L5FY Child & Adolescent Studies with Foundation Year BA (Hons)

Skills and experience gained Student learning, which consists of a range of experiences including the acquisition of knowledge, understanding, skills and competence, requires many forms of assessment, and details relevant to the learning outcomes of units are provided in the individual unit handbooks. Nevertheless, the strategy recognizes that most forms of assessment will serve several purposes and may combine the assessment of differing learning outcomes. Thus a variety of assessment types are used to meet the learning outcomes of individual units. The course also sets clear standards of achievement. Designed to inform students and increase your confidence in assessment, these standards will be reflected in students ability to evaluate their own performance. Aims of the BA Child and Adolescent Studies: To provide subject-specific knowledge and skills that prepares students for a career in the field of children and young people, to promote the acquisition of key transferable skills that enhance the employability of child and adolescent studies graduates within a flexible labour market, to enable students to gain an appreciation of and familiarity with research skills and methods to a level where they can successfully complete an independent project, to foster a commitment amongst students of the nature of discrimination, oppression and inequality in services for children, adolescents, young people and their families and of measures to combat their effects. It aims to foster a commitment amongst graduates of the award to the promotion of children and young peoples welfare and rights, to promote learning that fosters co-operation and collaboration as a means of addressing some of the complexities inherent in childrens and young peoples services and to give students access to a multi-disciplinary teaching course based on recent policy and research...