Class Social Service and Community Intervention

This curricular unit aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding of community intervention processes within the field of Social Work. It seeks to equip future professionals with essential theoretical and methodological skills for implementing local development projects, promoting citizen participation, and strengthening communities. This unit adopts a critical and reflective approach, preparing students to intervene in diverse community contexts, fostering social inclusion, empowering populations, and building collective solutions to contemporary social challenges.

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1. Community Intervention: Fundamental Concepts 1.1. Community 1.2. Community Development 1.3. Participation and Citizenship 2. Social Work and Community Intervention 2.1. Historical Context 2.2.2. Definition 2.2. Principles of Community Intervention 3. Methodological Procedures for Community Intervention 3.1. Community Engagement and Mobilization 3.2. Conducting Participatory Diagnosis 3.3. Participatory Planning and Execution 3.4. Evaluation 4. Analysis and Development of Community Intervention Projects  

Teaching: It will be used expository, interrogative and participatory methodologies through debates promotion from community intervention projects, interaction with professionals working in community projects and/or carrying out study visits. Students are expected to present group work, using new technologies and focusing on the development of oral skills and rules for the presentation of works.   Assessment: The assessment will be continuous, based on the following elements: 1) Two individual written test (70%); 2) Group work with presentation and oral discussion in the classroom (30%); 3) Individual critical reflection (10%). The grade of each of the elements must be greater than or equal to 9,5 points. The appeal exam will consist in a written test (100%), with a minimum grade for approval is 9,5 points.

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