Module SOCI43115: Field Based Learning

Department: Applied Social Sciences

SOCI43115: Field Based Learning

Prerequisites

• None

Corequisites

• None

Excluded Combination of Modules

• N/A

Aims

• The module will involve students in undertaking a defined period of fieldwork based learning in a formal social/ youth/community work setting. Students will be engaging with an independent analysis of the organisational and policy aspects informing social work and community development practice.

Content

• Introduction to field based learning
• Ten day field based learning opportunity in a social/community work agency
• Critical evaluation of organisational and policy related aspects of FBL

Learning Outcomes

• On completion of the module, students will have:
• A critical understanding of the social/ community work agency they have been working with;
• An appreciation of the organisational contexts of social and community work;
• An ability to collect and collate relevant information relating to the agency under; study, including statistical information, perceptions of service users and practitioners;
• An ability to carry out an agency study and present findings appropriately.

• On completion of the module, students will have:
• an ability to relate research findings to policy and practice in a specialist field of study;
• an ability to report findings effectively, draw conclusions based on research and locate these in the context of other research and literature;
• an ability to comprehend, analyse and present complex concepts and arguments linked to social research

• On completion of the module students will have:
• skills in collection, analysis and presentation of data;
• an ability to work autonomously, taking a high level of responsibility for their work;
• presentation skills;
• communication skills

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• Fieldwork in social/community work agencies
• Recall days

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

None.

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University