Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2022-23

Los procesos de urbanización, modernización y cambios de nuestros sistemas sociales presentan nuevos escenarios sociales y culturales altamente complejos. También los procesos asociados a la globalización afectan a todos los ámbitos de nuestra sociedad, planteando desafíos a la convivencia y produciendo sociedades complejas en sus distintos órdenes, donde los cambios pueden causar reacciones imprevisibles en las estructuras sociales.
Este nuevo mosaico social necesita de herramientas y métodos de análisis que permitan un mejor conocimiento de los mecanismos de su funcionamiento y adaptación a las normas establecidas de la convivencia humana. La Antropología Social y Cultural aporta herramientas teóricas y metodológicas útiles para los y las profesionales del Trabajo Social, que se pueden resumir en cuatro puntos principales:
- El conocimiento y la comparación de la diversidad de la conducta, mediante el estudio comparativo de las estructuras, las relaciones y los procesos sociales de una extensa gama de sociedades.
- La comprensión de los fenómenos sociales en términos holísticos, marcados por el entrecruzamiento de las dimensiones de la diversidad cultural y la desigualdad social.
- La aproximación al punto de vista del “otro”.
- El desarrollo de la metodología etnográfica, que permite un acercamiento a “otras” formas de concebir el mundo y de actuar en él.
Este curso proporciona una preparación teórica y práctica de los temas que se conciben como más relevantes en la sociedad contemporánea, que ayudarán a introducir al alumnado en las perspectivas antropológicas sobre el cambio social y cultural, para ampliar y completar su perspectiva como futuros y futuras profesionales del Trabajo Social. Para ello se trabajarán los conceptos básicos y principales temáticas de estudio de la Antropología, teniendo en cuenta su vinculación a las principales problemáticas con las que se encontrarán los y las profesionales del Trabajo Social en su futuro trabajo.

 

 

Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)

General Competences (CG)

  • CG1 : Capacity to work together with individuals, families, groups, organisations and communities to evaluate their needs and circumstances.
  • CG2 : Analyse problem situations, plan, develop, execute, review and evaluate the practice of Social Work with individuals, families, groups, organisations, communities and other professionals.
  • CG5 : Administrate and be responsible for, with supervision and support, one's own practice within the organisation.
  • CG6 : Demonstrate professional competence when carrying out Social Work.
  • CG7 : Capacity to contribute to the development of fundamental rights, equal opportunities for men and women, the principles of equal opportunities and universal accessibility for the disabled, as well as the values associated with a peaceful culture with democratic values.

 

General Competences acquired at University of Alicante (CGUA)

  • CGUA2 : Computer and information skills. Capacity to apply computer and information technologies in one's professional career.
  • CGUA3 : Oral and written communication skills. Capacity to communicate ideas orally and in writing so that individuals, families, groups, communities and organisations can understand them.

 

Specific Competences (CE)

  • CE1 : Establish professional relationships in order to identify the best method of intervention.
  • CE12 : Design, implement and evaluate social intervention projects.
  • CE17 : Administer and be responsible for one's own work by allocating priorities, satisfying one's professional obligations and evaluating the effectiveness of one's own work programme.
  • CE18 : Contribute to the administration of resources and services by collaborating with the procedures used to acquire them, supervising their effectiveness and ensuring their quality.
  • CE21 : Participate in managing and directing Social Welfare Entities.
  • CE25 : Contribute towards the promotion of best practices in Social Work by participating in the development and analysis of the policies implemented.
  • CE3 : Evaluate possible needs and options to guide an intervention strategy.
  • CE5 : Interact with individuals, families, groups, organisations and communities to achieve changes, promote development and improve quality of life by using Social Work methods and models, regularly monitoring the changes that occur in order to prepare for the end of the intervention.
  • CE6 : Prepare, produce, implement and evaluate intervention plans with individuals, families, groups, organisations, communities and fellow professionals, negotiating the supply of services that need to be used and checking the effectiveness of intervention plans with those involved in order to adapt them to changing needs and circumstances.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2022-23

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General

Code: 19503
Lecturer responsible:
HURTADO GARCIA, INMACULADA
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,20
Practical credits: 1,20
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: CONTEMPORARY HUMANITIES
    Area: SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
    Theoretical credits: 1,2
    Practical credits: 1,2
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

Study programmes where this course is taught