Aim of training
 The specialization aims at training professionals who are capable of changing and
improving relations between man and his complex environment. They must be able by means of
all possible resources available to perform social work, that is, to pursue a professional
activity that fosters, improves and restores the functioning of individuals, families,
groups and communities, and contribute to the establishment of the necessary complex
conditions.
A further aim of the training is to provide
the necessary knowledge and skills, and to develop the essential competence for the
following duties in Jewish communities:
· to recognize and analyze society’s
functional regularities (economic, political, cultural, etc...)
· to reveal the causes that create socially unfavorable situations and mobilize the means
by which they can be prevented or in their effect subdued.
· to recognize social problems emerging in different situations of life, and to view
these within a social context.
· to improve problem solving abilities of individuals, families and Jewish communities
and to encourage them to recognize and solve their own economic, social, emotional,
biological, family and personal problems.
· to develop abilities to form and maintain relationships and to encourage them to
enforce their rights and interests in order to be able to establish and retain successful
relations with Jewish communal, social and state institutions.
· to initiate the renewal and development of the system social political institutions and
devices on both on professional and on communal level.
· to develop social services and establish new ones
· to have professional knowledge acknowledged in a number of fields of communal social
activities, to mark the limits of competence of denominational social activities, to
cooperate with other professionals and to draw the representatives of other professions
into the solution of problems outside the sphere of the competence of social work.
The level of qualification
Qualification
indicated in the degree: Jewish Communal Social Worker
Length of training: Smallest number of class hours: 3050
Theoretical training assignments: 1800
class hours; Practice: 1250 class hours; Field practice: 850 class hours (within the total
number of practice class hours).
The
principal fields of studies
The proportions of the main fields of
studies:
- Sociology 10%
- Social politics 15%
- Social work 30%
- Law 5%
- Psychology 20%
- Judaism 20%
Types of practices and practical training:
Field practice is organized by the training
institution in the institutional system of the Jewish community, where the systematic
acquisition and development of experience, ability and knowledge is provided by the field
tutor.
foundation section: 200 class hours, with
max. 10 persons
intensifying section: 300 class hours, with max. 6 persons
integrational section: 750 class hours, with max. 1 trainee
The
system of testing knowledge
Comprehensive examination is obligatory in
the following four subjects:
- Psychology
- Jurisprudence
- Social care
- Judaism
Degree Thesis
Topics of the degree theses may be chosen
freely from the topics of the subjects in the end of the 5th semester. The consultant may
be any tutor of the specialization in or outside the Seminary or an external expert
possessing the degree. There are five obligatory consultations.
The consultant is at the same time the
opponent of the degree thesis. The thesis is defended by the student before the State
Examination Committee.
State
Examination
The student is admitted to the state
examination on the condition that he or she obtained the final certificate, and handed in
an assessable degree thesis and participated in the 60 class hours of personality and
ability development practice.
 The Head of the State Examination Committee is a prominent
representative of the profession.
The state examination consists of two
parts:
a. the defense of the degree thesis
b. oral examination
The student is given three marks on the
state examination:
a. for the defense of the degree thesis
b. for the elucidation of a complex professional topic
c. for the oral elucidation of a topic from the field of Judaism.
The assessment of the degree includes the
average of the following marks:
a. the results of the two comprehensive
examinations
b. the result of the degree thesis and its defense
c. marks given for the elucidation of the oral topics on the state examination.
d. result of the final field practice
The assessment of the degree according to
the above may be the following:
excellent: 4,51- 5,00
good: 3,51- 4,50
satisfactory: 2,51- 3,50
poor: 2,00- 2,50
Honors degree is given to the graduate who
obtained an excellent result on the state examination, all his results are of that
assessment (including the result of the degree thesis, the result of the final field
practice and the results of all his comprehensive examinations), the results of all other
examinations and practical subjects is not lower than 3,51 and who has no lower assessment
than satisfactory among all his grades.
The complex oral examination concentrates on the theory of
social work and on social politics. |