BA (Hons) Health and Social Studies

Core modules are:

• Nature of health

• Introduction to psychology

• Introduction to  health and social policy

• Sociology of the family

• The enquiring student

Optional modules include:

• Anatomy and physiology

• Psychology of individual differences and development

• Exploring and developing palliative and end-of-life care

Core modules are:

• Working in partnership

• Empowering communities

• Principles and foundations of health promotion

• Researching the social world

Optional modules include:

• Care and Control

• Recognizing and challenging discrimination and disadvantage

• Health psychology

• The individual, society, and the health continuum

• Specialist provision

• Urban-rural divide

• Contemporary issues

• Adolescence

• Comparing politics systems

You may also select one option from outside this program, but you can only do this once in an academic year.

Core modules are:

• Literature review (Health and social studies)

• Promotion of diversity and equality

• Healthy people, healthy places: challenges for public health

Optional modules include:

• Ethical issues

• Promoting and enhancing parenting

• Introduction to effective management and leadership

• Legislation and childhood

• Alcohol and drug studies

• Digital futures in health and social care

• Issues of risk

• Remote and rural health

• Developmental psychology: birth to death

• Developing professional practice through placement (Students are responsible for organizing their placement)

You may also select one option from outside this program, but you can only do this once in an academic year.

Core modules are:

• Dissertation

• Comparative health studies

Optional modules include:

• Professional reflection

• Personal and professional reflection

• Development disorders

• Child and adolescent mental health

• Disability and society

• Informatics in health and social care

• Psychopathology: mental health and wellbeing

• The consumerist society

You may also select one option from outside this program, but you can only do this once in an academic year.