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Guide to choosing classesSchool of Social Work and Social Policy

The following classes are available to exchange students studying in School of Social Work and Social Policy:

Semester 1 – Level 1

These classes run from September until December

  • Class code: L5115
  • Level: 1
  • Semester: 1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

This module introduces and explores social science theories and approaches which are relevant to contemporary social work, drawing in particular from sociology and social policy. The module also has an emphasis on research awareness. For example, public discourses around social policy and interpreting research data relating to issues such as poverty and inequality. You're introduced to an appreciation of how research is used in public policy.

  • Class code: S1101
  • Level: 1
  • Semester: 1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

This module will introduce you to the key socio-psychological theories informing an understanding of human development and behaviour. Areas covered will include individual, group and community factors such as identity, family, disability and culture. You'll develop an understanding of the process of development for individuals and groups. This will include discussion of the key factors in promoting resilience and those which may inhibit healthy growth.

  • Class code: L5117
  • Level: 1
  • Semester: 1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

This class is designed to introduce you to some of the major issues confronting Scottish society and to provide an accessible introduction to some of the key concerns of Social Policy.  It will examine a range of issues, including questions of poverty and inequality, social divisions, health, housing, education, and criminal justice.

Semester 1 – Level 2

  • Class code: L5206
  • Level: 2
  • Semester: 1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

This module is intended to equip you with the practice skills and theory required in order to take Assessed Practice 1. The module will provide you with the opportunity to rehearse skills fundamental to sound and appropriate professional relationships It's the primary means by which you're assessed as competent to undertake practice learning in a service delivery setting.

  • Class code: L5209
  • Level: 2
  • Semester: 1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Group Work, Private Study

Class descriptor

The module will provide you with a thorough understanding of the legal basis for social work intervention and the significance of the relationships with statutory social services and the independent social services sector. It will enable you to understand the social worker’s role as statutory agent with duties and responsibilities to protect the public and uphold the law by providing you with a firm grounding in the legislation that underpins and impinges on your practice.

  • Class code: L5201
  • Level: 2
  • Semester: 1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

This module examines the delivery models and organisational structures that underpin social work services. A key issue to be addressed will be the extent to which changes in organisation and structures facilitate the role and value base of social work. The module will also take account of the increasing emphasis on inter-professional working across public services. It will examine the evidence base for pursuing inter-professional working and the challenges it poses for the voice and values of social work to be heard amongst other professional disciplines.

  • Class code: L5217
  • Level: 2
  • Semester: 1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

This class explores some of the different ways in which social policy has evolved in Scotland in response to a variety of social problems since the introduction of the Scottish Poor Law Act in 1845. It covers all the main areas of social policy, including health, housing, education and poverty, and also explores the changing boundaries between individuals, families, communities, voluntary organisations, commercial welfare and state over the course of this period.

Semester 1 – Level 3

  • Class code: L5328
  • Level: 3
  • Semester: 1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

This new class adds to the new social policy degree programme as an option and it aligns with the degree in the following ways. First, it will encourage students to think constructively and critically about the role of emotions in criminal justice policy and in the subject of Criminology. Second, it will interrogate the tensions between rationality and emotionality in criminal justice processes. Third, it will seek to understand how emotions sit at the nexus of how criminal justice policy is ‘made’ and the consequences for understanding crime and offending in specific social groups at local, national and international policy contexts. Emotions play a key role in the development of the subject of Criminology and in the operation of criminal justice systems. While criminal activity provokes emotions such as anger, pity, shame, forgiveness and revenge, the subject has been neglected in the subject of Criminology.

  • Class code: L5332
  • Level: 3
  • Semester: 1 (September to December)
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

This module explores welfare reform, which is increasingly a major site of public, policy and academic interest and controversy in the UK and beyond. Focusing mainly on the UK and, it covers four broad themes: How has social security been reformed in the UK in recent years and how this has impacted access to social security support, particularly for people out-of-work and on low incomes; children and families, and disabled people?, Why have these been reforms introduced and are they a effective solutions to the policy problems identified, such as unemployment; 'welfare dependency' and concerns around high levels of spending on social security?, What has been their impact on labour market participation; poverty, including the rapidly burgeoning issue of food poverty; health, homelessness, human rights and equalities, especially gender equality?, What alternatives are there to the welfare reform agenda? Can Scotland use newly-devolved powers to create an alternative system, and does Universal Basic Income offer a solution to the problems of the current system?

Semester 2 – Level 1

These classes run from January until May.

  • Class code: L5116
  • Level: 1
  • Semester: 2 (January to May)
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

This module will contribute to the development of your awareness and understanding of issues of inequality. It will develop some of the theories and concepts from the module "Understanding Social Science and Social Research" and consider how inequality impacts on the lives of vulnerable individuals and groups within society.

  • Class code: L5110
  • Level: 1
  • Semester: 2 (January to May)
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Group Work, Private Study

Class descriptor

This module provides you with a historical overview of the development of social work values and ethics. It introduces you to core ethical concepts in social work and encourages you to understanding the ethical dimensions of choice, decision-making, interventions and the use of professional discretion.

  • Class code: L5119
  • Level: 1
  • Semester: 2 (January to May)
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Group Work, Private Study

Class descriptor

This module will prepare you for work with individuals, families and communities. It will equip you with the skills necessary to develop a critical understanding of the complex interactions between individuals, groups and wider social contexts. The module will assist you to identify the social processes that can result in inequalities within communities and will build on the sociological and psychological theories introduced in year one of the course. The module will consider the ways in which sources of inequality can be challenged at an individual, community and structural level.

  • Class code: L5118
  • Level: 1
  • Semester: 2 (January to May)
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

In this module we'll ask why and how certain issues become defined as 'social problems' and what impact this has on the social policy that we make in response. Why do societies change the way they understand 'social problems' over time, and how does this impact policy change? Can we understand social policy differences between countries in terms of how they conceptualise 'social problems' differently? What role does political ideology and the media have in framing how societies understand the 'social problems' they face and how to resolve them? Are some groups unfairly targeted as being a source of social problems? Do the ways that we understand issues around the benefits system, crime, disability, migration, and families and young people really reflect their empirical reality and what can we do to begin tackling these issues differently? These are some of the key questions this module seeks to ask and to answer.

  • Class code: L5114
  • Level: 1
  • Semester: 2 (January to May)
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Group Work, Private Study

Class descriptor

In acknowledgement of this changing practice environment this introductory module will examine the nature, extent and impact of domestic abuse as it occurs between partners or former partners including those in same sex relationships. The module will study domestic abuse within a social and historical context. Although the module is not designed to examine child abuse, it will examine the effects of domestic violence on children. The legislative and policy context in shaping understanding and good practice interventions will also be examined.

Semester 2 – Level 2

  • Class code: L5207
  • Level: 2
  • Semester: 2 (January to May)
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

Social workers practise in a diverse range of settings. This module comprises a series of options which enable students to develop a deeper, critical understanding of social work practice in a particular setting, such as criminal justice, community care, residential childcare or children and families.

  • Class code: L5216
  • Level: 2
  • Semester: 2 (January to May)
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

This class examines the ways in which social policies are ‘made’ at both a national and international level.  It examines the roles played by different actors, institutions and ideas.  It also looks at the ways in which evidence is used to inform policy-making, and at the ways in which we are all involved, as citizens, in the policy process.  These themes are explored with the aid of a series of case-studies.

  • Class code: L5218
  • Level: 2
  • Semester: 2 (January to May)
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

This class explores some of the most important concepts in the academic study of Social Policy, including such concepts as equality, justice, need, happiness, poverty and wellbeing. It also examines a number of different ideological perspectives on these issues, such as liberalism, conservatism, socialism, social democracy, Marxism, feminism and the New Right.

Semester 2 – Level 3

  • Class code: L5311
  • Level: 3
  • Semester: 2 (January to May)
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

The process of globalisation has resulted in an increasing diversity in Scotland’s population. There's a need for social work practice which recognises effectively this diversity and difference and the marked adversity or disadvantage and discrimination faced by some migrants. 

  • Class code: L5327
  • Level: 3
  • Semester: 2 (January to May)
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

Why are some societies more unequal than others? Why do many women participate in the labour market in some countries, and less in others? Why do health care, education and housing policies differ across developed societies? The answers to these questions are all related to the study of Comparative Social Policy. In this third-year module in the Social Policy programme you'll be introduced to the key theories, methods and data sources employed in comparative and international social policy research. Interest in comparative analysis continues to grow in the social sciences and this module is designed to give you a deeper understanding of the comparative nature of social policy and the development of different welfare systems. CSP will introduce you to a range of new key concepts and theories, and will help you to understand new methodological and analytical approaches for thinking about social policy comparatively. Teaching on CSP is research-led and the use of case-studies from the literature will help you to understand how researchers conduct research on welfare systems in the real world, and apply social theory.

  • Class code: S2301
  • Level: 3
  • Semester: 2 (January to May)
  • Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
  • Level of study: Undergraduate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Fieldwork, Private Study

Class descriptor

Feminist social work has clear goals to expose and critically analyse gendered power as a dynamic, historic, and structural concept embedded in our world, and to mobilise and take social action to challenge that power. This is integral to a commitment to the core values of the social work profession, which include a commitment to human rights, social justice and professional integrity. This module will consider feminist theory and practice within the context of social policy.