SOSV3131 Child Welfare from a Migration and Minority Perspective Course description

Det benyttes intern sensur. Tilsynssensor evaluerer vurderingsformer og vurderingsprosesser i studieprogrammet.

Studiet er organisert som et samlingsbasert og nettbasert deltidsstudium over ett semester, med studieoppgaver mellom samlingene. Studiet er bygget opp rundt følgende kompetanseområder:

1) Personlig og sosial kompetanse

• Selvinnsikt og kommunikasjon
• Oppmerksomhet på seg selv og andre
• Være en god rollemodell

2) Trafikkfaglig kompetanse knyttet til læreplanens kjerneelementer:

• Samhandling i trafikken
• Ansvar og risikoforståelse
• Folkehelse og miljø

Andre temaer:

• Førstehjelp og tiltak ved ulykke er særlig viktig kompetanse.
• Barn, oppmerksomhet og sykling - en opplæringsmodell med betydning for trafikk
• Trafikal kompetanse
• Vegtrafikkloven med skilt- og trafikkregler
• Trafikkpsykologi
• Kjøring i mørket med demonstrasjon av viktige faktorer
• Øvelseskjøring og mengdetrening

3) Trafikkpedagogisk og -didaktisk kompetanse

• Analyse av læreplanenes mål, innhold, arbeidsmåte og vurdering
• Begrunnelse, innhold og oppbygging av lokal læreplan for valgfaget trafikk
• Refleksjon rundt egne og andres arbeidsmåter
• Undervisningsplanlegging

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)

Teaching methods used in the course are lectures, plenary discussions, group work and own reflection. Students will also work on specific theoretical and methodological issues related to their own experiences and will be given an opportunity to discuss them.

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

1. One written coursework requirement in the form of a memo of up to one page long. In the memo, the student chooses a topic and research question for their in-depth assignment in the field of child welfare work, or social work and ethnic minorities, and gives grounds for their choice. The coursework must be completed and approved by the given deadline. If the coursework requirement is not approved, the student will be given the opportunity to submit an improved version once by a given deadline.

Compulsory coursework must be completed and approved by the given deadline in order for the student to take the exam.

An individual written in-depth paper. The students will work on the assignment throughout the course. The answer paper should be 8-10 pages long. Font and font size: Calibri 12 point. Line spacing: 1.5. The approved citation style APA for assignments must be complied with.

A selection of self-chosen readings, which comprises of 400 pages must be attached in the assignment.

Students who were absent for a valid reason or who fail the exam may take a resit/rescheduled exam in the same format as the ordinary exam. If the student fails the exam, they will be given one opportunity to submit an improved version of the assignment for assessment.

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.

Marianne Rugkåsa.