From a social advancement education degree to a bachelor degree in Social Work

Have you graduated from the Centrum voor Volwassenenonderwijs (Social School Heverlee) or the VSPW Hasselt (social work)? Then you can obtain the bachelor degree in Social Work via a programme comprising 45 study points.

Within the Social Work bachelor programme, you have the choice of four study options: Social Work and Social Care, Social Work and Legal Aid, Social Work and Human Resources and Social and Cultural Work

Because you should be able to work as well as study, we try to ensure that you only need to attend college one day per week.

The study programme comprises the following elements:

• Social work and social policy (5 study points)
• Social scientific research (5)
• Issues relating to man and society (3)
• A programme element of your choice (3). You can study this within or outside the university college.
• Professional practice (21)
• Dissertation (5)
• For Community Studies: Psychopathology (3)
• For Sociocultural Studies: Institutions and structures (3)
• For Professional Studies: Industrial sociology (3)
• For Community Counselling: Employment route counselling (3) 

Bachelor degree in Social Work (60 study points)

This is a short-track programme of 60 study points that allows you to obtain a bachelor degree in Social Work (= reduction of 120 study points). The programme runs over two semesters (one academic year).

This short-track programme is open to students who have already obtained one of the following diplomas:

• Bachelor degree in a subject relating to social-agogic work: orthopedagogy, applied psychology, safety and security in society
• Bachelor degree in education with an advanced bachelor in Special Needs Education
• Master's degree in criminology, psychology, pedagogy, ergotherapy, agogics/agogic sciences, logopedic and audiological sciences, orthopedagogics

No additional exemptions (EVK - prior certificated learning) are granted. Programme elements for which a credit has already been obtained are replaced by another programme element worth at least as many study points.

The programme comprising 60 study points is spread over two semesters. First of all, you choose one of the four study options: Social Work and Social Care, Social Work and Legal Aid, Social Work and Human Resources and Social and Cultural Work.

In the first semester of the 2009-2010 academic year, you study the programme elements from semesters 5 and 6 of your chosen option for 30 study points.
In the second semester, you study professional practice III (work placement) from semesters 5 and 6 and write your dissertation for a total of 30 study points.

More info: vincent.mertens@khleuven.be - 016 375 111

Bachelor degree in Social Work (90 study points)

This is a short-track programme of 90 study points that allows you to obtain a bachelor degree in Social Work (= reduction of 90 study points). The programme runs over three semesters (one and a half academic years).

This short-track programme is open to students who have already obtained one of the following diplomas:

• Bachelor degree in Pre-primary Education
• Bachelor degree in Primary Education
• Bachelor degree in Secondary Education
• Bachelor degree in Nursing
• Bachelor degree in Midwifery
• Bachelor in Ergotherapy
• Bachelor in Logopedics and Audiology
• Bachelor in General Health Sciences (NL)
• Bachelor degree in criminology, psychology, pedagogy, education studies, theology and religious studies, agogics, political and social sciences, communication sciences, law or philosophy
• Master's degree in history, comparative cultural sciences

No additional exemptions (EVK - prior certificated learning) are granted. Programme elements for which a credit has already been obtained are replaced by another programme element worth at least as many study points.

The programme comprising 90 study points is spread over three semesters. First of all, you choose one of the four study options: Community Counselling, Community Studies, Professional Studies or Sociocultural Studies.

In the first semester of the 2009-2010 academic year, you essentially study the programme elements from semesters 5 and 6 of your chosen option for 30 study points. In the second semester, you study a number of programme elements from semesters 3 and 4 (possibly also from 1 and 2) for 30 study points. In the third and final semester of your course (i.e. the first semester of the 2010-2011 academic year), you study professional practice III (work placement) from semesters 5 and 6 and write your dissertation for a total of 30 study points.

You can also start this programme comprising 90 study points in the second semester of the academic year. The advantage of this is that you begin with the programme elements from semesters 1 to 4 (30 study points) and then, in the following academic year, you study the programme from semesters 5 and 6 (60 study points, 30 of which are practical work and dissertation).

More info: vincent.mertens@khleuven.be - 016 375 111

Bachelor degree in Social Work (120 study points)

This is a short-track programme of 120 study points that allows you to obtain a bachelor degree in Social Work (= reduction of 60 study points). The programme runs over four semesters (two academic years).

The programme comprising 120 study points is accessible to people who have obtained one of the following diplomas:

• Master's degree in biology, biomedical sciences, applied economics, applied information technology, translation/interpreting, rehabilitation sciences or physiotherapy
• Bachelor degree in medicine, veterinary medicine
• Bachelor degree in accounting and fiscal studies, business management (legal practice), marketing, communication management, journalism, podiatry, hotel management (121 sp - reduction of 59 study points = semesters 1&2, except philosophy & organisational policy semester 3&4)
• Bachelor degrees obtained at Leuven University College and not mentioned above

Or anyone who can contribute sufficient credits from:

• Bachelor degrees (professional bachelors)
• 1st year of bachelor degree in applied psychology
• 1st year of bachelor degree in orthopedagogy
• 1st year of bachelor degree in safety and security in society
• 1st year of bachelor degree in social work and welfare studies
• 1st (and 2nd) year of bachelor degree in midwifery
• Academic bachelors
• 1st year of bachelor degree in communication sciences
• 1st year of bachelor degree in criminology
• 1st year of bachelor degree in commercial sciences
• 1st year of bachelor degree in physical education & movement sciences
• 1st year of bachelor degree in logopedic and audiological sciences
• 1st and 2nd year of bachelor degree in music (therapy)
• 1st year of bachelor degree in pedagogy
• 1st year of bachelor degree in political and social sciences
• 1st year of bachelor degree in psychology
• 1st year of bachelor degree in law
• 1st year of bachelor degree in philosophy

The 120 study points correspond to the study programme from semesters 3 & 4 and 5 & 6. We can award extra exemptions (EVK - prior certificated learning) on the basis of the precedent list or further investigation.

If you can contribute 54 to 59 study points in credits from the bachelor degree courses mentioned above, you can also join a programme comprising 120 study points. However, in this case, you must include programme elements from semesters 1 and 2 for a maximum of six and minimum of three study points. These must be programme elements for which you are not contributing any credits (e.g. issues relating to man and society, methods of social work, social work and social policy, and social scientific research).

The programme comprising 120 study points is spread over four semesters. First of all, you choose one of the four study options: Social Work and Social Care, Social Work and Legal Aid, Social Work and Human Resources and Social and Cultural Work.

In the 2009-2010 academic year, you essentially study the programme elements from semesters 3 and 4 of your chosen option for 60 study points.
In the 2010-2011 academic year, you usually study the programme elements from semesters 5 and 6 for 60 study points.

More info: vincent.mertens@khleuven.be - 016 375 111