Social Work
Identifying Routes into University and Making Career Choices
To do a Social Work or related Degree, universities usually ask for:
- 3 x level 2 subjects
- 2 x level 3 subjects
These would usually be chosen from:
Level 2
- Bereavement: The Psychology of
- Confidence Building & Assertiveness
- Counselling
- Creative Writing
- Crime: History of Crime
- Criminology
- Drug Use & Misuse
- English
- Human Physiology
- *Maths and Numeracy
- Psychology
- Science
- Sociology
* Compulsory
Universities often accept mature students on an individual basis and may put a high emphasis on relevant previous experience. It is always worth checking with the university what they would expect on entry from you.
