Social Engagement and Marginalization

13.4.2026 - 22.5.2026

5 cr

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social engagement and exclusion, encouraging participation, participation
client involvement
marginalization
integration
active citizenship
poverty, unemployment, criminality, homelessness, addictions, loneliness

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Scope

5 cr

Code

SOSPST40

Students learn to define the concepts of social engagement/participation and marginalization and recognize their connections to social work field. They learn to examine associations between social engagement and welfare from the perspectives of the individual, community and society. Students know how to examine themes related to social engagement and marginalization, especially from the perspectives of poverty, addictions, criminality, homelessness, unemployment and loneliness. They learn to see issues of social engagement and marginalization as belonging to their scope of practice in the social field. Students examine phenomena that produce marginalization in a national and global context. They reflect on their personal professional interests that arise from the course themes.

Organiser

Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences

Belongs to themes:

Society and interaction

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