Social Work

Educational objectives

2 Obiettivi formativi
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2.1 Obiettivi generali


This course aims at familiarizing the students with the themes and methods of developmental psychology, including its extensions to the life span. The course is organized by ages from infancy to old age. At the end of the course students will know the “normative frames” of development.
Students will be able to identify theory in developmental psychology to be applied in social work. Students will learn theories and methods of developmental psychology through lessons, applicative aspects will be learned through discussions in class.

2.2 Obiettivi specifici

2.2.1 Conoscenza e capacità di comprensione (knowledge and understanding).

Students will know normative frames related to cognitive, social and emotional development, and methods of developmental research. Students will learn life span concepts and developmental tasks from infancy to old age with a particular attention to mentalizing skills as a protective factor.

2.2.2 Capacità di applicare conoscenza e comprensione (applyingknowledge and under-standing).

At the end of the course students will be able to recognize normative frame, developmental tasks chal-lenges and resources in analyzing a “case”.

2.2.3 Autonomia di giudizio (makingjudgements).

Class discussions will allow students to learn how to comment a case making reference to psychological theories and to contextualize the case in the environment.

2.2.4 Abilità comunicative (communicationskills).
Trough discussions in class, students will learn how communicate using specific terminology of develop-mental psychology. In this way they will learn how communicate to developmental psychologists in equipe work.
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2.2.5 5) Capacità di apprendimento (learningskills).
Recall to sources will allow students to learn how to study in deep topics of developmental psychology, above all by using appropriate key words

Educational objectives

Obiettivi formativi 2.1 Obiettivi generali(General objectives) The main objective of the course is
to provide students with the theoretical and practical reference elements within which to place the course
of study chosen; the aim is to provide stimuli and tools to understand how professional service social is
originated and how it develops over time through the historical framework, the description of the social
service as a place where the social imbalances are recomposed and the explanation of the main theoretical
references elaborated over the time (mandates). 2.2 Obiettivi specifici 2.2.1 Conoscenza e capacità di
comprensione (knowledge and understanding). At the end of the course the student will have learned the
knowledge of the principles and values that characterize the ethics of the profession of Social Worker; the
Methods and Techniques presented will concern how the be good as social worker; the theoretical tools to
evaluate professional activity in view of the following experimentation of the internship. 2.2.2 Capacità di
applicare conoscenza e comprensione (applying-knowledge and understanding). The skills the student will
acquire will enable him to be able to understand, analyze and discuss the technical-professional material
provided by the teacher; the simulated situations during the course of teaching will enable him to actively
reflect on understanding the Social Worker’s world. The first notions will be provided regarding the
institutions where the Social Worker and the respective catchment areas. 2.2.3 Autonomia di giudizio
(making-judgements). Critical capacity will be developed through comparison on the issues carried out in
the classroom and through the drafting of reports on specific topics, on the experience of a visit to a service
where a professional works with the related report eding. 2.2.4 Abilità comunicative (communication-
skills). The ability to demonstrate what has been learned will occur after the first module through a written
test and after the second module through an oral exam. 2.2.5 Capacità di apprendimento (learningskills).

The provided tools will enable the student to pursue and to deepen the study of professional subjects and
to partecipate in the subsequent internship actively and profitably.

Educational objectives

The general objective of the course is to provide students with the IT tools related to scientific knowledge, data representation and related psychometric analytic techniques for research in the social sciences. The course comprises a series of theoretical lessons, followed by practical laboratory sessions.
knowledge and understanding
At the end of the course, the student will be aware of the basics of empirical and quantitative research, will distinguish a reliable and scientific source, will know the basic assumptions of a scientific investigation, will be aware of the steps that precede scientific literature (i.e., the hypotheses of the investigation, data management and data entry, along with preliminary analyses).
applying knowledge and understanding
The acquired skills will concern the ability to carry out a correct and consistent bibliographic research on pre-established topics; the complete construction of a mask for entering data; building and reading graphs representing the data; how to import a dataset on Spss; the ability to perform preliminary statistical analyses and comparisons among the means. In relation to these skills, the student will be able to apply them in the context of social assistance. The same ability can also be applied in relation to the bibliographic research, which will lead the student to appropriately select the scientific literature in relation to the topic under examination, to suddenly (but correctly) extrapolate the literature of interest and to derive the right information from the available materials.
making judgements
The transversal competences will concern the ability to apply what is learned through the theoretical les-sons to one's own scientific context. Indeed, students will be able to transpose the acquired theoretical and practical knowledge in the applied contexts of the social sciences (i.e., to carry out autonomously a bibliographic research, to use the basic functions of the Excel and Spss programs).
communication skills
During the laboratory, the student will have the opportunity to work in groups in order to increase his/her level of cohesion, peer learning and comparison. At the end of the classroom exercise, students will have the opportunity to explain how the group work was conducted and the results have been produced to the whole class. In this way, it is possible to question themselves and to publically illustrate the work done. Students will also have to report and summarize their products through home assignments autonomously and individually, through a written report. This will allow the student to become competent in the synthe-sis and clarity of the referent topics.
learning skills
The course aims to make students independent as regards the databases to be accessed and how to use them to be able to carry out a bibliographic research. This competence is useful especially for the purposes of the final thesis or for the deepening of specific issues in the course of their careers. The student should be also able to use Spss for what concerns the basic analyses, understanding the underlining analytic process and being able to understand the obtained results. Also in this case, this competence will allow greater independence during the final thesis and career, to learn what is reported by any research to which reference is made.

Educational objectives

Course's general goal is to supply students with a theoretical knowledge and useful tools connected to the representation of data and to the pertaining psychometric analyses for educational research. The Programme includes theoretical lessons and workshop practical activities.
Theoretical lessons will be divided into lectures, dedicated to students' training, and a part dedicated to students' questions and reflections. Classes will be about the use of questionnaires, and the approach to empirical research with a reference to the theoretical bases of quantitative and psychometric research. During the course, will be explained the instructions related to the representation of data by means of charts and graphs, the input and the management of data by using the programme Excel and the software for statistical analyses Spss, and the psychometric theories needed for the use of these software.
During the practical classes, theory, previously learned, is applied by means of exercise and mid-term tests, both in the classroom and at home.
At the end of the course, the student will know the basics of quantitative research applied in the pedagogical and educational areas in all their forms, will know the theories at the base of psychometric analyses, will have the needed skills for the management and input of data and preliminary analyses, will understand the basic psychometric models and their application in the specific field of educational research [Dublin Descriptor No. 1].
The acquired skills will be about the ability at creating a window for data input; creating and reading graphs representing data after the importation; importing the dataset on Spss; carrying out statistical preliminary and basic analyses. The student will be able to apply these skills in educational research [Dublin Descriptor No. 2].
Cross skills will concern the ability at applying what the student has learned to his/her scientific context. Students will be able to interpret and apply in an independent way psychometric analyses, that is to transpose the acquired theoretical knowledge into an application context [Dublin Descriptor No. 3].
During the course, the student will participate to individual and group activities, and he/she will report the experience as a discussion into the classroom or a presentation with slides. Students will report their experiences also through exercises at home, in this case individually, through a written composition. This will allow the student to become competent in summarising with clarity the discussed topics [Dublin Descriptor No. 4].
The course is aimed at making the students independent concerning the basic psychometric analyses, a skill useful for the final thesis or for a detailed study on specific topics during one's career. The student should be able to autonomously use the software Spss concerning the first analyses, understanding the procedure and the theory at its base [Dublin Descriptor No. 5].

Educational objectives

OBIETTIVI FORMATIVI

To promote the critical understanding of theories, methodologies and research settings concerning cultural anthropology, historical anthropology and anthropology of development, with particular attention to the problems and the challenges of a globalized and multicultural world. The main goal is to allow students to acquire effective skills useful for the cultural analysis of social and local contexts; another main goal is addressed to enable students to use the anthropological knowledge professionally and in an interdisciplinary perspective.

The course program is structured according to two itineraries:
INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Understanding of theories and methodologies regarding cultural anthropology with specific reference to human rights; to promote an intercultural and interdisciplinary vision and to foster the safeguard of the community historical memory
HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL POLICIES: The human rights will be faced from an intercultural perspective; a focus will be earmarked to the Italian Constitution and legislation, as well as for European and international declarations and conventions. These themes will be addressed through a series of meetings with scholars and experts of the international university group "European Citizenship and Mediterranean Identity" CEIM .

Prof. Sonia Giusti and prof. Paolo Palmeri will be involved in the course related to historical and development anthropology.

CONOSCENZE E COMPETENZE
By the end of the course, the student will be able to:
- know the theories and methodologies characterizing cultural anthropology and ethnographic practice:
- possess good historical and cultural analysis skills of social and local contexts that are increasingly characterized as multicultural;
- use anthropological knowledge in the context of future professional practice and graft them on the skills acquired in other disciplines;
- expand its analysis and intervention tools that characterize its professional practice;
- interpret the needs of the territories and carry out an analysis of the socio-cultural contexts in which it operates;
- possess capacity for autonomy and judgment, communicate what has been learned and identify specific paths of knowledge regarding the issues and problems posed by the modern multicultural society in the context of further training and professional paths;
- correctly use the concepts and methods of the anthropological discipline in an interdisciplinary perspective that allows to decode the elements that constitute the complex contemporary society and the social, historical, cultural, economic and political phenomena that determine it.
- develop the skills of observation, decoding and interpretation of historical-cultural and socio-economic processes that occur in the contexts of daily life and in the realization of a fruitful intercultural dialogue.

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Basic knowledge of rights protection in the Constitution. Knowledge of constitutional organization of powers. Relationships between Italy and the European Union.

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The English language course aims to develop and/or consolidate the four language skills (reading, speaking, listening and writing) at the B1 level (lower intermediate) of the Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR). Students who successfully complete the course will have acquired the grammar, lexis and syntax in general English at the threshold level of the CEFR as well as the technical-scientific terminology of the Social Work field in order to be able to interact effectively in various everyday life situations (so-called “survival English”) and to use their knowledge of the language in a practical manner in the Social Work field

knowledge and understanding
Acquiring and/or consolidating a practical knowledge of English grammar, vocabulary and syntax in order to deal with various situations in work or everyday life. This means developing and/or consolidating the ability to: understand the key points of non-complex speech in standard English on familiar themes concerning one’s job, study, free time etc.; understand common everyday written texts concerning one’s job or everyday life. The course specifically aims at developing various reading strategies for dealing with technical texts of the Social Work field: skimming (to get the overall gist), scanning (to glean specific information) and intensive reading for a thorough understanding of the whole text.

applying knowledge and understanding
Being able to apply the acquired grammar, syntax and specific vocabulary in order to: deal with the most common situations faced when travelling in English speaking areas or places where English is used as a “lingua franca”; take part in conversations on specific topics of personal interest or concerning everyday life; describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions by linking simple expressions; briefly state the reasons or provide explanations for opinions and plans; produce simple texts (personal letters, short accounts etc.) on familiar themes or of personal interest; and translate simple sentences concerning the Social Work field.

making judgements
The course envisages individual and group activities to develop independent evaluation and judgement skills in the language sphere through practical exercises concerning the interpretation of graphic and numerical data of the Social Work field and the subsequent presentation of the key elements in English.

communication skills
The ability to communicate and interact effectively with regard to various everyday life situations (so-called “survival English”) and to non-complex situations in one’s job.

learning skills
The course will provide students with the specific language used in various genres of text and documentation of the Social Work field, including conference and seminar programs, encyclopedia entries, textbooks and manuals, university prospectuses, pamphlets, newspapers and specialized journals, research papers and abstracts, websites; all with a view to providing students with a tool for researching and understanding documentation (even found on the internet) that is useful for their studies and future career.

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EDUCATIONAL GOALS
Course's general goal is to understand the complex reality in which we live, from the point of view of rights and duties individuals have in a legal system, with a special reference to the issues connected with the profession of social worker.
The course is organised in four parts.
In the first part general aspects will be considered to supply students with the needed tools to understand the single fields of study that will be examined in depth, and with a methodology of study and analysis. This first part will explain: law's role in society; the meaning of a legal system; the features of legal standards; the sources of law; private law; law's effectiveness over the time; law's application and interpretation; territorial conflicts of law; judicial protection of rights and evidence of legal facts; jurisprudence's role. In relation to the latter, whose analysis allows a practical and pragmatic approach to legal issues, an approach that takes into account the laws and especially their actual application, it will be mentioned the functioning of our justice system, to protect the rights that our legal system guarantees to private citizens, explaining the kinds of ruling available to our judges (i.e. ordinances, sentences, and declaratory and constitutive judgements; orders for reference to the Constitutional Court; references for preliminary ruling to the Court of Justice of the European Union). Still this part will consider, in addition to the civil code and to relevant additional standards, EU treaties, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, and the European Convention on Human Rights, attributive of private-sector situations of individuals. Then, the role of some international conventions will be mentioned, conventions relevant to the interventions of a social worker, examined in the analysis of the discussed themes.
It will also supplied a historical standpoint of our system, starting from the nineteenth century to our days, to make clear the role of the Italian Constitution, in force since 1948 (and of the Italian Constitutional Court, in force since 1956) in our legal system, as well as the needs deriving from globalisation, with regard to legal issues and to the necessity of new tools of interventions.
The second part will analyse the subjects of the legal activity established in our legal system, that is natural persons and collective bodies. A special attention will be dedicated: a) to natural persons, explaining the concepts of legal capacity. In this area, it will be examined in depth (a.1) the condition of a EU and non-EU foreigner; (a.2) the condition of a minor; (a.3) the condition of legally incapacitated natural persons, for whose protection the system establishes institutions of judicial interdiction, of partial interdiction, and of a guardian ; b) to the associative phenomenon considered in the first book of the civil code and in the special law dedicated to the non-profit sector, involved in reaching goals with a social nature, without any purpose of profit. To the study of subjects of legal activity it will be connected the analysis of legal situations of individuals due to the same and operable by the same.
The third part will be dedicated to the analysis of family law, through the study of provisions of the civil code, the relevant special laws, and jurisprudence. The topics discussed will be: a) the current meaning of family, in connection with events of marriage, civil union, common-law marriage, and adoption. Adoption will be considered in its various forms: adoption of adults, all kinds of adoption of minors, and international adoption; b) all rights and duties the different subjects of a family have, especially: (b.1) the meaning of parental responsibility; (b.2) the domestic violence protection orders; (b.3) the institutions of separation and divorce, (b.4) with a special attention to shared custody.
The fourth part will analyse the sources of obligations with a special reference to contracts and torts. In the section dedicated to contracts, the student may examine in depth regulations of the civil code about the contract in general (i.e. freedom of contract; contract's essential requirements; contract's conclusion; agency; liabilities for breach of obligations; invalidity; rescission; dissolution). In the section dedicated to tortious liability, it will be examined in depth the meaning of art. 2043 of the civil code, in comparison to special cases of vicarious and/or strict liability.
At the end of the course, the student will have acquired the basic legal tools, and also a number of specific skills in each intervention area of social workers, so that he/she may: 1) understand the situation of private subjects according to their rights and duties; 2) identify the private-sector intervention areas of a social worker; 3) autonomously find and read legal texts, and be able to interpret them; 4) find and read rulings remarkable for interpretation and application [Dublin Descriptor No. 1].
At the end of the course, the student will be able to detect the legal tools for the protection of privates in the various situations a social worker operates. For example, the student will be able to detect legal plans of action to suggest where it is necessary the intervention of social workers, such as in case of: neglected minors, neglected adults/elderly persons; individuals with physical or mental diseases, totally or partially incapacitated; EU or non-EU foreigners with problems of protection of their fundamental rights; abused persons; children under shared custody in case of separation or divorce [Dublin Descriptor No. 2].
Furthermore, the student will be able to detect the role of the social worker in relation to other social operators, with whom he/she will work in various situations, that are judges, lawyers, psychologists, doctors, educators, owning an integrated and cross point of view about professions he/she will interact with [Dublin Descriptor No. 3].
The student will be encouraged to write reports on his/her activity in the various areas of operation, as well as to put into play simulations in the classroom of situations he/she will concretely face in different areas of his/her work, by detecting the problem on a legal level and helping the individual to be protected [Dublin Descriptor No. 4].
The first part of the course will be mainly made up of traditional lectures, even if students will be immediately given legal texts to be read and discussed, and will be taught the role of jurisprudence through the direct analysis of rulings.
In the second and the third parts, to traditional lectures where regulations inside the system will be explained, less traditional classes will be added, where students will receive practical situations to solve by using the legal tools available in our legal system. Students will have to prepare a written report with the tools available in the system, explaining why they have been used in the given situation. This activity, aimed at developing student's skills of being critical and making judgements, will be followed by a discussion in the classroom, so that students may develop communication skills, and be able to share what he/she has learned and exchange views with others, supporting one’s solutions. After that, rulings having as object the same situations faced by the students will be analysed and discussed.
In this training, students will be taught about how to find regulations, subject to variations over the time (this is why the available text must be the effective one), as well the constantly evolving jurisprudence, entrusted with the ultimate rule of the living law, by means of IT tools, libraries, and databases of the main libraries. Through these tools, students will be prepared to autonomously continue researches on regulations and their effectiveness. At the end of the course, students will have to make a test consisting of a written report on a specific subject connected to the profession of social worker [Dublin Descriptor No. 5].

Educational objectives

2.2 Obiettivi specifici

2.2.1 Conoscenza e capacità di comprensione (Knowledge and understanding).

At the end of the course the student will have acquired the knowledge of the most important theoretical references about the organizational thinking and their use in the current welfare system; they will be able how to assess the level of integration of local services; they will be able to read critically the structural set-up aimed at protecting the rights and the active partecipation of people, according to an approach oriented to the empowerment of individuals, families, groups, organizations and comunity.

2.2.2 Capacità di applicare conoscenza e comprensione (Applying knowledge and under-standing).

Through the analysis of organizational models oriented towards planning in services to individuals, the student will be able to examine the critical issues, potential and resources of the comunity, by identifying the correlations of these models with the institutional set-up of reference, the national and regional legisla-tive framework, the role of social service in the process of social change, to face complex organizational contexts and to use some tools dor assessing the quality of local services.

2.2.3 Autonomia di giudizio (Making judgements).

The acquired competences, through the theoretical lessons and the individual and group classroom exer-cises, will sollicit in the individual the ability to collect data, systematize concepts and express evaluation, in an autonomus and critical manner, on organizational, social and ethical themes treated during the course.

2.2.4 Abilità comunicative (Communication skills).

The readings (group papers on specific topics proposed by the teacher or suggested by the students, quo-tations, literary passages, etc.), the use of photo-metaphor and audiovisuals will develop the capacity for reflection, reflexivity and communication through mutual comparison on emotions aroused, the sharing of the object of study and the exchange of knowledge in relation to the levels of learning achieved from time to time. Meetings with experts, guided visits in operational contexts of social work and social and health will refine the attitudes towards confrontation and communication with unknown interlocutors.

2.2.5 Capacità di apprendimento (Learning skills).

Discussions in the classroom on specific themes of social work, in-depth analysis and critical commentary on readings (proposed by students or suggested by the teacher), comparison of individual internship expe-riences, will stimulate the student in pursuing their academic and training path, both in areas of interest, both in the studies undertaken after the degree course.

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Educational goals 2.1 General goals The course will comprise three modules. It intends to present basic topics and constructs on the various theories in social psychology, promoting a critical comparison among them. The student will examine such comparisons through a presentation in the classroom of a specific topic chosen among those in the text of Palmonari, Cavazza, and Rubini (2012). The course will put first the more recent international literature, focusing both on the mainstream tradition and the critical tradition. So it will illustrate, on the one hand, concepts discussed by the so-called "American school" (such as social cognition), on the other, concepts privileged by the "European school" (such as social representations). There will then be a section in the course dedicated to the history of the Italian social psychology capable of highlighting its cultural roots in comparison with the national and international historical context.
In the third module, students will undergo experiential activities at a social farm that provides social service assistance, including job-training, social reintegration, prevention of scholastic, family and social issues, and assisted activities outdoor with animals (horses) for disabled people. In the social farm, students will directly observe how interventions are carried out in outdoor activities, for prevention of social unrest, and will take part to the equipe discussion about real or simulated cases through role-playing. 2.2 Specific goals 2.2.1 Knowledge and understanding Students will be able to master contents of the different research points of view and traditions operating in the social psychology area. The part dedicated to the history of social psychology will be based on texts of the late 1800's/early 1900's, read and commented in the classroom
Every student will write a diary on the competences acquired during experiential training course at the social farm, with the aim to reason on how to transform that abstract knowledge into operative skills. 2.2.2 Applying knowledge and understanding Students will be able to read and interpret the results of empirical researches connecting them to the pertaining theoretical, disciplinary, and practical fields. They will also acquire specific skills about the presentation methods of an oral and written report, related to a part of the chapters of the text of Palmonari, Cavazza, and Rubini (2012). In the third module, students will acquire competences on the ability to understand others through role-playing activities performed in groups. Such activities will rely on observation of - more than on competition with - other groups. Such observations will be then discussed in a plenary debate, and a guided de-briefing will take place to reason on the deep meaning of the experiences. 2.2.3 Making judgements Students will use the material presented during the lectures and in the presentation of their colleagues to autonomously discuss important social topics. 2.2.4 Communication skills Presenting the summary of a topic inside the text of Palmonari, Cavazza, and Rubini (2012), students may familiarise with ways to transmit knowledge, also through in-depth analysis of a scientific article focused on the chosen subject. Observing social communication in animals (i.e., horses) will allow student to realize how it is always functional and never dysfunctional, thus promoting self-reflective abilities on human communication. 2.2.5 Learning skills When a student presents the summary of a specific topic, analysing it by personally reading other pertaining materials, he/she will acquire skills for an autonomous study. Furthermore, students will interview each other on the abilities and competences developed through the experiential activities at the social farm.

Educational objectives

Mainly, the course aims to provide students with the basic theoretical and conceptual tools of Sociology of Family in order that these ones allow students clearly understand family as a complex social institution.
The teaching is also addressed to achieve specific aims, that are the following:

transmit knowledge useful for a critical analysis of social and cultural features concerning family (Dublin Descriptor: Knowledge and Understanding);

teach to empirically applicate a body of theoretical knowledge for analysing families (Dublin Descriptor: Applying Knowledge and Understanding);

help students express autonomous judgments from stereotypes that usually orient the interpretation of that institution (Dublin Descriptor: Making Judgements);

transmit a specialized language, that will improve students’ ability of public speaking (Dublin Descriptor: Communication);

make students build a cultural baggage that will help them learn additional knowledges concerning social sciences at the next courses (Dublin Descriptor: Lifelong Learning Skills).

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Goals

2.1 General Goals
The aim of the course is the analysis of the tools and objectives of political economy and economic policy in open economic systems. Particular attention is paid to the issue of e-economic policy choices within the European Economic and Monetary Union and to problems relating to the real economy and the labor market. The course also aims, through thematic seminars, to illustrate the main problems of the national economy and political economy.

2.2 Specific Goals
The course pays particular attention to the issue of economic policy choices within the European economic and monetary union and to issues relating to the real economy and the labor market. The course also aims, through thematic seminars, to illustrate the role of financial markets in the management of Economic Policy.

2.2.1 Knowledge and understanding.
Upon completion of the course, the student will know the main elements of political economy and economic policy, managing to deal with issues related to national and international economy at a post-secondary level.

2.2.2 Ability to apply knowledge and understanding.

The student will be able to apply the acquired knowledge in a competent and reflective way. He will also possess the appropriate skills both to devise and support arguments, to solve problems in the field of political economy and economic policy.

2.2.3 Making judgments.
The activities that contribute to the development of these skills will mainly be lectures, seminar events during the course and the drafting of written reports on current topics.

2.2.4 Communication skills (communication skills).
Activities aimed at developing the ability to communicate/transmit what has been learned will be arranged, through the presentation of written reports on topical issues.

2.2.5 Learning skills.
The course will allow students to develop the necessary skills to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy

Educational objectives

The second module of “Methods and Techniques of Social Services” for this year is placed in the first se-mester of the third year on completion of the knowledge about a social worker. In general terms, it has the purpose of translating into practical skills the theoretical proficiency acquired in the first two years of study and of providing a theoretical framework of coherent reading of students' experiences during their intern-ships. At this aim, a part of the course is dedicated to the analysis of what students has produced during their professional internships and to the presentation of specific cases chosen by the teacher, used also to examine more in detail some of the most common issues in the work of a social worker. Moreover, stu-dents are provided with specific theoretical in-depth information related to some work "tools" typical of a social worker such as preliminary interviews and home visits, reports of social services addressed to other services or institutions and to the other judicial authorities with whom the social worker operates, the execu-tion of social evaluations and in-depth analysis with an evaluative purpose, the psycho-social support to persons who live difficult situations of social weakness.

2.2 Specific goals
At the end of the course, students will have acquired the skills to recognize the theories applied in the work of social workers and the pertaining methods, and be able to prepare a social services report, where they present a critical issue, analyse it, and propose an intervention project suitable to face it.

2.2.1 Knowledge and understanding
Knowledge of the human behaviour and the social context, included the interaction among biological, psy-chological, social, and cultural factors. Understanding of the life cycle's development, of responsibilities, and of crisis corresponding to the ages of life, with a special attention to expectations both in a family con-text and in the reference socio-cultural context. Knowledge of activities and professions connected to so-cial services, with the purpose of facilitating an inter-professional collaboration and group work.

2.2.2 Applying knowledge and understanding
Skills of applying the main theoretical knowledge (especially the relational-systemic approach and the net-work one will be examined in detail) and the intervention methods to specific critical issues and/or of social unease (minors, disabled, old persons, families, immigrants, etc.). Skills of managing complex organisatio-nal processes and skills of applying a professional code of conduct.

2.2.3 Making judgements
To be aware of the relationship between personal experiences and systems of values from one part, and the work of social services from the other. More in detail, in this area a specific analysis will be dedicated to the posttraumatic stress disorder. Critical understanding about the impact of inequalities and socio-cultural, political, and economic injustices on the human functioning, skills of making judgements in the reading of scientific texts and sources connected to the social analysis processes, skills of dealing with conceptual frameworks integrated with intervention methods, critical evaluation about the use of research in social services, suspension of judgement when facing complex situations. Students will be especially motivated to reason on issues when suspending judgement is particularly important, such as minors' protections and the functioning of violent and mistreating families, and on a special bracket of population: the multi-problematic families.

2.2.4 Communication skills
Communication suitable for interacting with various professionals in the social services' area and/or with other professional workers, skills in conducting and/or managing group discussions, skills at interacting with persons in difficult situations, conversation skills aimed at developing confidence relationships, skills in wri-ting reports.

2.2.5 Learning skills
Skills in using specialised texts and their bibliographies, also through the development of research skills in digital databases, even in the English language.

Educational objectives

2 Obiettivi formativi

2.1 Obiettivi generali

• The knowledge of the logic inspiring social policies and welfare models;
• The comprehension of the social work
• The comprehension of the social work towards: planning, actualization and evaluation of the social policies;
• A critical comprehension of how cultural, economical and social differences can affect the human being, together with particular references to the discrimination, oppression, exploitation and social injustice.

2.2 Obiettivi specifici
• To know the different welfare systems and the main fields of social charity policies
• to understand the Italian welfare system together with its own details and its own lacks.
• To be aware of the interconnections among micro-meso-maso social levels.

2.2.1 Conoscenza e capacità di comprensione (knowledge and understanding).
• To consider the main directional concepts about social rights’ theories ;
• To understand the interconnection between needs and social policies;
• To consider the structural social conditions towards the marginalization and the expulsion of men and groups.

2.2.2 Capacità di applicare conoscenza e comprensione (applyingknowledge and understanding).
• To understand the social worker’s role, together with their approaching towards the capacity-building with the empowerment of individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities.
• To apply the acquired knowledges in order to operate, with scientific attitude, on professional interventions, next to professional actions the should give a self-reflective practice enable to operate inside the valuable expectations of the profession;

2.2.3 Autonomia di giudizio (makingjudgements).
• Reflection and group discussion of the problems studied also on the basis of a systemic approach and complexity of the topics covered.

2.2.4 Abilità comunicative (communicationskills).
• Communicate information in a group and during an examination.

2.2.5 5) Capacità di apprendimento (learningskills).
• Develop knowledge and orientation skills in the field of social policies in the local, regional, national and international context.

Educational objectives

The class aims to teach students the fundamental theoretical models of dynamic psychology. In this direction, the approach to the discipline will be based on the most accredited and internationally shared scientific literature. All the main psychic processes and mechanisms that characterize the personality, emotional and affective experience, behavior and intersubjective relationships will be analysed. Through lectures, clinical case studies and discussions on issues of social importance, students will develop knowledge and models of interpretation of phenomena useful for the development and implementation of intervention and prevention practices of the risk of mental illness and deviance, the promotion of personal well-being and psychological health.

Educational objectives

The general objective of the course is to learn constructs and theories for the analysis of the functioning of work groups and organizations, framing them within the socio-cultural perspective of practice-based studies to the study of organizations.
The course is divided into two modules.
In the first module the main approaches to the study of the organizations will be presented, focusing in particular on the relational dimensions in the organizational contexts.
In the second module, the functioning of the groups as a "community of practices" and of organizations as "community of communities" will be explored.

Specific objectives. Upon completion of the course students will be able to: 1) know the main theories and the main constructs of a practice-based perspective to the study of organizations (I Indicator Knowledge and Understanding); 2) to be able to analyze empirically the activities and social interactions in work groups; know how to use observational methods and qualitative research tools for the analysis of group and organizational phenomena (II Indicator Ability to apply knowledge and understanding); 3) acquiring the skills of judgment and decision through the realization of exercises in which it is necessary to know how to critically evaluate and reinterpret what is studied and in which it is necessary to use in a reflective and responsible the methodologies learned (III Indicator Critical and judgment capacity); 4) to effectively illustrate what has been learned through small group collaborative activities and through the writing of reports (IV Indicator Communication skills); 5) know how to pursue autonomously the acquisition of theoretical, methodological and applicative knowledge of organizational psychology, thanks to the critical discussion of the literature references, methods and devices of organizational analysis illustrated (V Indicator Learning capacity).