BSc Integrated Health and Social Care
About this course
BSc (Hons) in Integrated Health and Social Care, a social policy and health and social care degree centred on health service delivery, care practices, and sector leadership. Core topics include Research Methods. The course includes a work experience placement and a choice between a change maker project dissertation or a research dissertation in the final year. The first year covers academic foundations through modules such as Introducing academic skills, Introduction to research and social enquiry, Foundations of health and social care practice, and Sociology of health. The second year examines data exploration, mental health conditions, and inter-professional care responses, alongside optional modules including Social prescribing, Addictions and society, and Population health management. The third year focuses on safeguarding and service improvement alongside compulsory dissertation options. Optional studies in the final year span Digital health, Promoting better health outcomes, and ageing society topics.
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Entry requirements
96 UCAS tariff points including 80 from at least 3 A-levels or equivalent. With Foundation Year: 48 UCAS tariff points including 32 from at least 1 A-level or equivalent.
Modules
- Research 1: collecting data
- Introducing academic skills
- Introduction to research and social enquiry
- Career planning for social scientists
- Foundations of health and social care practice
- Sociology of health
- The principles and practice of inclusivity in integrated health and social care service delivery
- Research 2: exploring data
- Living with mental health conditions
- Integrated and inter-professional responses to care across the lifespan
- Work-related experience in health and social care
- Social prescribing
- Addictions and society
- Population health management
- Safeguarding in health and social care practice
- SASS Change Maker project dissertation
- SASS Change Maker research dissertation
- Leading improvement in health and social care services
- Young people, the urban environment and social determinants of health
- Health and social care in an ageing society
- Digital health
- Promoting better health outcomes