Bachelor's Degree in Social Work

Field(s) of education and training (ISCED-F)

• Social work and counselling (0923)

Main focus

The main objective of the Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work is to train professionals in the field of social intervention. Graduates will have the ability to analyse the needs and problems of individuals, groups, and communities with a view to finding answers to the new social structures and processes through social intervention methodologies and techniques typically used in social work.
The specific objectives of the Degree are the following:
a) Inform, guide and advise citizens so that they can know and access the different social services and benefits, which target and highlight barriers, inequalities, cultural and economic marginalization, and injustices in society.
b) Critically and scientifically analyse the structural, political, and economic imbalances of societies.
c) Formulate, implement, and evaluate policies and programmes aimed at enhancing the welfare of people with a view to promoting development and human rights.

Competences

a) Acquisition of an ethical commitment to critically analyse their own situation and that of others, while assessing impacts on human communities and showing attitudes consistent with ethical conceptions of the profession.
b) Capacity for creativity and entrepreneurship reflected in the integration of new knowledge and attitudes. This will enable students to formulate, design and manage projects as well as to investigate, analyse, evaluate, and use current knowledge of the best social work practices to review and update their own knowledge about occupational frameworks.
c) Development of communication skills in order to be able to understand and produce correct oral and written texts and autonomously manage information by using ICT in the field of social work. Students will have the ability to work together with individuals, families, groups, organisations, and communities and jointly evaluate with them their needs and circumstances. They will also be able to establish professional relationships by identifying the most suitable form of intervention by assessing needs and options to guide the intervention strategy.
d) Ability to demonstrate professional competence in the practice of social work within the standards of the profession by using professional assertiveness to manage conflicts, identifying them, designing coping strategies, and reflecting on their results.

Name of title awarded in original language

Graduado o Graduada en Trabajo Social por la Universidad de Granada

Qualification requirements

‘- The student must prove the level B1, in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
– The student has to complete the ECTS credits of the study program distributed as follows:
Basic Formation (60 ECTS)
Obligatory (132 ECTS)
Optional (42 ECTS)
Practicum (30 ECTS)
Final degree project (6 ECTS)
– The student has to complete the ECTS credits of the study program distributed as follows:
Basic Formation (108 ECTS)
Obligatory (264 ECTS)
Practicum (6 ECTS)
Final degree project (18 ECTS)

Admission information

Access to Bachelor’s Degree programmes is granted to students with the following degrees/ diplomas or studies, or any other recognized as equivalent to these:
A.1. Spanish Bachiller, European Baccalaureate or International Baccalaureate.
A.2. Baccalaureate from European Union Member States’ education systems or other countries withinternational agreements.
A.3. Advanced Technician in Vocational Training, Advanced Technician in Plastic Arts and Design orAdvanced Technician in Sports Education, from the Spanish Education System.
A.4.Studies carried out in European Union Member States or in other countries with international reciprocal agreements which meet the academic requirements in those States to access their university studyprogrammes.
A.5. Official Spanish university degrees of Diplomado, Arquitecto Técnico, Ingeniero Técnico, Licenciado, Arquitecto, Ingeniero, Graduado or Máster Universitario.
A.6. Partial (foreign or Spanish) university studies.

Access to Bachelor’s Degree programmes is also possible for:
B.1. People over twenty-five after successfully passing a specific access test.
B.2. People over forty with work or professional experience related to a university field of knowledge.
B.3. People over forty-five after successfully passing a specific access test.

Likewise, access to Bachelor’s Degree programmes is granted to:
C.1. People meeting the requirements to enter university according to the Spanish Education Systemregulations prior to Ley Orgánica 8/2013, of December 9.

Grading scale
In the Spanish university system, modules/courses are graded on a scale of 0 to 10 points with the following qualitative equivalence:
0-4,9: «suspenso»; 5-6,9: «aprobado»; 7-8,9: «notable»; 9-10: «sobresaliente». A special mention, «Matrícula de Honor» may be granted to up to 5% of the students in a group provided they have got a «sobresaliente». To pass a module/course is necessary to get at least 5 points.
In cases of recognition of ECTS, professional experience, cultural or sports activities, or student representation no grading will be recorded but, where appropriate, the word «Apto».

UGR Examination Regulations
https://docencia.ugr.es/sites/vic/docencia/public/inline-files/Normativa_de_evaluacion_y_calificacion_EN.pdf

More info on academic regulations at: 

https://ugrcat.ugr.es/en/about-ugr/#regulations