BAScienze della società e del servizio sociale
| Study location | Italy, Venice |
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| Type | Bachelor's degree, full-time |
| Nominal duration | 3 years (180 ECTS) |
| Study language | Italian |
| Awards | BA |
| Course code | FT4/GGG/2024 |
| Tuition fee | €2,100 per year |
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| Application fee | €30 one-time This non-refundable fee allows you to apply for admission to a maximum of two programmes of study. |
| Entry qualification | High school / secondary education (or higher) Students must have attended school for at least 12 years in order to be eligible to enrol in a bachelor’s degree offered by an Italian university. READ MORE ABOUT THE PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF YOUR APPLICATION The entry qualification documents are accepted in the following languages: English / Italian. If your documents are not in English or Italian, please upload the original documentation or a verified copy of it AS WELL AS a professional translation in English or Italian. You can obtain professional translations either in your country or in Italy, and they can be issued by professional translators, a local court of law or court interpreters. |
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| Language requirements | English Italian ITALIAN You can apply to this programme even if you have yet to obtain a language certification, but in order to complete your enrolment you will need to provide one or take a preliminary Italian language test organised either on Skype or on campus before the academic year begins. You are exempted from needing to provide evidence of your proficiency in Italian if: Chinese Marco Polo students can provide a language certification indicating either a B1- or a B2-level knowledge of Italian. Chinese Marco Polo students enrolling with a certified B1-level knowledge of Italian must achieve a certified B2-level knowledge of the language by the end of the first year of their studies. ENGLISH If you do not satisfy this requirement at the moment of enrolment, you will be assigned an Additional Learning Requirement, or ALR, in English (Obbligo Formativo Aggiuntivo – OFA) that must be satisfied by the end of your first year of study (deadline of September 30) by passing an exam. Passing the ALR exam may be necessary in order to take other exams included in your study plan. |
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| Other requirements | Access to this programme is unrestricted. However, personal knowledge will be evaluated with an Italian language written test. For more information, please consult the programme’s dedicated web page at the section Enrol > Admission. All international students (even those holding an Italian language certification and those who passed Ca’ Foscari’s Italian language test) will be assigned an Additional Learning Requirement, or ALR, in Italian (Obbligo Formativo Aggiuntivo – OFA) that must be satisfied by the end of your first year of study (deadline of September 30) by passing an exam. Passing the ALR exam may be necessary in order to take other exams included in your study plan. |
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Overview
This programme aims to understand social phenomena and sociological dynamics by applying an interdisciplinary approach.
Over the course of three years, you gain legal skills (public, private and family law), a knowledge of the historical evolution and social development of society (economic structure, market economy, labour market, inequality, transformations of the family structure and relations, migration, democracy, welfare state), and a background in psychology (individual and collective processes, communication in aid relationships, psychological development and its socio- cultural context, psycho-social unrest, social and occupational psychology).
This programme includes an internship supervised by professional social workers. Upon graduation, you will have the qualifications to plan and manage social initiatives.
Explore this programme’s study plan (Study > Study plan > Enrolled in the 2024/2025 academic year)
Programme structure
This programme includes the following components:
- course work
- curricular internship
- final thesis
You can request to spend one or two semesters at a partner university through Ca’ Foscari’s exchange programmes.
Your curricular internship can be carried out either in Italy or abroad.
Career opportunities
Graduates are trained to perform social work and intervention activities, operate on the territory as part of a network and comply with roles and duties as defined in the professional profile of social work. They may also sit professional licensing examinations that lead to the qualification of social worker.
Career opportunities can be found in the following fields:
- Social work
- Rehabilitation and social integration
- Welfare administration
- Education and researcher
- Public administration
- NGOs