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BA (Honours) Health and Social Care

Open University, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

This degree provides you with a sound and critical understanding of health and social care policy, theory, and practice, which is essential in today's fast-changing care sector. Professionals at all levels need to be proactive and flexible to succeed, and through your studies, you’ll gain the skills needed for effective practice in a diverse, multidisciplinary environment. You’ll learn how ethical, legal, social, economic, and political factors influence the provision and development of services. You will also develop the critical and analytical skills that underpin evidence-based practice.

  • Applies new ideas to real-life issues and situations that affect us all.

  • Helps you to develop as an independent and reflective learner.

  • Explores the context and processes of change.

  • Develops new ways of working across agency and professional boundaries.

General Eligibility

There are no formal entry requirements to study this qualification.

Part Time Work Details

In a distance learning course, there are typically no strict regulations regarding part-time employment, providing students with the flexibility to pursue work opportunities while studying remotely. This autonomy allows individuals to manage their schedules and balance professional commitments with their educational pursuits.

What You'll Study

1 Stage-1 (120 Credits)
  • Introducing health and social care

You'll also choose one from:

  • Introduction to childhood studies and child psychology

  • Foundations for social care and social work practice

  • Wellbeing across the life course

2 Stage-2 (120 Credits)
  • Critical Ideas in well-being and Public Health

You'll also choose one from:

  • Death, dying and bereavement

  • Making a difference: working with children and young people

  • Critical perspectives on mental health in society

3 Stage-3 (120 Credits)
  • Leading, managing, caring

You'll complete your degree with one from:

  • Approaches to mental health

  • Investigating health and social care

  • Public health: health promotion and health security

  • Young lives, parenting, and families

Language Requirement

  • IELTS00
  • TOEFL00
  • PTE00
  • Duolingo00

This subject has no language prerequisite.

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