SOCIAL SERVICES

SOCIAL SERVICES

Mission

Social work is a practice-based profession that promotes social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people. Principles central of social work are social justice, human rights, collective responsibility and respect for diversities.  Utilizing theories of social work, social sciences, humanities and indigenous knowledges, social work deals with people and structures to address life challenges and promote wellbeing.

Graduates help individuals, families, small groups, organisations and communities to solve various social problems they are facing. They strive for problem cases to achieve ability to solve their challenges independently and to live healthy and successful life.

After successful completion of two years of social work education graduates will work in public and private sectors as social workers.

Program Objectives

Social Services Programmes aim is to educate professional social workers who have received necessary social work training in order to plan, organize and implement social services and practice social work profession.

Our aim as Aœ, Department of Social Services is to prepare our students who can transfer what is learned in classrooms into practice in different areas such as rural and urban settings, utilize scientific knowledge as necessary, and critically evaluate their own professional practice. In order to achieve these objectives our curriculum is organized as generalist social work education including field work in different fields of social work as well as social work research courses.

Department Opportunities

• Double major
• Opportunity to perform the skills gained with applied education in the best way in professional business life upon graduation
• Opportunity to continue undergraduate education

1. Acceptance Letter received from Istanbul Aydin University
2. Turkish translation of High school diploma and transcript
3. Notarization of translated High school diploma and transcript from Notary in Turkey or Turkish Embassy in your country
4. Health Insurance for one year (compulsory – You will make your insurance paperwork in J Block with International Students and Staff Affairs. Insurance Costs between 400,00 to 600,00 TRL)
5. Equivalency Paper (Denklik Belgesi) of High school diploma from Provincial Directorate of Ministry of Education in Istanbul (you will be guided properly on this once you will reach Istanbul Aydin University International Office J - Block)
6. Language Proficiency Certificate
7. Health Insurance for one year (compulsory– You will make your insurance paperwork in J Block with International Students and Staff Affairs.

Demand for social workers in Turkey is very high. They are to be employed in social services and social projects/programmes. Our graduates will have a chance to work as social workers in various fields such as child welfare, family welfare, forensic settings, hospitals, and psychiatric clinics, elderly welfare, disability services, industrial areas. They are also engages in alleviating poverty and working in social assistance programmes, implementing community and social projects supported by the Government and/or NGOs and work in some international organisations such as UN, EU etc.

1. Passport photograph
2. High school diploma (a copy translated to Turkish or English)
3. High school transcript (a copy translated to Turkish or English)
4. Photocopy of the relevant pages of your passport
5. 60 % marks (min) in High School
6. For English degree program applicants: TOEFL score -79 points
   (If English is not the first/ official language of the country). 
   (If students do not have TOEFL then he/ she has to qualify English Proficiency Exam, which will be held in IAU. Dates will be mentioned at http://int.aydin.edu.tr)
7. For Turkish degree program applicants: TOMER B1 level required.
8. Dentistry and Medicine applicants: TOMER C1 level required.