Community and Social Care: Policy and Practice BA (Hons)

UCLAN - University of Central Lancashire

Bachelor's degree

In Preston

£ 9,250 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Preston

If you want to make a difference in your community, this applied degree will help you develop a wider understanding of social welfare, social exclusion and disadvantage. You’ll get to grips with the policy and systems of service delivery, issues of power and oppression and social justice, as well as community development and human and social needs, all with an emphasis on delivering strength based practice. In your second and third years you can choose from a wide range of modules to suit your interests and ambitions, including social enterprise, homelessness, race and ethnicity, mental health, people with learning disabilities, disability studies, youth studies, social pedagogy, safeguarding and substance misuse.    

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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 2017/18 112 Points at A2; General Studies accepted
BTEC Extended Diploma: Distinction, Merit, Merit 
BTEC Diploma: Distinction*, Distinction*
Pass Access Course: 112 UCAS Points  
International Baccalaureate Diploma: 28P
IELTS: 6.0 with no component lower than 5.5
GCSE: 5 at grade C including Maths & English or equivalent  ...

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Subjects

  • Social Policy
  • Disability
  • Mental Health

Course programme

Course at a Glance Year 1

Compulsory Modules:

  • Introduction to Community Practice: Research and Development
  • Society in Focus: A Sociological Understanding
  • Communication and Social Media Skills in Social Care
  • Contextualising Welfare 1: The Development of British Social Policy
  • Contextualising Welfare 2: Theories, Concepts and Issues

Optional Modules (choose one):

  • Development Across the Life Span
  • Asset Based Integrated Learning
  • Free Choice Elective

Year 2

Compulsory Modules:

  • Working in Community Practice: Research and Development
  • Social Care: Theory and Practice
  • Power, Oppression and Society
  • Management, Markets and Delivering Welfare
  • Comparative Social Welfare

Optional Modules (choose one):

  • Health, Ageing and Social Care
  • Drugs and Society
  • Safeguarding Children and Young People
  • Difference, Diversity and Inclusive Practice
  • 'Race', Racism and Ethnicity
  • Student Initiated Module
  • Social Pedagogy (taught in 3rd Semester with residential)
  • International Social Policy: Studying Abroad

Year 3

Compulsory Modules:

  • Single or Double Dissertation or
  • Community Research Project
  • Applied Community Practice: Research and Development
  • Critical Social Policy

Optional Modules (choose two or three):

  • Disability Studies
  • Crime and Society
  • Social Enterprise and Community Management
  • Poverty, Homelessness and Supported Housing
  • Working with People with Learning Disabilities
  • Youth Matters
  • Gender Issues
  • Mental Health and Social Care
  • Racism and Social Welfare
  • Social Theory: textual Analysis
  • Student Initiated Module
  • Allied Subjects
  • Social Policy
  • Sociology
  • Children, Schools and Families
  • Community Development
  • Social Work
  • Health and Social Care
  • Politics

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