IIS University - International College for Girls - ICG Courses

M.S.W.

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Duration: 2 Years

Eligibility: Graduation

Course Structure

Course Code	Course Title
Semester - I
MSW 121	Introduction to Social work : History & Development
MSW 122	Indian Society and Social Problems
MSW 123	Human Growth and Development
MSW 124	Social Work Research
MSW 125	Ecology and Social Work
Semester - II
MSW 221	Contemporary Ideologies of Social Work & Social Change
MSW 222	Integrated Social work Practice-I (Social Case Work & Group Work)
MSW 223	Political Economy of Development
MSW 224	Tribal Anthropology and Social Work
Semester - III
MSW 321	Integrated Social Work Practice II (Community Organization and Social Action)
MSW 322	Statistics in Social Work Research
MSW 323	Family Social Work
MSW 324	Social Welfare and Social Legislation
Semester - IV
MSW 421	Communication – An Introduction to Audio-Visual Media
MSW 422	Women’s Welfare and Development
MSW 423	Social Defense & Correctional Social Work
Elective Course
MSW 424 (a)	A student has to select any one out of the following-elective courses
(i) Social Work with Elderly (Elective 1)
MSW 424(b)	Voluntary Action and Voluntary Organisation

 

Course Syllabus

Semester - I

MSW 121  Introduction to Social work : History & Development

Objectives :

• To understand the history of evolution of Social work Profession, both in India and the West.
• To develop insights into the origin and development of ideologies /approaches to social change.
• To understand rationale, goals, ideals and ethics for social change.
• To develop skills to understand reality in its historical context.
• Understand self as a part of own environment and express own assumptions, ideals, values to develop sensitivity to marginalization of vulnerable groups.

Unit I

Concepts

• Social Work, Social Welfare, Social Services, Social Reform and Social Development.

Unit II

Historical Development

• Ancient Period : Vedic, Vedantic and Non Vedic Ideologies : Spirituality.
• Medieval Period : Saint Reformers, their message and impact.
• Social reform movement in the 19th Century; contributions of major social reformers.
• Gandhi : his contribution to social change and reform concept of Sarvodaya, Sarvodaya movement under Gandhi, Gandhian Social work. B.R. Ambedkar & the Dalit Movement
• Economic Liberalization and Social Work.

Unit III

Social Work as a Profession :

• Nature, Goals and functions of Social Work.
• Existing and Emerging roles of social work in a developing society.
• Principles of Social work; socio-cultural factors affecting the use of Principles of Social Work.
• Social Work as a profession in Contemporary Society.

Unit IV

Human Rights & Social Work

• Human Rights and Social justice concern in Indian Society.
• Constitutional Provision and their implications.
• Social Legislation, Social Security & Human Rights.

Unit V

Voluntary Organizations and Social Work

• Voluntary organization in Social Welfare in India : Present Context.
• Govt. measures to strengthen Voluntary Organisations. Emerging trends and roles of Voluntary Organisations.
• The social workers role in Voluntary Organizations

 

MSW 122  Indian Society and Social Problems

Objectives

• To orient the students about basic sociological concepts.
• To understand the complex networking of social relationships, the role of norms, values and belief systems in influencing social behaviours.
• To sensitize the students about the emergence of various social problems, policy frame work and to help them learn to apply professional skills to deal with them.

Unit I

• Meaning & features of Elements of Society : Community, Associations and institutions.
• Social Groups : Primary, secondary, reference, In Groups and out Groups.
• Culture : Acculturation, Cultural Conflict, Cultural Lag & Cultural Relativism.

Unit II

• Concept of social deviance and Social Problems : Crime and Delinquency
• Theories of Crime : biogenic, psychogenic and sociological, theory of differential association, theory of cultural transmission and theory of delinquent sub cultures.
• Problems of Crime and Delinquency in India.
• Social Problems in India: Old age, Destitution, beggary, suicide, Prostitution

Unit III

• Structure and change in Indian Social institutions : Family and Marriage.
• Problems of family and marriage in India : Divorce, desertion, widowhood, dowry, family conflicts.
• Women’s status and Feminism in India : Patriarchy & Gender

Unit IV

• Concepts of social structure and sub structure.
• Social structure and social stratification. Caste, class & elements of change and continuity in Indian Social Stratification.
• Social structure and anomie : its manifestation in the Indian Social Structure.
• Casteism, Communalism, Regionalism and Youth Unrest Caste and Communal violence.

Unit V

• Social Processes : Socialization, Co-operation, conflict and social control.
• Socialization and the development of social self.
• Sociology & Social work : Their relationship, Growth & Development.

 

MSW 123  Human Growth and Development

Objectives :

• To develop a holistic understanding of the nature and basis of human growth, personality development and factors affecting them.
• Gain understanding of human needs, developmental tasks at various stages of life, with special reference to marginalized groups and rendering of appropriate services.
• Relate theoretical understanding of human personality and behavior to social work practice.

Unit I

Understanding Human Development : Nature and principles of human growth and development.

• Cognitive, emotional, social and moral dimensions of development.
• Life span perspectives, Human needs, developmental tasks.

Unit II

Individual in Socio-cultural Contact : Nature vs. Nurture.

• Socio-cultural aspects of individual development : socialization process and child rearing practices.
• Child welfare programmes and services in the Indian Context.

Unit III

Concepts and Theories of Personality: Definition & nature of personality. Theories of personality : Psychodynamic, Behavioural, Humanist, Existentialist, Gestalt. Their implication on social practices.

Unit IV

Basic Psychological Processes.

• Concept, nature and type : Perception-Social & Self; Learning and Memory; motivation & emotion : Intelligence, concept of I.Q.
• Social Competence and Emotional Intelligence.

Unit V

Attitude & Prejudice :

• Attitude formation & change.
• Development of Social Prejudice, Social Distance and Social tension.
• Study of Casteism, communalism, Regionalism and linguism in the Indian Contact with reference to applications in Social Work Practices.

 

MSW 124  Social Work Research

Objectives :

• To understand the nature, importance and application of the scientificmethod to the study of social phenomena.
• To develop an understanding of the foundations, nature, purpose and relevance of research in Social work.
• To develop competence to conceptualize a problem and undertake research.
• To equip students to use research in social work practice and in the formulation of social policy & programmes.

Unit I

• Social Work Research: Meaning, purpose(s) and process
• Approaches to social work research: Positivistic, interpretative and critical
• Dialectics of social work research: Idiographic and monothetic explanation; inductive and deductive reasoning; quantitative and qualitative data.
• The Ethics and politics of social work research.

Unit II

• Theory and its components: Meaning, functions and types of theory
• Concepts-meaning, formal and operational definitions
• Variable and their relationships
• Hypothesis – meaning, attributes of a sound hypothesis and types

Unit III

• Research design: Meaning, functions and characteristics of good research design
• Research designs based on: Purpose-exploratory, descriptive, explanatory; Unit of analysis-case (individuals), group and community; Method-survey, case study, experimental, Time dimension-cross-sectional studies and longitudinal studies.
• Evaluation and action research
• Unobtrusive research: content analysis, existing data analysis and historical analysis

Unit IV

• Measurement and Scales: Meaning and levels of measurement, criteria of measurement quality; types of scales.
• Sampling procedures: Probability and non-probability types; determination of size.

Unit V

• Data collection techniques: Questionnaire, interview and observation; Participatory and rapid appraisal techniques.
• Data Processing: Editing, classification, tabulation and coding.
• Writing social work research: writing quantitative proposals and reports; qualitative proposals and reports.

 

MSW 125   Ecology and Social Work

Objectives

• To develop an understanding of the relationship between
  • Ecology and Development
  • People and Natural Resources
• To develop an understanding about the present status of the environment.
• To acquire knowledge of the role of the social worker towards environmental awareness, and working out strategies for maintaining ecological balance.

Unit I

• Environment and Ecology and their linkages, relationship with people and society.
• Social behaviour and environment (consumerism and energy intensive life style, etc.)

Unit II

Environmental Issues and Problems :

• Environment in the global context.
• State of India’s environment :
  • Land degradation and depletion
  • Water Pollution and Degradation of Fresh Water Reserves
  • Air pollution and depletion of ozone layer
  • Deforestation and depletion of forest cover.

Unit III

• Environment Movements and People’s initiatives to save their environment : Chipko Movement, Save Forests Movement.
• Anti Nuclear Struggles.
• Mitti-Bachao, Andolan, Movements against Big Dams-Narmada and Tehri.
• Eco-farming-Natural Farming Efforts.

Unit IV

• Environmental action : Need, Importance, Scope and Problems of People’s participation in protection and promotion of their environment.
• Government Policies and programmes
• Women and Environment
• Role of Voluntary Action in Environment

Unit V

Approaches in Environmental Management

• Role of Traditional, State Controlled, People controlled and Jointly managed system.
• Waste Management
• Role of the Social Worker
  • As a concerned citizen, as a mass educator, Campaigner
  • As a worker with NGOs
  • As a welfare officer in industry / government.

 

Semester - II

MSW 221  Contemporary Ideologies of Social Work & Social Change

Objectives :

• To gain information about contemporary ideologies of Social work and Social change.
• To develop skills in ethical decision-making at macro and micro levels.
• To explore the ones own assumptions, ideals, values and experiences about people and their problem in order to develop sensitivity to the marginalization of vulnerable groups.
• To understand the values of social work and consciously apply those in practice.

Unit I

Contemporary Ideologies for Social Change: Introduction, Neo-liberalism & globalisation, postmodernism, feminism, Multiculturalism.

Unit II

• Ideology of Sustainable and People centred development.
• Ideology of action groups & social movements.
• Ideology of non-government organizations.

Unit III

• Contemporary Ideologies for Social Work Profession : Marginalisation of vulnerable groups and limitations of professional social work.
• Personal attributes of a social worker.

Unit IV

• Emerging ideologies of professional social work.
• Contemporary social work ideologies in different countries.
• Goals, values, functions / roles and processes of social work.

Unit V

• Social work Ethics : Concept and Philosophy of Ethics.
• Ethical Responsibilities in Social Work.
• Ethical Decision Making and Dilemmas in Micro and Macro Social Work

 

MSW 222  Integrated Social work Practice-I (Social Case Work & Group Work)

Objectives

• To help students appreciate the role of both individualized and group approach in dealing with human problems in general.
• To help students deepen one’s understanding of person, family and community in relation to the problem with an interdisciplinary perspective and attitude with is non judgmental.
• To develop an understanding of the scope and nature of group work.
• To provide insight into the various dimensions of group processes.
• To provide skills and competence in applying group work as a method of professional intervention in various settings.
• To help students develop attitude and inculcate values which foster human dignity and promote growth.

Unit I

• Definition and Objectives of Social Casework. Concepts of Social Casework-ego, stress, social role and adaptation.
• Components, principles and techniques of social casework.
• Definition and characteristics of group work.
• Purpose of group.
• Principles of Group work.
• Advantages and Values of Group Work.

Unit II

• Phases of social case work – beginning, ongoing and ending phases and theircharacteristics.
• Techniques of social casework in different phases : interviewing, support,education, referral, joint interviewing.Individual and family centred social work.

Unit III

• Social casework practice in different settings; education, nutrition, health, marriage, family welfare, child guidance, neighbourhood etc.
• Crisis interventin : preventive and remedial Social casework. Social case work with the poor and the disadvantaged.

Unit IV

• Group Processes and Group Dynamics : Group formation; Contract; Subgroups; Problem situations in group.
• Group Development: Stages of Group Development and Implicatins for Practices

Unit V

Skill and Techniques of Group work : Programme Planning and Programme Media Recording, Evaluation and Monitoring Social Group Work and Social Work Profession : Group Work in Different Settings and other methods of Social Work.

 

MSW 223  Political Economy of Development

Objectives :

• Understand political economy and Systems for economic order
• Develop skills for social analysis
• Understand development & its impact

Unit I

Introduction to Political Economy : Meaning, significance of the study. Meaning and Characteristics of development and under-development. Universal values and objectives of development. Social ideals of Indian Constitution.Fundamental Rights and Human Rights.

Unit II

• Socio-Economic order and Comparative Economic perspective : Capitalism,Socialism and Mixed Economy, their features, merits and demerits.
• Approaches to Development : Modernization, Capitalist, Socialist and Gandhian Approaches.

Unit III

Under Development and its causes : A historical overview with reference to developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Contemporary Development Dynamics : North-South relations, world trades, MNcs and their influences on third work economies.

Unit IV

• Theories of Economic Development : Stages of growth theory, structural internationalist theory.
• Impact of Globalisation on Developing Countries : Privatisation, liberalisation and structural adjustment programmes; role of international financial institutions.

Unit V

• Poverty in India : Causes, effects and implications. Planning for Development in India.

 

MSW 224  Tribal Anthropology and Social Work

Objectives :

• To equip the students with a theoretical framework to analyse tribal societies.
• To gain information on overall understanding about the socioeconomic situation of tribal groups in various regions of the country.
• To review briefly the developmental programmes and their impact on the life of the tribal population.

Unit I

Concept of tribal society : Anthropology as a field in the understanding. Kinship, descent and social structure. Marriage, Family and Community.

Unit II

Concepts of Culture, Primitive Economy and Primitive Law. Cultural, Social and Economic Changes; Process, direction and causes of change.

Unit III

• Tribal policy in India.
• Forest-tribe interaction.
• Deforestation and its impact on tribal population.
• Tribal rights on forest and land.
• Tribal land alienation.
• Role of State and NGOs to protect and promote the tribals.

Unit IV

• Mega Development Programmes and their impact on Tribal communities; Sustainable tribal development.
• Ashram Schools/Kanashrams : Educational institutionalization of the tribal children.

Unit V

• Tribal development : Nehru’s perspectives on tribal development.
• Sub plan approach for tribal development.
• Constitutional safeguards for the scheduled tribes.
• Social work intervention : Scope for social work intervention and the role ofsocial workers.

 

Semester - III

MSW 321   Integrated Social Work Practice II (Community Organization and Social Action)

Objective :

• To develop ability to analyse the community, its problems and issues.
• To develop understanding of the concepts and terms relevant to community organization and social action as methods of intervention.
• To secure knowledge of various approaches and techniques of community organization and social action.
• To develop sensitivity and commitment towards issues of marginalized and opressed people.
• To develop analytical and conceptual framework for social work practice.

Unit I

• Basic concepts and Terms : Community, rural and urban communities, community development, community work.
• Social action : Concept, history, principles and strategies.
• Use of social action in social work practice.

Unit II

• Community organization : Concept, Principles, Techniques and Scope.
• Models of Community organization : Locality Development, Social Planning, neighbourhood development; Community Development Programmes and Panchayati Raj System.

Unit III

• Indigenous approaches to community organization : Gandhian or Sarvodaya, Bhoodaan and Gramdan.
• Application of Community organization to social issues and problems.
• Recording in Community organization-Project management : Project Formulation, Planning Implementation, supervision, monitoring and evaluation.

Unit IV

• Social Action, social movements and social change.
• Models of Social Action : Legislative Action; Sanction, Direct Physical and Conscientisation Models.

Unit V

• Role of Pressure Groups : Voluntary Organisations, Non-party formations and their initiatives, social advocacy.
• Concepts of Rights and Social Action.
• Concepts of Conscientisation and Critical Awareness : Paulo Friere and Saul Alinskey’s Contribution to social action.

 

MSW 322  Statistics in Social Work Research

Unit I

• Meaning functions and abuse of statistics in social work research
• Frequency distribution types and shapes of distribution
• Graphic presentation of data-histogram and polygons

Unit II

• Proportions, percentage and ratios
• Measures of central tendency-mean, median and mode; criteria forselecting useful measure of central tendency
• Measures of variability-variation ratio, index of qualitative variation,range, quartile deviation, standard deviation and coefficient of variation; criteria for selecting useful variability measure.

Unit III

• Meaning and characteristics of association, degree (strength),direction and nature of association.
• Measure of association for nominal variable –Phi, Contingency coefficient, Cramer’s V and Lambda.
• Measures of association for ordinal variables-Spearman’s Rho, Kruskal’s gamma
• Measures of association for interval variables-Pearson’s r; criteria for selecting useful measure of association.

Unit IV

Inferential Statistics

• Normal curve – meaning and characteristics
• Area under normal curve, transforming raw scores to Z scores
• Statistical estimation –point and interval estimation

Unit V

• Testing statistical hypothesis-concept and procedure
• Parametric and non-parametric tests of significance-chi-square test and t-test
• Computer software for quantitative and qualitative data analysis – An overview

 

MSW 323  Family Social Work

Objectives :

• To develop a perspective of understanding and analyzing issues, needs and problems related to family and child.
• To provide knowledge regarding the policies and programmes related to family and child.
• To acquaint students about the methods and skills of working with families and children for the purpose of care, rehabilitation prevention and development.

Unit I

• Family as a social system – its importance and function.
• Approaches to understand family : Ecological and developmental erspective.
• Family and Human rights.
• Role of Family in Social development.

Unit II

• Family centred social work : Concept, principles and methods.
• Methods of intervention, case work, counseling and guidance, family therapy, advocacy, and crisies intervention.

Unit III

• Social work Intervention with child bearing and infertile families.
• Families with mental problems, victims of family violence, disaster and riots; families of alcoholic and substance abusers, deprived and poor families.
• Rehabilitative and preventive aspects of social work with families.

Unit IV

• Child Welfare : Concept, philosophy and principle.
• Concept of child development and its implications for planning for children.
• Nature, extent and causes of problems of children in difficult circumstances :
• Delinquent, street and working child, girl child, child labour, and differently abled children.
• Problem of child abuse in India. An overview of laws relating to children.

Unit V

• Integrated Child Development Programmes.
• Rehabilitation, Preventive and promotional aspects of social work practice in the field of child development.
• Role of voluntary organization in the field of child development.

 

MSW 324  Social Welfare and Social Legislation

Objectives :

• To understand the role and functions of the legal system and relevant legislation in protecting social justice and human rights.
• To develop insight into social legislations dealing with women, child & Weaker sections.
• To gain insight into the problems faced by people of different social strata.

Unit I

• Social Justice as an essential basis of social legislation. Social legislation in a welfare state-with special reference to India.
• Concepts and objectives concept of civil rights, human rights and issues of social justice.

Unit II

Social legislation and personal laws (an overview)-salient features, implication and nature of changes affected by laws in regard to :

• Marriage and divorce
  • Hindu Marriage Act, 1955
  • The Indian Divorce Act, 1969
• Rights of inheritance and succession.
  • The Hindu Succession Act, 1956
• Minority, guardianship and adoption
  • The Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956.
  • The Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956

Unit III

• Labour Legislation : Introduction to Labour Legislations.
• History and Evolution of Labour Welfare Legislation in India Labour Welfare Legislations in India (brief introduction and general provisions):
  • The Minimum Wages Act, 1948
  • Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923
  • The Maternity Benefit Act, 1961
  • Factories Act, 1948

Unit IV

• Social Legislation for Prevention of Crime and Deviance
• Corrective measures as per Criminal Procedure Code, Indian Penal Code, Probation of Offenders Act, Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice Acts.

Unit V

• Concepts of Public Interest Litigation : Its differences from ordinary litigation – its impact and relevance to Indian Society.
• Legal Protection of Consumers – Consumer Protection Act, Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practice Act.
• Laws Relating to Environmental Protection.
• Role of Social Workers to Prevent Environmental Degradation.

 

Semester - IV

MSW 421  Communication – An Introduction to Audio-Visual Media

Objectives

• Facilitate a critical analysis of the mass media, in terms of the modes in which it reproduces the dominant power relations in society, be they of gender, class, race or any other.
• Work towards alternative, participatory uses of the media, with specific reference to campaigns.
• Facilitate the acquisition of media skills to visual design, street theatre and other low-cost participatory media.
• Allow for the practical application of these media skills through the process of designing and conducting a campaign.

Unit I

Alternative media and campaigns : Approaches to media and Society

• Transmission and Semiological models; Using Semiology for critical media analysis of artifacts such as TV commercials, films, pringadvertisements, comic strips and newspapers.
• Presentation of Campaign Design (Group Presentation by Students).

Unit II

Rethinking Communication

• Communication as Transmission ?
• Communication as Representation
• Communication as Cultural Reproduction

Unit III

• Representing Gender : Television Commercials, Print Advertisements,Feature Films, Representing Race : ‘US’ and ‘Them’, Comic Strips.
• The Everyday experience of colour. Representing ‘Real’ Events : The Press and Framing of Events, Documenting Reality.

Unit IV

• Rethinking the ‘Impact’ of Media :
• The Debate on the ‘Effects’ of Violence
• The limitations of Censorhsip
• Towards Critical Viewing

Unit V

• Skills Development :
  • Visual Design : Introduction to Elements of Design layout and typography, use of colour and shape; designing effective posters and logos for campaign.
• Street Theatre Workshop
  • Use of songs, folklore and puppets (Note – In these workshops, the student groups for the campaigns work out the elements of their campaign).

 

 MSW 422  Women’s Welfare and Development

Objectives :

• To impart an understanding of the changing perspectives of the roles of women.
• To develop an ability to identify need areas of women.
• To provide intervention skills.
• To develop ability to identify social systems that effect functioning of women.

Unit I

• Status of women through Ages in India.
• Patriarchy and Gender Inequality in India : Retrospect and Prospect

Unit II

Indicators of Women’s position-Issues and Challenges :

• Demographic Profile
• Education
• Health
• Employment and Work

Unit III

Problems faced by women in :

• Organized Sector
• Unorganized Sector
• Self Employed

Unit IV

Crimes against women : Rape, Kidnapping, Female Infanticide, Sexual Harassment, Bride Burning Nature of Women’s Movement in India-Paradigm Shift from welfare to empowerment.

Unit V

• Role of Women’s Organizations and Voluntary Action in Women’s Development
• Traditional and Emerging Role of Professional Social worker in the field of Women’s Development

 

MSW 423  Social Defense & Correctional Social Work

Objectives :

• To develop understanding of the concept of social defence andcorrectional services.
• To relate the knowledge of social problems, crime and delinquency to the practice area.
• To understand the role of a social worker in various correctional settings and crime prevention programmes.
• To sensitize for learning through practice in institutional and community based correctional and preventive programmes.

Unit I

• Social Defence : Concept.
• Crime and its Consequences
• Problem of Juvenile Delinquency

Unit II

Criminal Justice : Social Defence Legislations : Introduction to Indian Penal code (IPC), Criminal Procedure Code (GPC), Pension Act, Inventive Justice Act, Antibeggary Act, Child Labour Act, Immoral Traffic Prevention Act.

Unit III

Institutional Correctional Services : Pensions, remand homes, observation homes, special schools, beggar homes, rescue homes and de-addiction centers.

Unit IV

De-institutionalization of correctional and non-institutional services :  Probation, Parole & Crisis Intervention Centres. After Care, Rehabilitation and re-integration of offenders.

Unit V

• Role of Social Work in Institutional, non-institutional services and programmes.
• Role of voluntary organizations and community participation in crime prevention.

 

Elective Course

MSW 424 (a) A student has to select any one out of the following-elective courses

(i) Social Work with Elderly (Elective 1)

Objectives :

• To understand the theoretical perspectives on population ageing and demographic changes.
• To gain an insight into the emerging needs and problems of the elderly.
• To gain knowledge of the policy and programmes for the aged in a developing country.

Unit I

• Situation of Aged Persons. Definition of Aged Persons; Definition of Old age.
• Physical, Social, Cultural and Psychological Ageing. Aged Population as per 2001 census.

Unit II

• Health of the Older People : Longevity and Physical health; Mental and Emotional Health, III.
• Health and Disabilities, Health Intervention : Periodical Check up, information and awareness about prevention of problems, recreation programmes and counseling.

Unit III

Older Persons and Livelihood : Work Participation of Older Persons in the organized and unorganized sector. Age related policies and laws for education, employment, retirement, social security and persons.

Unit IV

• Effect of Socio-Economic changes on the aged. Problems faced by and needs of the aged.
• Integration of Aged in development. Community based Rehabilitation programmes.

Unit V

• Older Persons and family : Issues of neglect, abuse, violence and abandonment.
• Developmental Programmes for ageing.
• Intervention needs : Raising family and community awareness about ageing and death.

 

MSW 424(b)  Voluntary Action and Voluntary Organisation

Objectives

• To provide an understanding of the concepts of voluntary action,voluntary organizations and non-governmental organizations, and the  process of historical development of voluntary organizations, the process of historical development of voluntary organization.
• To make students aware about the increasing importance, goals, functions, role and partnership of voluntary organizations in the process of development.
• To equip students to form organizations and/or to function effectively in them, by providing insight about management aspects of organizations.
• To prepare students to identify the emerging challenges and issues before voluntary organizations and respond to them in an appropriate manner.

Unit I

Concepts : Voluntary Action – Individual and Collective.

• Voluntary Organisations : Non-Governmental organizations.
• Changing concepts of voluntary action and organizations.

Unit II

History of Development : Voluntary Action in different stages of development of society (pre and post independence efforts)

• Gandhian Constructive Programme Organization.
• Professionalisation in Organization

Unit III

Goals, structure and Functioning:

• Functions and Goals : Emerging Trends
• Organizational Structure and Lawns Governing Organization
• Process of formation of Organizations
• Principles of Working
• Partnership with Government.

Unit IV

• Resource Mobilization, funding agencies : types and patterns of funding
• Governmental Schemes for welfare, development and environment
• Project Planning : Project selection, project formulation and project implementation
• Reporting and documentation
• Problems of Organizations

Unit V

Voluntary Action, Organisations and Social Work :

• Emerging challenges and Responses
• Role of a professional social worker in Voluntary action and organization.