Social policy and practice bsc(hons)

Year 1

• Introduction to Research Methods

  The module introduces you to the range of research methods used in the social sciences and will enable you to develop the skills necessary to collect and analyse both quantitative and qualitative data.

• Social Policy and Social Welfare

  This module introduces you to the study of social policy and to main components of the welfare state. Focusing on service provision, it broadens an understanding of the complexity of the formation and implementation of social policy within the UK, noting and discussing the policy divergences which have occurred since devolution.

  The module will embrace a wide and inclusive understanding of the subject in a way that will engage and challenge your thinking.

• Preparing for Practice

  This module will introduce you to the policy process, a broad range of organisational practices, and the professional skills that you'll need for the placement modules at levels five and six.

• Contemporary Social Inequalities

  This module will provide you with the theoretical and conceptual tools to confront normative/normalising explanations of difference and inequality. You'll understand the ways that ‘differences’ and inequalities are formed and their consequences for everyday lived realities.

• Social Policy: Needs and Problems

  On this module you will gain the necessary theoretical tools to critically engage with the concepts of human needs and social problems, including concepts such as human rights and social construction. You'll explore themes that will allow you to grow your understanding of current social problems and the relationship to these to human needs.

• Introduction to Politics

  This module will give you a broad overview of the academic study of politics by focusing on core concepts of political science and political theory, and then applying those to political processes, institutions, ideologies, and the nature of political change.

  It will cover the core conceptual material needed for more advanced study in politics and will also introduce you to ideas and approaches that can be applied in other social sciences.