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BA (Hons) Health and Social Care

London School of Commerce, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

This course is designed to develop your knowledge of health and social care, and the wider social, policy, legal and organisational environment within which they are situated both within the UK and internationally. You will study areas including the sociology of health, public health, mental health, disability, multi-agency working as well as welfare and social care issues faced by vulnerable individuals and groups. There is a strong employability focus at all levels of the course, which will enable you to develop a range of transferable, employability-enhancing skills.

General Eligibility

UCAS Tariff Points

  • At least 80 points with 64 points from 2 A level passes at C or above

  • At least 80 points with 64 from Merit Merit in two BTEC Subsidiary Diplomas or one BTEC Diploma

  • At least 80 points with Merit Merit Pass in the BTEC Extended Diploma

  • A completed Access to Higher Education Diploma Equivalent qualifications such as Irish Leaving Certificate, OCR Nationals, International Baccalaureate and CACHE Level 3 awards.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

  1. Introduction to Health and Social Care

  2. Investigating Social Life

  3. Introduction to the Human Services

  4. Foundations in the Social Sciences

2 Year 2

Core units

  1. Global Public Health

  2. Research Approaches in the Social World

  3. Multi-Agency Working

  4. Comparing Welfare Internationally

students do four core units and choose two option units: Options

  1. Disability in Childhood: Critical Perspectives on Policy And Practice

  2. Mental Health and Society

  3. Contemporary Forced Migration

  4. Managing and Management in the Human Services

  5. Child Welfare: Perspectives on and Approaches to Risk Assessment

  6. Studies in 'Race' and Ethnicity

3 Year 3

Core

  1. Independent Project in Health and Social Care

  2. Health Issues in Gender, Age and Ethnicity

students do two core units and choose two option units: Options

  1. Dependency and Care: Critical Perspectives on Policy and Practice

  2. The Social Body

  3. Child Protection: Critically Analysing Policy and Practice

  4. Ideas and Issues in Globalisation

  5. Leadership, Management and Multi-Agency Working in the Human Services

  6. Current Issues in the Human Services

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