SOSV3131 Child Welfare from a Migration and Minority Perspective Course description

The following coursework requirement must have been approved in order for the student to take the exam:

1. Describe a theme and research question within the area of global perspectives on social work. The research question must be justified. List recommended sources that may be relevant for further work on the research question. This work requirement is the starting point for the individual written submission assignment which is the final exam for the course (see the course plan). Length: up to one page.

The goal of the assignment is to increase knowledge about social work from a global perspective and to apply theory/analytical perspectives to address a self-selected research question.

The coursework requirement must be completed and approved by the given deadline in order for the student to take the exam. If the coursework requirement is not approved, the student will be given the opportunity to resubmit an improved version one more time within the specified deadline.

Individual written assignment with self-selected topic. The assignment can be written in either English or Norwegian. The student works on the assignment throughout the course. The assignment should be 8-10 pages long, not including references. Approved APA referencing style for assignment writing must be followed. Font and font size: Calibri 12 points. Line spacing: 1.5.

A selection of self-chosen readings, which comprises of 100 pages must be attached in the assignment.

Students with valid absences or who do not pass the exam have the right to a new/deferred exam, which has the same format as the regular exam. If the exam is not passed, the student will have one opportunity to submit a revised version of the assignment for grading.

After completing the course, the student should have the following overall learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student has knowledge of

• majority and minority relations from a historical, social and political perspective

• the production of knowledge ideology, power and marginalisation processes
• language and communication
• anti-racist social work
• identity, culture and cooperation
• participation and inclusion in the majority society

• integration strategies
• domestic violence
• work with unaccompanied minor refugees
• the living conditions of minority ethnic groups

Skills

The student can

• analyse structural, cultural and individual power relations
• demonstrate an ethical and sensitive approach in social work
• reflect on how one’s culture can affect the way they interpret things and cooperate
• cooperate and communicate with the help of an interpreter

General competence

The student

• has developed an understanding of how cultural diversity and complex power relations are related to people’s different needs, values and lifestyles
• can analyse and assess what is special and what is common for social work with ethnic minorities compared to social work with ethnic majority persons
• has acquired knowledge that encourages reflection on the power positions of social workers and child welfare officers as both representatives of the public authorities and representatives of a majority culture

• has acquired knowledge of and skills in obtaining and using sources (basic reference and quotation techniques)

All aids are permitted, as long as the rules for source referencing are complied with.

Grade scale A-F.

All exam papers are assessed by one internal and one external examiner.

Erika Gubrium and Ariana Guilherme Fernandes

Grade scale A-F. 

All exam papers are assessed by one internal and one external examiner.

Marianne Rugkåsa.