CareerFit CourseFinderSocial Care & Social Justice - Sligo
- Course code
- SG_WSOCI_M09
- QQI level
- Level 9
- NFQ type
- Level 9 NFQ
- Duration
- 2 years part-time online delivery. Study Hours Each module involves 18 hours of online classes and 18 hours of online workshops. It is recommended that students should try to allow for 5-6 hours per week per 5 credit module to their studies, and 8 plus hours for each 10 credit module. On-Campus Attendance Optional attendance of residential workshop is normally available once per semester
- Attendance
- Online or Distance
- CAO points
- —
Course summary
This programme offers students the opportunity to critically analyse social care and social justice and explore its applications to a range of service and user groups to enhance their capacity to act as a force for progressive social change.
Through this course students are required to reflectively interrogate their own identities and positioning, developing practical skills for advocacy, lobbying and activism allowing them to lead and initiate change within a given area. Students will be provided with the skills to facilitate representation at the personal, organisational and political levels of society; promote the concept of relationality in all aspects of social care to promote social inclusion, social justice and equality, practice the values of recognition and respect in all social care domains and in society generally, critique redistributive and social justice, critically redress unequal relations, develop the capacity to access care for oneself and undertake care for others.