Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours) - Health and Social Services Management
Service-Learning for Integrating Knowledge and Practice
Health and Social Service Project (HSM4002) provides an opportunity for final year students to apply class room knowledge to a work setting. Students will have a 40-hour work experience in a wide range of health and social service organizations. They will have an academic supervisor and an agency supervisor to support their work placement. Former students had their service-learning in the following organizations for serving young people, older people, immigrants and deprived social groups:
- Evangelical Lutheran Church Social Service-Hong Kong
- Baptist Oi Kwan Social Service
- Caritas-Hong Kong
- International Social Service
- Health in Action
- Urban Peacemaker
- Evangelistic Fellowship
- Hong Kong Federation of Women's Centres
- Lingnan University - Chinese Medicine Clinic
- Lingnan University - Gerontechnology and Smart Ageing project
After completing the course, students will be able to:
- Identify and analyze a health and social care issue from theoretical and practical perspectives.
- Familiarize with the nature of health and social care institutions and their work.
- Exercise appropriate judgement in planning, designing and implementing relevant research approaches, critically interpret data, and present findings clearly.
- Independently produce a well-organized report with coherent arguments based on either empirical data or current literature.