Social Work

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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

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Semestre		Carga Horária /Semana	ECTS
1º	Social Antropology	3	4,5
	Epistemology of Human and Social Sciences	3	4,5
	Labour Psychology	3	6,0
	Social Psychology I	3	4,5
	Technologies and Information Systems	3	4,5
	Social Work Theory and Methods	4	6,0
2º	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
3º	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
4º	Social Security Law	3	4,5
	Etiology and Addiction Monitoring	3	6,0
	Adult and Elderliness Problems	4	6,0
	Community Psychology	3	4,5
	Typology and Disabilities Monitoring	3	4,5
	Option II	3	4,5
5º	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
6º	Internship		21,0
	Project		7,5
	Seminar	2	1,5

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