Skip to main content

Structural Social Work and Advocacy in the Social Field (6 cr)

Code: SS10034-3001

General information


Enrollment

01.10.2024 - 31.10.2024

Timing

07.01.2025 - 14.03.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

6 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Tikkarinne Campus Tikkarinne 9

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

5 - 40

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Social Services

Teachers

  • Katja Sorjonen
  • Tiina Soininen
  • Sanna Lötjönen
  • Kirsi Autio

Teacher in charge

Kirsi Autio

Groups

  • SSNS22
    Bachelor of Social Services, Full-time Studies, Fall, 2022

Objective

Learning objectives:
You understand the significance and the objectives of the structural approach to social work practices. You understand the knowledge-based structure of the structural social work and you can explain the processes of information production and knowledge-based influencing. You can apply different approaches to the structural social work in practice. You can also gather information and produce professional knowledge and use influencing tools in your work. You can utilize English material in knowledge production and present the outcomes of influencing in English.

Content

Content:
- The significance and dimensions of the structural approach to social work practices
- The history, present, and future of the structural social work
- The actors and settings in the structural social work
- Approaches and practices of the structural social work
- Knowledge-based communication and influencing

Evaluation scale

H-5