This degree will enable you to develop and take ownership of your own specialist knowledge and practice regarding supporting children with SEND and transfer it to enhance inclusion. There are excellent links to educational settings that will help you to realise and pursue a professional pathway. Throughout the programme, there is a focus on employability and linking theory to practice. This will enable you to develop the practical and theoretical skills at practitioner level and understand the potential to have wider influence on organisations and the sector as agents for change. Graduates will be equipped to pursue either a career within the sector or postgraduate study.

This degree is 100% coursework.

The degree will provide you with the opportunity to explore evidence based best practice and develop specialist knowledge of supporting children and young people in education in the following areas:

• Autism Spectrum
• Social and emotional (Trauma and attachment)
• Positive Interactions
• Mental Health
• Specific Learning Difficulties
• Speech, Language and Communication
• Complex learning difficulties, disabilities, and additional communication needs

You will explore perspectives of education, disability and inclusion and the facilitation of effective partnership working, safeguarding, transitions and learner centred approaches.

Full-time year 1:

• Childhood Development and Beyond (20 credits)
• Counselling Approaches (20 credits)
• Disability, Education and Inclusion (20 credits)
• Psychology of Learning (20 credits)
• Introduction to Issues of Social Justice and Equity (20 credits)
• Thinking and Learning (20 credits)

Full-time year 2:

• Attachment and Trauma (20 credits)
• Contributing to Support of People on the Autism Spectrum (40 credits)
• Mental and Emotional Health (20 credits)
• Promoting Positive Interactions (20 credits)
• SLCN, Literacy Difficulties and SpLD (20 credits)

Full-time year 3:

• Contemporary Issues in Inclusive Practice (20 credits)
• Innovative Curricula and Support (20 credits)
• Professional Practice (40 credits)
• Dissertation (40 credits)

This course is taught via a combination of lectures, seminars, case studies, presentations and skills practice. UCW’s Academic Development Team also deliver a series of sessions on degree-level research and academic writing to all first-year students. When not in scheduled classes, students are expected to continue learning through independent self-study. This involves reading relevant literature, working on individual and group projects, and undertaking research in preparation for coursework and exams.

• UCAS Tariff - 66 points
• A level - CDD
• Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016) - MMP
• Access to HE Diploma - M: 15 credits
• A criminal records declaration (DBS/Disclosure Scotland)
• An interview is required.

We try to ensure that all as many costs for the programme you will study will be included within your tuition fees. We will endeavour to keep any additional costs you may have to pay to a minimum and some of the extra costs may be considered optional where it is deemed extra to your programme.

To be clear, your tuition fees pay for the following:

• All teaching and lectures
• Use of specialist facilities at UCW
• Specialist Guest Lectures at UCW
• Annual photocopying budget of £10
• Use of computer equipment at any UCW campus
• Access to Microsoft 365 whilst enrolled at UCW.
• Access to careers advice during and after completion of your programme of study.
• Use of Libraries and access to Journal databases, e-books and physical books.

Additional Costs that will need to be incurred to study your programme: 

All students are required to obtain an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an additional cost of £50. Click here for details.

Additional costs that you may incur should you wish to are:

• Extra photocopying and printing above the initial £10
• The cost of books you may wish to purchase

Programme Specification