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Summary of the Profile
General Description:
Objective(s) of a study programme:
To provide students with the basic university education in the field of social work, branch of social work in compliance with European standards and to train specialists whose professional competence would enable them to efficiently resolve social and medical problems in community and health care system by rendering specific social services for client and family and forming strategies of social policy and social work support in health care system.
Learning outcomes:
Specialists of Social Work trained at KU acquire the knowledge and abilities laid out in Doublin Descriptor (2004) and Regulations of Social Work (2021): knowledge of the essence of social work; of the values of a social worker; of their ethical responsibility to customers; of the state and economic systems, the processes of socialization and social adaptation of an individual; human rights in the context of social justice; and the methodology and methods of research; abilities to carry out research and iterpret data, other special, personal and social abilities.
Activities of teaching and learning:
Unit A is devoted to students' general cultural education and introduction of students to social, cultural, and religious phenomena of social development. Unit B offers the basics of social sciences, pedagogy, psychology, and economics, helps students to get prepared for specific social work in community and health care system and enable them to integrate their knowledge, abilities, and skills. All contemporary didactic means and methods (informational, operational, and creative) are utilized: lectures, seminars, lab works, practices and practicums, project and social programme designing, discussions – problem talks, reviewing essays, course papers, tutorials, team work, and students' independent work with sources.
Methods of assessment of learning achievements:
Students‘ knowledge is assessed on a scale of 10 points. The final grade consists of the grades for students‘ independent work assignments, participation in seminars (up to 0,5 final grade) and performance during the exam (not less than 0,5 of the final grade). The grades for the independent work assignments accumulate on the principle of an increasing sum, and during the exam, the final grade is derived, egual to the sum of intermediate grades multiplied by their share in the final grade.
Framework:
Study subjects (modules), practical training:
Social work programme covers 210 credits. Subjects of elective general subjects (unit A) include 18 credits, subjects of study field (unit B) include 192 credits. For practice internships there are appointed 4 study modules consisting from semester 4 through semester 7.
Information Management
Introduction to Specialty and Professional Ethics
Human Rights and Social Work
Modern Socialization
Caritative Social Work
Introduction to Psychology
Lithuanian Social Policy
Basics of Communication
Social Work Theory and Methods (incl. practicum)
Course Paper 1
Research Methodology of Social Work
Basics of Sociology in Social Work
Social Work with Individual and Group
Personality and Social Psychology
Social Gerontology
Counselling in Social Work
Socio-cultural Activities in Community
Family and Social Environment
Practice in NGO‘s (incl. supervision)
Mental Health Care
Course Paper 2
Disability and Healthcare
Psychosociology of Disability
Practice in Education, Health Care and Probation Institutions (with Supervision)
Sociology of Deviant Behavior
Social Risk Groups and Resocialisation
Social Work with Youth
Practice in Social Work Agencies (with counseling)
Electives of Social Work in Community Specialisation
Independent Work in Practice Placements (with counseling)
Management of Social Programmes
Social Work with Family
Bachelor Thesis
Specialisations:
Students of Social Work programme starting with the 3rd semester are able to choose one of two specialisations: Social work in a community and Social work in health care.
Optional courses:
Students are offered 4 optional subjects, which cover 18 credits in total: a freely chosen subject from any study programme in any faculty. 5 credit subject from professional specialization subjects‘ list.:
Social Services
Integration of Children with Special Needs
Social Work with Sexually Abused Children
Social Work in Health Care
Social Support in Social Work
Social Work in Educational Institutions
Disability and Ethics
Social Work with Refugees
Dolphin Assisted Therapy
Social Occupational Therapy
Existential Therapy in Social Work
Distinctive features of a study programme:
The KU programme is oriented to specific fields of social work: social work in community and health care system. It is the only university level programme of social work in Western Lithuania. Our graduates are employed in almost all social work institutions in the city and county of Klaipeda.
Access to professional activity or further study:
Access to professional activity:
After completing the studies of Social Work at KU, students will have the following career opportunities: social work in the community, in the system of social care, in the system of health care, in educational, legal, and non-governmental institutions
Access to further study:
Studies can be continued in the graduate study programmes of Social Work, Social Pedagogy, Public Health, Public Administration, Marketing Management, and Penitentiary Law.
