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Community and Social Care (Integrated) (Foundation Entry) MComSC

Community and Social Care (Integrated) (Foundation Entry) MComSC

School of Social Work, Care and Community

UCAS Code

H258

Level

Under- graduate

Campus

Preston

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  • Duration:

    5 Years

  • Level:

    Undergraduate

  • Delivery:

    Campus, None

  • UCAS Code:

    H258; Short form:

  • Campus:

    Preston (Campus code: U)

  • Start Date:

    September

  • Award Type:

    MComSC

Why study this course?

This new course is ideal if you wish to undertake higher level research activity, increase your employability and pursue a career in community development, social care and/or third sector managerial posts managing issues of social inequality and social justice. The integrated Master’s in Community and Social Care is an innovative and varied five year course which will help you to develop your awareness of, and skills for, working within the community. While studying social care, social policy and community development, you’ll be supported to gain valuable structured work experience to promote employability and develop skills in undertaking research. The final year builds upon this foundation of knowledge and experience of community practice and offers opportunity to undertake higher level research and develop skills intended to prepare you for community-based managerial positions.

Entry Requirements

Our typical offer is 72 UCAS Points. We operate a flexible admissions policy and treat everyone as an individual. This means that we will take into consideration your educational achievements and predicted grades (where applicable) together with your application as a whole, including work experience and personal statement.

BTEC Extended Diploma: Merit, Merit, Pass
BTEC Diploma: Distinction, Merit
Pass Access Course: 72 UCAS Points
International Baccalaureate: Pass Diploma with 72 UCAS points from Higher Level Subjects
IELTS: 6.0 with no score lower than 5.5
GCSE: 5 at grade C/4 including Maths & English or equivalent

For changes to 2017 UCAS tariff entry requirements please see our important information. UCLan requires all undergraduate applicants to have a minimum attainment of five GCSEs at grade C and above, or equivalent, (including Maths and English). In 2017 and beyond we will view the new Grade 4 as being equivalent to a C grade and will therefore require students to achieve GCSE Grade 4 or above. However, if the subject is relevant to our degree programme and requires a higher GCSE grade (e.g. GCSE B grade), and/or includes a Professional body that governs the entry requirements, Grade 5 or above may be required.

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Course at a Glance

Year 1

  • Study Skills
  • Information Management
  • Understanding Individuals, Families and Communities

Continued

  • Working with Individuals, Families and Communities
  • Asset-based Community Development
  • Student Initiated Module (SIM) 
    (Can be taken in place of SWC035 for students who may not be able to undertake that module)

Years 2-5 | Core Modules

  • Action research and Community Project Supervision
  • Principals, Methods and Processes of Community Research

Years 2-5 | Optional Modules

  • International Perspectives on Poverty, Exclusion and Globalisation
  • Arts and Asset-based International Community Practice
  • Communities as Co-producers of Policies and Services
  • Social Theory and Social Policy
  • Childhood in Law and Welfare
  • Theorising Childhood and Adolescence
  • Safeguarding Children

Further Information

Course Aims

  • To enable students to critically analyse the contribution of a range of social, behavioural and political concepts, and apply these to community and social care policy and practice.
  • To encourage and facilitate students to develop knowledge, personal skills, resilience, networks and interests in areas relevant to community and social care policy and practice.
  • To enhance students capacity for taking personal responsibility for the direction and management of their learning and career development, through the sharing of knowledge and skills in the learning process.
  • To enhance students’ capacity for the critical evaluation of key theoretical perspectives.
  • To facilitate the active development of students action research skills; and inculcate the ability to reflexively apply these skills to community practice settings.
  • To equip students with the necessary practical skills to carry out community based research which is informed by contemporary debates on methodology, epistemology, ethics and politics
  • To provide students with a conceptual understanding that enables them to critically evaluate past and current research or equivalent advanced scholarship in the subject.
  • To enable and encourage students to align praxis and theory, in order to take on leadership and management roles in community practice settings.
  • To enable students to critically analyse the contribution of a range of social, behavioural and political concepts, and apply these to community and social care policy and practice.

Learning Outcomes

You will be able to:

  • Identify, outline and critically evaluate the interests and forces that have shaped and developed welfare provision and social policy in the UK.
  • Identify, discern and explain the contemporary structures, activities and organisations in the provision of welfare and community services, within a mixed economy of service delivery.
  • Interpret, synthesise and compare welfare management and social policy in relation to community service delivery in the UK and internationally.
  • Critically identify key concepts in understanding human and social needs in the UK and internationally.
  • Recognise diversity, identify key concepts in understanding issues of power, oppression and social justice, and critically apply these concepts to working in applied community practice
  • Identify and explain the theoretically contested nature of empowerment and other key concepts in community practice to address human and social need.
  • Recognise, outline and critically apply advanced research methods to working with disadvantaged groups and individuals in the community
  • Gain a theoretically informed, comprehensive and enhanced understanding of the theory, principles and values that underpin participatory community practice through practical experience.

Why study Social Work, Care and Community?

Handbook

For detailed information about studying this course at UCLan, please see the course handbook for your year of entry:

For information on possible changes to course information, see our Important Information.

Fees 2019/20

Full-time: The fee for the first year of the course will be £6,165 (UK/EU). Fees for years 2 to 5 will be £9,250 (UK/EU) per year

*Tuition Fees are per year unless otherwise stated.

Further information:

For 2018/19 fees please refer to our fees page.

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This course will involve access to children and/or vulnerable adults. You will be required to obtain a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service clearance (formerly termed CRB) and we will guide you through this process.

Learning Environment and Assessment

Throughout the programme there is a combination of formative and summative assessments. Summative assessment is through a combination of ‘standard’ essays, extended essays and short pieces of assessed coursework; individual and group presentations; group reports; research projects and community presentations; exams (seen and unseen) are also integrated into various modules. Reflective coursework is an integral part of the structured work experience and the broader programme curriculum. This is used to assess the links students’ make between social theory and the course programme, practice, enhanced professional development and employability.

Opportunities

You’ll undertake higher level research activity, increasing your employability, enabling you to pursue a career in community development, social care and/or third sector managerial posts managing issues of social inequality and social justice.