Postgraduate Diploma in Strategies for Social Intervention

Coordinator: Dr. Taly Reininger Pollak

Description:

This diploma program emerges from the research line “Epistemic, political, conceptual, and methodological discussions in Social Work,” developed within our Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Work Research Center (NEITS). This line of work has been enriched by decades of research on professional intervention in the frontline implementation of social programs and policies developed under the Center’s guidance. The proposal arises as a response to the challenges faced by intervention processes in social contexts marked by structural inequality, fragmentation, institutional fragility, and the delegitimization of the public sphere. Based on the premise that Social Work must assume its intellectual responsibility toward the country’s social agenda, this academic program seeks to contribute to the generation of complex understandings of social phenomena, as well as to the development of intervention strategies grounded in diverse critical perspectives of social transformation.

General Objective:

To strengthen professionals’ capacities to design well-founded strategies capable of responding to the complexity of current social phenomena and the inherent tensions of professional practice, through training oriented toward the analysis of contemporary intervention approaches that incorporate conceptual and methodological frameworks enabling an understanding of how strategies are configured and deployed in different institutional and territorial contexts.

Specific Objectives:

• Understand the epistemological, theoretical, methodological, and ethical-political foundations of Social Work and its contemporary debates.
• Critically analyze intervention strategies in relation to the structural, cultural, and political dimensions of social issues.
• Reflect on the design and implementation of social interventions from diverse critical perspectives that promote social transformation.
• Develop analytical and creative capacities to build intervention strategies that respond to the complexity of institutional and territorial contexts.
• Evaluate and propose intervention practices that strengthen the public sphere and promote equality and social justice.

Entry Profile:

The diploma is aimed at professionals from Social Sciences disciplines —such as Social Work, Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, among others— who hold a bachelor’s degree or professional title and who work in or wish to engage in contexts of social intervention, whether in public or private institutions, civil society organizations, or other settings. It is also open to students from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Chile who have completed their undergraduate degree.

Academic Staff:

Taly Reininger Pollak

Paula Vidal Molina

Teresa Matus Sepúlveda

Gianinna Muñoz Arce

Alejandra González Celis