Bridging Programme on Social Work SP-SOCW 2008-2009  Title Semester Theory (hours) Practice/Exercises (hours) Credits Professor(s) Methods Social-research thoughts 1st semester 15,00 30,00 6 Therese Jacobs Measuring and analysing 2nd semester 45,00 6 Dimokritos Kavadias Quantitative Research Methods (part 2) 1st semester 22,00 3 Herman Meulemans Qualitative Research Methods 1st semester 45,00 6 Dimitri Mortelmans Qualitative research methods (part 2) 1st semester 22,00 3 Dimitri Mortelmans Statistics I 1st and 2nd semester 60,00 20,00 6 Peter Thijssen Social Security Law, part 2 1st semester 30,00 3 Ria Janvier Introduction to law and public institutions 2nd semester 45,00 6 Patricia Popelier Discipline-specific courses Society, facts and problems 2nd semester 45,00 6 Bea Cantillon Sociological Authors 2nd semester 45,00 6 Walter Weyns Sociology of Inequalities 1st semester 45,00 6 Jan Vranken Languages Languages: English and French 1st and 2nd semester 45,00 6 Isa Van Acker Frank van Splunder Optional course political or communication sciences (choose 1) Media; Structure and operation 2nd semester 45,00 6 Hilde Van den Bulck Introduction to Communication Studies 1st semester 45,00 6 Heidi Vandebosch Culture and Media Theory 2nd semester 45,00 6 Walter Weyns Introduction to Political Science 1st semester 45,00 6 Stefaan Walgrave Current Issues in Belgian Politics 2nd semester 45,00 6 Petra Meier Social and Political Philosophy 1st semester 45,00 6 Peter Reynaert Optional course Sociology (choose 1) Sociology of culture 2nd semester 45,00 6 Koen Peeters-Grietens Sociology of labour 2nd semester 45,00 6 Erik Henderickx Sociology of social space 2nd semester 45,00 6 Ilse Loots Social demography 2nd semester 45,00 6 Therese Jacobs Anthropology 2nd semester 45,00 6 Marie-Claire Foblets Social Security law 1st semester 45,00 6 Ria Janvier Master of Social Work and Welfare Studies 1MSOCW 2008-2009  Title Semester Theory (hours) Practice/Exercises (hours) Credits Professor(s) Thesis Thesis 1st and 2nd semester 15 N. Specific courses Society and social work 1st semester 45,00 6 Kristel Driessens Research in urban social work 2nd semester 45,00 6 Jan Vranken Institutional context of social care 2nd semester 45,00 6 Bernard M.F. Hubeau Policymaking 1st semester 45,00 6 Caroline Gijselinckx Jozef Breda Seminar Seminar "ICT and social work" 1st semester 15,00 30,00 3 Jan M.C. Steyaert Optional courses (2 from 4) Action models 2nd semester 45,00 6 Kristel Driessens Urban intervention strategies 1st semester 45,00 6 Danielle Dierckx HRM and labor law 1st semester 45,00 6 Erik Henderickx Ria Janvier Statistics 2 1st and 2nd semester 50,00 30,00 6 Cornelius Van den Bosch Optional courses (1 from 9, also from the optional courses above) Sociology of and policy on labour (state-of-the-art) 1st semester 45,00 6 Ive Marx Erik Henderickx Bea Cantillon Sociology and policy of population, family and course of life (state-of-the-art) 1st semester 45,00 6 Therese Jacobs Dimitri Mortelmans Sociology and policy of education and culture 1st semester 45,00 6 Walter Weyns Gert Verschraegen Sociology and policy of space and environment; city and housing (state-of-the-art) 1st semester 45,00 6 Luc Goossens Ilse Loots Jan Vranken Sociology and policy of exclusion and inequality (state-of-the-art) 1st semester 45,00 6 Bea Cantillon Jan Vranken Sociology and Policy of Care and Welfare 1st semester 45,00 6 Jozef Breda Herman Meulemans Social economy 1st semester 45,00 6 Joris Ghysels Marleen Denef