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Programme structure: Social Policy with Innovation (MSci) - what's running in 2021/22

Please note: you are viewing unit and programme information for a past academic year. Please see the current academic year for up to date information.

This Integrated Master's programme has been designated as type III: Professional in accordance with the QAA descriptors for Master's programmes. Please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes for further information on this type of programme.

Students must achieve a year a mark of 50 or more out of a hundred at the end of the second year to be able to progress on to the four year programme

Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
Past, Present and Futures INOV20001 10 Mandatory TB-2
Transdisciplinary Group Project 2: Solving Someone's Problem INOV20002 20 Mandatory TB-4
Understanding Public Policy SPOL20026 20 Mandatory TB-1
Social Research Methods SOAD20004 20 Mandatory TB-2
Select 40CP from the following:
Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Policy SPOL20019 20 Optional TB-1
Work and Work Placements: Social Policy SPOL20042 20 Optional TB-4
Social Policy and Development SPOL20050 20 Optional TB-2
Social Care in Crisis SPOL20047 20 Optional TB-1
Punishment in Society SPOL20052 20 Optional TB-2
Youth Policy and Social Welfare SPOL22022 20 Optional TB-1
Health Policy in a Global Context (SPS) SPOL20061 20 Optional TB-1
Youth Justice SPOL20022 20 Optional TB-2
Youth, Sexualities and Gendered Violence SPOL22023 20 Optional TB-1
Harms of the Powerful SPOL20034 20 Optional TB-2
Criminalising Welfare SPOL20043 20 Optional TB-2
Students may take up to 20CP of open units such as a language but note this will take them to 130CP for their second year
Select one from:
Introduction to Computer Programming EMAT10007 10 Optional TB-1
Independent Study Work Placement INOV20003 10 Optional TB-4
Choose open units up to a maximum of 20CP OPEN 20 Optional
You may not take INOV20003 Independent Study Work Placement if you are taking SPOL20042 Work and Work Placements: Social Policy
Diploma of Higher Education   120      

Progression/award requirements

Unit Pass Mark for Undergraduate Programmes:

  • 40 out of 100 – for level C/4, I/5 & H/6 units
  • 50 out of 100 – for level M/7 units

For details on the weightings for classifying undergraduate degrees, please see the Agreed Weightings, by Faculty, to be applied for the Purposes of Calculating the Final Programme Mark and Degree Classification in Undergraduate Programmes.

For detailed rules on progression please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes and the relevant faculty handbook.

Please refer to the specific progression/award requirements for programmes with a preliminary year of study, the Gateway programmes and International Foundation programmes.

Exit awards

All undergraduate degree programmes allow the opportunity for a student to exit from a programme with a Diploma or Certificate of Higher Education.

  • To be awarded a Diploma of Higher Education, a student must have successfully completed 240 credit points, of which at least 90 must be at level 5.
  • To be awarded a Certificate of Higher Education, a student must have successfully completed 120 credit points at level 4.

Integrated Master's degrees may also allow the opportunity for a student to exit from the programme with an equivalent Bachelor's degree where a student has achieved 360 credit points, of which 90 must be at level 6, and has successfully met any additional criteria as described in the programme specification.

The opportunities for a student to exit from one of the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry with an Award is outlined in the relevant Programme Regulations (which are available as an annex in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes).

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