Study Programme in Social Work for the Care of Elderly and Disabled Persons, 210 ECTS

The study programme in social work with speciality care of the elderly and the disabled leads to a bachelor’s degree with your major subject social work. During this course of education you will also study sociology, law, psychology, political science and social policy. You will delve deeply into issues concerning different cultural environments and international perspectives of relevance for social work. Significant points of departure are theories of human behaviour, social systems, and people’s interaction with their environment. An integral part of the course is supervised practice, which it is possible to carry out also in other countries than Sweden. Social work graduates are a professional group in great demand. After your degree, you will be able to work on the individual, group and societal levels with social work issues and tasks relating to the elderly and the disabled. The particular profile of this course is preparation for a professional career in administrative and managerial positions within municipal as well as private or co-operative eldercare and care of the disabled. You may, for example, work as a unit manager or head of operations within the home-help services or in various forms of dwellings for the elderly, as well as in service or group housing for the disabled. Other examples of professional roles are reviewer of aid and development programs, LSS, administrator, disability services administrator, and counsellor. Further information can be obtained from the student counsellor at the Department of Social Work.