BSc Health and Social Care Policy
About this course
BSc (Hons) in Health in Social Science, based in the discipline of social policy. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, and Policy Analysis. A six-week work placement is completed at the end of Level 5, and the course concludes with a dissertation on a chosen social policy topic. Teaching is research-led, drawing on the course team's engagement with social policy research and practice.
Modules
- Introduction to Social Policy and Social Justice
- Making and Delivering Policy
- Policies for Families and Children
- Introduction to Health and Social Care Policy
- Contemporary Social Policy Issues
- Education: Policy and Practice
- Social Survey Methods
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Social Policy: Concepts and Theories
- Placement
- Policy Analysis: Skills, Tools and Techniques
- Poverty and Social Security
- Adult Social Care Policy
- Civil Society, NGOs and Social Movements
- Contemporary Issues in Health Policy
- Gender and Social Policy
- Dissertation
- Migration, 'Race' and Ethnicity
- International Social Policy
- Ageing and Society
- Mental health and disability
- The Environment, Social Justice and Sustainable Social Policy