Courses for Exchange Students (ECTS) 2018/2019


Social Work, Comparative Social Policy and Social Work Studies

Autumn week 46 (2018) - 50 (2018) Appl.code: 31049
Spring week 14 (2019) - 18 (2019)Appl.code: 31099
Full-time, daytime class

ECTS credits: 7.5

Level of education: First Cycle (undergraduate level)

Level: G1F

Prerequisites: 30 ECTS credits and English B or equivalent.

Content: This course is for those who want to acquire your knowledge of social policy expression and effects in different countries, as well as the skill to analyze them in a comparative perspective. The purpose of this course is the study of social policy as an expression of society's general norms of social relations. During the course you will develop your ability to critically reflect upon and analyze the relationship between norms of social relations, social policy and social work.

Teaching Methods: Teaching is conducted in the form of lectures, group work, seminars, and the writing of an individual essay. The students who attend the course come from varying countries around the world and the teching methods are higly interactive. This provides an uniqe possibility for knowledge of social and socio-political conditions in a broad range of countries in an intense and creative atmosphere.
Attendance at the seminars is mandatory. In the event of absence from a seminar the examiner decides whether the student will be given a substitute assignment or whether the student must fulfil the course component in question when the course is offered at a later date. The possibility of making up for absence with a substitute assignment is limited to occasional absence from seminars. In the event of repeated absence, the student will be required to complete the course when it is offered at a later date.
Students who have been admitted to and registered on a course have the right to receive tuition and/or supervision for the duration of the time period specified for the particular course to which they were accepted (see, the university's admission regulations (in Swedish)). After that, the right to receive tuition and/or supervision expires.

Course Syllabus: Autumn 2018

Course Syllabus: Spring 2019

School: School of Behavioural, Social and Legal Sciences