Our Department

Our Social Work Department accepts students for the first time this year and has a 100% occupancy rate. The education and training period of the department is 4 years and optional preparatory class is also offered. The department is located within the Faculty of Health Sciences. There are also departments of Nursing, Health Management, Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, Nutrition and Dietetics, Child Development in the faculty. In some courses suitable in terms of content such as Medical Social Work, cooperation will be carried out with the sharing of faculty members.

Our library facilities are wide. Our students can benefit from the Central Library of our university, there are enough books available. Internet access is provided within the scope of the national academic network within the university, and our students can use the databases they are members of with remote access. The total number of resources in the library is around 500,000.

THE IMPORTANCE OF FOUNDING OUR DEPARTMENT IN BANDIRMA

• Bandırma is one of the intersection points of Bursa-İzmir-Çanakkale and is an important port city at a short distance from these cities. Due to the fact that the sea and the mountains are intertwined and the thermal facilities around it, as in Gönen, it has a significant number of summer houses along the coast. An important part of the summer cottage consists of the elderly and partly the sick.

• Also, Bandırma is a culturally diverse town where many populations live together.

• Again, Bandırma is a district that stands out with its industry and agriculture among other features and continues to be an attraction point for migration today.

In this respect, it will provide an advantage in terms of scientific studies and practice-internship in Bandırma districts and towns and the field.

 

INTERNSHIP AND COOPERATION WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AT GRADUATION FROM THE PROGRAM

It is a department that includes practices. They will be able to receive their practice training in any city / district, especially in Bandırma, and in relevant public or private institutions. Businesses where vocational education and practical courses will be held in are the social work environments in the public and private sectors that constitute the employment areas of graduate students.

Our students will receive 16 weeks of compulsory "Professional Training in Business" within the scope of "Practical Trainings" in the 8th semester (7 + 1) at the relevant institutions and organizations. Protocols will be prepared with institutions and organizations and students will be insured. There is no internship requirement for graduation from the program. But our students can do voluntary internships if they wish.

There are also practical courses during the in-class semesters, which will be held in the relevant institutions and organizations.

Domestic departments apply similar curricula. Our Department of Social Work will also focus on specific areas, while remaining loyal to this common curriculum.

Again, taking into account the social, cultural and economic structure of the Turkish society and the conditions of Bandırma, some other specific issues will be included in the program.

 

TITLE FOR THE PROGRAM GRADUATES

In our country, the students who graduate from the social work departments of the faculties that provide education for 4 years are entitled to get the "Social Work Bachelor Degree" and get the title of "Social Worker".

 

WHAT WILL GRADUATE STUDENTS ACQUIRE AFTER THEIR EDUCATION?

Our students basically,

1. Knows about disadvantaged groups such as children, young people, elderly, women, disabled, poor, refugees and drug addicts and brings social work practices to social life areas.

2. Acquire the ability to connect with individuals in need of social work, to diagnose and evaluate, to plan, to implement, to evaluate, to terminate and to follow up.

3. Acquires the ability to produce policies that will ensure the protection and support of the family.

4. Finds the sources of current problems and evaluates social structure and social psychology for solution and learns intervention techniques.

5. Defines and uses the processes of social review, interview, test application, evaluation, report writing, presentation and recording.

6. Have information about health promotion, preventive health services, first level services such as diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation, home and mobile health services.

7. It contributes to the development of the psycho-social dimension to the medical dimension of the state health services.

 

WHAT ARE THE STRENGTHS OF THE DEPARTMENT?

Although our university is one of the newly established universities and naturally does not have very wide opportunities such as Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir, it has strengths. For example;

• The department is popular with its practices in the field and allowing for human interaction (which has a 100% occupancy rate)

• Parallel to the advantageous position and conditions of our country for the social work area; Bandırma and its surroundings have suitable conditions and even needs for social work research areas

• Tracking the world literature thanks to access to electronic databases at our university

• Having sufficient and qualified lecturers in the field (We have a large staff with 7 lecturers, 2 lecturers and 1 research assistant in total.)

• Being a department that provides employment