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Social Responsability (GED00213)

General information

Type:

OB

Curs:

2

Period:

S semester

ECTS Credits:

3 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

Group Teacher Department Language
Rebeca Carpi Martín Derecho ESP

Prerequisites

None

Workload distribution

This course represents 3 ECTS credits and is distributed as follows:
1. 10 in-class hours at ESADE, consisting of a) 1 prior class to introduce the workshop and the concepts, "social leadership" and "service learning" (September 15th); and b) 4 sessions dedicated to social work and service learning (September 18th, 22nd, 25th and 30th).
2. Three workshops for 8 hours (generally 3 sessions lasting 2 hours each): students receive specific training to carry out the social project they have been assigned within one of the following areas: senior citizens, immigration, minors at risk of social exclusion and environment.
3. Between 30 and 40 hours working in the assigned organisation (working in teams and/or individually at one of the social centres or organisations collaborating with the programme).
4. 20 hours of final reflection to be carried out during an intensive weekend after classes have ended (month of June).

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

This course aims to train legal professionals who are entrepreneurial and reflexive, sensitive to the issue of diversity and aware of their personal and professional responsibility towards society. In essence, they are people who nurture and are concerned with human quality and a sense of solidarity and justice.

In keeping with the above, the course aims to develop the skills students need to acquire an integral and general view of contemporary society and the challenges it currently faces, as well as help them to become familiar with the organisations and institutions linked to the legal world or in their general surroundings, learning more about them than just their functional aspects.

Students will also have the opportunity to apply the skills and competencies they¿ve acquired at university, working on a project within four possible areas of application that represent some of the challenges society faces today:

1) Senior citizens represent an increasingly numerous group of people with growing social and legal needs. However, they can also offer testimonies of their personal and professional experiences, enriching our students¿ intergenerational relations and providing them with different views of recent history.

2) Minors at risk of social exclusion and failure at school need support and motivation to continue studying. This helps our students to understand the impact education has as a driver of social change.

3) Immigrants from developing countries need education, especially in terms of the language. This experience also helps to encourage intercultural relations between this group of people and ESADE students, serving to eliminate any prejudices and strengthen respect and tolerance.

4) Environmental problems in the city¿s least-favoured social sectors: fieldwork and analysis to help raise awareness amongst our students about the ecological justice concept and that social inequality can also be seen in terms of environmental protection.

Course Learning Objectives

In general, the aim of this course is for students to acquire the skills and capacities linked to the competencies which ESADE feels all students should acquire as part of its pedagogical model. More concretely, the specific objectives are for students to:
1. Learn about and directly and personally experience the reality of people living and dealing daily with some of the challenges addressed in this course, as a result, developing students' empathy towards these social groups while also reducing their initial prejudices.
2. Carry out an in-depth exploration of the essential connection between carrying out their professional obligations competently and their responsibility in improving social reality.
3. Reinforce their service orientation, connecting them with a real need and attaining their commitment to carry out a concrete action to help improve it.
4. Develop their leadership skills though always linked to service to others, as a result, assuming responsibility as members of a society that has to see achieving equity between all its members as an essential value.
5. Acquire a global awareness of the issues addressed and the need for both a change in personal and global attitudes.

Competences

21. To acquire values and ethic principles
12. Self-awareness, self-adjustment and self-confidence

CONTENT

1. SYLLABUS AND CONTENT

Class 1. Introduction to the course
1. Course sense and purpose. Training in social leadership.
2. What does this course consist of? The work to be carried out.

Classes 2 to 6. Training in social work and service learning.

Classes 7 to 10: Workshops. Faculty will provide students specific training to be able to carry out the social project assigned and focused on one of the following four sectors: senior citizens, immigration, minors at risk of social exclusion and the environment.

Social action project: Students will spend between 30 and 40 hours working at the organisation they¿ve been assigned (team and/or individual work at the social entities or centres collaborating with the programme).

Final course evaluation: Final reflection during an intensive weekend after classes have ended (month of June).
1. Students give an oral presentation of their experiences and final results. Presentations can be in text or audiovisual format.
2. Teamwork: participants as a whole share their experiences and debate on the results attained.
3. Individual work: individual written reflection on the activity carried out and self-evaluation questionnaire.
4. Assessment of the service-learning experience.

Methodology

This is a hands-on course fundamentally. Its aim is to combine a practical focus with personal reflection at all times:

1. In class:
-Active participation in the debates with students, faculty and contacts from collaborating entities.
-Individual and group exercises to develop the skills and knowledge that they will later apply as part of the project at the collaborating organisations.

2. Before the social action project:
-Meeting with the contact person at the participating social entities where students will carry out their projects.

3. During the project:
-Completing the number of hours foreseen at the collaborative entity and taking notes on the most important events each day.
-Readings by different scholars on topics related to social responsibility, service leadership and service learning.

4. At the end of the course:
-Students present their conclusions about their experience to the collaborating organisations, ESADE and other students during a weekend dedicated to reflection. Their presentations can either be in text or audiovisual format.
-Preparation of a final text, reflecting on their experience though also incorporating their thoughts on the readings for the course.

ASSESSMENT

ASSESSMENT BREAKDOWN

Description %
Social action project 50
Training and motivation classes 25
Final reflection assignment 15
Presentation on students' experience 10

Assessment criteria

Students' final marks consist of the following:
1. Classes dedicated to training and motivating students (20 hours): 25% of the final mark
2. Social action project: 50%
3. Presentation of their experience to the other students, ESADE and institutions (text or audiovisual format): 10%
4. Final reflection assignment (individual): 15%

Assessment techniques/tools and those responsible:
1. Observation by tutors
2. Observation by faculty during classes at ESADE
3. Questionnaire sent to lead contacts at participating social entities
4. Questionnaire sent to the individuals students work with directly (when applicable)
5. Presentation of students' experience
6. Final reflection assignment
7. Self-assessment questionnaire.

Timetable and sections

Group Teacher Department
Rebeca Carpi Martín Derecho

Horari

From 2015/9/15 to 2015/10/9:
Tuesday and Friday from 16:00 to 18:00.