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Children and Youth Intercultural Communication
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:1.00
Study Course Accepted:24.04.2023 08:53:33
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | CU_002 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 4.00 | ECTS: | 6.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Target Audience: | ||||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Anna Broka | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Welfare and Social Work | ||||||||
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| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 6 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 12 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 24 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | |||||||||
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| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction. Youth Intercultural Communication. | Lectures | 3.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| Classes | 3.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||||
| 2 | Intercultural Communication Barriers and Bridges. | Lectures | 3.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| Classes | 3.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Work with literature, preparation for exercises, simulations, case study. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Preparation of Examples and plan/project of working with multicultural community. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Will be able to enable young people to be architects of their own lives, support their personal development and growth to autonomy, build their resilience and equip them with life skills to cope with a changing world. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Initiate, develop and coordinate social projects striving to invent new strategies to meet client needs and foster social change; assess a situation and develop a reasonable plan to resolve conflicts and overcome challenges for their clients; organise, coordinate and evaluate process and results of social support for children and youth, perform social management and administration skills shaping institutional or organizational structures which facilitate the achievement of goals. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Will be able to implement various social work strategies by fostering intercultural communication in different communities when implementing innovative social services and influencing family and social policy for the welfare of children and youth | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Bardauskienė, Raminta; Dromantienė, Leta; Gudžinskienė, Vida; et.al. (2014). Social work with children and youth: intercultural and international aspect /Mykolo Romerio universitetas. Vilnius : Mykolas Romeris University. 307 p. | ||||||||
| 2 | Cooper, P. J. Calloway-Thomas C., Simonds C.J. (2007). Intercultural communication :a text with readings . Pamela J. Cooper,. Boston (Mass.): Allyn and Bacon | ||||||||
| 3 | Callahan K. (2007). Elements of effective governance : measurement, accountability and participation. Boca Raton (Fla.) ; London : CRC Press : Taylor & Francis Group. | ||||||||
| 4 | Moreira, A. I. A., & Jakobi, A. L. P. (2021). Re-Voicing the Unheard: Meta-Study on Arts-Based Interventions for Social Inclusion of Refugees and Asylum-Seekers. Journal of Education, Culture & Society, 12(2), 93–112. | ||||||||
| 5 | Hemmati M. (2002). Multi-stakeholder processes for governance and sustainability: beyond deadlock and conflict. London : Earthscan. | ||||||||
| 6 | Lawler J., Bilson A. (2011). Social work management and leadership :managing complexity with creativity. London: Routledge : Taylor & Francis Group. | ||||||||
| 7 | Ukasoanya, G. (2013). Social Adaptation of New Immigrant Students: Cultural Scripts, Roles, and Symbolic Interactionism. International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 36(2),150-161. | ||||||||
| 8 | Cole N.L., (2018). How Different Cultural Groups Become More Alike. Definition, Overview and Theories of Assimilation. | ||||||||
| 9 | Scholten P., et al. (2019) Integrating Immigrants in Europe: Research-Policy Dialogues. Dordrecht: Springer. | ||||||||
