SOWK 6909: SOCIAL WORK WITH PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES / SOWK 4540: SOCIAL WORK WITH PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
Social workers who work with people with disabilities (PWDs) nowadays should have critical mind and self-reflective attitudes to meet the challenges from the changing field of disabilities. To enhance quality of life of people with disabilities, social workers should have sensitivity to understand situations of individuals with disabilities, and have substantial knowledge of intervening in different levels of environments.
This course introduces students the paradigm shift in the field, the evolution of services, and contemporary approaches to provide services to people with disabilities. Providing students an insightful learning process, this course uses interactive and experiential activities/projects besides traditional one-way lectures. Guests like service users with disabilities, their caregivers or social workers would be invited to class to share their life experience. Students also have close-up contacts with them through the interesting course projects.
SOWK 5810S/SOWK 2510F: Programme Evaluation
SOWK 5810S: Programme Evaluation [for students of Master of Arts in Social Service Management (MASSM)]
SOWK 2510F: Programme Evaluation [for students of Master of Arts Programme in Family Counselling and Family Education (MAFCFE)]
The courses aim to equip students with the basic knowledge and skills in conducting programme evaluation for human service programmes. The courses will examine programme evaluation as an integral part of professional practice within the human services and will introduce students to the concepts and methods in conducting programme evaluation from the conceptualization stage to the outcome stage of human service programmes.
SOWK 6013: Family Counselling/Family Education Project (Co-teaching)
This course aims to develop students’ professional competence by helping them integrate theory with practice. In order to facilitate students’ learning, students have to choose an area of interest in family Counseling or family education for in-depth study and analysis. Students are required to critically examine the underlying assumptions and operational application of the selected family education or family Counseling topic and discuss innovative approaches for improvement. At the end of the course, students are expected to produce a project report and to present their projects in class for intellectual exchange, experiential review and theoretical integration.