| Description: |
This elective course helps students to better understand social service planning and delivery by exposing them to an entirely different cultural, political, and religious system of social policies and social service programs developed to solve societal problems and to address the needs of various groups (children, families, youth, the elderly) in Egypt. By traveling, observing and learning about the planning, implementation and evaluation of social service programs within a different culture, students will be able to determine the nature of social problems and how other factors may contribute to their existence. For example, students will be able to observe the process of providing care for special populations i.e. the disabled, the delinquent adolescent, those with health and mental health needs, and the elderly. This will provide students with a new understanding of the characteristics of social service programs and the factors contributing to their delivery which will be considered as part of their evaluation of these programs. |