**Course Overview** - Want to make a difference? Our BA (Hons) Applied Community and Social Care Studies course will provide you with a strong knowledge base and develop the key skills required for community and social care leadership roles. - A vast range of specialist modules and topics are available to suit your areas of interest: politics and policy; race, racism and society; researching social inequality; relational practice; safeguarding children and young people; mental health and social care; working with domestic abuse; drugs and society; poverty, exclusion and social justice; crime and society; and many more. The second year of the programme provides an opportunity for you to link your academic learning to real-world practice through a practical ‘Structured Work Experience’ requirement. - Course team members are experienced academics whose specialist research and scholarly activity is in areas associated with community or social care practice. In addition to academic experience, many staff on the course team have worked as qualified social workers, whilst most others have direct experience of practice in the social care and community development sectors. - In addition to enhancing your employment opportunities, the programme provides essential educational underpinnings for learners to progress onto further postgraduate study and research in, for example, social work, social policy, education and community leadership. **Why study with us** - Excellent teaching and student support from the course team and University’s wider support services. - Outstanding student satisfaction which promotes individual aims, aspirations and success rates in degree progression. - As part of the course you will have the opportunity to hear about the experiences of service users, carers, patients and public members via our community engagement and service user support (Comensus) groups. **Further Information** - As part of the course you will have the opportunity to hear about the experiences of service users, carers, patients and public members via our community engagement and service user support groups (Comensus).

Year 1: Compulsory Modules: Introduction to Community Practice: Research and Development, Society in Focus: A Sociological Understanding, Communication and Social Media Skills in Social Care, Contextualising Welfare 1: The Development of British Social Policy, Contextualising Welfare 2: Theories, Concepts and Issues. Optional Modules (choose one): Development Across the Life Span, Asset Based Integrated Learning, Free Choice Elective Year 2: Compulsory Modules: Working in Community Practice: Research and Development, Social Care: Theory and Practice, Power, Oppression and Society, Management, Markets and Delivering Welfare, Comparative Social Welfare. Optional Modules (choose one): Health, Ageing and Social Care, Drugs and Society, Safeguarding Children and Young People, Difference, Diversity and Inclusive Practice, 'Race', Racism and Ethnicity, Student Initiated Module, Social Pedagogy (taught in 3rd Semester with residential), International Social Policy: Studying Abroad Year 3: Compulsory Modules; Single or Double Dissertation or Community Research Project, Applied Community Practice: Research and Development, Critical Social Policy. Optional Modules (choose two or three): Disability Studies, Crime and Society, Social Enterprise and Community Management, Poverty, Homelessness and Supported Housing, Working with People with Learning Disabilities, Youth Matters, Gender Issues, Mental Health and Social Care, Racism and Social Welfare, Social Theory: textual Analysis, Student Initiated Module, Allied Subjects, Social Policy, Sociology, Children, Schools and Families, Community Development, Social Work, Health and Social Care, Politics

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26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Course code: L590

Institution code: C30

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IELTS (Academic)	6.0	with no component score less than 5.5 (To have been taken within two years of the course commencement date)

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England	9250.0	Year 1
Northern Ireland	9250.0	Year 1
Scotland	9250.0	Year 1
Wales	9250.0	Year 1
Channel Islands	9250.0	Year 1

*subject only to annual increase in line with UK Retail Price Index inflation rate

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