Study:	Social Work - 1. semester
Code:	70146
ECTS:	3.0
Course coordinators:	prof. dr. sc. Nino Žganec izv. prof. dr. sc. Marina Milić
Exam dates:	11. 06. 2024. 25. 06. 2024. 09. 07. 2024. 27. 08. 2024. 10. 09. 2024. Exam registration: Studomat

Literature:

Milić Babić, M. i Žganec, N.; Socijalni rad i ljudska prava. Interna skripta; (2019), str Becker, W.; Ljudska prava: prilog analizi jednoga pojma.; Politička misao (2009), str. 205-216 Čurćić, I., Milić Babić, M. i Šimleša, D.; Zeleni socijalni rad; Socijalne teme (2018), str. 11-26

Optional literature:

Dološić, S., Milić Babić, M. i Rusac, S.; Alzheimerova bolest kroz prizmu ljudskih prava; Socijalna psihijatrija (2019), str. 470-496 Hlača, N.; Ljudska prava u siromaštvu; Godišnjak Akademije pravnih znanosti Hrvatske (2019), str. 119-131 Lohman, G.; Kolektivna ljudska prava radi zaštite manjina?; Politička misao (1999), str. 38-48 Mihanović, V.; Invaliditet u kontekstu socijalnog modela; Hrvatska revija za rehabilitacijska istraživanja (2011), str. 72-86 Milić Babić, M. i Hranj, M.; Pravo na palijativnu skrb za djecu u Republici Hrvatskoj; Hrvatska revija za rehabilitacijska istraživanja (2019), str. 82-91 Roksandić Vidlička, S.; Pravna zaštita starijih osoba, osobito s duševnim smetnjama, iz hrvatske perspektive: Zašto nam je potrebna Konvencija UN-a o Pravima starijih osoba; Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta Sveučilišta Rijeka. (2017), str. 1101-1132 Šadić, S.; Ljudska prava i socijalni rad; Univerzitet u Sarajevu, Fakultet političkih nauka (2014), str

Description:

Concepts of human rights and human dignity, basic and antropological ? ethical aspects in social work. Changes in the world and European societies. The issue of human rights violations in the world, in Europe and in Croatia. Possibilities of human rights protection. Fight against discrimination on the grounds of race, ethics and religion, different value approches to life or discirmination against certain groups such as disabled perosns, older people, women etc... Ethics, values and anti-discrimiination practice in social work. Social work as a helping activity in the protection of human rights and human dignity.

Cognitive Skills:

Knowledge and understanding

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- explain: social work interventions in promotion and protection of human rights

- explain historical development and philosophical values: life, freedom, equality, non-discrimination, justice, solidarity, social responsibility, evolution, peace

- explain basic instrument of human rights: UN declarations and conventions; instruments for providing protection; specialised agencies; UN bodies; regional instruments in the area of human rights

- critically evaluate and recognise the role of legal framework in the protection of socially vulnerable groups in society

- explain outcomes brought by the application of legal framework in protection and promotion of human rights in Croatia.

 

Application

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- group and describe: basic approaches to the analysis of basic documents and describe their application through different examples from practice

- understand: mechanisms that produce phenomena such as discrimination of individual socially vulnerable groups: women, children, disabled persons, older persons...

- apply: acquired knowledge to the explanation of social processes and the role of social workers in the protection of human rights of individual vulnerable groups in society

 

Analysis

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- demonstrate: the causes of discrimination such as social inequality, and thus demonstrate concrete examples of practice in the struggle of social workers to protect individual socially vulnerable groups in society

- compare: international documents - conventions and declarations, Croatian legislation and social work interventions

- analyse: legal framework in the protection of socially vulnerable groups

- analyse: different forms of social interventions in the protection of rights of socially vulnerable groups in society.

 

Synthesis

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- construct basic explanations of the application of social work interventions in the protection of rights of various groupos in society

- propose the best manners for researching some forms of discrimination in society.

 

Evaluation

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- examine: examples from social work practice through legal framework of human rights

- evaluate: advantages and disadvantages of individual international documents and laws in Croatia in the fight against different forms of discrimination of socially vulnerable groups in society

- assess: to which extent can certain international documents and legal framework in Croatia contribute to and provide answers in the fight against discrimination in society

- conclude about the role of social work in the protection of socially vulnerable groups.

Practical and Generic Skills:

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- understand and offer adequate interventionsin protection of human rights

- propose new ideas

- develop communication skills

- participate in team work

- develop presentation skills and skills of expressing their own thoughts

Matching Assessments to Learning Outcomes:

Knowledge is tested by seminars, mid-term examinations, written and oral examinations.

Mid-term examination is a form of testing knowledge in which the student has to demonstrate that he/she can define basic concepts connected with human rights and social work, reproduce explanations of some discriminatory occurrences in society, group phenomena through analyses of legal framework, compare international and domestic legislation and outline how a problem could be researched or explained through social work interventions.

Seminar paper is focused on presentation of the student's text in which the student has to analyse a text, demonstrate its understanding, categorise it in the corpus analysed in classes, present it synthetically and finally evaluate it.

Students who cannot participate in classes for justified reasons have to write a seminar paper which will contain all the aforementioned elements.

Written examination

Written examination consists of reproduction of elementary explanations of some phenomena, comparison of some elementary concepts and explanations from different theoretical perspectives, application of concepts and theories to explanation of some phenomena in society connected with socially vulnerable groups.

Oral examination

Oral examination consists of testing the understanding of basic concepts and theories, comparison of international and domestic legal framework, demonstrating the ability to apply them to the explanation of social phenomena in everyday practice of social work, evaluation of the applicability of individual international documents and laws in the protection of rights of socially sensitive groups in society.

Consultations schedule: