able to anticipate the impacts and opportunities of global development and phenomena.
- Is able to interact, communicate and develop activities internationally in their own field.

Managerial International Competence
6 Proactive development

The graduating student is able to manage the development of new solutions that anticipate the future and produces new information using different research and development methods.

− Produces new information and reforms operating methods, combining competence in different fields.
- Is able to implement research, development and innovation projects and apply different research and development methods.
- Is able to develop new customer-oriented, sustainable and economically viable solutions, anticipating the future.
- Is able to analyse the current situation and anticipate the future of their field and changes in the operating environment.

Proactive Management Methods
New Winds of Recruitment
Perspectives on Management
Not grouped
Strategic Planning and Management
Research-Based Development
Thesis Planning
Thesis Implementation

Code Name Credits (cr)
SSYS23-1
 Developer of Professional Practice

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34
YS10001 Developing Leadership 8
YP10001 Strategic Planning and Management 5
YS10002 Orientative Studies 2
YT10001 Self-Management 1
YS10010 Leadership Development Plan 1 1
YP10002 Proactive Management Methods 5
YP10003 Management of Human Resources 5
YS10003 Research-Based Development 7
SSYS23-2
 Researching Developer of Professional Practice

(Choose all)

20
YS10004 Financial Management 5
YS10005 Developing Service System in Social Services and Health Care 5
YS10006 Renewable Immediate Leadership 5
YS10007 Managerial International Competence 5
SSYS23-3
Complementary Studies

(Choose ects: 5)

5
YS10009 New Winds of Recruitment 5
YS10011 Social and Health Care Practice in Management and Leadership 5
YS10012 Perspectives on Management 5
SSYS23-4
Expert Practitioner

(Choose all)

31
YS10008 Leadership Development Plan 2 1
YY10002 Thesis Planning 5
YY10003 Thesis Implementation 20
YY10004 Thesis Finalising 5