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Social Work Practice across the Life Course (L5094)

45 credits, Level 5

Autumn teaching

On this module, you will gain a comprehensive and robust overview of social work practice across the lifespan, encompassing both social work with children and families, with adults, and the transition across the lifecourse.

The module will further develop and contextualise learning from the BA Social Work year one modules, offering students the opportunity to deepen their understanding of the policy context, legislative frameworks, and relevant theories that underpin ethical, effective social work practice.

The module will also be guided by relational, trauma-informed, anti-racist and anti-oppressive values and practices, and aims to prepare you to enter your first field placement in the spring term.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 450 hours of work. This breaks down into about 62 hours of contact time and about 388 hours of independent study. The 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2024/25. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.