Fundamentals of Social Work

The Fundamentals of Social Work subject located in the first semester of the first year of the Degree offers the student the first contact with the nature of the profession and its studies. It contributes to the profile of social work by providing basic knowledge about the origins, development of social work and current concept; its relationship with the evolution of social action in general and in Spain; as well as the theoretical and ethical foundations that support the discipline and professional action.
The subject offers a framework for global understanding of certain aspects that must be worked on later in the second semester subjects "Initiation to professional skills" and Contexts of social work intervention", keeping in turn a close relationship with the objectives, skills and contents projected in the study plan for the second-year subjects Models and Methods of Social Work I and II.

Course will consist of 60hrs of in class work and 90 hrs of independent work outside the classroom.