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Postgraduate Handbook 2017-2018 (archived)

Module SOCI43115: Field Based Learning

Department: Sociology

SOCI43115: Field Based Learning

Type	Level	Credits	Availability	Module Cap	Location
Tied	4	15	Available in 2017/2018	None.	Durham

Tied To

L5KD07: International Social Work and Community Development

Pre-requisites

None

Corequisites

None

Excluded Combinations

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

Subject-specific Knowledge

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.

Subject-specific Skills

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

Key Skills

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

Activity	Number	Frequency	Duration	Total Hours
Field-based Learning	10	1 x weekly	8 hours	80
Recall days/workshops	2	2 per term	2.5 hours	5
Independent study: reading, class and assignment preparation				65
Total				150

Summative Assessment

Component	Component Weighting	Element	Length/Duration	Element Weighting	Resit Opportunity
Agency Report	100%	Presentation (Agency report)	20 minutes	100%	yes

Formative Assessment

None.

Students who do not attend monitored activities shown under Teaching Methods and Learning Hours, or who fail to complete the summative or formative assessment(s) specified above, may be subject to the Academic Progress procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University.