Opinto-opas

Objective

Students will identify possibilities of wellbeing professionals and civil society to support people in life management and to improve the society. They will know how to apply options offered by social security and society in different situations in everyday life.

Content

Identifying and predicting changes in society. Impacts of the changes on individuals’ everyday life. Reducing the welfare gap. Participating in current projects in social services or familiarization with other practices in social security reforms.

Location and time

In the zoom, visit and moodle.

Materials

Exam litterature:
- Anna Metteri, Pekka Karjalainen ja Minna Strömberg-Jakka: Tiekartta 2030. Aikuisten parissa tehtävän sosiaalityön tulevaisuusselvitys (STM:n raportteja ja muistioita 2019:41). http://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/handle/10024/161612Social Policy in challenging times. Economic crisis and welfare systems. Eds. Kevin Farnsworth ja Zoë Irving. The Polity Press. 2011.

Other litterature:
- Social Work. Themes, Issues and Critical Debates. Eds. Robert Adams etc. Palgrave. 2009
- Cross-cultural Rehabilitation. An International Perspective. Ed. Ronnie Leavitt. W. B. Saunders. 1999
- Social Security in Finland. Niemelä and Salminen. Kela. 2006
- Personal Budget, Pubications: http://henkilokohtainenbudjetointi.fi/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Henkil%C3%B6kohtaisen-budjetoinnin-kehitt%C3%A4miseen-liittyvi%C3%A4-julkaisuja-lyhyt-kooste-marraskuu-2017.pdf
- Vastavuoroinen sosiaalityö. 2016. Gaudeamus. Ed. Marjatta Törrönen etc.
- Socca - The Centre of Excellence on Social Welfare in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area http://www.socca.fi/in_english
- Näkökulmia osallistavaan tutkimus-, kehittämis- ja innovaatiotoimintaan : Diakonia-ammattikorkeakoulun TKI-toiminnan vuosikirja 5. Toim. Jari Helminen. 2020. Diakonia-ammattikorkeakoulu Helsink. https://issuu.com/diak_publications/docs/diak_ty_el_m__18_web?e=35131638/78917065

Teaching methods

Teaching in zoom and networking in moodle.
Assignments in moodle.
Exam in Oma

Employer connections

Ryhmätyö työelämän kanssa

Exam schedules

Re exam days on

Student workload

Contact in the zoom and exam in Oma. (14 h)
Network (teaching material in moodle) and assignments 81 h
Exam in Oma (in net) 40 h

Further information

The key to Moodle

Teaching in zoom and networking, assignments in Moodle:

Lecturer Katja Ihamäki

Schedule
Wed 1.9. at 12.45-16.
Wed 15.9. at 12.45-16.
Thu 7.10. at 12.45-16. Presentations
Mon 8.11. at 12.45-14.15 Exam in Oma

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Assessment:
Assessment criteria as the attachment of the curriculum.
The teacher of the study unit informs the assessment criterias in the beginning of the study unit.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Assessment:
Assessment criteria as the attachment of the curriculum.
The teacher of the study unit informs the assessment criterias in the beginning of the study unit.

Assessment methods and criteria

Teaching in zoom, teaching material and assignments n moodle and literature:
Exam in Moodle: teaching in zoom and literature.
Exam literature:
- Anna Metteri, Pekka Karjalainen ja Minna Strömberg-Jakka: Tiekartta 2030. Aikuisten parissa tehtävän sosiaalityön tulevaisuusselvitys (STM:n raportteja ja muistioita 2019:41). http://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/handle/10024/161612
Assignments accepted/abandoned (20 %)
Exam in Oma: 80 %