Last March 2014 I enrolled myself in the Certificate in Community Organising & Development held at the the University of Southern Philippines Foundation. This is a 40+ hours program brought to you by the only three schools offering the Bachelor's degree in Social Work in Cebu, the University of Southern Philippines, St. Theresa’s college and Southwestern University. Faculty members from the three universities will be taught us the principles and practices of Social work for the duration of the program. This is a 3 credit unit certificate which can be credited if you wish to proceed with the Master’s in Social Work degree offered by the University of Southern Philippines, the only institution in Cebu offering a master’s degree in Social work. Normally the course schedule is every Saturdays and Sundays but for our batch, which is batch 5, we had lectures for the whole day, Saturday and Sunday and then we had 4 hours of lectures on weekdays from Monday to Friday. Afterwards we will … [Read more...]