Developing Research and Academic Skills
20 Credits
(Compulsory)
This module is designed to equip students with the necessary research and academic skills to achieve in the final year of their degree. They will critically reflect on their own capabilities and needs as independent learners in higher education, be supported in the use of academic language and communication to produce clear, critical written work, with skills in referencing a variety of academic sources appropriate to the level of study. They will also develop a greater understanding and appreciation of research towards the development of their own piece of independent research, including search, retrieving, and using academic sources and skills for undertaking quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research.
Health Interventions across the Lifespan
20 Credits
(Compulsory)
This module will explore and examine a range of health interventions designed to improve overall human health across the lifespan (children, adults, and older people). Interventions to prevent disease, treat or reduce the impact of disease and improve functional movement during recovery from illness/disease will be explored and critically examined. The focus will be on current interventions that have been developed to improve or change one or more major health behaviors (e.g. physical inactivity, poor nutrition, stress, smoking, etc). The clustered effects of these behaviors directly account for almost half of the overall premature deaths in the UK, therefore, the understanding and application of preventive and therapeutic interventions in Health and Social Care practice is important for practitioners to understand.
Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and Children
20 Credits
(Compulsory)
This module will set in context the issue of safeguarding vulnerable adults and children. Exploring the history and social policy of safeguarding adults and children, offering classifications of abuse, providing definitions of who might become a vulnerable adult, exploring types of abuse, how to recognize abuse, and reporting and monitoring abuse in various settings. The module will offer opportunities to critically debate and discuss issues such as risk and resilience, mental health, disability and aging, record keeping, and confidentiality.
Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care
20 Credits
(Compulsory)
This course will provide students with the skills to manage and lead effectively in complex, dynamic, and interprofessional/multidisciplinary organizations. It will develop students both personally and professionally ensuring they have the tools they need to support future development and empower them to achieve their potential for career progression. Students will advance their knowledge of recent health and social care policy developments and consider the current and future health and social care needs of clients in order to ensure that the views of service users and carers are fully represented in the management of care processes.
BSc Top-Up Dissertation
40 Credits
(Compulsory)
This module builds on prior learning and offers students the opportunity for further development of skills and knowledge learned throughout the course with the opportunity to further develop a topic in health and social care that has been of particular interest. The dissertation involves the development of an independent research project. There are two ways of conducting the project: a piece of primary research involving the collection of data and analysis of a specific topic in health and social care or a literature-based project involving the analysis of secondary data. The project must include the critical analysis of relevant literature, and the application of theoretical principles and must include research appropriate for a science-based degree, with the use of quantitative or mixed methods research.