14.4.4.5 SW2304 Community Work 2 CR / 3 ECTS Credits

Objective and content
The student:
•becomes familiar with the main pluralist and radical theoretical approaches which inform community work practice as well as with their ideological underpinnings
•becomes acquainted with the various models of community work and the areas of skill concentration
•understands the need for more community based social work practice and the achievement of community capability within the changing nature of Finnish and European society
•comprehends the role of multiprofessional work, volunteering, and the third sector in community work practice
•develops an awareness of the link between community and macro-society in how forces of social exclusion operate at the community level