Courses involving social involvement

Unit for Social Involvement

Courses involving social involvement - between theory and practice

Entrepreneurship Seminar and Social Involvement Program B.A. Managers

The program's students, most of whom are managers in industry, are exposed in this seminar to the activity that characterizes the patterns of action and coping of social entrepreneurs, while focusing on issues of contribution and social change.
The seminar combines theoretical and practical work with civil society organizations. During the development, the teams must work within the framework of the organization to which they have joined. Success of the test is expressed in their ability to contribute an added value to the organization - development of service and / or product.

The seminar enables students, graduates in management positions at intermediate levels who combine work and studies, to express their managerial and professional experience in the development processes alongside the implementation of the theoretical knowledge provided in the framework of the studies.

The final project of the M.A. program in immigration and social integration

The students' final project deals with issues related to Jewish and other immigration, and reflects the theoretical knowledge acquired by the students during their studies and its implementation. The project enables students to experiment working with immigrant absorption bodies who are dealing with issues of non-Jewish immigration, to analyze governmental reports, etc.  The project expresses the understanding and the ability to deal with the chosen issue of local authority bodies and / or other bodies responsible for the activities in this field.

Young Entrepreneurs Seminar

As part of the seminar, the following persons will be giving lectures: students from the Business Administration Department, together with business teachers and mentors, as well as high school students participating in the "Young Entrepreneurs - Doing Business" program.  As part of the program, the students learn about setting up business ventures and at the same time actually experiment with the establishment of mini-start-up independent business companies. The processes of establishment are manifested in the experience and assimilation of social and ethical norms such as business ethics, leadership and teamwork.

Final Projects in Social Associations - Department of Industry and     Management

The purpose of the final projects in the department is to provide students with an opportunity to acquire practical experience by providing a solution to the need of a real organization. In the development of the project, the students must invest hundreds of hours of work, during which a comprehensive study of the organization's activities and identification of its needs and problems is carried out.

For example, students were active in an organization aimed at securing the rights of Holocaust survivors and developed an information management system that expanded the organization's exposure to survivors and their relatives and improved access to rights. In the Association of Parents of Adult Children with Autism, an information management system was developed in favor of the organization's employment center.

Documentation of life stories of Holocaust survivors and the elderly in Emek  Hefer

The course, which is conducted as part of the "Field Experience" of the students in the Behavioral Sciences Department, specializing in Sociology and Anthropology, under the direction of Dr. Eli Teiman, is based on three levels and tasks that the students are asked to perform during the school year:

• During the first semester, the students are divided into couples and volunteers two hours a week in day centers for the elderly or elderly homes close to their place of residence. In terms of research, volunteering is an experience in the necessary stage of "entering the field" and personal acquaintance with members of the community. At each of the centers, the students are in contact with the therapeutic system, in a place that accompanies them through guidance and counseling throughout the period of volunteering. This is in parallel to the instructor's close instruction.
• At the same time as volunteers, the students took an active part in the "Generations Project" of the Jewish Agency, the Yad Vashem Museum and the Veterans' Office, whose purpose is to document the life stories of Holocaust survivors.
• In the second semester, students interview veteran citizens of all Jewish communities about their lives. At the end of the project, the volunteers prepare a book of life that is given to the interviewees as a gift at a festive event attended by family and friends.

"Being a girl" - a meeting between the girl in me and the girl you are

The course deals with issues of identity among girls in distress who have been expelled from regular educational frameworks. During the year, the students meet with the girls, learn about their lives, discuss the challenges they face and together create tools to ease and cope. At the end of the year, girls and students develop a supportive relationship based on mutual learning, listening and finding ways of coping. The project is held together with the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Welfare.

From Theory to Practice in Intervention and Treatment of Violence in Collective  Societies: The Case of Arab Society in Israel

A semester course in Arabic for 15 students (male and female) from the Arab society in the Department of Social Work and the Nursing Department of the second year and up. The course includes a theoretical component in the classroom and a component of work in therapeutic-counseling frameworks in Arab society. During the course, students participate in workshops to reduce violence in Arab society, meet with men and women from the society, and formulate concrete recommendations for activities that reduce violent behaviors.

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