Health and Social Care FdSc

Teaching

The team adopts a Universal Design for Learning approach to inclusive teaching, learning and assessment accommodating all types of learners.

We will enable you to learn through sessions that are a combination of lectures, e-lectures, seminars and group work, all of which aim to encourage student interaction. Sessions will focus on subject specific information and will take a variety of different formats to promote your learning.

Seminars, case studies, scenarios and problem based learning will facilitate development of inquiry into real world situations, developing your skills, knowledge and practice.

E-lectures will provide you with the opportunity to deepen your understanding of the material presented through online learning. In addition, meetings with personal academic tutors are available and encouraged, in order to support you throughout the course.

Practice

You will undertake at least 200 hours of practice in each academic year in a relevant placement setting (subject to clearance). You are responsible for arranging your placement and support from the work based learning team is available to do so. You will be supported in the placement setting by a mentor and a visiting University tutor during your placement. They will enable you to achieve the most from your experience, agree your learning, as well as practice set goals.

Contact time

In a typical week you will have around 7 hours contact hours of teaching. Typically, class contact time will take place on one day per week and a typical day at University may look like this:

9.15-11.15am; 2 hour session
11.30-13.30pm; 2 hour session   
2.15-3.15pm 1 hour session
3.15-5.15pm; 2 hour session

Independent self-study

In addition to the contact time, you are expected to undertake around a minimum of 15 hours of personal self-study per week. Typically, this will involve completing online activities, reading journal articles and books, working on individual and group projects, undertaking research in the library and online, preparing coursework assignments and presentations, and preparing for examinations.

A range of excellent learning facilities, including the Hive and library resources, the virtual learning environment, and extensive electronic learning resources, supports independent learning.

Teaching staff

You will be taught by a teaching team whose expertise and knowledge are closely aligned to the content of the modules on the course. The team includes academics and professional practitioners with relevant experience. For example, public health practitioners, counsellors, sociologists, mental health practitioners, social workers, youth workers, physiotherapists and nurses.

Teaching is based on research and consultancy; a high percentage of teaching staff have a higher education teaching qualification or are Fellows of the Higher Education Academy.

You can learn more about the staff by visiting our staff profiles.

Assessment

The course provides opportunities to test understanding and learning informally through the completion of optional 'formative' assignments. Each module has mandatory 'summative' assessments, which are graded and count towards the overall module grade. Assessment methods include written examinations and a range of coursework assessments such as essays, reports, case studies, reflective portfolios and presentations.

Feedback

You will receive feedback / feed forward on all assessments. We aim to provide you with constructive feedback on summative assessments within 20 working days of the submission deadline date. Feedback supports learning and you are encouraged to discuss it with personal academic tutors and module tutors as appropriate.

Programme specification

For comprehensive details on the aims and intended learning outcomes of the course, and the means by which these are achieved through learning, teaching and assessment, please download the latest programme specification document.