Forløbsskitse for 6. semester

Social Development Work 

Fordybelseskurset (modul 1 – 3) afvikles på engelsk:

·         Modul 1: Conceptualising social development (4 uger)

·         Modul 2: Competencies of social community development – north and south (4 uger)

·         Modul 3: Complex emergencies, conflict, conflict interventions and development (4 uger)

Fagområdeundervisning og eksamen

afvikles på dansk:

•  Fagområdeundervisning: Fagområdet socialt arbejde (FO 1) og Det juridiske fagområde (FO 3) (ca. 5 uger i alt) 

·         Eksamen: Fagområdet socialt arbejde (FO 1) og Det juridiske fagområde (FO 3) (ca. 3 uger) 

Uddybning af studieelementerne på 6. semester

Social Development Work 

Module 1: Conceptualising social development (4 weeks)

Module 2: Competencies of social community development – north and south (4 weeks)

Module 3: Complex emergencies, conflict, conflict interventions and development (4 weeks)

Module 1: Conceptualising social development (4 weeks)

1.A: Introduction to competing theories of development (app. 1 week)

·         Liberal market oriented theories (focus on economic growth and triple down effect)

·         Marxist theories (focus on needs - primarily material needs and recommend direct aid to the poor or disadvantaged)

·         Modernization theorie (focus  on institution building, including good governance)

·         ‘Peoples’ development (focus  on civil society, citizenship resistance, rights based approaches – these approaches  take different directions)

·         Theories of globalization

1.B: Strategies and policies of development (app. 1 week)

Introduction to agents of development: The United Nation family (including the World Bank), OECD, EU, National State aid agencies and different types of NGOs (North-south and south- south). THE MILLINIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND PARIS DECLARATION; What do the different agencies stand for – in terms of types of work and development strategies? How to analyze the importance of difference of and of changes in strategies, financial dependency etc.

1.C : Introduction to theories of power relations, including theories of poverty, class, gender, ethnicity etc.  and the relationship between these theories and the broader theories or perspectives of development (app. 1 week)

There will be two areas of focus of this input :Understandings of the organization of development interventions, (I) the relationships between actors of development, from public, market and civil society institutions and organizations and (II) focus upon explanations of meso and micro level power relations. Looking at theories of dependency, gender, culture and religion and these theories will be linked to the more macro-level theories presented in part 1. ( In Aarhus this could build upon teaching in the students 5 semester, (Systems, Organizations and Management and diversity)

1.D: Social Work and development (app.4 days)

This part serves two purposes. It leads up to a short written assignment that will test factional knowledge to be carried on to the following modules and the aims at making student reflect on the overall theoretical positions and traditional social work issues like commitment to social justice, ethic etc.

1.E: Assignment

Submission of essay in English (3-6 pages).

Module 2: Competencies of social community development – north and south (4 weeks)

The typology of and understanding of social community development interventions in relation to social work.

2.A. The value and normative base of development interventions.

·         The ethics of development.

·         Ethical positions and attitudes in relation to forms of development

2.B. Mapping tools and modeling situations and interventions

·         Mapping tools

·         Types of models 

·         Blueprint models

·         Reflective learning models

·         Participatory Critical learning models

2.C. Typology of social community interventions

·         The aim is to gain both theoretical insight into types of social community development methodology and skills in applying these tools to case material.

·         Forms and types of social community development interventions

2.D. Participation and tools for designing interventions

·         Forms of participation. The logic of participation in relation to discussions of development.

·         Participation and humanitarian interventions 

·         Design tool of intervention amongst others perhaps:

o        Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA)

o        Logical Framework Approach (LFA)

o        Zielorientierte Projektplanung (ZOPP), or Goal Oriented Project Planning (GOPP)

o        Appreciative Inquiry

2.F. Assessment and collation of assignments about understandings of and skills of social community development.

(Beskrivelses af obligatoriske studieelementer følger senere.)

Module 3: Complex emergencies, conflict, conflict interventions and development (4 weeks)

3.A. Understandings of conflicts, including "the right to intervene"

·         Definitions of conflicts

·         Understandings of conflicts

·         Simple and complex conflicts and emergencies and disasters.

·         Conflict and poverty

·         Greed and grievance discussion 

·         Do no harm discussion

·         Civil society and conflicts

·         UN and the right to intervene

·         Conflict and the terror discourse

3.B. Understandings of conflict resolution & models of conflict resolution

·         Types of and approaches to conflict resolution 

·         Peacekeeping, peace building and conflict resolution

·         Conflict resolution and complex emergencies

·         Models of conflict resolution, Western and non-western models

·         Partners in conflict resolution

·         The role of the facilitator in conflict resolution

·         Advocacy and conflict resolution

·         Civil society and conflict resolution

·         Rights based approach to conflict resolution

3.C. The continuum between conflict resolution and development

·         From peacekeeping to peace building towards development. 

·         The roles of the actors and co-operation between actors.

·         Roles and models of complex actions and co-operation. Focus upon moving from peace creation to long-term development orientated intervention.

3.D. Final assessment and collation of module

(Beskrivelses af obligatoriske studieelementer følger senere.)

Fagområdeundervisning: Fagområde 1 og 3

Undervisningen skal sikre, at de studerende samlet set kan leve op til målene for 3. studieår og udgør fagområdernes mulighed for enkeltfaglig undervisning til sikring af væsentlige elementer, som ikke dækkes ind i de tværfaglige moduler i løbet af uddannelsen.

Fagområdeundervisningen er ikke er repetition, men har flere formål: Dels dækkes de faglige områder, der ikke har været gennemgået hidtil i studiet, dels kan der være tale om nye faglige input affødt af aktualitetshensyn og endelig om uddybning / vægtninger / koblinger af tidligere stof.  

Indholdet tilrettelægges af de enkelte fagområder.

Eksamen: Fagområde 1 og 3

Der afholdes eksamen i hvert fagområde indenfor en eksamensperiode på ca. 3 uger.

Om bestemmelser vedr. eksamen, se Studieordningens Kapitel 5. Prøver og eksaminer. Om de mål bedømmelsen relaterer sig til, se Studieordningens Kapitel 4. Fagområdebeskrivelser. Se endvidere eksamensvejledningerne.

Godkendt i Grunduddannelsesudvalget den14. september 2009.