Social Work Club

Hi friends my name is Tuğba Nur Coşar. I am the founding President of the Social Work Club. Our club was founded in October of 2014. We started it with other friends in our department. We established our club to help us as students in the following areas: to visit different establishments that can help us apply and use what we are learning in the classroom, to do research and get research experience outside of the classroom, to meet with our friends in a relaxed way, and to experience our field in real life situations. Our club meets in the club meeting room designated for clubs to meet. Most of the time, it doesn’t matter to us where we meet as along as we are together as a group. We have about 50 people in our club. Since we are all in the social services department, all of our friends automatically become members. Our club is flexible in that students can participate when they can. We do ask people to register with us as a club. Students that are curious about our club get information from us. Sometimes, people outside of our club want to participate in our activities or events. We allow this. We also try to educate ourselves outside the classroom by reading academic things that relate to our field. Because of this, we try to meet in an organized way. We have a reading group in our club. One of our professors, Ömer Miraç Yaman, helps us with our reading group. Last year, we participated in a conference with many different other clubs from different universities in a Turkey-wide convention in our field. Our club helped raise finances for our students to go to this convention. We organized a wall panel on campus where students can ask questions that concern our department. We try to help answer these questions and we also get back good answers from other students. This has helped bring about more socialization on our campus and it has helped advertise our department more to the student body. We coordinate and organize trips to visit the Social and Children Services. Our club is open to everyone at Istanbul 29 Mayıs University that wants to be involved in our social work activities. It does not matter if you are a student or teacher. I have learned a lot about organization and job unity from this club. It has also helped me realize more about the social needs in the world