The teaching of Methodology and Social Planning for Welfare follows the professional profile of the Master's Degree Course, presenting the student with a thematic articulation aimed at acquiring specific knowledge in the planning and programming of social and health and social services, analysis and qualitative and quantitative evaluation of interventions, services and social policies, such as to provide the student with in-depth disciplinary knowledge on models, theories and scientific tools of social research, evaluation research and social planning in the public-private welfare regime.
At the end of the course, the student must possess knowledge and skills relevant to the methodology of specific social research in the welfare sector, in line with the formation of a competent professional figure in the detection, direction and organization of socio-assistance policies and interventions.
Knowledge and understanding skills
- has a professional knowledge of the methodology of sociological research and in particular of research in the social service for the planning and evaluation of interventions and policies
- It has a sociological culture of planning and programming models, in relation to current legislation and methods of construction of zone plans
- distinguishes the different types and criteria of construction of variables, indicators and measurement scales for the analysis and the social-health intervention in the welfare system
Autonomy of judgment
- connects theoretical and scientific problems of social research with the related needs and the methods of construction of social intervention programs
- autonomously interprets the relationship between theoretical models of planning and evaluation and characteristics and dynamics of investment and social planning
- compares the knowledge acquired with the most recent approaches, orienting and updating the overall picture on teaching issues
- carries out in an oral form the general and specific considerations on the course topics, showing that they are connected in an interdisciplinary way
Communication skills
- It uses the disciplinary language of welfare and methodology and social assessment and evaluation
- Expresses concepts on the topics of the course and carries out personal reflections in a congruous and appropriate manner with respect to what has been learned.