Course Overview
This programme, which offers both an academic award and a professional qualification in Social Work, prepares you for careers in a broad range of social work agencies and settings.
The teaching emphasis is on issues relevant to social work practice in contemporary Britain, and explores the ways in which sociology, law, social policy and psychology inform and enhance professional social work.
The Department works in partnership with local stakeholders, including the main statutory and voluntary social work agencies in the North-West, and offers 170 days of placement practice learning.
The social work programme includes a focus upon:
- Policy and Legal Contexts of Social Work
- Social Divisions and Social Diversity
- Social Work with Young People
- Social Work with Children and Families
- Social Work and Drug Use
- Social Work and Mental Health
- Disability and the Life Course
- The Reflexive Practitioner
- Preparation for Practice