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The first- cycle degree in Social Work prepares highly qualified professionals with social work skills in order to favour social insertion and cohesion as well as the relations with the community and support the national, local and international strategic plans and policies that promote inclusion.

 

The main skills of a Social Work Senior Technician are:

a) Perception of the social phenomena complexity;

b) Organization, planning and assessment of intervention projects;

c) Integration in social work organizations;

d) Participation in projects related with education and of local and community development.

 

Career Opportunities

The graduates in Social Work will be able to work as Social Service Senior Technicians/ Social Workers in:

a) Regional Social Security Centres (CRSS);

b) Schools;

Public and Private Social Solidarity Institutions(IPSS);

d) Autarchies;

e) Hospitals,

f) Prisons;

g) Employment Centres;

h) Career Vocational Guidance;

i) Drug Addicts Centres, Organizations and Organisms;

i) Mercy Institutions;

j) Third Age Centres;

k) Leisure camps;

l) Projects designed to combat poverty.

 

Employment rate: 65%

Rate based on average courses/current courses

Source: Forum Estudante

  • Despacho n.º 23 797/2006, IIª Série, de 21 de Novembro, alterado pelo Aviso n.º 14614/2011, IIª Série, de 21 de Julho

     

    Semestre
    Carga Horária /Semana
    ECTS
    1º 

    Social Antropology

    3

    4,5
      Epistemology of Human and Social Sciences 3
    4,5
      Labour Psychology3
    6,0
      Social Psychology I 3
    4,5
      Technologies and Information Systems 3
    4,5
      Social Work Theory and Methods 4
    6,0

    Organizational Behaviour

    3 4,5
      Labour Law 3 4,5
      Health Policies 3 4,5
      Psychology of Development 4 6,0
      Social Psichology II 3 4,5
      Sociology of the Family 3 6,0

    Ethics and Deontology

    3 4,5
      Infancy and Youth Problems 4 6,0
      Psichology of Communication 3 4,5
      Theories of Inclusion and Sociology of Marginality 3 6,0
      Labour and Human Development 3 4,5
      Option I 3 4,5

    Social Security Law

    3
    4,5 
      Etiology and Addiction Monitoring 3 6,0
     

    Adult and Elderliness Problems

    4  6,0
      Community Psychology3 4,5
      Typology and Disabilities Monitoring 3 4,5
      Option II 3 4,5

    Methods and Stategies in Labour Context

    1  7,5
      Social Policies 3 4,5 
      Health and Labour Security  4 4,5
      Social Work and Case Studies 4 4,5
      Labour and Leisure Sociology 3 4,5
     

    Option III

    3 4,5

    Internship

      21,0
      Project   7,5
      Seminar  2 1,5
  • Access Conditions

    To apply to the first cycle of studies, students must fulfil the following conditions:

    - Have successfully completed a secondary course + entrance examination required (One among the following: Geography, History or Portuguese)

    - Applicants over 23 years old (Decree-Law 64/2006, of 21 March)

    - Change of institution, readmission and change of course.

     

     

    Application schedule

    Applicants who hold a secondary course + entrance examination

        - 1st phase – 1st June to 27th July

        - 2nd phase – 8th August to 14th September

     

    Applicants aged over 23

        - Application : till 28th April

        - Interview: 14th and 15th May

        - Written exam:17th May

     

    Transfer, re-entry and change of course applicants

        - 1st phase: 1st June to 13th July

        - 2nd phase: (just for left over vacancies):3rd August to 3rd September

  • Doutora Ana Catarina Martins Correia Soares

    Doutora Ângela Maria Teixeira Leite

    Dr. Carla Alexandra Almeida Madureira Carvalho

    Drª. Fátima Conceição Aleixo Vilela

    Mestre Fernando Nuno Fadigas da Palma

    Doutora Florbela Soares Teixeira

    Drª. Joana Catarina Baptista Trigó de Queiróz e Sousa

    Dr. José Henrique Rocha Mourão

    Eng. José Manuel Gomes Osório Costa

    Doutor Juan Carlos Jaramillo Sevilla

    Dr. Leandro Artur da Silva Soares

    Mestre Luísa Maria Baptista Lopes Sousa

    Mestre Maria de Fátima Almeida da Silva

    Doutora Maria Isabel Andrés Marques

    Doutora Melania Coya Garcia

    Mestre Paula do Couto Quintas

    Mestre Paulo Alexandre Brito Pais Gaspar

    Mestre Sónia Alexandra Castro Rocha Dantas Ferreira

    Drª. Susana Patrícia Fernandes