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Voluntary Work (5 cr)

Code: TH00CA86-3001

General information

Enrollment

18.03.2022 - 28.02.2025

Timing

01.08.2022 - 31.05.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

1 op

RDI portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

80 % Contact teaching, 20 % Distance learning

Unit

Health and Well-being

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

100 - 300

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Social Services

Teachers

  • Susanna Virta

Groups

  • PSOSTK22
  • PSOSTS23
  • PSOSTS22
  • AVOSOSERK23V
  • PSOSS23EN
  • PSOSK22V
  • PSOSS22EN
  • PSOSTK23
  • PSOSS23V
  • PSOSS22V
  • PSOSS24V
  • PSOSERK24V
  • PSOSTS24
  • AVOSOSERK25V
  • PSOSERK25V
  • PSOSTK24
  • AVOSOSERK24V
  • PSOSS24EN
    Degree Programme in Social Services, Early Childhood Education, S24
  • PSOSTK25

Objective

· you understand the basic principles of voluntary work and its role and position in the service system
· you understand the meaning of voluntary work and its limits from the perspectives of different parties
· you are familiar with and recognise voluntary work organisations in social and education services
· you are able to interact with clients or clients groups in your work, supporting their well-being
· you are familiar with the concept of social sustainability and are able to comply with it

Content

· studying the principles, values and methods of voluntary work and/or participating in a voluntary work training
· performing voluntary work in a social and education service organisation or another organisation
· reflection on the experiences of voluntary work

Content scheduling

The course of voluntary work is an independent course. Students find the place of voluntary work independently and start and finish the requirements of the course during the years they study the diploma. Students choose the voluntary work they are interested in from the field of Social- and educational services. The voluntary work organisation must have an introduction course to the voluntary work but other than that students may choose the place due to their interest. Students take care of the accumulation of hours so that total of 133 hrs is been collected during the years.

Teacher will approve the voluntary work places in given times four times of year and also accept the finished courses base on signed hourly sheets from the representative of the organization and the diploma of the info-course.

Students will get the right to return documents when signed in to this course in the begin of fall season or spring season.


Schedule:
Autumn 2022 and Spring 2023. The dates for the teacher accepting the students to start/ checking the returned documents / evaluation of the course are following: 9th of Sept 2022, 18th of Nov, 3rd of Feb and 19th of May. After this date teacher has two weeks to go through the returned documents. Wait patiently. No individual inquiry.

Spring 2024: 3rd of Feb, 1st of May and 19th of May. Autumn schedule will announced later.

If you want to start taking the course spring 2023 sign in/register/ enrol now to the peppi.
After being accepted to the course the Itslearing base will open in a week. Students may read more detailed instructions from there and find the contracts and other documents to be returned in order to get the course passed.

Evaluation scale

H-5