BA Health & Social Care (with Foundation Year)
Entry requirements
Applicants must achieve a minimum of 72 UCAS points for entry on to this course. UCAS Tariff points can be made up from a range of qualifications.
About this course
BSc (Hons) Health and Social Care Policy explores how social, economic, and environmental factors shape health outcomes and influence care provision. Core topics include Research Methods and Ethics & Professional Practice. The programme requires 50 hours of placement in a social care setting and includes a community-based health promotion project, with a final-year dissertation.
Modules
- Approaches to Health and Wellbeing
- Contemporary Issues in Health and Wellbeing
- Social Care in Context
- Social Care in Practice
- Public Health and Health Promotion: Theory and Practice
- Researching Health and Wellbeing
- The Policy and Legislative Context of Social Care
- Professional Practice in Social Care
- Emancipatory Research
- Contemporary Issues in Global Health and Wellbeing
- Health and Wellbeing Across the Life-Course
- Ethics in Health and Wellbeing
- Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care
- Contemporary Issues in Children's Social Care
- Contemporary Issues in Adult Social Care