Autism (Adults) MEd/BPhil/Postgraduate Diploma/ Postgraduate Certificate/Advanced Certificate

Year one

Autism Adults: Understanding and Working with the Continuum of Need (Core module)

Autism Adults: Intervention, Support and Education (Core module)

A Special Studies Module

What follows these modules in autism (adults)?

For those students studying at Level H for an Advanced Certificate in Education (Autism: Adults) if you have achieved good passes in your first two assignments, you can opt to progress on to the BPhil programme.

For those students studying at Level H for a BPhil (Autism: Adults) We recommend you do a double project module, which is an assignment of 6,000 words. This is an online module, available on CANVAS. It concerns a reflection or evaluation on an aspect of your practice, the focus and title of which will be negotiated with your regional tutor. You will then write a dissertation of 10,000 words on a topic discussed with your regional tutor. You are given eight months to complete your dissertation.

For those students studying at Level M for a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (Autism: Adults), if you have achieved good passes in your first two assignments, you can opt to progress on to the MEd/PGDip programme.

For those students studying at Level M for a Postgraduate Diploma in Education (Autism: Adults) you can then choose two or three other subject modules from another programme of study at the University to complete the 6 module requirement for the Diploma.

For those students studying at Level M for a Masters degree in Autism, you can then choose one or two other subject modules from another programme of study at the University, plus the research module PIE, to complete the 6 module requirement for the MEd, before your dissertation. The research module (PIE) prepares you for your dissertation of 15,000 words on a topic discussed with your regional tutor.