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SP32047: Qualifying practice 3: ethics and values

[Page last updated: 23 May 2025]

Academic Year: 2025/26
Owning Department/School: Department of Social & Policy Sciences
Credits: 5 [equivalent to 10 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 100
Level: Honours (FHEQ level 6)
Period:
Semester 2
Assessment Summary: CWRA 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Reflective Assessment (CWRA 100% - Qualifying Mark: 40)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites: While taking this module you must take SP32045
Learning Outcomes: By the end of this unit students will be able to: 1. Identify and analyse ethical dilemmas and conflicts in both interpersonal and professional contexts (PS 1.2; 3.1; 3.2; 3.7; 4.8; 6.2) 2. Apply the profession's ethical principles and legislation, taking account of these in reaching decisions (PS 3.1; 3.2; 3.11; 4.2; 4.3; 4.5; 4.6) 3. Apply theoretical/philosophical ethical approaches to ethical decision making (PS 1.1; 1.3; 3.2; 4.1; 4.2) 4. Recognise the impact of personal values on professional social work and analytic skills in addressing ethical dilemmas and conflicts in social work (PS 3.7)
* Social Work England's Professional Standards (PS)


Synopsis: Develop a critical understanding of the ethics and values applied to social work practice. Drawing on your placement experiences, you will explore and critically engage with ethical dilemmas and tensions in values arising in everyday social work practice; and learn about philosophical and theoretical approaches to ethical decision-making. Applied methods and frameworks will be covered to enable you to undertake ethical decision-making in social work practice.

Content:
* Tensions between personal, cultural and professional values in social work
* Universalism, culturalism and value pluralism
* Theoretical and philosophical ethical approaches to ethical decision-making
* Applied ethical decision-making in complex cases

Course availability:

SP32047 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:

Department of Social & Policy Sciences
  • UHSP-AFB33 : BSc(Hons) Social Work and Applied Social Studies (Year 3)

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