Work Placements and Industry Connections
Work Placements and Industry Connections
Work placements will be an important part of your learning at USW. They allow you to develop key skills and practitioner experience, and understand the contexts you’ll work in when you graduate.
Counselling students undertake placements in every year of the course, including 100 hours of supervised professional practice in years two and three, which will fully prepare you for your counselling career. Our in-house counselling service and schools counselling service also offer work experience opportunities to develop key skills and practitioner experience for your CV.
Creative and Therapeutic Arts students can become involved with a diverse range of placement settings, delivering therapeutic arts workshops to participants in hospital wards, special units, schools and community organisations amongst others. You’ll be taught by and work alongside a group of experienced lecturers with backgrounds across fine art, participatory and community arts, accessible design, arts management and art psychotherapy. They will support you to curate exhibitions, create therapeutically inspired artworks and explore ideas of health and wellbeing through making.
The University has long-standing partnerships with public, private and voluntary sector organisations and you can apply to any of these organisations as part of your placement experience.
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Practical Skills and Excellent Facilities
Our Newport Campus has a suite of rooms for one-to-one counselling skills practice. Students use specialist resources for online counselling techniques, and dedicated video recording facilities to refine their techniques and gain extra digital skills.
Creative and Therapeutic Arts students at the Treforest Campus have access to bespoke art studios and teaching spaces which include a range of equipment and materials. Here you can experiment with different mediums and create a high-standard of work which reflects you as a Creative Practitioner. Our specialist partnerships with community organisations, town councils and health organisations provide the foundation for off-campus projects in every year of the course. These partnerships enable valuable real-world experiences within a variety of settings and the chance to positively impact the lives of others whilst studying.