在此学位上，您将学习社会科学作为基础。在此过程中，您将开发更具体的社会工作知识，价值观和技能。作为课程的一部分，您将把自己的知识应用于社会工作实践。这是通过在2年级和3年级中进行170个评估练习日，再加上30个技能日。您将获得研究技能，尤其侧重于调查，评估和批判分析。在第一年，您将探索社会政策，研究方法，社会学和心理学方面的关键主题。您还将被介绍给社会工作并了解社会工作价值。这将为您准备将您的专业技能以及理论和研究知识应用到实践中。在第二年和第三年，您将通过研究社会工作实践领域，包括与儿童和家庭进行的社会
Gain the knowledge and skills to practice as a registered professional social worker. This course combines academic learning and practice placements. <br>This course will prepare you for a challenging and rewarding career in social work. We offer comprehensive training that will enable you to apply to register as a social worker and practice in a range of settings. You'll study the social sciences as a foundational base and develop more specific social work knowledge, values and skills. You'll be based in the Department of Social & Policy Sciences and our teaching team work closely with colleagues across the disciplines of sociology, social policy, criminology and international development. You'll benefit from their expertise and our fifty years of experience training social work practitioners at the University. In your first year you'll study social work units alongside sociology and social policy. Areas include social work values and methods, psychology and social work theories and methods. You'll develop an awareness of social inequality and social justice that will underpin your training, and enhance your social work skills in readiness for your practice placements. In your second year you'll begin your Professional Practice Placement and advance your study of social work. Alongside your placement you will also explore topics such as discrimination and empowerment. In this year you'll study core social work units of social work with children and families, working with adults and mental health social work. In your final year you'll continue your social work studies and in your last semester you will undertake a final Professional Practice Placement. You'll build on the knowledge and skills you have developed in previous years and apply this to your practice with service users and carers.