Public Services BA (Hons) - Top-up

Bachelor's degree

In Preston

£ 9,250 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Preston

If you’re looking for practical and applied skills to equip you for future employment in public services, then our top-up degree offers you the chance to improve on your foundation or HND qualification in just one year and engage academically with current contemporary issues and the main challenges facing central and local government. You’ll be able develop your own views about a range of social sciences including politics, education, criminology and public services, and take advantage of volunteer based learning and the chance to go on field trips as part of your student experience.

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Location

Start date

Preston (Lancashire)
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University Of Central Lancashire, PR1 2HE

Start date

On request

About this course

Entry Requirements 2017/18 FD / HND Public Services For changes to 2017 UCAS tariff entry requirements please see our important information. UCLan requires all undergraduate applicants to have a minimum attainment of five GCSEs at grade C and above, or equivalent, (including Maths and English). In 2017 and beyond we will view the new Grade 4 as being equivalent to a C grade and...

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Subjects

  • Public
  • Government

Course programme

Course at a Glance

There are three compulsory modules:

  • Policy Interpretations in The UK Dilemmas and Controversies – Putting Policy Into Practice Within Multidisciplinary Environments. The module aims are to critically analyse how governmental policy is interpreted, negotiated, translated, reviewed and implemented within different multidisciplinary environments within the UK. The assessment is one essay of 2,500 words and a report of 2,500 words.

  • Investigating Public Administration : Central and Local Government: Public Services Policy and Front Line Delivery

  • Public Services dissertation. This is an extended piece of work (10,000 words in length) on your chosen topic of interest in the public services field. It will normally be related to your core module or one of the pathways.

Students can choose one year two module or choose just from year three modules: 

Module Title

Controversial Issues in Prisons
Understanding Policing
Understanding Interpersonal Violence
Diversity & Inclusive Practice
Volunteering in the EU

Students choose either two year three modules or three year three modules:

Module Title

Optional Modules

Understanding Security and Policing in the twenty-first Century
The Sociology of Childhood
Human Trafficking and ‘Modern Day’ Slavery
Crime and New Technologies
Understanding State Crime and Genocide
Sex, Violence and Strategies
The Education of Vulnerable Young People
Learning from Work in Children’s Services
Terrorism and Security
Why Prison?
Student Initiated Module
Global Community Exchange

Public Services BA (Hons) - Top-up

£ 9,250 + VAT