Social Work

General Objectives. The course aims to provide the basic tools necessary to understand legal language. Having acquired the basic tools, the subjects of law (individuals and collective entities, with particular regard to third sector entities), the subjective legal situations referable to them, the institutes for the protection of fragile persons, foreigners, minors, families, the contract, civil liability, for the profiles relevant to the profession of social worker will be studied. In the analysis of legal norms special attention will be paid to the role of case law. 2.2 Specific objectives. 2.2.1 Knowledge and understanding skills. The course aims to provide students with an overview of private law relevant to the social worker and to develop the ability to find the normative discipline, direct reading and understanding of legal texts. 2.2.2 Ability to apply knowledge and understanding. Concrete situations will be put before the students with respect to which they will have to identify rights and forms of protection of those involved and tasks of intervention of social workers. 2.2.3 Autonomy of judgment. Students will be asked to investigate and discuss the 'rationale' of legal norms as well as the reasoning of case law rulings. 2.2.4 Communication skills. Students will be expected to acquire the ability to understand legal language and express themselves using it. 2.2.5 Learning ability. The ability to learn will be tested, on the one hand, by students' written reports on case law rulings related to the topics studied and, on the other hand, by subjecting students to concrete cases to which they will apply the acquired legal discipline.