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BA(Hons) in Learning Disability Studies
Educational Support and Inclusion - Courses
Learning Disability Studies - BA(Hons) in Learning
Disability Studies
Director: Iain Carson
Links: www.ucas.ac.uk
Programme Aims and Objectives
Aims:
- To encourage students to think critically about disability
and difference and to examine how and why learning disability services
have developed as they have.
- To critically evaluate current developments in the field
of learning disability in order to prepare students for a variety of
work roles in the area of social care and/or education.
- To enable students to develop and use a range of library,
study and research skills.
- To provide opportunities for students to reflect on
their own personal and professional development.
- To provide an environment which will encourage the development
of open-minded, receptive attitudes and the fostering of intellectual
as well as practical skills.
Objectives:
- To develop positive attitudes towards people who have
learning difficulties and/or physical/sensory impairments.
- To develop attitudes and practice
which invite reflection on certain core values, including those raised
by the principle of social role valorisation and inclusion.
- To understand the need to maximise the roles which people
with learning difficulties and other disabled people can take in an
inclusive society and in the ordering and controlling of their own lives.
- To equip students to respond to the social economic
and political context in which services are delivered.
- To enable students to locate and critically review
literature sources relating to learning disability and to make constructive
use of these in both written and practical work.
- To enable students to develop a critical understanding
of theoretical and philosophical models and their application to policy
and practice.
- To enable students to work in an empowering way with
service users and their families in a range of community settings.
- To encourage students to think and act in sensitive
ways in relation to their personal and professional relationships with
people who have learning difficulties.
Teaching and Learning
Approaches to teaching and learning are varied:
lectures, seminars, group tutorials, individual tutorials, directed study,
collaborative teamwork, group and individual presentations and group and
individual research projects. Students also receive individual support
throughout the course from personal and academic tutors.
Patterns of attendance
The course is available both full-time and part-time.
Full-time Study
Full time students complete the degree programme
in three years. The three years of study are referred to as Level One,
Level Two and Level Three.
In all three years, the pattern of attendance for full-time
students is as follows:
Semester One (September to January) - Two full days
of lectures each week
Semester Two (February to June) - One full day of lectures
each week
During Semester Two you will also complete a 40 day
practical placement in both your first and second year and a dissertation
in your final year.
Days of attendance may vary through the six years of
study.
In addition to timetabled activities, you will also
be expected to complete a considerable amount of independent study (approximately
two days per week for full time students).
Part-time Study
Part-time students cover the same work as full-time
students (see above) and complete the degree programme in six years. Part-time
students take two years to complete each Level of the course. The pattern
of attendance for part-time students is as follows:
LEVEL ONE Stage (i) - the 1st year of your studies
Semester One (September to January) - One full day of
lectures each week
Semester Two (February to June) - One full day of lectures
each week
LEVEL ONE Stage (ii) - the 2nd year of your studies
Semester One (September to January) - One full day of
lectures each week
Semester Two (February to June) - Completion of a 40
day practical placement
The six years of study follow a similar pattern of
attendance:
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attendance at lectures for one day a week from September
to June (years 1, 3 and 5)
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attendance at lectures for one day a week from September
to January followed by placement or research for your dissertation
from February to June (years 2, 4 and 6).
Days of attendance may vary through the six years of
study.
You will also be expected to complete a considerable
amount of independent study (approximately one day per week for part-time
students).
Assessment
A wide range of methods of assessment are used. These include essays,
groupwork, seminar presentations, revealed and unseen examinations, research
projects and a dissertation.
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