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Development and Evaluation of Social Projects
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:1.00
Study Course Accepted:24.04.2023 08:50:12
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | MRU_017 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 4.00 | ECTS: | 6.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Target Audience: | ||||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Irēna Komarova | ||||||||
| 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: | |||||||||
| Objective: | |||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Concept of social projects and management of social projects | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||||
| 2 | Project life cycle. Initiation of a project. Analysis of a context and needs | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||||
| 3 | Planning and preparation of social projects. Project manager, team and stakeholders. Logical framework | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||||
| 4 | Implementation of social projects. Monitoring and risk management | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||||
| 5 | End and closure of social projects | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||||
| 6 | Types of project evaluation: internal and external evaluation. The process of project evaluation | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Case study, social project development. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Case study, social project development. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Will be able to initiate, prepare and implement social projects that will develop personal strengths, professional growth and a sustainable community. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Will be able to be culturally responsible in working with social target groups, diverse by race, socioeconomic, ethnic affiliation; will develop social and cultural communication competences in working with children and young people; will promote interprofessional cooperation in a democratic way in communication and decision-making; will share knowledge and skills with social service providers in the process of developing social services in work with children and young people, which is focused on the use of holistic approaches. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students will learn to assess the relevance of projects at different levels - personal and communal, organizational and corporate, national and international, cultural and global contexts. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Kuster, J., Huber, E., Lippmann, R., Schmid, A., Schneider, E., Witschi, U., Wüst, R. (2015). Project Management Handbook. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg | ||||||||
| 2 | Madsen, S. (2019). The power of project leadership: 7 keys to help you transform from project manager to project leader (2nd ed.). London: Kogan Page | ||||||||
| 3 | Pinto, J. K. (2020). Project management: Achieving competitive advantage (5th ed., Global ed.). Harlow: Pearson Education Limited | ||||||||
| 4 | Wysocki, Robert K. (2019). Effective project management: Traditional, agile, extreme, hybrid (8th ed.). Indianapolis, Ind.: Wiley. | ||||||||
| 5 | Zwikael, O., Smyrk, J. R. (2019). Project management. A Benefit Realisation Approach. Springer International Publishing. | ||||||||
