Social Work Programme Information

Social Work discipline and profession which provides advocacy to protect human dignity, worth of persons and social equality of all people regardless of their race, skin colour, gender, language, social class has an active role in ensuring the desired social changes in the world in accordance with universal values.

The most frequently used Instructional Methods of the educational programs of Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University are given below.

• Expression
• Question-Answer
• Discussion
• Exercise and Practice
• Presentation
• Guided Practice
• Role Playing
• Group Study
• Simulation
• Brain Storming
• Six Hat
• Case Study
• Experiment - Test / Lab/ Workshop / Field Practice
• Self study
• Problem Solving
• Project Based Learning (Including Field Work)

The most frequently used Evaluation Methods of the educational programs of Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University are given below.

• Testing (Essay / Tests: True-Falls, multiple-choice, short answer, matching)
• Oral Exam
• Homework
• Project / Design
• Portfolio
• Performance Assignment ( Lab / Workshop / Field Work / Seminar / Presentation / Completion Study / Thesis

SOCIAL WORK  is a Bachelor's Degree Programme with 240 ECTS Credits meets the minimum level (cycle) requirements, in terms of ECTS Credits and level descriptors, of the first cycle degree qualifications of the Overarching Framework of European Qualifications Framework of HE(QF-EHEA) as well as the 6th levels of qualifications of the both the Turkish Qualifications Framework for HE (TYYÇ, NQF-HETR) and the European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning (EQF-LLL) in terms of the later.

Students, upon successfully completing this study programme is awarded the qualification of BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN SOCIAL WORK

Admission of national students to the programme is allowed through the nationally centralised Student Selection Examination (ÖSS) conducted by the Student Selection and Placement Centre (OSYM). For further information please visit General Admission Requirements and Registration Procedures in the menu items of the Information on the Institution and The Student Selection & Placement Centre (OSYM).

Admission of foreign students to the programme can be done upon an evaluation of the application of students directiy to the university. For further and detailed information please visit General Admission Requirements and Registration Procedures in the menu items of the Information on the Institution.

The degree is awarded to students who successfully completes a minimum of 240 ECTS from the course units of the programme with a  grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.00 out of 4.00.

Procedures to recognise prior learning (RPL), including non-formal and informal learning, is in an early stage of development in Turkey and there is no a comprehensive and enabling legislative framework at the national level in place yet. However, within the institutional autonomy respected there are some implementations at the institutional level for allocating credits towards exemption from some programme requirements on the basis of RPL. This is particularly a wide spread exercise implemented in cases that students, having a certain level of knowledge, skills and competencies in relation to fields such as foreign languages and computer use, prior to admission to the university, are subjected to an examination and if they are found successful to a certain degree required by the programme they have been admitted to, they are exempted from the relevant course units of the course programme. RPL is also practiced for students who wish to transfer their studies to the equal or an upper levels at an another institution including those from abroad in the same or similar fields. In such cases, students, having received some course units in a previous programme they had studied and having been successful, may be  exempted from the same or similar course units of the programmes they are admitted to upon the approval the adaptation committees of the programmes.

Such procedures of recognition are also used comprehensively in practice at our university. The general arrangements for the recognition ofsuch implementations are outlined in the relevant section of our Education and Examination Regulations, Rules & Regulations for Graduate Programmes and that of Regulations for Lateral Transfer of Students.

Graduated students can work in the fallowing institotions: Provincial Social Services Directorates, Nurseries and Day nursery, Child Slots, Orphanage, Adolescent Counseling Centers, Protective Family Services, Family Counseling Centers, Elderly Care and Nursing Homes, Care and Rehabilitation Center for disabled, Special Education Organizations, Spastic Children Center, Community Centers, Social Welfare Units, minietry of Health, Ministry of National Education, Private / Government / University / Branch and Specialized Hospitals, Mother-Child Health and Family Planning Centers, Medico-Social Centers, Credit and Hostels Institution, Youth and Sports General Directorate, Youth Centers, Ministry of Justice prisons, Reformatory, Children´s Courts, the Center for Street Children, State Planning Organization, Universities, the Southeastern Anatolia Project, Prime Ministry Family Research Institution, Prime Ministry General Directorate of Women´s Status and Problems, Prime Ministry Administration for Disabled People, Ministry of Labor and Social Security Pension Fund, Social Insurance Institution, Bag-Kur, Employment Agency, Social Solidarity and Assistance Foundation, Various organizations public relations units, Public and private industry organizations, local governments, Civil society organizations (Red Crescent, Turkey Family Planning Association, Human Resource Development Foundation, the Children Foundation, etc. Win Again Freedom.), International Organizations, United Nations, international organizations, embassies, consulates. Also they can open private workplace related to their professions.

Upon a successful completion of the programme, student may also continue with master and doctoral studies in the same or similar scientific areas, which may accept students from the science of Social Work.

The students graduating from this program may apply to second cycle programs.