Aims and Characteristics

Programme Aims & Learning Outcomes

We prepare our students to be professionally competent, versatile, adaptive and reflective, enabling them to meet society’s fast-changing needs. The programme curriculum is designed to cultivate students’ humanistic values and equip them with the knowledge and skills necessary to be competent human service professionals in their chosen fields. Through wide exposure to various domains of knowledge and interdisciplinary issues, students develop the ability to think from different perspectives and solve complex problems in real-life situations. Our graduates show a strong commitment to the betterment of society and humankind and are competent in the flexible and creative use of information, resources, knowledge and practical skills in professional practice.

Programme Characteristics

Students are provided with opportunities to pursue professional study plus a substantial component of study in other areas to cater to their different learning needs, interests and abilities. In addition to providing subjects that build basic interpersonal and communication skills and enhance students’ ability to work with uncertainty, this programme has a strong social science foundation designed to develop students’ critical and analytical thinking and broaden their knowledge. The Department offers overseas study opportunities in the forms of placements, exchange programmes, study tours, etc.

Students admitted to the Scheme complete a common curriculum in Year 1 and pursue their professional study beginning in Year 2. The Scheme programme offers the following Awards/Majors:

• BA (Hons) in Social Work

• BA (Hons) in Social Policy and Social Entrepreneurship

Students will be invited to rank their choices of Awards/Majors (from the most preferred to the least) during semester 2 (probably before final examination) of their Year One study for the department’s consideration and approval.

One-Programme-Two-Award Study Opportunity  
Students who opt for Social Policy and Social Entrepreneurship as their Major are eligible to enrol in the 4-year Dual Degree Programme. The Dual Degree Programme offers different learning experience to students as they will study the 1st and 4th year of the programme at PolyU and 2nd and 3rd year at University of Warsaw in Poland. Upon successful completion of the Dual Degree Programme, students will receive two award parchments conferred by two Universities including BA (Hons) in Social Policy and Social Entrepreneurship at PolyU and First Study Cycle* in Social and Public Policy at University of Warsaw.  
* equivalent to Bachelor’s degree and regarded as BA 

More information on the Dual Degree Programme can be obtained here.