Social Work BA (Hons)

• Preparation for Social Work Practice
• Introduction to Law, Policy and Procedure
• Understanding the Life Span (Human growth and development)
• Introduction to Social Work Theories and Skills in practice

• Practice Placement (70 days)
• Law for Social Work Practice
• Research informed practice
• Social Work Theories, Processes and Skills in Practice
• Inter-Professional Education (IPE)

• Research Project
• The Developing Professional Practitioner
• Professional Judgement and Decision Making
• Final Practice Placement (100 days)

Social work is a full-time programme and in the first year, you can expect to be in taught sessions on most days. In the second and third years, you will have one to two days of independent study each week.

Teaching and learning approaches include:

• Individual and group work
• Shadowing
• Problem-based learning
• Lectures
• Tutorials

While on placements, you will work during the normal hours of your placement agency and may be required to attend placements 5 days per week.

Assessment

To ensure students are ready to practice, they are assessed in their first year through a communication exercise with a service user or carer and a shadowing exercise where they will shadow a social worker in their practice with service users and reflect on this experience. In addition, you will be required to pass both the second and third year placements

Teaching Contact Hours

Contact hours in a typical week will vary from week to week. . However, typically you will have up to 23 contact hours of teaching and this will break down as:

Personal tutorial/small group teaching: approx. 1 hours of tutorials (or later, project supervision) some weeks.

Medium group teaching: approx. up to 5 hours of practical classes, workshops or seminars each week

Large group teaching: approx. up to 20 hours of lectures each week

Personal study: approx. up to 15 timetabled hours studying and revising in your own time each week, including some guided study using hand-outs, online activities, etc.

The timetable for each week varies and each week is made up of different activities.