Study plan

Curriculum unico

First year

Orientamento unico
Course		Semester	CFU	SSD
1041789 - PSYCHOLOGY OF THE COURSE OF LIFE		First semester	9	M-PSI/04
1023961 - PRIVATE LAW AND FAMILY	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].	First semester	9	IUS/01
1018210 - SOCIAL STATISTICS	Educational goals General goals Statistics is a discipline at the base of the knowledge process. In the social services area, the role of a statistics course can have three general goals: a) to provide the basic statistical concepts and to develop methods useful in the social services area so that social workers can use archives of data in the sector they are interested of; b) to give indications for the use of the main statistical sources, especially in the social services area; c) to supply the keys to understand the statistical methodology in the social research that students will meet in their academic and professional career. Specific goals a) Knowledge and understanding At the end of the course, students will be able to understand the meaning and the role of the main statistical tests and strategies of summary of data, both univariate and bivariate. b) Applying knowledge and understanding At the end of the course, students will be able to analyse an archive of data functional to their information needs. They will be also able to formulate research theories to be tested with the quantitative methodologies. They will be able to use simple statistical tests. c) Making judgements Students will develop critical skills, by contextualising the results obtained in the various areas where a social worker operates. d) Communication skills Students, through study and practical exercises, will acquire the technical and scientific language of the subject, that will be adequately used in the exercises during the course, also in groups, and in the final test. e) Learning skills Students who will pass the exam will have acquired a method of problem analysis that allows them to understand potentiality and limits of statistical approach to issues in the various areas where a social worker operates.	First semester	6	SECS-S/05
1020464 - FUNDAMENTALS AND METHODS OF SOCIAL SERVICE	2 Educational goals 2.1 General goals  The general goal of the course is to provide the students with the reference theoretical and practical elements where to place one's chosen academic career; the purpose is to give incentives and tools to understand the birth and the evolution of professional Social Services through the historical context, the description of Social Services as a place to put in order social imbalances, and the illustration of the main theoretical references elaborated over the time (the mandates). 2.2 Specific goals 2.2.1 Knowledge and understanding At the end of the course, the student will have acquired the knowledge of principles and values characterising the professional code of conduct of a social worker; the presented methods and techniques will concern the abilities of a social worker; the theoretical tools to evaluate the professional actions in view of the next experimentation with the internship. 2.2.2 Applying knowledge and understanding The skills acquired by the student will allow him/her to be able to understand, analyse, and discuss the technical and professional material supplied by the teacher; the simulations during the course will allow him/her to actively reflect in order to understand the world of a social worker. The course will also provide the rudiments about the institutions where the social workers operate and their respective catchment areas. 2.2.3 Making judgements Critical skills will develop by a comparison of the topics discussed, and the writing of reports on specific subjects and on the experience of a visit to a centre where a professional works. 2.2.4 Communication skills The skills to show what he/she has learned will take place, after the first module, with a written exemption test and, after the second module, with an oral test. 2.2.5 Learning skills The provided tools will allow the student to continue studying and to examine in detail the professional subjects, as well as the next active and productive participation to the internship.	First semester	9	SPS/07
AAF1796 - Computer skills for assessing psychometric	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.	First semester	3
1024054 - SOCIOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY OF SOCIAL RESEARCH	2 Educational goals 2.1 General goals In the first part, the course intends to provide a training on the theoretical and conceptual basics of sociology from a historical standpoint (social structure, social interaction, stratification, collective behaviour, social change), with a special attention to the analysis of the city space, the urbanisation as a lifestyle, the conflict in urban sphere, and the deviant behaviour. In the second part, the course intends to offer a methodological training that enables students to correctly conduct an empirical research, as well as to choose the tools of data collection in relation to the various kinds of research, supplying indications for their construction, administration, and analysis. 2.2 Specific goals 2.2.1 Knowledge and understanding The primary goal of the course is to provide students with the opportunity to acquire knowledge about the sociological theories and their applications to concrete experiences of empirical research. The methodological training will allow students to acquire knowledge on the logical-procedural, technical-procedural, and data elaboration and analysis aspects of a scientifically-funded standard and non-standard sociological research. 2.2.2. Applying knowledge and understanding The theoretical training has the purpose of acquiring the skills of applying the theoretical knowledge offered by sociology, in the various areas of analysis, to contexts of empirical research, of a qualitative and quantitative nature. The methodological training intends to enable students to plan and conduct an empirical research, as well as to coordinate and evaluate the research work. In this regard, procedures of data planning, collection, elaboration, and analysis (univariate and bivariate) will be presented by means of exercises. 2.2.3. Making judgements The course has the aim of integrating the training with a reflective and critical dimension starting from a comparison among the course's topics, the contents of the texts used, and the main results of an empirical research analysed during the classes. 2.2.4. Communication skills Through an exchange of views and the discussion on the topics considered, the course has the purpose of developing communication skills about the training themes, by presenting reports too. 2.2.5. Learning skills Classes and practical exercises are aimed at students' acquisition of skills of analysis and re-elaboration of the study materials, as well as the acquisition of methodological abilities with the purpose of conducting an empirical research. At the end of the course, students are expected to be able to well understand the main theoretical contributions of sociology and to autonomously plan and conduct an empirical research on these topics.	Second semester	9	SPS/07
1015318 - CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY	2 Obiettivi formativi 2.1 Obiettivi generali  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 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. Particular attention will be addressed to the problems related to human rights, to the current notion of person, to the migration processes and to the relationship between nature and culture;great importance will be given to isseues regarding identity, ethnicity, racism, kinship, religion, ritual, power and finally. LEGALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS: 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 and “cultori e collaboratori”. 2.2 Obiettivi specifici 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. 2.2.1 Conoscenza e capacità di comprensione (knowledge and understanding). 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; 2.2.2 Capacità di applicare conoscenza e comprensione (applying knowledge and understanding). By the end of the course, the student will be able to: - 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; … … … 2.2.3 Autonomia di giudizio (making judgements). By the end of the course, the student will be able to: - 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. Abilità comunicative (communication skills). By the end of the course, the student will be able to: - 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 2.2.4 Capacità di apprendimento (learning skills). By the end of the course, the student will be able to: - 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.	Second semester	6	M-DEA/01
1042042 - PRINCIPLES OF PUBLC LAW	Knowledge and understanding: the course aims to provide students with the tools that allow them to un-derstand the fundamentals of the Italian public law, taking the Republican Constitution as an essential point of reference; since the teaching is aimed at students of an economics course, the theme of social rights will be object of particular attention during the lessons and for the purpose of the exam. Knowledge and understanding: the course aims to provide students with the tools that allow them to un-derstand the fundamentals of the Italian public law, taking the Republican Constitution as an essential point of reference; since the teaching is aimed at students of an economics course, the theme of social rights will be object of particular attention during the lessons and for the purpose of the exam. Applying knowledge and understanding: the course aims to provide students with the tools that allow them to read and understand in its fundamental elements a normative text, a judicial decision or an ad-ministrative measure, as well as to solve in its fundamental elements the legal issues underlying these acts. Making judgements: The course aims to develop in students an autonomous judgment capability on the foundations of the Italian public law, in a historical, theoretical, critical and comparative perspective. Communication skills: The course aims to develop in students the attitude to legal reasoning and the abil-ity to argue on the foundations of the Italian public law. Learning skills: The course aims to enable students to continue their studies and, in particular, to face the other courses of the disciplinary legal field thanks to the knowledge of the foundations of the Italian public law.	Second semester	6	IUS/09
AAF1185 - FOREIGN LANGUAGES SKILLS		Second semester	3

Second year

Orientamento unico
Course		Semester	CFU	SSD
1042043 - PUBLIC HEALTH		First semester	6	MED/42
1038697 - GENERAL AND SOCIAL PEDAGOGY	2 Educational goals 2.1 General goals At the end of the course, the student will have acquired a good knowledge of educational and pedagogical themes. More in detail, the student will know how prejudice and stereotype are acquired, and how to apply strategies in order to reduce them. The activities contributing to the development of the expected skills and abilities are: writing of a reflection diary for the whole course; group work; workshop activities; simulations and role plays. 2.2 Specific goals 2.2.1 Knowledge and understanding At the end of the course, the student will master knowledge related to the field of study of Pedagogy in general and Social Pedagogy, and to educational issues connected to it, taking into account the knowledge contained in the encyclopaedia of Educational Sciences. More specifically, the student will know and have understood the educational aspects connected to the profession of social worker, and to contexts of social unease and exclusion where a social worker operates. Thus, the student will know and have understood the cognitive and emotional dimensions implied in the birth and persistence of prejudice and stereotype, and the strategies to reduce them, especially in heterogeneous contexts characterized by social unease. 2.2.2 Applying knowledge and understanding At the end of the course, the student will be able to apply the knowledge acquired in the field of Pedagogy in general and Social Pedagogy with the purpose of reflecting in a scientific way on professional interventions, taking into account the contextual elements of the situation (historical, political, cultural, social, and economic) from an interdisciplinary standpoint. More in detail, the student will be able to apply the strategies of prejudice reduction acquired in different social contexts and to activate interventions of conflict mediation, promoting in himself/herself and in others empathic attitudes and processes of inclusion and integration. 2.2.3 Making judgements At the end of the course, the student will be able to collect pieces of information and to reflect on educational themes and issues in contexts of social unease, making judgements autonomously. He/she will be able to take decisions by considering ethical and social aspects connected to his/her professional position. 2.2.4 Communication skills At the end of the course, the student will be able to work in group even in heterogeneous contexts, to put in place processes of mediation and negotiation in situations of conflict, and to communicate pieces of information, ideas, problems, and solutions to different interlocutors. 2.2.5 Learning skills At the end of the course, the student will be able to autonomously make researches and detailed studies in the pedagogical area, with a special attention to contexts of social, cultural and economic disadvantage.	First semester	6	M-PED/01
1025518 - SOCIAL SERVICE METHODS AND TECHNIQUES		First semester	6
SOCIAL SERVICE METHODS AND TECHNIQUES I		First semester	6	SPS/07
1010531 - ORGANIZATION OF SOCIAL SERVICES	2 Educational goals 2.1 General goals  The primary goal of the course is to understand and interpret social services' organisational framework, considering the main theories and the methodological orientations of the organisational thought, the interactions of individuals inside a territorial community, and the complex network system of social and health services. Lectures and group exercises will contribute to develop skills of application of the main theoretical knowledge and intervention methods to specific difficult situations and/or of social unease (areas: minors, disabled, old persons, families, immigrants, mental health, addiction, etc.), with the purpose of acquiring professional tools to face the numerous needs of persons and to contribute in satisfying them. 2.2 Specific goals 2.2.1 Knowledge and understanding At the end of the course, the student will have acquired the knowledge of the most important theoretical references of the organisational thought and their use in the current welfare system; he/she will be able to evaluate the level of integration of territorial services; he/she will be able to critically read the structural order aimed at rights' protection and persons' active participation, according to an approach directed to the empowerment of individuals, families, groups, organisations, and communities. 2.2.2 Applying knowledge and understanding Through the analysis of organisational models directed toward the planning of services to individuals, the student will be able to examine critical issues, potentialities, and community's resources, detecting the relations among such models and the reference institutional order, the national and regional legislative framework, the role of the social services in the processes of social change, in order to face complex organisational contexts and use tools of evaluating the quality of the territorial services. 2.2.3 Making judgements The skills acquired through theoretical classes, as well individual and group exercises, will develop in the student abilities of collecting data, systematising concepts, and expressing evaluations autonomously and critically on organisational, social, and ethical topics discussed during the course. 2.2.4 Communication skills Reading of group writings on specific topics proposed by the teacher or suggested by students, quotations, literary passages, etc., and the use of photos-metaphor and of audio-visual aids will develop skills of reflection, reflectiveness, and communication through the reciprocal exchange of views on emotions, the sharing of the object of study, and the exchange of knowledge in connection to the levels of learning from time to time reached. Meetings with experts and guided visits in operational contexts of the social and health services will improve inclinations to exchanges of views and communication with unknown interlocutors. 2.2.5 Learning skills Discussion on specific topics of the social work, in-depth analysis and critical comment of books and other materials (proposed by students or suggested by the teacher), and comparison among the single experiences of internship will encourage the student in pursuing his/her own academic and formative way, both in areas of greater interest, and in further education following the course of study.	First semester	9	SPS/09
1022521 - SOCIOLOGY OF THE FAMILY		Second semester	6	SPS/08
1022505 - SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY	2 Educational goals 2.1 General goals The course 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. Finally, it is planned the implementation of a field investigation that will allow students to familiarise with the different steps for the preparation of a questionnaire with its modes of administration. 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. Students will also familiarise with the different tools of collection and analysis of psychological-social data, evaluating their applications in different contexts. Especially in administering a questionnaire it is planned a specific training. Students will also examine the way a field investigation is carried out, analysing the best tools for the collection of the various pieces of information. 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). 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. 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.	Second semester	6	M-PSI/05
1026957 - DYNAMIC PSYCHOLOGY		Second semester	6	M-PSI/07
10591757 - Psychopathology and deviance		Second semester	6	M-PSI/08
AAF1047 - Training		Second semester	9

Third year

Orientamento unico
Course		Semester	CFU	SSD
98111 - PSYCHOLOGY OF WORK AND ORGANIZATIONS	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).	First semester	6	M-PSI/06
1036702 - FUNDAMENTALS OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY	2 Educational goals 2.1 General goals Purpose of the course is the analysis of tools and goals of political economy and economic policy in the open economies. A special attention is paid to the topic of economic policy choices inside the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union, and to issues connected to real economy and labour market. The course also intends to illustrate, through thematic seminars, the main issues of national economy and economic policy. 2.2 Specific goals The course pays a special attention to the topic of economic policy choices inside the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union, and to issues connected to real economy and labour market. The course also intends to illustrate, through thematic seminars, the role of financial markets in the management of economic policy 2.2.1 Knowledge and understanding At the end of the course, the student will know the main elements of political economy and of economic policy, being able to discuss topics on national and international economy at a post-secondary level. 2.2.2 Applying knowledge and understanding The student will be able to apply the acquired knowledge in a competent and reflective way. Furthermore, he/she will develop skills adequate to create and support argumentations, and to solve problems within political economy and economic policy. 2.2.3 Making judgements Activities contributing to the development of such skills will be mainly the lectures, the seminars during the course, and the writing of reports on topical subjects. 2.2.4 Communication skills There will be activities aimed at the development of skills to communicate/transmit what the student has learned, by presenting written reports on topical subjects. 2.2.5 Learning skills The course will allow to develop the needed skills to pursue a further education with a high level of autonomy.	First semester	9	SECS-P/02
1010540 - CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY	2 Educational goals 2.1 General goals Course's general goal is to provide the theoretical and methodological tools that allows to know the various approaches characterizing Clinical Psychology, as well as the main aspects related to psychopathology and psychological diagnosis, fostering the development of critical skills. 2.2 Specific goals At the end of the course, the student will be able to a) know the psychological processes related to the profession of social worker and to other professions operating for health promotion and protection; b) avail himself/herself of inter-professional collaboration of psychologists; c) know the main aetiological model and the classical and modern paradigms used as reference points in Clinical Psychology; d) know the main mental disorders and their symptomatology; e) know the main tendencies of psychological interventions, counselling, and psychotherapies; f) use the learned knowledge in understanding the evidence-based treatments and in critically reading fake news and unfounded therapeutic claims. Critical skills of making judgements will be developed through practical exercise, such as critical reading and analysis of scientific articles, the creation of an experimental study in contrast to a correlational one, commenting videos of clinical cases showed during the classes. During the course there will be two halfway tests, that have the purpose of evaluating and improving student's skill to communicate what he/she has been learning.	First semester	6	M-PSI/08
AAF1220 - Training II		First semester	9
1042045 - SOCIAL SERVICE AND SOCIAL POLICIES	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.	Second semester	6	SPS/07
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Degree Programme in Social Work (CLaSS)

Interfaculty course
The Degree Programme in Social Work is an interfaculty course, coordinated by the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, with teachers from the faculties of: Law; Sociology and Communication; Medicine and Psychology; Pharmacy and Medicine; Information, Computer and Statistical Engineering; Economics.

Educational Goals and Professional Skills
The Programme (CLaSS) is aimed at supplying knowledge and tools specifically intended to satisfy the needs of the professional area of social work, in order to be a care worker, both freelance and employed.
The Programme supplies specific skills aimed at: fostering the social bonds and health, viewed as wellbeing and quality of individuals and groups' lives; preventing and solving disadvantages of communities, groups, families, and individuals; carrying out tasks of promotion, management, organisation, evaluation, planning, and direction of social work; developing strategies of social information on citizens' services and rights; fostering and coordinating new resources, included those at the base of the third sector.
The Programme is aimed at supplying the following professional skills:
1. operating with technical-professional and judgement autonomy in all stages of interventions for the prevention, support, and rehabilitation of needy individuals, families, groups, and communities;
2. managing and collaborating, with executive tasks, to the planning and organisation of social work;
3. coordinating, with executive tasks, other figures, voluntary and non, involved in individual and collective interventions;
4. fostering good relationships and mediating possible conflict situations;
5. exercising an advocacy function for the social groups more vulnerable towards the competent institutions;
6. carrying out educational and supervision activities in the area of social work.
For this purpose, are essential the professionalising courses of Social Work and the external professional internship. In order to take advantage of the experience of external professionals, the didactic modules related to the professional area (social work disciplines) are entrusted to experts in social work, with documented professional titles and experience, according to the last clause of art. 4 DPR No. 162, 10/3/1982.

Information on the Educational Path
The educational path includes 20 courses, and each one of them is designed as a "didactic unit" of at least 6 or 9 credits with a final evaluation, so to give enough space to each educational moment. To the professionalising internship are assigned 18 ECTS; to other elective educational activities 12 ECTS; to the foreign language (English) and the IT skills for the psychometric evaluation 3 ECTS each; the remaining 6 ECTS are for the final test.
The credit is the unit of measurement of student's work and corresponds to 25 hours. Each credit is made up of 8 hours of lectures or 12 hours of workshop activities.
The Programme includes courses related to various Scientific Disciplinary Areas useful to acquire theoretical models, methods and techniques for the comprehension of social phenomena characterised by the complexity of the historical-cultural moment, and for the planning and realisation of social work intervention. There are basic and characterising courses with multidisciplinary qualities strengthened by the interfaculty character of the Programme, with important contributes by the juridical, demo-ethno-anthropological, economic, psychological, statistical-social, and medical-healthcare areas; the courses are also integrated by the training in similar areas, with possible contributes in the psychological (clinical-dynamic), economic-administrative, public law, philosophical, and medical jurisprudence fields.
More in detail, in order to obtain the degree in Social Work, the student must get the credits related to:
1. the basic educational activities (sociological, juridical, psychological, political-economic, statistical, and anthropological-pedagogical disciplines) for a total of 54 credits, obtainable in the following scientific disciplinary areas: SPS/07 (9 ECTS); SPS/08 (6 ECTS); IUS/09 (6 ECTS); M-PSI/05 (6 ECTS); SECS-P/02 (9 ECTS); SECS-S/05 (6 ECTS); M-DEA/01 (6 ECTS); M-PED/01 (6 ECTS).
2. the educational activities connected to the characterising disciplinary fields, for a total of 66 credits, divided into:
a. sociological disciplines, with 36 credits, obtainable in the following scientific disciplinary areas: SPS/07 (27 ECTS), SPS/09 (9 ECTS);
b. juridical disciplines, with 9 credits, obtainable in the following scientific disciplinary area: IUS/01;
c. psychological disciplines, with 15 credits, obtainable in the following scientific disciplinary areas: M-PSI/04 (9 ECTS), M-PSI/06 (6 ECTS);
d. medical disciplines, with 6 credits, obtainable in the following scientific disciplinary area: MED/42.
3. the similar and supplementary activities, for a total of 18 credits, obtainable in the following scientific disciplinary areas: M-PSI/07 (6 ECTS); M-PSI/08 (6 ECTS); SPS/12 (6 ECTS).
4. the elective activities (12 ECTS);
5. the final test (6 ECTS);
6. the verification on the knowledge of a foreign language, with a special reference to the social work themes (3 ECTS);
7. the verification on the skills in using IT tools, especially data archiving and elaboration, text composition, and Internet research softwares (3 ECTS);
8. the internship, evaluated by means of the discussion on a detailed report of the professional activity carried out during the internship and adequately documented (18 ECTS).
The internship is compulsory and is to be carried out in external institutions, under the supervision of a care worker tutor working in affiliated institutions and coordinated by a teacher of a professional discipline.
Activities carried out in social work structures abroad are valid for the professional internship.

Admission Requirements
In order to access the Programme is necessary a high school diploma obtained in Italy, or another equivalent title or recognised by the laws in force. Candidates should also have a good knowledge of Italian, basic knowledge of English, and general culture knowledge.
The admission test modalities are decided each year by the CLaSS Board.
The number of students is decided each year by the Academic Senate, after consulting the CLaSS Board, according to the available structures, the limits coming from the external professional internship, and the laws in force.
The enrolment of students coming from other Programmes depends on the admission test; if the student passes it, not more than 60 credits from the previous Programme can be recognised.
The students who have passed the test but are under a certain limit have to attend activities aimed at supplying the missing knowledge.

Educational Goals

Knowledge and understanding

The degree can be given to the students who have proved to understand the main theories and techniques of Social Work presented in all scientific disciplinary areas of the Programme. The student will also have to prove skills in analysing themes on: social determinants of health (education, income, work, house, social bonds, access to services), inequality, family discontinuity (separation, divorce, families with old or disabled people, foster families), and social risk (marginality, deviance, abuse and mistreatment, substance addiction, discrimination and racism), that characterise the modern social structures; these skills imply knowledge and constant updates, and graduates must prove to have conducted theoretical and empirical in-depth analyses.
Students are also required to develop skills at creating bibliographical updates on themes specific of intervention and on innovative methods well integrated in their training (e.g. family mediation, intercultural mediation).
These skills can be obtained by means of an active participation to the didactic activities (lectures), workshop exercises, and individual study.
The achievement of this goal will be verified through the exams' results, especially for the professionalising courses.

Applying knowledge and understanding

CLaSS graduates must be able to apply the main theoretical knowledge and intervention methods learned by means of the basic, characterising and/or similar courses to specific problems and/or social disadvantages (disadvantaged children, disabled, old people, immigrant families and minors, etc.). They will be also able to deal with complex organisational processes and to possess the needed skills to solve specific problems by means of argumentations empirically founded compared to these ones.
These skills can be obtained mainly by means of the professionalising internship in the second and third year and the workshop activities that integrate the courses.
The achievement of such skills will be verified with mid-term tests and final exams, with discussions on cases and/or the aptitude of field research during the internship. With an individual study, the student can obtain autonomously these skills, but they are strengthened by means of the supervision of the internship too.

Making judgements

The degree is assigned to the students who prove to have developed skills in making critical judgements on scientific texts and sources connected to the processes of social analysis. Students are also required to be able to deal with conceptual frameworks integrated to the intervention methods. Graduates must then be able to prepare quantitative and qualitative researches and to apply theoretical knowledge directing it to the planning of specific intervention areas and methods. Planning skills will be acquired by attending seminars and workshops organised by the various disciplinary areas, by making didactic visits to public and private structures of social intervention, and by studying and making exercises on specific cases.
At the end of the course, students must be able to take their responsibilities in the professional actions the Programme prepares them to, and to evaluate the relevance and the deontological correctness of the requests made to them. The evaluation will take place by means of the exams' results, the internship reports, and the final test.

Communication skills

The degree is assigned to the students who prove to be able to effectively communicate with various social individuals. This implies the skills in learning and using a kind of communication useful to interact with several professionals in the social work area and/or with other professionals included in the management/treatment of social problems, such as health operators, operators in juridical and institutional fields, decision-makers, etc. Graduates are also required to be able to conduct and/or manage group discussions aimed at preparing interventions and to develop an inclination to the individual assessment, that is an effective tool to deal with the various situations of social disquiet, social deviance, marginality. The didactic tools used to achieve these goals are especially the activity of analysis and reflection on cases during the internship.

Learning skills

The degree can be assigned to the students who have developed skills in using specialised texts and their bibliographies, and research skills by means of IT databases. The achievement of such a result represents the final results of students' learning process, aimed at a continuing update, getting a Masters Degree and/or titles related to other post-graduate courses. With the final test, the skills at using the various bibliographical tools, included the electronic ones, will be verified; it will also verify the skills in expressing, both written and oral, one's critical arguments.

Features of the Final Test
For the final test dissertation in front of a board, it is planned a theoretical-empirical composition based on the topics discussed in the Programme; it allows to evaluate student's skills in putting together adequate theoretical knowledge, intervention methods, and critical evaluation of the results.

Job and Professional Opportunities for Graduates
CLaSS graduates can carry out all professions recognised in the social work area, that is regulated and supervised by a professional register.
These can be in the form of work in: local institutions (single or associated municipalities, mountain communities, provinces, regions); health and social services (with a special reference to ASL and hospitals); ministries, with a special reference to Ministry of Justice (services for adults and minors), Ministry of Interior (areas of immigration and of addictions), Ministry of Welfare (or similar titles); Third Sector (social co-operatives, non-profit organisations, charities, charitable institutions, voluntary associations, non-governmental organisations-NGO).
Other job possibilities are in international institutions (with a special reference to the area of collaboration, international adoption, planning, and research). A care worker can also operate as a freelance in a single or associated form (multi-professionals offices).

Elective Credits
Elective credits must be obtained within the various types of the Other Educational Activities (AAF) for a total of 12 ECTS.
According to what the Programme Board (CCL) approved on 12/11/2012, the kinds of AAF for which a student can ask for their recognitions by the appointed committee are:
1) exams related to a) basic, b) characterising, and c) similar activities of other Programmes of Sapienza, according to the University Regulations, especially those of the Programmes cooperating with CLaSS (Medicine and Psychology; Sociology; Communication; Pharmacy and Medicine; Law; Information, Computer, and Statistical Engineering);
2) exams taken in other universities related to courses that have no correspondence with the activities planned by CLaSS, but that are suitable for the educational training chosen by the student (maximum 6 ECTS);
3) supplementary activities organised by CLaSS, attending the seminars or the interdisciplinary workshops organised by at least two teachers; activities managed by single teachers in the form of a) seminars or workshops, b) directed essays, and c) research activities (maximum 2 ECTS);
4) courses of Elective Didactic Activity (ADE) organised by CLaSS teachers (and previously approved by CCL) and ADE courses in faculties of Sapienza that cooperate with CLaSS (maximum 3 ECTS);
5) exams taken within the Erasmus programme that have no correspondence with the activities planned by CLaSS, but that are suitable for the educational training chosen by the student, as well as the participation to the Erasmus Intensive Programmes, Socrates, or other similar international programmes (maximum 6 ECTS);
6) attendance to international and national conventions and workshops within an educational project previously approved by a CLaSS teacher (maximum 1 ECTS);
7) educational courses related to the Programme offered by non-university institutions (maximum 4 ECTS);
8) stages, and work and voluntary activities (from now on "activities") carried out continuously and related to the educational path (maximum 4 ECTS).

Change of Degree Programme and Recognition of Exams
The students who come from another university or another Programme of Sapienza, or who are already graduate (with a three-year degree, a Masters degree, or a single-cycle degree) and enrol to CLaSS can have their previous ECTS recognised, as long as they pass the admission test. The credits obtained in the previous course can be recognised in substitution of exams planned in the educational path or as elective activities, if they are pertinent to the educational path. As established in section "Elective Credits", if there are requests for the recognition of credits obtained abroad or with other activities that are not related to exam tests, they can be evaluated for the integration in the elective activities. The students who possess the ECDL certificate, on presentation of the original certificate, are exempted from credits for computer skills.

Didactic Methods, Attendance, and Verification
All didactic activities are held in the classroom in the conventional way; especially for the professionalising disciplines, will be also organised didactic visits to public and private structures of social intervention and to other organisational realities of special professional interest.
Some courses imply the use of the e-learning portal to carry out special exercise and workshop activities.
The attendance is compulsory for at least two thirds of the scheduled time.
Student's work, along to the lectures, includes the exercises hours, the workshop hours, the hours related to the mid-term tests and the exams, the seminars, and all other educational activities planned, especially the external professional internship.
The part-time students have a different order for the exams to be taken each year and have specific orientation activities and reserved meetings.
The verification of student's preparation takes place by means of oral exams, structured and semi-structured tests, professional reports, and presentation of cases related to the internship activity.

Tutors
The role of tutor is taken on mainly by the teachers of the Programme, with a special reference to the psychological and professional disciplines of social work, by means of periodic meetings planned or organised on request. This activity can be supported by students winner of scholarships for 150 hours in all.

Teachers
In the prospectus are listed the teachers of each Programme, with the exception of those who are subjected to an external commitment call or a contract. All teachers teach disciplines of their own disciplinary area.

Information on the Educational Path

The educational path includes 20 courses, and each one of them is designed as a "didactic unit" of at least 6 or 9 credits with a final evaluation, so to give enough space to each educational moment. The professionalising internship has 18 ECTS; other elective educational activities have 12 ECTS; the foreign language (English) and the IT skills for the psychometric evaluation have 3 ECTS each; the remaining 6 ECTS are for the final test.
The credit is the unit of measurement of student's work and corresponds to 25 hours; each credit is made up of 8 hours of lectures or 12 hours of workshop activities.
The Programme includes courses related to various Scientific Disciplinary Areas useful to acquire theoretical models, methods and techniques for the comprehension of social phenomena characterised by the complexity of the historical-cultural moment, and for the planning and realisation of social work intervention. There are basic and characterising courses with multidisciplinary qualities strengthened by the interfaculty character of the Programme, with important contributes by the juridical, demo-ethno-anthropological, economic, psychologic, statistical-social, and medical-healthcare areas; the courses are also integrated by the training in similar areas.
More in detail, in order to obtain the degree in Social Work, the student must get the credits related to:
1. the basic educational activities (sociological, juridical, psychological, political-economic, statistical, and anthropological-pedagogical disciplines) for a total of 54 credits, obtainable in the following scientific disciplinary areas: SPS/07 (9 ECTS); SPS/08 (6 ECTS); IUS/09 (6 ECTS); M-PSI/05 (6 ECTS); SECS-P/02 (9 ECTS); SECS-S/05 (6 ECTS); M-DEA/01 (6 ECTS); M-PED/01 (6 ECTS).
2. the educational activities connected to the characterising disciplinary fields, for a total of 66 credits, divided into:
a. sociological disciplines, with 36 credits, obtainable in the following scientific disciplinary areas: SPS/07 (27 ECTS), SPS/09 (9 ECTS);
b. juridical disciplines, with 9 credits, obtainable in the following scientific disciplinary area: IUS/01;
c. psychological disciplines, with 15 credits, obtainable in the following scientific disciplinary areas: M-PSI/04 (9 ECTS), M-PSI/06 (6 ECTS);
d. medical disciplines, with 6 credits, obtainable in the following scientific disciplinary area: MED/42.
3. the similar and supplementary activities, for a total of 18 credits, obtainable in the following scientific disciplinary areas: M-PSI/07 (6 ECTS); M-PSI/08 (6 ECTS); SPS/12 (6 ECTS).
4. the elective activities (12 ECTS);
5. the final test (6 ECTS);
6. the verification on the knowledge of a foreign language, with a special reference to the social work themes (3 ECTS);
7. the verification on the skills in using IT tools, especially data archiving and elaboration, text composition, and Internet research softwares (3 ECTS);
8. the internship, evaluated by means of the discussion on a detailed report of the professional activity carried out during the internship and adequately documented (18 ECTS).
The internship is compulsory and is to be carried out not in the University, under the supervision of a care worker tutor working in affiliated institutions and coordinated by a teacher of a professional discipline.
Activities carried out in social work structures abroad are valid for the professional internship.
All didactic activities are held in the classroom in the conventional way; especially for the professionalising disciplines, will be also organised didactic visits to public and private structures of social intervention and to other organisational realities of special professional interest.
Some courses imply the use of the e-learning portal to carry out special exercise and workshop activities.
The attendance is compulsory for at least two third of the scheduled time.
Student's work, along to the lectures, includes the exercises hours, the workshop hours, the hours related to the mid-term tests and the exams, the seminars, and all other educational activities planned, especially the external professional internship.
The part-time students have a different order for the exams to be taken each year and have specific orientation activities and reserved meetings.
The elective credits are 12 ECTS in all.
According to what the Programme Board (CCL) approved on 12/11/2012, the kinds of activities for which a student can ask for their recognitions by the appointed committee are:
1) exams related to a) basic, b) characterising, and c) similar activities of other Programmes of Sapienza, according to the University Regulations, especially those of the Programmes cooperating with CLaSS (Medicine and Psychology; Political Science; Sociology; Communication; Pharmacy and Medicine; Law);
2) exams taken in other universities related to courses that have no correspondence with the activities planned by CLaSS, but that are suitable for the educational training chosen by the student (maximum 6 ECTS);
3) supplementary activities organised by CLaSS, attending the seminars or the interdisciplinary workshops organised by at least two teachers; activities manages by single teachers in the form of a) seminars or workshops, b) directed essays, and c) research activities (maximum 2 ECTS);
4) courses of Elective Didactic Activity (ADE) organised by CLaSS teachers (and previously approved by CCL) and ADE courses in faculties of Sapienza that cooperate with CLaSS (maximum 3 ECTS);
5) exams taken within the Erasmus programme that have no correspondence with the activities planned by CLaSS, but that are suitable for the educational training chosen by the student, as well as the participation to the Erasmus Intensive Programmes, Socrates, or other similar international programmes (maximum 6 ECTS);
6) attendance to international and national conventions and workshops within an educational project previously approved by a CLaSS teacher (maximum 1 ECTS);
7) educational courses related to the Programme offereb by non-university institutions (maximum 4 ECTS);
8) stages, and work and voluntary activities carried out continuously and related to the educational path (maximum 4 ECTS).