Honours Degree
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If you want the challenge of working with vulnerable or difficult people or you’re keen to care, then this broad based course can help you find the right career path.
Helping you to identify and then deepen your areas of interest, this course will help you develop your role in a community or caring setting.
Accessible and wide-ranging, the course is also appropriate for those wishing to broaden their knowledge for interdisciplinary or assistant practitioner roles in the children, young people or adult care workforce. You’ll undertake work experience, either paid or voluntary, to help polish your CV and work-based skills and put your learning into context.
You’ll discover how to promote the independence, health and wellbeing of individuals, families and groups of people, who may be disabled, in ill health (mental or physical), at risk, in distress, in need of protection, or in conflict with the law. You’ll also find out more about some of the theory and practice of community development, social care, community health care, drugs and addiction, working with children and young people, social education, law and social policy and how people develop physically, mentally and emotionally.
Successful students will be able to progress to practitioner or professional levels through further study as a postgraduate student.
Some of our modules
- Human Lifespan Development
- Social Science Perspectives
- Developing Communities
- Public Health and Promotion
- Criminal Justice
- Addictive Behaviour
- Understanding Research
Benefits
- strong links with the local region and employers
- inter-disciplinary focus well suited to the needs of generic practitioners
- opportunities to develop either specialist or broad skills and knowledge
Career paths
- social and health care agencies
- children’s, young people’s and community work
Are there any placements for this course?
Students will have the opportunity to undertake assessed work-based experience at levels two and three.
How will the course be assessed?
Through coursework, assessments, presentations and projects.
Entry requirements
Study options
Full-time and part-time
Location
Francis Close Hall