Social Inclusion and Disadvantage (5 ECTS)
Code: SX00FY26-3003
General information
- Enrollment
- 01.12.2025 - 14.12.2025
- Registration for implementation has not started yet.
- Timing
- 01.01.2026 - 31.07.2026
- The implementation has not yet started.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 ECTS
- Mode of delivery
- On-campus
- Unit
- School of Wellbeing
- Campus
- Myllypurontie 1
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Seats
- 0 - 40
- Degree programmes
- Social Services
- Groups
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SXH25S2VESosiaalialan tutkinto-ohjelma, Sosionomi (sosiaaliohjaus), verkkototeutus
- Course
- SX00FY26
Objective
The student
• understands the importance of inclusion, agency and community for individuals’ well-being
• understands the dimensions of exclusion, disadvantage and inequality as individual, community and societal phenomena
• is able to distinguish between societal structures and processes that marginalise and create inequality
• understands the role of social security in individuals’ lives
• recognises various means and actors involved in the prevention of exclusion among individuals of different ages.
Content
• Social inclusion, agency, and community
• Social risks, challenges, and protective factors at various stages of life
• Inequality, discrimination, marginalisation, and disadvantage
• Ageing and disadvantage
• Poverty, homelessness, and loneliness
• Modes and roles of social security across the lifespan
• Social pedagogical methods to support inclusion, empowerment, and the prevention of exclusion
Evaluation scale
0-5
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
Framework of assessment is attached in the curriculum's description.
Assessment criteria, approved/failed
Framework of assessment is attached in the curriculum's description.