14.4.2.2 SW2101 Dimensions of Welfare 4 CR / 6 ECTS CR

Consists of following parts:

Social Problems and Marginalization, 2 CR / 3 ECTS CR

Objective and content
The student:
•understands the complexity and interrelatedness of social
problems.
•is capable of identifying the risk factors and emergence of social problems on individual, family group, community and societal levels.
•acknowledges the phenomenon of marginalization and of detrimental trends on the individual, community and societal levels.
•focuses on contents which familiarize him/her with the nature of social problems, their manifestation, their development, and their relation to forces of marginalization and exclusion.

Social Ethics and Welfare, 1 CR / 1.5 ECTS CR

Objective and content
The student:
•is capable of the ethical and philosophical questioning of social life and welfare phenomena.
•focuses on contents which include the basic concepts of social ethics, and an examination of the concept of Good life quality.

Social Security and Welfare, 1 CR / 1.5 ECTS CR

Objective and content
The student:
•understands social welfare system and social security and social legislation in Finland.
•becomes familiar with a comparative analysis of models of welfare provision in Europe
•develops an overview and understanding of social security legislation in Finland.