BA (Hons) Health and Social Care

This course is developed to provide you with a sound and critical understanding of the health and social care policy, theory and practice, crucial in today’s fast-changing social care sector.

The course will cover both theoretical and practical training in areas relating to 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.

Due to strong employability focus on the course you will develop a wide range of transferable, employability-enhancing skills

Start Date

Feburary, June and October

Course Fee

£ 9,250*

Awarding Body

University of Bedfordshire

Year 1 – are all core units:

1. Introduction to Health and Social Care
2. Investigating Social Life
3. Introduction to the Human Services
4. Foundations in the Social Sciences

Year 2 – students do four core units and choose two option units: Core

1. Global Public Health
2. Research Approaches in the Social World
3. Multi-Agency Working
4. Comparing Welfare Internationally

Year 2 – 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

Year 3 – students do two core units and choose two option units: Core

1. Independent Project in Health and Social Care
2. Health Issues in Gender, Age and Ethnicity

Year 3 – 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

* Home Students Only