Applied Social Studies BA (Hons)

• Learn practical skills relevant to a wide range of human services work including management practice, communication and multi-agency working
• Study areas informed by research at the forefront of social work and development, including trafficking studies, youth offending vulnerable social groups
• Gain knowledge and skills in communication, team-working and research
• Explore your choice of areas such as children and families, crime, health care, disability, older people and global policy issues
• Benefit from a course which helps you develop breadth of mind, transferable knowledge
• and skills and humanistic values – all of which will help you attract potential employers

This course draws on world-leading research from both the Vauxhall Centre for the Study of Crime and The International Centre: Researching Child Sexual Exploitation, Violence and Trafficking, recently awarded the Queen’s Award for pioneering research into child sexual exploitation. The course covers both national and global social issues and policy responses and interventions across the human services. The units you will study are a mix of core and option units all focusing on knowledge, skills and analysis – essential requirements for your employability. Year 1 – students do three core units and choose one option unit: Core:

• Investigating Social Life
• Introduction to the Human Services
• Foundations in the Social Sciences

Options:

• Introduction to Criminology
• Introduction to Health and Social Care
• Introduction to Working with Children, Young People and Families

Year 2 – students do four core units and choose two option units: Core:

• Exploring the Social Sciences
• Research Approaches in the Social World
• Multi-Agency Working
• Comparing Welfare Internationally

Options:

• Global News Media and Contemporary Audiences
• Disability in Childhood: critical perspectives on policy and practice
• Mental Health and Society
• Contemporary Forced Migration
• Managing and Management in the Human Services
• Child Welfare: perspectives on and approaches to risk assessment
• Studies in ‘Race’ and Ethnicity
• Young People, Gangs and Group Offending

Year 3 – students do two core units and choose two option units: Core:

• Independent Project in Health and Social Care
• Ideas and Issues in Globalisation

Options:

• Dependency and Care: Critical perspectives on policy and practice
• The Social Body
• Violence in Contemporary Society
• Comparative Youth Justice
• Current Issues in the Human Services
• Human Services Today
• Contemporary Issues in Inclusion and Exclusion in Education