About Community And Social Care: Policy And Practice, BA (hons) in University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN)

If you want to make a difference in your community, this applied degree will help you develop a wider understanding of social welfare, social exclusion and disadvantage. You’ll get to grips with the policy and systems of service delivery, issues of power and oppression and social justice, as well as community development and human and social needs, all with an emphasis on delivering strength based practice. In your second and third years you can choose from a wide range of modules to suit your interests and ambitions, including social enterprise, homelessness, race and ethnicity, mental health, people with learning disabilities, disability studies, youth studies, social pedagogy, safeguarding and substance misuse.   

• We have strong links with employers and agencies, enabling you to link your classroom learning to real-world experiences accessible to you across a wide range of social care and community-based organisations.
• You’ll be encouraged to secure your own structured work experience, providing relevant interview and ‘real-life’ job application experience.
• You can choose from a wide range of modules to suit your interests and ambitions.

LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND ASSESSMENT

A 3 year degree qualification typically comprises 360 credits and each 20 credit (a standard module) equates to 200 hours of study, which comprises of a mixture of lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical sessions and independent study. Independent study is an important aspect of your degree course. The exact combination of study time will be detailed within your module descriptors, and will depend on your option choices.

With full and part-time study available, the learning environment on the programme includes interactive classes, workshops, group work, personal tutorials, seminars and structured work experience in a community and/or social care setting. Students will also have the opportunity to engage in independent study and group work projects. In addition, all students will have a personal tutor who will support students with any academic and pastoral issues as well as promoting student’s personal development.

A variety of approaches are used in assessing work. Each subject has its own assessment requirements which take the form of essay, group and individual presentations, workbooks, portfolios, conference presentations, debates and exams.

STRONG INDUSTRY LINKS

We have strong links with employers and agencies - structured work experience is embedded in the programme enabling you to gain the experience of social care and community-based services and project development and to link the classroom learning with real world delivery.

EXCITING OPPORTUNITIES

Graduates have gone onto work for a wide variety of employers in welfare settings, the voluntary and charitable sectors, education, the police, probation and the national offender service, youth offending teams, homelessness agencies, substance misuse agencies and the advice and research agencies in the voluntary or statutory sectors. The course also provides a good preparation for professional training at postgraduate level in areas such as probation, social work, housing management, teaching or academic research.

You’ll be encouraged to secure your own structured work experience – encouraging engagement and ownership – providing relevant interview and ‘real-life’ job application experience.

INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

Through the Erasmus Educational Exchange Programme, you’ll have the opportunity to study international approaches to community and social care in a variety of countries, including Poland, Germany, Spain, Denmark and Sweden or through ISEP you can study in America, Canada and Australia.

Students from our partners join our programme in Year 2/Year 3 if on Foundation and in the second year of the programme students partake in an international conference, with teaching from our ERASMUS partners.

For those students not able to partake in the international exchange programme there are opportunities for study tours abroad. We have had study tours to Portugal, Poland, and Sweden.

58% from listed boards (The All Indian Senior School Certificate awarded by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), or The Indian School Certificate (ISC) awarded by the Indian Council for School Examinations (ICSE), or a recognised Indian State Education Board, such as the West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Karnataka Education Boards
60% from other boards, not listed above
Where a specific subject is required for entry to the degree programme, 58% must be achieved in this subject
Pre-University Certificate, Government of Karnataka can be considered – send to tutor – evidence from Govind included in entry requirements folder
3% margin to be considered by UCLan staff based on reputation of institution, work experience etc

65% in Year 12 English *
Or
65% average grade in Year 11 and Year 12 English provided Year 12 is not below 60%
Or
Standard English language requirements – IELTS 6 or equivalent

University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) Highlights

University of Central Lancashire Average Tuition Fees And Other Expenses

Preston is officially the cheapest city in the UK for students. The following are the categories of the tuition fee payable by the students.

The total estimated annual cost of attendance for the 2020/2021 academic session is as presented on the table below: