Global Health & Social Medicine

Bachelor's degree

In London

£ 9,250 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

Overview
Our Global Health & Social Medicine BA offers a unique and exciting course with the opportunity to study abroad for a year and aims to train a new generation of leaders who want to make a difference in the world.
The course is designed for those who wish to understand the social determinants of health and illness in a global context, and to recognise and evaluate the range of medical and healthcare approaches.
Whether you want to promote responsible biomedical research, address global health inequities or ensure fairness across generations, you are required to consider numerous perspectives in order to succeed, fostering thinking across disciplines and national boundaries.
The course information sheet is a printable version of the information on this web page, which you can download here.
Key benefits
We offer excellent opportunities to study social aspects of health and medicine in a multi-disciplinary context with close collaboration between the social sciences, life sciences and biomedicine.
Global opportunities for work experience including study abroad at world leading universities and fully funded international internships.
All applicants of our full time BSc or BA are eligible for the £9,000 scholarship opportunity, including UK, EU and Overseas students.
The chance to combine high-level social science with an introduction to the main areas of biomedical knowledge and the implications for clinical practice.
Taught by internationally renowned clinicians and academics with a strong focus on transdisciplinary education in key areas of health, disease and medicine.
Study additional subject areas including, geography, history and international development, where topics closely relate to global health and social medicine.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Strand, WC2R 2LS

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • International
  • Global
  • University
  • Social Science
  • Biomedical

Course programme


Year 1

Year 1

The course consists of a mixture of required and optional modules, and a research-based dissertation in the final year. Required modules are all taught from within the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, which also offers optional modules in Years Two and Three. Further optional modules from other Departments in the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy, and in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities are available. Additionally, there are also opportunities to study a foreign language module.

Courses are divided into modules. Each year you will normally take modules totalling 120 credits.

King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide upto-date, innovative and relevant courses of study. Therefore, modules offered may change. We suggest you keep an eye on this course page for updates.

Required Modules You are required to take the following modules:
  • Introduction To Global Health 1 Introduction to Global Health 1 (15 credits)
  • Introduction To Global Health 2 Introduction to Global Health 2 (15 credits)
  • Introduction to Social Medicine 1 Introduction to Social Medicine 1 (15 credits)
  • Introduction to Social Medicine 2 Introduction to Social Medicine 2 (15 credits)
  • Research Practice & Design Studio (30 credits)
  • Foundations in Social Science and Social Theory (30 credits)
Optional Modules

There are no optional modules in the first year of this course.


Year 2

Year 2 Required Modules

You are required to take the following modules:

  • Key Concepts In Global Health (30 credits)
  • Key Concepts in Social Medicine (30 credits)
  • Case Studies in Global Health & Social Medicine (15 credits)
  • The Dissertation Laboratory (15 credits)
Optional Modules

You are also required to take an approved optional module from GHSM or an allied department, this currently includes the Department of International Development, Department of Geography and the Department of History


Year 3

Year 3

Global Health & Social Medicine BA:

If you are studying the three year BA, you will take the final year modules in your third year.

Required Modules

You are required to take the following modules:

  • Contemporary Crises in GHSM (15 credits)
  • Dissertation in Global Health & Social Medicine (30 credits)
Optional Modules

In addition, you are required to take 75 credits from a range of optional modules, which may typically include:

  • Social Aspects of Genomics and Personalised Medicine (SAGEP) (15 credits)
  • Ageing: a Global Perspective (15 credits)
  • War, Mental Health & Social Ruptures (15 credits)
  • Ethics of Emerging Biotechnologies (15 credits)
  • Psychiatry, Culture and Globalisation (15 credits)

Global Health & Social Medicine with a Year Abroad BA:

Students on the four year course will spend their third year studying abroad before returning to complete a final year with King’s. This will depend on reaching a certain grade average and being accepted by a partner university.

Our partner institutions currently include:

  • University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
  • University of Melbourne
  • Western University
  • National University of Singapore
  • Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore


Year 4

Year 4

Global Health & Social Medicine with a Year Abroad BA:

Students on the four year course will spend their third year studying abroad before returning to complete a final year with King’s.

Required Modules

You are required to take the following modules:

  • Contemporary Crises in GHSM (15 credits)
  • Dissertation in Global Health & Social Medicine (30 credits)

Optional Modules

In addition, you are required to take 75 credits from a range of optional modules, which may typically include:

  • Social Aspects of Genomics and Personalised Medicine (SAGEP) (15 credits)
  • Ageing: a Global Perspective (15 credits)
  • War, Mental Health & Social Ruptures (15 credits)
  • Ethics of Emerging Biotechnologies (15 credits)
  • Psychiatry, Culture and Globalisation (15 credits)

Global Health & Social Medicine

£ 9,250 + VAT