Course syllabus

Welcome to 

SW2278 Children in Adverse Life Situations, 15 hp

A warm welcome to MFamily students and to the course ‘Children in adverse life situations. Social work with children at risk and their families’. All of the teachers in this course hope that you will find the course rewarding and that it contributes to your developing knowledge in this advanced area of social work practice.

N.B. Please acquaint yourself with the structure and content of the Canvas modules! These may be different to courses you have taken previously. It is also a good idea to check out the course in Canvas daily as we may update pages that are currently under construction or new information may be necessary for you to know about prior to a lecture, seminar or exam.

If you have any questions about the course, read the study guide first, check out Canvas, and then contact your fellow students. It may well be that others have similar questions.

If you have questions about the course content, lectures etc that you cannot answer yourself, contact the teacher who was responsible for a particular lecture.

Finally, you are welcome to contact the course coordinators by email. Feel free to contact us by email at any time regarding more personal questions.  In the subject field in your emails, please include the course code SW2278 because we are teaching in several courses at the same time.

INFORMATION: The course runs from August 29 to November 1 2022.

Introduction takes place on:  29 August, from 13.15 to 16.00
Room: K001 (https://www.gu.se/samhallsvetenskap/studera-hos-oss/campus-haga)
(Street Address: Pilgatan 19A; K001 is on the bottom floor)

Course Coordinators: Charlotte Melander and Evelyn Khoo

Charlotte Melander, e-mail: charlotte.melander@socwork.gu.se   rum K206. Tel: 031-786 6384

Evelyn Khoo, e-mail: evelyn.khoo@socwork.gu.se rum D372. Tel: 031-786 1614

Course Information. Below you will find some important information about the course:

Course Syllabus

Reading list

Schedule. Note: minor schedule changes may occur up to two weeks before the course begins.
Here is the link to TimeEdit: https://cloud.timeedit.net/gu/web/schema/ri1X5015Z5103vQQ5wZ6775Y52yY5Y27QQ.html

Study Guide 

Bulletin Board - Course information updates can be found here

FAQ (Frequently asked questions)

MFamily Administrator (Viktoria Jendmyr) - If you need to contact the course administration it is easiest via: master@socwork.gu.se

All of us on the MFamily team welcome you to Sweden, to the City of Gothenburg and to the Department of Social Work at Gothenburg University. We look forward to our time with you! A warm welcome to the course :-)

Evelyn Khoo and Charlotte Melander

Charlotte and Evelyn, course coordinators