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BSc - Bachelor of Science
Birmingham Campus
Full Time
Aug 2027
3 Year
This BSc (Hons) Health and Social Care course will prepare you with the knowledge, skills, and professional values needed to address health inequalities and advance inclusive, ethical practices in health and social care. Guided by critical social theory and social justice, you will learn to examine and critique societal structures and dominant ideologies that perpetuate health disparities. You will also explore how social, cultural, political, and economic factors influence health outcomes, enabling you to drive meaningful change for individuals and communities, especially marginalised groups. The course supports your development through three core themes: Core Concepts in Health, Development and Society; Research and Ethical Practice; and Inclusive Practice and Management. You will explore social determinants of health, ethical decision-making, and inclusive care, equipping you with critical thinking, research, and leadership skills. The curriculum fosters adaptability, which will prepare you for a diverse range of professional roles. In the final year, you will also have the opportunity to specialise in areas such as mental health, public health, or leadership, which will enhance your employability.
The module is an academic skills module, which serves to develop key academic skills in first-year students. Its main focus is developing students? skills in identifying, understanding, and presenting literature, data and information.
This module begins by asking the students ?what do we mean by knowledge? in the context of health and social care and goes on to explore answers to this question. A key purpose of the module is to help students locate the concepts of evidence and research within a broader understanding of the importance of evidence-based practice but also to introduce students to the contested and contentious nature of what we mean by knowledge.
The module seeks to provide learners with opportunities for development and reflection over key skills and issues in effective practice. It applies a combination of student engagement and active learning with theoretical concepts, principles and case studies to enable to critically evaluate communication and practice skills in the context of health and social care.
This module aims to introduce students to contemporary contexts of healthcare and social care whilst investigating current understanding of health and wellbeing and its application to the organisation and delivery of health and social care.
This module aims to: Develop students? personal and professional development skills and competencies for effective interpersonal and professional relationships; Develop students? knowledge and skills for effective interpersonal and professional communication; Enable students to develop self-awareness and emotional intelligence for effective practice with service users and carers; Develop the knowledge and skills for effective reflective practitioners; Develop students? ability to use reflective techniques in relation to work with individuals and groups in the health and social care settings.
This module considers issues of culture, society and ethics and their implications for professional contexts in health and social care. Current policy, professional frameworks and legislation relating to identity, diversity, rights and inequality will be examined. The professional role in challenging inequalities and implementing ethical and anti-oppressive practice will be explored. Students will reflect on their own identities and experiences and will keep a reflective journal throughout the module.
This module builds on knowledge and skills acquired in the first year of the course and specifically on the academic skills acquired in Academic skills/literacy: finding & presenting the information. In this, the second of three academic skills and literacy modules in the course, students will extend their academic literacy and skills to encompass obtaining increasingly specialised sources, identifying key aspects of information, establishing validity and processing information to create an argument.
This module aims to: Develop an understanding of the Public Health discipline; Develop understanding and knowledge of population health data and the skills to interpret this data; Provide a social science-based contextual and critical understanding of the impact of the social determinants of health on population health outcomes; Develop an understanding and knowledge of population health issues and how to take an evidence-based approach to tackle these issues.
The module is structured in two distinct stages in order to enhance student employability. During the Autumn semester, students will engage with a number of activities, both in seminars and individually, designed to help clarify career goals and identify personal and professional developmental needs associated with these goals.
This module introduces students to both ethics and research through an exploration of principles, theories, and practices that inform decision making in professional contexts. It is taught in two interconnected parts. In Part 1, students will study ethics using sector-specific professional codes of ethical conduct and will examine underlying normative ethical theories as they are represented within such codes. Current ethical debates for professional practice will be considered, providing opportunities for the critical application of different ethical perspectives to a range of contemporary moral issues and situations in professional contexts. In Part 2, students will be introduced to ethical research processes & research knowledge and skills relevant to professional and academic development. These research principles will provide a foundation for understanding approaches to social research and evidence-based practice and research design.
This module provides an introduction to sociological perspectives of health, illness and society ? often referred to as medical sociology. A sociological perspective provides a number of challenges to straightforward bio-medical approaches to health and illness. It asks questions about how health and illness conditions are defined, measured and treated in society as well as the implications for society and individuals. It also explores the wider power structures that are implicated in health and illness which forms the basis for applied learning and problem-solving in areas which students will confront as social professionals. Through exploring a range of topics at the interface of health, illness and society, students are encouraged to think critically about them through contemporary case studies.
This module builds on knowledge and skills acquired in the first year of the course and specifically on the intra- and inter-personal skills acquired in Personal & Professional Development; self-management. In this, the second of three PPD modules in the course, students will expand their understanding of themselves to encompass their roles within teams within the health and social care workforce and the importance of appropriate communication in this context. Throughout the module, emphasis will be placed on service users and carers as key members of any team.
This module builds on knowledge and skills acquired in the first and second years of the course and specifically on the academic skills acquired in Academic skills/literacy: finding & presenting information and Academic skills/literacy: Developing critical thinking. In this, the last of three academic skills and literacy modules in the course, students will extend their academic literacy and skills to enable them to produce work appropriate to this academic level with specific emphasis on the standard of work required by the Project.
This module builds on work done previously in the first year in Introduction to Health & Social Care; concepts of health & well-being and during the second year as part of Advancing the Health of the population: Understanding Public Health. This module aims to enable students to use and build on the knowledge and understanding gained in these modules to analyse and critically evaluate current and emerging responses to key challenges facing the health and social care sector.
This module draws together strands from a number of modules students have previously undertaken and are concurrently studying. Principally, this builds on students? understanding of the nature of knowledge and evidence in health and social care contexts derived from Introduction to Knowledge and Inquiry in Health & Social Care in the first year and on the more specific focus on research in Ethical Research & Practice in the second year. The specific focus of the work carried out by individual students as part of this module will also be informed by their broader examination of health and social care issues in other modules across the course as a whole.
The module focuses on the student?s personal and professional development in preparation for graduation from the Course. There is particular emphasis on the development of graduate skills and competencies with a focus on the management and leadership of others. Emergent graduate skills are developed to prepare the student for professional practice and/or further studies.
This module aims to give students an opportunity to critically study the interconnectedness of key challenges of human development and human health and healthcare across nations within global contexts. It will provide content that will help students understand the key global challenges that affect human health and healthcare and cause health inequalities and inequities across the nations. The Module will also provide an opportunity to study key global actors and global interventions to improve human health of all people across nations and promote health equities. This will require students to critique global co-operation and partnership in fighting key challenges of global human health and healthcare.
The module examines the history of housing policy in the UK, focussing in particular on the shift to neo-liberal housing policies from the 1980s. Key contemporary housing issues and the key causes of the current ?housing crisis? in London and the UK are examined.
The module examines the history of housing policy in the UK, focussing in particular on the shift to neo-liberal housing policies from the 1980s. Key contemporary housing issues and the key causes of the current ?housing crisis? in London and the UK are examined. The module aims to: 1.Place changes in housing management in the context of wider social, economic and organisational changes; 2.Introduce the key practical issues facing housing professionals, and good practice in addressing these issues; 3.Identify ways in which housing service users and community workers can challenge poor performance and get involved in service improvement; 4.Examine the benefits and challenges of partnership working in dealing with housing issues; Explain current discussions on the balance of rights and responsibilities for social housing tenants and other local residents.
This module provides opportunities for students to develop their understanding of key issues in mental health practice and policy, as well as critically discuss relevant theoretical and conceptual issues relating to mental health. The module aims to: 1.Develop an understanding of key concepts in mental health and well-being 2.Develop awareness of mental health diagnoses and implications of these to the individual, health services, and wider society 3.Develop knowledge of key policy and practice issues in mental health through Provide opportunities to critically evaluate and reflect upon models and theories of mental health and well-being
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