Designing a professional future
Course: Social Work
Structural unit: Faculty of Psychology
Title
Designing a professional future
Code
ВБ 13.02
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
8 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5
Learning outcomes
LO 3. To identify, formulate and solve problems in the field of social work, to integrate theoretical knowledge and practical experience. LO 4. To formulate their own reasonable judgments based on the analysis of a social problem. LO 6. To develop long-term and current plans, programs of activities, to make effective decisions in difficult situations promptly. LO 15. To make practical decisions to improve social welfare and to increase social security. LO 23. To construct the process and the result of social work within the set tasks, to use quantitative and qualitative indicators, to adjust the work plan in accordance with the results of the assessment.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
to know:
- the main elements of building a professional path of a social worker
- stages and features of professional development and becoming a specialist;
be able:
- to determine the leading competencies of the social worker in various positions and institutions;
- to build a plan for the development of own professional development
- to apply different methods of prevention of psychological burnout at work.
Course content
The discipline aims to study possible career options in the social sphere. The professional future is seen as a personal project; the ability to develop and implement it is a necessary skill for the students and their future work with clients in the social sphere to provide services in various fields.
The discipline is designed to understand the necessary professional skills and awareness of their personal qualities and aptitudes for self-realization in the profession.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Epstein D. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World Hardcover – Riverhead Books, 2019. – 352 p.
2. Robinson K., Aronica L. The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything. – Penguin, 2010. – 288 p.
3. Mazur A., Pasenko N. Kariera bez dram i travm. – Kyiv, 2021. – 248 s.
4. Mann I. Nomer 1. Yak staty naikrashchym u tomu, shcho robysh. – Dnipro: Monolit-Bizz, 2018. – 240 s.
5. Chyksentmihai M. Potik. Psykholohiia optymalnoho dosvidu. – Klub Simeinoho Dozvillia, 2017. – 368 s.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
practical training, individual work
Assessment methods and criteria
The organization of assessment forms provided by the working curriculum is carried out during the semester during students' creative and reproductive tasks, individual work, a compilation of modular tasks, and a final task. Based on the work results during the semester, the student receives a final grade on a 100-point system, which is calculated as the accumulated grades for the modules during the semester.
Creative and reproductive tasks for individual work - up to 20 points for each; modular control work - up to 20 points.
A student could not take the final test if he scored less than 36 points during the semester.
Form of final control - exam. Points: 0-59 - exam not passed, 60-100 - exam passed.
Detailed points: 1 - 59 corresponds to the assessment of "unsatisfactory"; 60 -74 - "satisfactory"; 75 - 90 - "good"; 91 - 100 - "excellent".
Language of instruction
ukrainian
Lecturers
This discipline is taught by the following teachers
Departments
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