BSc Social Policy with Quantitative Research Methods (Industrial)

Year 2

(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year students should have provided evidence of being able to:
- demonstrate a broad understanding of the concepts, information, practical competencies and techniques which are standard features in Social Policy including the development and origins of the Welfare state and the social, cultural economic and political contexts of its operation;
- apply generic and the disciplinary qualities of Social Policy to standard situations outside the context in which they were originally studied;
- appreciate and employ the main methods of enquiry in Social Policy and critically evaluate the appropriateness of different methods of enquiry;
- use a range of techniques to initiate and undertake the analysis of data and information;
- adjust to the boundaries of Social Policy as a discipline;
- effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to Social Policy;
- skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility;
- decision making.

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:

- demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects/competencies of Social Policy to complex, albeit standard, situations and simple, albeit novel or atypical, instances;
- work that is often descriptive in nature but drawing on a wide variety of Social Policy material;
- demonstrating basic professional competencies relevant to Social Policy;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion in Social Policy.