Dissertation Seminar /Project Work I Internship

Code:	M240009		Acronym:	SD/TP/E
Predominant Scientific Areas:	Social Work

Subject: 2024/25 - 2S

Programmes

Acronym	No. of Students	Study plan	Curriculum Years	ECTS	Contact hours	Total Hours
MSS	13	Mestrado em Serviço Social	1º	6 ECTS

Hours Effectively Taught

TMSS

Seminário:	32,00
Forms:	0,00

Teaching - Hours Seminário: 2,00 Forms: 0,00 Type Teacher Classes Hours Seminário Totals 1 2,00 Sandra Raquel Pereira de Aguiar Ricardo Mendes   2,00

Software

mendeley

Office

Aims, Skills and Learning Outcomes

Objectives

1. To enable the construction of theoretical syntheses of multiple references appropriate in the course of other curricular units.

2. To develop research skills;

3. Training in the use of technologies to study and record readings and observations.

4. Developing research hypotheses;

5. Raising awareness of how to analyze quantitative and qualitative research data.

Programme

1. understanding the cross-cutting nature of research in social work for research and professional work.
2. The method in social work research.
3. Qualitative and quantitative research in social work.
4. The dissertation, internship and intervention project as a way of systematizing research to complete the master's degree in social work.
5. Organization of the readings and the process of constructing reading sheets that are instruments for training in original writing, and which are elements for recording the intellectual work developed for the writing of the final work.
6. The construction of fundamental theoretical syntheses on the different problems and empirical contexts of the fields of research.
7. The objectives of the research/intervention work
8. The definition of fundamental concepts, the theoretical approach and the construction of the dimensions of analysis.
9. The theoretical and empirical object in research/intervention processes.
10. Types of data analysis.
11. Drawing up the final master's work project

Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the curricular unit's learning objectives

The content allows the seminar to accompany the support and guidance needs of the students' research project at the different stages of the development of their work.
The seminar is a facilitating space for the construction of the theoretical syntheses necessary for social intervention, as its content aims to help develop students' analytical and critical capacity based on the content worked on in the curricular units that are developed throughout the semesters of the course.
The content also includes knowledge related to research practice in order to develop students' procedural and technical knowledge of the use of research tools and data processing.

Main literature

Regulamento de Dissertação, Estágio e Projeto de Intervenção. Documentos do ISSSP.

José Paulo Netto;Introdução ao método nas ciências sociais. , Praia Vermelha

Jussara Ayres Bourguignon;A particularidade histórica da pesquisa no serviço social., 2007 (Rev. Katál. Florianópolis v. 10 n. esp. p. 46-54 2007)

Maria Lúcia Martinelli;O uso de abordagens qualitativas na pesquisa social, Veras Editora

White, S. & Riemann;Research our own domains: Research as practice in "learning organizations" in Ian Shaw et al., The Sage Handbook of Social Work Research (pp. 83-97) , London: Sage, 2009

Sobocan, A. et al.;Ethical considerations in social work research. pp. 805-818 European Journal of Social Work, v. 22, n. 5, 2019

Supplementary Bibliography

Maria Dulce Tourinho;O debate sobre o uso de técnicas qualitativas e quantitativas de pesquisa, Veras Editora

Elza KOUMROUYAN;A pesquisa do indizível: a escuta do outro, Veras Editora

Learning Methods

Laboratory and seminar classes using participatory strategies

Assessment Components

1

Continuous Assessment

A research project and its oral presentation.

Final Exam

A research project and its oral presentation.