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Social Work Terminology in English
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:2.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:31:00
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | VC_147 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Linguistics | Target Audience: | Social Welfare and Social Work | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Svetlana Muhejeva | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 16 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 32 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 16 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 32 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | The English language knowledge at the secondary school level. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To develop English language communicative skills to be applied both in academic and vocational settings, to ensure social work related vocabulary acquisition and practical use. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Getting acquainted with the course requirements Criteria for an effective presentation The basics of social work Objective assessment of the patient: observation | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Writing a summary: comprehension of the author’s reasoning and ability to render that in a more condensed form; useful phrases | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Human body: the systems Assistive technology Social diversity and its implications for social work | Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Symptoms & Signs Taking a history Welfare state | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Childhood welfare Pregnancy and childbirth | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Home reading presentations | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Hospital social worker: the basic issues Methods of investigation Mental health social workers | Classes | 4.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Getting acquainted with the course requirements Criteria for an effective presentation The basics of social work Objective assessment of the patient: observation | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Writing a summary: comprehension of the author’s reasoning and ability to render that in a more condensed form; useful phrases | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Human body: the systems Assistive technology Social diversity and its implications for social work | Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Symptoms & Signs Taking a history Welfare state | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Childhood welfare Pregnancy and childbirth | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Home reading presentations | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Hospital social worker: the basic issues Methods of investigation Mental health social workers | Classes | 4.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Individual and pair work - giving presentations, work with dictionaries, giving definitions to terminology, summary writing, completing the course feedback questionnaire, | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | - Active participation in class; qualitative written assignments; qualitative speaking - giving a presentation; in a presentation, students demonstrate their public speaking skills as well as the English language proficiency: prepared monologue (giving an overview of the chosen topic, and expressing their opinions), a dialogue (asking and answering questions). - two tests to evaluate the knowledge of the social and medical terminology as well as its practical usage. - final examination which consists of writing a summary of a research article or presentation. - the final mark is calculated on the basis of the test results(56%), presentation result (28%), and the examination result (16%) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Having successfully acquired the course, students will be able - to recognize professional terminology in various texts - to recall social work related English terminology - to describe social work related phenomena using English terminology | ||||||||
| Skills: | Having successfully acquired the course, students will be able - to choose and apply terminology for oral and written communication (in giving presentations, in discussions, in writing texts) - to use appropriate language structures in oral and written communication - to make summaries both orally and in a written mode with appropriate use of terminology - to render the contents of texts and to find certain information in various information sources | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Having successfully acquired the course, students will be able to apply social work related terminology in various communicative situations. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Cooper, M. G., Lesser, J. G. Clinical Social Work Practice. An Integrated Approach | ||||||||
| 2 | Glendining, E. H., Holmstrom, B. English in Medicine. CUP. Cambridge, 2005 | ||||||||
| 3 | Glendining, E. H., Howard, R. Professional English in Use Medicine. CUP. Cambridge, 2005 | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Alison, Pohl. Test your Professional English. Penguin English, 2003 | ||||||||
| 2 | Dr. Stephen Carrol. The Complete Family Guide to Healthy Living. DK Publishing, INC 1996 | ||||||||
| 3 | Chabner, D. E. The Language of Medicine. W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia 2001 | ||||||||
| 4 | Hepworth, D. H., Rooney, R. H., Larsen, J. A. Direct Social Work Practice. Theory and Skills. Wardsworth Group, Pacific Grove, 2002 | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | The New Social Worker online; www.socialworker.com | ||||||||
| 2 | www.answers.com | ||||||||
