This document provides an overview of the BA (Hons) Social Care program at Manchester. It outlines the core units studied in each of the three years of the program, including topics like social policy, communication skills, and research methodologies. It also lists some optional units that can be taken in years 2 and 3, covering areas such as education, social work, disability studies, and more. The document discusses the teaching and learning approach, which includes lectures, seminars, blended learning, placements, and research-informed teaching. It mentions support available to students from academic tutors, year tutors, and other university services. Contact information is provided for the admissions tutor, Sophie Smailes, for any further questions.

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Welcome to Manchester
Welcome to Social Care

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BA (Hons) Social Care
Year 1/Level 4 (Core)
4 UNITS
•Mapping Social Care for Professional Practice
•Social Policy for Contemporary Social Issues
•Changing Communities/Challenging Practice
•Communication for Social Care

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BA (Hons) Social Care
Year 2/Level 5 (Core)
2 UNITS
•Social Research Methodologies in Professional
Practice
•Social Care: Community, Work and Families

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BA (Hons) Social Care
Year 2/Level 5 (Options)
•Work Based Learning 1
•Social Care Campaign Planning
•Current Theoretical and Practical Applications in Education
•Language, Culture and Communication in Social Care
•Communicating Care 1
•Managing Ourselves and Others
•Learning Disabilities and Social Inclusion: Truth or Dare?
•Social Work

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BA (Hons) Social Care
Year 3/Level 6 (Core)
1 UNIT
Independent Research Study for Social Care
Year 3/Level 6 (Options)
•Work Based Learning 2
•Corporate Social Responsibility in Policy and Practice
•Contemporary Social Work Practice
•Communication, Activism and Social Change
•Contemporary Communities: Issues and Debates in Policy and Practice

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BA (Hons) Social Care
Year 3/Level 6 (Options)
•Law Breaking and the Criminal Justice System
•Medical Technologies: The Body as Project
•Disability: Perspectives Across The Life Course
•Communicating Care 2
•Intersecting Gender and Sexuality for Social Care
•Analysing Policy Responses to Issues in Social Care

7. BIRLEY FIELDS
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Teaching and Learning
• Lectures and seminars in each unit
• Flexibility and blended learning
• Student centred approaches to teaching, learning and
assessments
• Moodle and e-learning
• Work based learning (placements)
• Research informed teaching

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Staff interests & some recent publications

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Student Support
• Academic tutors
• Year tutors
• Faculty student support officers
• Programme Student Support Experience tutor
• Access to a range of MMU services

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Communication
Keeping in touch

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14. Further information – Sophie
Smailes- Admissions tutor
s.smailes@mmu.ac.uk
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