Skills Developed:

Knowledge and understanding
A necessary feature of the BA (Hons) Top-up is an intellectually rigorous study of health and social care procedures and processes, and the cultural, political and historical contexts within which they are embedded. While individual units within the degree programme may have a focus upon particular age groups, or particular contexts and social systems, they will provide students with opportunities to engage in critical reflection and debate.

Students should have the opportunity to engage with a number of different perspectives and to evaluate aims and values, means and ends, and the validity of the issues in question.

Analyse issues systematically critically evaluate policy in an informed and systematic way accommodate to new principles and new knowledge apply and evaluate key principles across social, health and care systems

Application
The course will enable students to apply their subject knowledge and understanding through: the analysis of complex situations concerning human behaviour and development in particular contexts. the use of examples of the implementation of policies in practice the accommodation of new ideas and issues such as globalisation, social justice, sustainable development, social inclusion and the knowledge economy provision of well argued conclusions relating to these main ideas and issues

Reflection
The course will provide opportunities for students to: reflect on their own value systems, development and practices question concepts and theories encountered in their studies interrogate the assumptions underpinning theory and research reflect on their own development and practices

The following transferable skills are derived from the three preceding strands. They are characteristic of social care and of work with children and young people but not necessarily unique to it. By the end of their degree programme students will be able to demonstrate the following: Self management including the ability to:

§ study independently, set goals manage their own workloads and meet deadlines
§ anticipate, negotiate and accommodate change
§ work within the context of ambiguity, uncertainty and unfamiliarity Critical awareness including the ability to:

§ analyse information and experiences, formulate independent judgements, and articulate reasoned arguments through reflection, review and evaluation
§ formulate reasoned responses to the critical judgements of others
§ identify personal strengths and needs Interpersonal and social skills including the ability to:

§ interact effectively with others, through collaboration, collective endeavour and negotiation Skills in communication and presentation including the ability to:

§ articulate ideas and information comprehensibly in visual, oral and written forms
§ present ideas and work to audiences in a range of situations Information skills including the ability to:

§ source, navigate, select, retrieve, evaluate, manipulate and manage information from a variety of sources; select and employ communication and information technologies Problem solving

§ Identify sources of problems, assess risk, make reasoned judgement, identify creative solutions, review outcomes and evaluate strategies to solve problems