BA Social Policy (International)

Year 3

Learning outcomes

On completion of this module students should:

- be familiar with academic debates circulating within their core area of study in their country of exchange
- be able to understand the significance of these debates to their knowledge and learning in UK social policy
- be able to appreciate the importance of developing comparative knowledge of social policy.
- be familiar with a different socio-political context and its relationship to the developments of distinctive social policy knowledge.
- be able to recognise the distinctiveness of UK social policy as a culturally specific form of knowledge in this discipline

Transferable (key) skills

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

- the transferable/key/generic skills necessary for employment related to Social Policy;
- the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility;
- the deployment of decision making skills in complex and unpredictable situations;
- the communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways;
- the ability to undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature.

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 of Social Policy;
- work that draws on a wide variety of material in Social Policy;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion in Social Policy;
- evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in depth enquiry within Social Policy;
- Social Policy work that is typically both evaluative and creative.