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2nd Bachelor in Social Services

 ECTS CreditsNumber of Hours (h/year)
215
330
330
460
345
230
215
215
230
445
8105
560
330
460
430
9210

Ethics applied to welfare issues

ECTS Credits2
Number of Hours (h/year)15
Teaching staffBOULANGE, Annette
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodeSOC-SSOC0040/2
Prerequisite

Notions of general philosophy

Aims and Objectives

The student in expected to explain an ethical issue to a situation experience in a placement or in written documents and, if possible, suggest a consistent solution

Description

Definitions, types of ethical systems, position of the social worker between his clients and the institutions, solutions to value conflicts in social, autonomy, heteronomy and alienation

Bibliography

B. BOUQUET, Ethique et travail social, une recherche de sens, Paris Dunod 2004.

M. RAINKIN, L'éthique et son application aux problèmes de l'aide sociale, éd. du CEFAL 2004.

Penser éthique, agir éthique être responsable. Revue Française de Service Social n°220 03/06.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Tutorials
Assessment MethodsWritten examinations
NotesIn part
LanguageFrench

Applied methodology

ECTS Credits8
Number of Hours (h/year)105
Teaching staffBOULANGE, Annette
DI STEFANO, Oriella
GRIDELET, Anne-France
HUSKIN, Christine
Ligot, Eric
MAES, Patrick
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodeSOC-SSOC0015/2
Prerequisite

Course of general methodology and applied methodology - 1st year professional integration activities.

Aims and Objectives

To go further into the control of social environment and infrastructures, and different social work aspects;

To professionalize use of laws and integration of social practices;

To develop capability of questioning again and criticism spirit.

Description

Visit of a prison and a psychiatric institution, as well as other specific social institutions;

Establishment of a written summary about a social theme and oral presentation to the class by small groups of students;

Presentation by each student, referring to an analysis guide, of a social situation and/or problem met during his placement. This situation is collectively analysed and commented afterwards.

Bibliography

Refer to the books recommended for the general methodology course

Teaching and Learning Methods

Participatory and interactive methods;

Exploitation of works carried out by students, written and audiovisual documents, interventions of specialists and/or professionals, according to the nature of the activity and material possibilities.

Assessment Methods

Assessment of written works;

Assessment of oral presentations;

Continual assessment of participation during courses

NotesIn part
LanguageFrench

Criminal law and procedures

ECTS Credits3
Number of Hours (h/year)30
Teaching staffBENEDETTI, Barbara
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1
CodeSOC-SSOC0002/2
Prerequisite

General knowledge of criminal issues

Aims and Objectives

Practical knowledge of criminal law in general and more particular regulations applied to social works

Description

General criminal law

General notions of criminal procedure

Particular regulation relevant to social word

Bibliography

DE VALKENEER Christian, Manuel de l’enquête pénale, Bruxelles : LARCIER, 2005.

KELLENS G., Eléments de criminologie, Bruxelles, Bruylant, 1998.

D. VANDERMERSCH, Eléments de droit pénal et de procédure pénale, Bruxelles, La Charte, 2003.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Assessment MethodsWritten examinations
NotesYes
LanguageFrench

Social law and social security

ECTS Credits4
Number of Hours (h/year)60
Teaching staffMAES, Marianne
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodeSOC-SSOC0003/2
Prerequisite

Knowledge of the judicial system and of the judicial notions of civil right, constitutional right and knowledge of the NHS

Aims and Objectives

The students are expected to understand and apply social security and legislation about employment contract to their clients’ social situation

Description

History if social security in Belgium

Origin if the right the social security

Labour courts

Branches of social security

legislation about employment contract

Bibliography

Moniteur Belge- Journal des Tribunaux du Travail.

Ministère fédéral des Affaires sociales : Aperçu de la sécurité sociale en Belgique. Edition 2010.

Clés pour le contrat de travail - Direction générale Relations individuelles du travail -Cellule Publications du Service public fédéral Emploi, Travail et Concertation sociale. Edition novembre 2009

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Tutorials

exercises group

Assessment MethodsWritten examinations
Continuous assessment

Q.C.M. and real situations to resolve. Exercices made at home will count for 25% of examination's cotation

NotesYes
LanguageFrench

Juvenile protection

ECTS Credits3
Number of Hours (h/year)30
Teaching staffVEGA-EGUSQUI-ZAGA, Pedro
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 2
CodeSOC-SSOC0004/2
Prerequisite

None

Aims and Objectives

Main systems to help and protect the youth

Roles played by the key figures in social matters

Measures foreseen by the protection law and decree

Description

Introduction landmarks

Community policy (French-speaking community of Belgium) and help for young people

Bibliography
Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Assessment MethodsWritten examinations
Oral examinations
NotesNo
LanguageFrench

Social economy

ECTS Credits3
Number of Hours (h/year)45
Teaching staffRamquet, Jean-François
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodeSOC-SSOC0006/2
Prerequisite

Notions of economy including the doctrines studied in the its year

Aims and Objectives

Knowledge of the various ways of thinking on which social economy is based; their authors, connections with the labour movement; historical survey – specialized services; main components and features stakes

Student’s integration into the target sector and ability to promote and initiative; ability to collect documents, to tarn to the right services and to defend the ethical value of a project

Description

Evolution of the definition

The labour movements in the 19th and 20th centauries

Associations

Ideological principles

New economic structures

Bibliography

Monographies

ARNOULT-BRILL, Edith et LAVILLE, Jean-Louis et LE DUIGOU, Jean-Christophe. Sous la direction de FOUREL, Christophe. La nouvelle économie sociale : efficacité, solidarité et démocratie. Paris : Syros, 2001, 121 p. (Alternatives économiques)

ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE DES INVESTISSEURS DE L'ÉCONOMIE SOCIALE. Banques et cohésion sociale : pour un financement de l'économie à échelle humaine : la faillite des banques, les réponses des citoyens. Paris : L.C. Mayer, 2000, 310 p.

BIDET, Eric et EVERS, Adalbert et GADREY, Jean. Sous la direction de LALLEMANT, Michel et LAVILLE Jean-Louis. Qu'est-ce que le tiers secteur ? : associations, économie solidaire, économie sociale. Paris : Elsevier, 200, 623 p.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures

document video

Assessment MethodsWritten examinations
NotesYes
LanguageFrench

Psychology

ECTS Credits4
Number of Hours (h/year)60
Teaching staffGIOVANNANGELI, Dominique
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1
CodeSOC-SSOC0010/2
Prerequisite

None

Aims and Objectives

Study of dynamic psychology concepts (knowledge, definitions and applications)

Study of psychopathology

Description

Historical introduction to dynamic psychology; dynamic psychology; speech, psychoanalyses, unconsciousness, needs etc.

Psychopathology (introduction and study of structures and various types of pathologies)

Bibliography

FREUD S., L’interprétation des rêves, Paris PUF.

FREUD S., La psychopathologie de la vie quotidienne, Petite bibliothèque Payot.

CARDINAL M., Les mots pour le dire, Edition Poche, 1975 .

REY P., Une saison chez LACAN, Edition Poche, 1989.

BREUER J. et FREUD S., Etudes sur l’hystérie, Paris PUF.

BARNES M. et BERKE J., Un voyage à travers la folie, Ed. Seuil 1973.

CORDIER A., Un enfant psychotique, Ed. Seuil 1993.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures

Lectures, case studies

Assessment MethodsOral examinations
NotesYes
LanguageFrench

Sociology

ECTS Credits4
Number of Hours (h/year)30
Teaching staffLAPLANCHE, Valérie
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1
CodeSOC-SSOC0012/2
Prerequisite

First year course

Aims and Objectives
  • Control the basic concepts of sociology.
  • Understand the social organization and identify the factors responsible for social inequalities.
Description
  • Individuals and society: Identity and socialization, norms and values, attitudes and prejudices, roles and social statuses.
  • Social inequalities : lifestyles and "habitus", school inequalities, inequalities between men and women, disparities and discriminations.
Bibliography

LLORED, R., Sociologie, Théories et analyses, Paris : Ellipses, 2007

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Assessment MethodsWritten examinations
NotesIn part
LanguageFrench

General methodology

ECTS Credits5
Number of Hours (h/year)60
Teaching staffCHAPELLE, Marie-Paule
Ligot, Eric
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1
CodeSOC-SSOC0013/2
Prerequisite

First year course of general methodology

Aims and Objectives

The student will be able to

Determine the needs in social issues

Approach various strategies of intervention

Use the right tools and apply the right methods

Description

Definitions, evolution of the methodology, basics of social work, methodological steps to detect social issues or requests, analysis and evaluation

Bibliography

C. De Robertis Méthodologie de l'intervention en travail social éd. Bayard 2007.

Turcotte D., et  Lindsay J., L'intervention sociale auprès des groupes, Québec, Gaëtan Morin éditeur, 2001.

Tremblay L., La relation d'aide.  Développer des compétences pour mieux aider.  Lyon, Chronique sociale, coll. "comprendre les personnes", 2001.

 

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures

Lectures, case studies, workshops

Assessment MethodsWritten examinations
NotesYes
LanguageFrench

Methodology of social research

ECTS Credits4
Number of Hours (h/year)45
Teaching staffSTEVENS, Barbara
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1
CodeSOC-SSOC0018/2
Prerequisite

None

social research of the 1st year

Aims and Objectives

Overview of the social research studies

Steps in the research process

Description

Social research, its process and model; investigation and its methodology, exploitation, interpretations and illustrations

Bibliography

GIROUX S., TREMBLAY G. (2002), Méthodologie des sciences humaines. La recherche en action, Editions du renouveau pédagogique, coll. sciences humaines, Canada.

QUIVY R., VAN CAMPENHOUDT L., Manuel de recherche en sciences sociales, Dunod, Paris, 1995

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Assessment MethodsWritten examinations
NotesYes
LanguageFrench

Specific intervention methods

ECTS Credits2
Number of Hours (h/year)30
Teaching staffRECHT, José
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1
CodeSOC-SSOC0019/2
Prerequisite

None

 

Aims and Objectives

 To spot different organizational structures

Description

 To analyse the workplace tanks to the concepts of CROZIER

 

Bibliography

KUTY O., 1998, La négociation des valeurs, introduction à la sociologie, Bruxelles, De Boeck Université

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures

 

 

Assessment MethodsOral examinations

  

NotesIn part
LanguageFrench

Placement, supervision

ECTS Credits9
Number of Hours (h/year)210
Teaching staffCOPS, Carole
CROCHET, Véronique
DAL FARRA, Anna
Devlaeminck, Anne
GOVONI, Vinciane
HEBRANT, Chantal
LEONET, Claudine
MAES, Patrick
MAZY, Carine
VANGUESTAINE, Claude
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 2
CodeSOC-SSOC0020/2
Prerequisite

Skills acquired in the its year

Aims and Objectives

Placement: acquisition of professional skills, adequate behaviour and know-how

Supervision: analysis and reflection about the placement achievements, mythological and institutional aspects of practice. Acquisition of professional skills, adequate behaviour and know-how.

Description

Placement: participation in the daily activities of the department and possibly in a specific project as well.

Supervision: contents based on the experience gained during the placement.

Bibliography

recours constant aux notions théoriques abordées lors des cours généraux ainsi qu’aux documents internes, réglementations, législations propres aux différents lieux de stage. Parallèlement, diverses lectures peuvent être individuellement conseillées aux étudiants suivant les demandes, spécificités et/ou difficultés rencontrées

Teaching and Learning MethodsTutorials

On the job training under professional guidance and school supervision. Supervision includes personal interview one hour wary fortnight based on student report deposited beforehand.

Assessment MethodsContinuous assessment
NotesIn part
LanguageFrench

Practical approach in social institutions and social work

ECTS Credits2
Number of Hours (h/year)15
Teaching staffHUSKIN, Christine
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1
CodeSOC-SSOC0022/2
Prerequisite
Aims and Objectives

- to give the first tools to understand the law off consumer credit

- to sensitive the students to budget balances

- to warn their against of credit's trap

 

Description

- definition of the words : budget, creditor, debiteur, big debts

- working out of budget

- the law of consumer credit

- differences between budgetary guidance, budgetray management, mediation debt and collective noun payment

- approc to "Region Wallonne" decree

Bibliography

"Pour éviter les pièges du crédit" - document de la Région Wallonne

Teaching and Learning MethodsTutorials
Assessment MethodsWritten examinations
NotesYes
LanguageFrench

Social project design

ECTS Credits2
Number of Hours (h/year)30
Teaching staffCOPS, Carole
HEBRANT, Chantal
MAES, Patrick
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1
CodeSOC-SSOC0023/2
Prerequisite

First year course

Aims and Objectives

Ability to design and defend a social project on one’s own taking into account the various steps of its implementation

Description

The successive steps in designing social projects

Bibliography

Maders H_P. et Clet E. Comment manager un projet. Cinq phases pour réussir. Editions d’organisation, 2002.

Construire et gérer son projet. Guide. Commission française de la culture de l’agglomération de Bruxelles, 1990.

Structuration de projets. Centre de dynamique des groupes et d’analyse institutionnelle. Service de psychologie sociale, ULg, 1992.

Bellenger L. et Couchaere M-J. Animer et gérer un projet. Un concept et des outils pour anticiper l’action et le futur. Collection Formation Permanente en -- Sciences Humaines, ESF éditeur.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Tutorials

practical exercises

Assessment MethodsWritten and/or oral examination
Projects or practical work
NotesYes
LanguageFrench

Local social policies

ECTS Credits3
Number of Hours (h/year)30
Teaching staffGRAVA, Eric
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodeSOC-SSOC0027/2
Prerequisite

Introduction to civil and constitutional law. Elements of social security.

Introduction to the history of assistance. Study of rules and structures of institutions and social services.Methodology

 

Aims and Objectives

Identify and discover institutional and local socio-political mechanisms in relation to various public and private decision levels.

Placing the main plans and organs on the social actions at local level.

Understanding the interactions between these institutions and their actions on local level.

Marking out the sphere of activity of the local social politics

Questioning the ethics of social work at the local level.

 

Description

Review of "vectors" of local social policies: the communes, the Public Center for Social Action, but also other private or public institutions.

Overview of local social policies: information, socioprofessional integration, social assistance, the fight against debt, housing, assistance to youth and home helps

Bibliography

Belgian legislation and the excellent work of compilation of Ricardo CHERENTI : Manuel de l’insertion socio-professionnelle (Fédération des CPAS, 2004).

 

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures

The course is delivered orally at a rate of 2 hours / week.

Each student is asked to analyze a service from the development of local social policy with the help of a grid of institutional analysis.

Expert visits and / or reference people outside the school are planned during the course.

 

Assessment MethodsWritten examinations

A written test is foresseen to verify both the memorization of concepts, analytical skills and critical ability to use reference materials.

NotesYes
LanguageFrench

Humanitarian aid and development co-operation

ECTS Credits2
Number of Hours (h/year)15
Teaching staffMAZY, Carine
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1
CodeSOC-SSOC0029/2
Prerequisite
Aims and Objectives

to identify the various actors of the humanitarian aid- to include/understand the basic concepts of the sociology of the development- to apprehend the current world problems- to develop an attitude criticizes and argued on the debates which cross the humanitarian aid today

Description

Definitions and history of the humanitarian aid. Actors and their operating mode. Poverty in the world. The situation of the Third World. Development co-operation. The durable development. Interference. Universalization.

Bibliography
Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Group seminars or workshops
Assessment MethodsWritten examinations
NotesIn part
LanguageFrench

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