DEGREE PROGRAMME IN SOCIAL WELFARE WORK

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DEGREE PROGRAMME IN SOCIAL WELFARE WORK

• North Karelia Polytechnic

Introduction, Spring 2004
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FINNISH EDUCATION SYSTEM
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INTRODUCTION TO NCP

• NCP has approximately 3500 students, including
  100 international exchange students annually.
• The number of personnel at North Karelia
  Polytechnic is about 350.
• NCP has about 100 partner institutions all over
  the world.

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FIELDS OF STUDY AT NCP

• Natural Resources
• Culture
• Business and Administration
• Tourism, Catering and Institutional Management
• Engineering and Technology
• Health Care and Social Services

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DEGREE PROGRAMMES AT NCP

• The fields of study include a total of 21 degree
  programmes.
• Studies at each degree programme consist of basic
  studies, specialised professional studies,
  optional studies, practical training and
  thesis/final paper.

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LOCATION

• North Karelia Polytechnic (NCP) operates in
  Joensuu, North Karelia that is the easternmost
  province of Finland.

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LOCATION IN FINLAND

• NCP has ten campuses of which six are located in
  Joensuu. Others are situated in nearby towns at
  Kitee, Outokumpu, Nurmes and Lieksa, in the
  province of North Karelia
• Degree Programme in Social Welfare Work is
  situated in Outokumpu

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DEGREE PROGRAMME IN SOCIAL WELFARE WORK

• Situated in the town of Outokumpu, 45 km east of
  Joensuu
• Locations in the campus and in the area of old
  copper mine
• 12 full-time employees (teachers)
• About 170 students, 35 of whom mature students

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STUDYING

• A Bachelors Degree in Social Welfare Work
• SOCIAL PEDAGOGY
• CREATIVE ART THERAPIES
• DANCE AND MOVEMENT THERAPY
• VISUAL ART THERAPY
• MUSIC THERAPY
• 140 credits (210 ETCS credits)
• 3,5 years full-time study
• Adult education 60-90 credits / 2 years

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GENERAL AIMS the student

• Understands the mission and significance of
  his/her profession in society, the social service
  system and client relations
• Has profound multi-disciplinary knowledge and is
  able to apply it while examining practical
  problems
• Comprehends and binds him/herself to independent
  intellectual, emotional and ethical growth
• Is prepared to take various social duties in
  different social environments and functional
  situations
• Adopts a searching and developing approach to
  work

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SOCIAL PEDAGOGY

• The goal to promote the individual's, family's
  or group's role in the society and their
  opportunity to meaningful life
• Its purpose is activating the clients to help
  themselves in the long run rather than finding
  solutions to single problems
• Graduation gives the students qualifications to
  work
• In preventive and remedial work among children
  and young
• In guidance, rehabilitation and care of different
  people
• In planning, development and administrative work
  in both public and private sector

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DANCE/MOVEMENT THERAPY

• communication through movement
• developing ones skills in creative processes
• directing creative processes in dance and
  movement therapy
• dance and movement as a socio-cultural phenomenon
  
• the importance of body in human existence
• use observation of movement in ones own
  professional development

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VISUAL ART THERAPY

• the student
• enchances his/her skills in visual arts, finds
  his/her own way of expression and develops
  his/her skills in participating in and directing
  creative processes
• participates in and directs creative processes 
• learns to reflect art and picture as a
  socio-cultural phenomenon and become aware of the
  importance of visual expression in human
  existence  
• learns to observe visually and to use these
  observations in target setting, follow up and
  evaluation of therapeutic work.
• uses visual art expression in his/her own
  professional development

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MUSIC THERAPY

• The student learns methods of listening and
  improvisation as well as skills to use visual
  arts and dance and movement therapeutically as
  means of rehabilitation and self-expression.
• The theoretical framework of the programme is
  eclectic
• psycho-analytic, psycho-dynamic,
  humanist-existential, learning-theoretical and
  constructive approaches
• On the background, emphasis is given to the
  socio-cultural importance of music

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST!

• Further information
• Degree Programme in Social Welfare Work
• Tel. [phone]
• Telefax 358-13-2606671
• Email Eeva.Borgas_at_ncp.fi
• Internet http//www.ncp.fi/sosiaaliala/english
• International Office
• Tel. [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• E-mail Sanna.Jeskanen_at_ncp.fi
• Internet http//www.ncp.fi/ncp/english/main.asp