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Bachelor’s Degree in Social Services
Welcome to a career that will empower, engage, and promote wellbeing and creativity. Study Social Services in a supportive and diverse degree programme in English that will support and develop your personal and professional growth.
Programme info
- Degree programme: Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Social Services
- Degree title: Bachelor of Social Services
- Duration of studies: 210 cr, 3,5 years
The Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Social Services will provide you with the skills and tools to work with clients from diverse backgrounds. In addition, the experiences of working in a multicultural learning environment will give you an advantage in the job market after your graduation. If you are interested in working with clients, empowering them and promoting their welfare throughout their different life stages, then studies in Social Services are just for you.
Studying is practically oriented including projects with diverse clients and organisations. Throughout your studies, you develop your own study path that is supported by your tutor teachers. So, through experience and participation in different courses, internships, and projects, you can find the client group or area that interests you professionally.
Studies consist of core competence and complementary competence studies totalling 210 ECTS. You can target your interest and develop competences you see as important by means of selecting complementary competence studies, participating in various projects, and choosing your internships and planning your thesis subject. You gain credits by completing study units and projects. Credits can also be gained through recognition of prior learning or competence demonstrations.
The special feature in this degree programme is that practical training is a significant part of studies: 45 ECTS. This includes three internships each with at least 10 weeks of full-time work . The first internship focuses on working with clients, the second on methods and the third on research and development of work.
Programme in more detail
Core comperence studies
Core competence studies will give you an understanding of the fundamentals of different areas of social services and are obligatory for all students. The scope of core competences is 150 ECTS.
- Working with clients in social services (30 ECTS)
- Service Systems, Inclusion and Developing a Better Society (30 ECTS)
- Approaches and Methods of Work in Social Services (30 ECTS)
- Developing Client-oriented Social Services (30 ECTS)
- Expert in Development and Workplace Innovation (30 ECTS)
Complementary competences
The remaining 60 ECTS consist of elective complementary competence studies. Complementary studies give you the possibility to focus your specialization on specific fields within social services that you find interesting and useful. At least 30 ECTS of the complementary competence studies need to be related to social services.
- Health and wellbeing from a global perspective (30 ECTS)
- Empowering diverse clients (30 ECTS)
- Early childhood education and care competence (30 ECTS)
It is also possible to choose complementary study units from Laurea’s complete study offering or from the available study offering of other universities (3AMK studies or CampusOnline).
Employment opportunities
- child and family welfare,
- elderly care
- youth work,
- adult welfare,
- substance abuse and criminal work,
- immigrant work,
- early childhood education and care,
- international organizations and the third sector,
- working with people with learning and physical disabilities,
- mental health
- establishing own company or services.
Possible job titles for a Bachelor of Social Services include:
- Social counsellor
- Family welfare counsellor
- Service counsellor
- Youth leader
- School counsellor
- Organizational worker
- ECEC Social Pedagogue
For more information, please contact by e-mail at education.export@laurea.fi.