This certificate explores ideas about what social care and social work are – using case studies with children, older people, mental health communities, children with disabilities and people with learning disabilities to apply learning to practice contexts. You’ll also build key skills in information and communication technologies, digital and information literacy and reflective writing.

**Key features of the course**
- Considers the nature of social work and social care, and encourages you to apply learning to practice

- Builds key skills in information and communication technologies, information literacy and reflective writing
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Over the last 600 years, the University of St Andrews has established a reputation as one of the world’s leading teaching centres. Today, we offer a flexible degree structure based on your choice of subject specialism, creating an environment which nurtures inquisitive minds and a culture of shared learning.

Music is an incredibly rich and diverse subject. It is:

* a creative and aesthetic practice

* a social and cultural phenomenon

* studiable as a scientific object

Our BMus programme embraces this disciplinary breadth.

Initially, you will develop your creative musical skills and acquire the tools to engage critically with a variety of musical repertoires and media.

You will also:

* study how music is shaped by (and shapes) the social, cultural, historical, and political...

Our approach is innovative, modern and friendly, giving you a comprehensive understanding of English literature.

Why study English & Creative Writing at Strathclyde?
The emphasis is on helping you develop a range of applicable skills to grow your future career, including textual analysis and interpretation.
With us, you can study everything from poetry, the novel and drama (stage, screen and radio). In addition, we offer the opportunity to use creative writing skills as part of your approach to literary criticism.
The chance to work with award-winning scholars and creative writers.
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As an English student at Strathclyde you'll enjoy the best of old and new: a grounding in the classics as well as an insight into new fields of literature. Studying history – the story of humanity through the ages – develops your knowledge of the past and gives you a better understanding of the present.

Why English and History at Strathclyde?
Read texts from a wide range of literary periods, and debate key issues such as identity, race, gender, what it is to be a human.
Work with staff who are world-leading researchers and prize-winning...

Law studies the obligations and rights which members of society have in relation to each other and to the state. Our main focus in psychology is the study of human behaviour. You'll look at conditions of behaviour – how we learn, remember, coordinate our actions and interact with others – and the reasons for differences between individuals, such as personality or intelligence.

Why Law and Psychology at Strathclyde?
Ranked Top 10 in the UK for Law (The Times Good University Guide 2021).
Develop an awareness of law and the legal implications of business operations which...

This diploma allows you to combine business management with French, German or Spanish. You’ll divide your study equally between both subjects. It offers a solid grounding in key concepts associated with business management and in the use of your chosen language. You’ll explore how businesses develop strategies, handle risk and take decisions. You’ll see what’s involved in functions such as marketing, accounting and finance. Combining this with the study of a modern language opens doors to other cultures and communities, and can provide a key to the global workplace. The name of your diploma will reflect your chosen language (e.g....

Throughout this course, you will develop skills and knowledge in forestry or urban forestry. The course offers the opportunity to specialise in Forestry or Urban Forestry.

Some of the topics are Forest Sciences, Forest Operations, Woodland Conservation, Silvicultural systems, Forest and Tree Ecology.

You will gain experience working on Mensuration and Geographical systems, while developing an awareness of health and safety and environmental issues to modern forestry.

This wide-ranging course will develop your knowledge of different periods of history from around 1500 to the twentieth century. You’ll tackle such exciting and challenging issues as power and warfare, culture and beliefs, health and medicine, imperialism, race, class and gender. You’ll begin to develop the skills of the historian in studying historical materials; exploring how we understand, interpret and debate past events; and investigating a range of critical approaches.

**Key features of the course**

- Explores a wide range of historical topics, periods and places

- Find out what it...

Over the last 600 years, the University of St Andrews has established a reputation as one of the world’s leading teaching centres. Today, we offer a flexible degree structure based on your choice of subject specialism, creating an environment which nurtures inquisitive minds and a culture of shared learning.