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The Faculty of Social Sciences offers professional qualifications, continuing education, and single courses within social sciences, social work, public administration and planning, and religion and church studies. The Faculty is divided in three institutes, the Insitute for Social Work, the Insitute for Public Administration and Planning, and the Insitute for Religion and Christianity Studies.
Programmes and courses offered at the Faculty of Social Sciences include Bachelor Programmes in Public Administration and Planning, Social Work and Child Welfare, Religion and Christianity Studies. The faculty also offers a unique Master's Degree Programme in Public Administration and Planning. In addition, many popular continuing education and long-distance courses are offered through the faculty; including modules in Crime Prevention, Management and Personnel Development, Problems of Drug and Substance Abuse, Pedagogy in the Public Health Sector, and Management in the Public Health Sector.
From the spring semester of 2007 the faculty will offer a Master's degree in "Social and Health Work - Learning, Empowerment and Coping".
Approximately 40 academic and administrative staff members are connected to the faculty. The academic staff are specialized in a number of disciplines and takes part in a number of research and development projects.
For more information, please contact Dean Hallgerd Conradi, hc@hivolda.no phone +47 7007 5081 or international coordinator Ingun Klepp, ik@hivolda.no, phone +47 - 7007 5196.
The Faculty of Social Sciences is located in the 'Hans Strøm' building.
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