Social Work - HEC

CURRICULUM OF
SOCIAL WORK
for BS 4-Year Program (Revised 2009)
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HIGHER EDUCATION COMMISSION
ISLAMABAD
CURRICULUM DIVISION, HEC Dr. Syed Sohail H. Naqvi Executive Director Prof. Dr. Altaf Ali G. Shaikh Member (Acad)
Miss Ghayyur Fatima Director (Curri) Mr. M. Tahir Ali Shah Deputy Director (Curri) Mr. Shafiullah Deputy Director Composed by: Mr. Zulfiqar Ali, HEC, Islamabad
CONTENTS | |Introduction |6 |
| |Standardized Template for BS 4-year |9 |
| |Degree programme | |
| |Layout for BS Social Work |10 |
| |Scheme of Studies for 4-year |12 |
| |BS in Social Work | |
| |Details of Compulsory Courses |14 |
| |Details of Foundation Courses |25 |
| |Details of Major Courses |41 |
| |Details of Elective Courses |61 |
| |Recommendations |94 |
PREFACE
Curriculum of a subject is said to be the throbbing pulse of a nation. By
looking at the curriculum one can judge the state of intellectual
development and the state of progress of the nation. The world has turned
into a global village; new ideas and information are pouring in like a
stream. It is, therefore, imperative to update our curricula regularly by
introducing the recent developments in the relevant fields of knowledge. In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 3 of the
Federal Supervision of Curricula Textbooks and Maintenance of Standards of
Education Act 1976, the Federal Government vide notification No. D773/76-
JEA (cur.), dated December 4th 1976, appointed the University Grants
Commission as the competent authority to look after the curriculum revision
work beyond class XII at the bachelor level and onwards to all degrees,
certificates and diplomas awarded by degree colleges, universities and
other institutions of higher education. In pursuance of the above decisions and directives, the Higher Education
Commission (HEC) is continually performing curriculum revision in
collaboration with universities. According to the decision of the special
meeting of Vice-Chancellor's Committee, the curriculum of a subject must be
reviewed after every 3 years. A committee of experts comprising of conveners from the National Curriculum
Revision of HEC in Basic, Applied Social Sciences and Engineering
disciplines met in April 2007 and developed a unified template to
standardize degree programs in the country to bring the national curriculum
at par with international standards, and to fulfill the needs of the local
industries. It also aimed to give a basic, broad based knowledge to the
students to ensure the quality of education. The new Bachelor (BS) degree
shall be of 4 years duration, and will require the completion of 130-136
credit hours. For those social sciences and basic sciences degrees, 63.50%
of the curriculum will consist of discipline specific courses, and 36.50%
will consist of compulsory courses and general courses offered through
other departments. For the purpose of curriculum revision various committees are constituted
at the national level, comprising of senior teachers nominated by
universities, degree awarding institutions, R&D organizations, respective
accreditation councils and stake holders. The National Curriculum Revision
Committee for Social Work in a meeting held on May 18-20, 2009 at HEC
Regional Centre, Karachi in continuation of preliminary meeting held on
February 23, 2009 at HEC Regional Center, Lahore, revised the curriculum in
light of the unified template. The revised draft curriculum is being
circulated for implementation in the concerned institutions.
PROF. DR. ALTAF ALI G. SHAIKH
Member Academics
August 2009 CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT [pic]
INTRODUCTION The second NCRC meeting of social work was held on May 18-20, 2009 at HEC
Regional Centre, Karachi. The objective of the meeting was to finalize the
preliminary draft of the curricula in its first meeting held at Lahore on
February 23, 2009. The senior professor, head of the department social work of various
Universities and senior executive of the field attended the meeting.
|Prof. Dr. Sarah Safdar, |Convener |
|Social Work Department, | |
|University of Peshawar, Peshawar. | |
|Muhammad Iqbal Basit, |Member |
|Assistant Professor, | |
|University of Sargodha, Sargodha. | |
|Ms. Aliya Khalid |Member |
|Assistant Professor, | |
|Department of Social Work, | |
|University of the Punjab, Lahore. | |
|Dr. Zahid Javed, |Member |
|Associate Professor / Chairman, | |
|Department of Social Work, | |
|University of the Punjab, Lahore. | |
|Dr. M. Fakhrul Huda Siddiqui, |Member |
|Assistant Professor, | |
|Department of Social Work, | |
|University of Karachi, Karachi. | |
|Dr. Ghulam Rasool Dahri, |Member |
|Incharge, | |
|Social work Department, | |
|Sindh University, Jamshoro. | |
|Prof. Dr. Amir Zada Asad, |Member |
|Chairman, | |
|Department of Social Work, | |
|Peshawar University, Peshawar. | |
|Haji Akbar, |Member |
|Director Social Welfare, | |
|Ministry of Social Welfare, | |
|Al-farabi Special Education Complex, | |
|Opposite NOORI Hospital, | |
|G-8/4, Islamabad. | |
|Hafiz Rashid Mehmood, |Member |
|Directorate General of Kachi Abadis & Urban | |
|Improvement, | |
|Local Government department, Govt. of Punjab, | |
|39-L, Model Town Extension, Lahore. | |
|Mr. Asif Naveed Ranja, |Member |
|Lecturer, | |
|Department of Social Work, | |
|Islamia University, Bahawalpur | |
|Prof. Dr. Gheyas Uddin Siddqui, |Secretary / |
|Social Work Department, |Member |
|University of Balochistan, Quetta. | | Following experts attend the preliminary meeting and contributed in the
preparation of draft. |Syed Akhlaq Shamsi, |Member |
|Principal, | |
|Model Town College, Lahore. | |
|Ms. Farida Tariq, |Member |
|Chief Executive CWCD, | |
|Rashada Butt |Member |
|Associate Professor, | |
|Kinaird College for Women Lahore. | | The meeting started with the recitation from Holy Quran followed by formal
introduction of the participants. Ms. Ghayur Fatma Deputy Director
Curriculum Division HEC gave the detail introduction and reviewed the work
of first meeting and high lighting the objectives of NCRC meeting. She
asked the Committee experts to improve the preliminary draft curriculum
keeping in view the feed back received from colleagues/experts of the
department. Prof. Dr. Sarah Safdar from Social Work department University
Peshawar was selected the Convener and Prof. Dr. Gheyasuddin Siddiqui,
Chairman, Department of Social Work, University of Baluchistan as Secretary
of the meeting. The coordinator of the Committee, while welcoming the participants of the
committee for taking interest and doing with the keen interest, she
expressed that the new curricula will be according to the need and
challenges of world. After this the experts deliberated length on various
issues of curriculum then the convener asked the participants to split into
subcommittees according