The Course of Study in Social Work provides skills and knowledge that allow the social worker to carry out his/her activity within the organized system of social resources, acting according to the principles, skills and methods specific to the profession. The social worker is now a recognized profession pursuant to Law 23 March 1993 n. 84 (Regulation of the profession of Social Worker and establishment of the professional register). He/she is a professional who operates with technical-professional and judgment autonomy in all phases of the intervention for the prevention, support and recovery of individuals, families, groups and communities in situations of need and hardship and can carry out educational-training activities. The profession of social worker can be practiced autonomously or as a subordinate employment relationship. The social worker promotes the self-determination of the citizen-user through the use of personal and social resources in order to develop their autonomy and responsibility, organizing and promoting benefits and services that are as responsive as possible to people's needs, enhancing and coordinating for this purpose all public and private resources established to implement the orientations of social policy according to the rules defined by social legislation. It is a profession of helping people in need; for this reason, the social worker represents, for the user, the operational response to refer to since he or she is the indispensable activator of the individual resources of those who access the services.
The actual provision of services is subject to an assessment of the conditions of need and specific professional assessments of the social worker as the owner of the tools that indicate the appropriateness of the personalized project and is the guarantor of the integration of social and health services. The main task of the social worker is to identify cases of need in the population of a given territorial or social area and to intervene for their solution by preparing the most suitable interventions and using the available institutional and community resources.

To be admitted to the degree course in Social Work, a high school diploma (five years) or a foreign qualification recognized as suitable is required. Furthermore, knowledge of the general aspects of the contemporary social structure is required, with reference to the Italian case inserted in the European context; knowledge of the basic notions of social legislation, an adequate ability to understand texts and a good level of written and oral expression.
To this end, the faculty offers introductory courses aimed at providing and, at the same time, verifying the possession of such knowledge. The organization of such courses and the method of verifying the required knowledge will be determined by the Teaching Regulations of the Degree Course.
These Regulations will define the additional training obligations for those who do not possess the minimum levels of knowledge required for access to the course of study.
The fulfillment of such obligations will occur through certified attendance at the supplementary courses that will be organized. Failure to attend or insufficient attendance at such courses will result in the loss of enrollment.

The final exam consists of the student presenting a written paper, agreed with a teacher (supervisor) belonging to the scientific disciplinary sector present in the student's curricular path.
The final exam aims to evaluate the student's ability to develop a topic among those covered during the studies, and/or to reflect on the internship experience, in order to ascertain the possession of theoretical-practical skills consistent with the specific objectives of the Course of Study.
The following elements contribute to the overall evaluation: the weighted average of the exam marks, the possible presence of training activities abroad, the presence of honors in the profit exams, the possible completion of the three-year training path in progress and the mark obtained in the final exam.

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