Global Health & Social Medicine (L511)

King's College London

Bachelor's degree

In London and Lambeth

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Duration

    3 Years

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.

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Lambeth (London)
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Stamford St, SE1 9NH

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London
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Strand, WC2R 2LS

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On request

About this course

Hear from some of our students about why they chose to study Global Health & Social Medicine at King's.
All applicants of our full time BSc or BA are eligible for the £9,000 scholarship opportunity, including UK, EU and Overseas students.
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.
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.

Our graduates enter a wide range of professions within the health services, public health, government and NGOs in the UK and elsewhere; as well as in the commercial, medical and health sectors. A proportion proceed into higher professional or academic qualifications, often pursuing postgraduate degrees at King’s.

This degree course equips you with the transferable skills of research, analysis and critical thinking, a skillset that’s highly valued and sought after by employers. Our graduates enter a wide range of professions within the health services, public health, government and NGOs in the UK and elsewhere; as well as in the commercial, medical and health sectors. A significant proportion proceed into higher professional or academic qualifications, often pursuing postgraduate degrees at King’s.

Please note that A-level General Studies, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills and Global Perspectives are not accepted by King's as one of your A-levels. However, if offered the grade achieved may be taken into account when considering whether or not to accept a candidate who has just fallen short of the conditions of their offer.

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Subjects

  • Social Medicine
  • Global health
  • Design Studio
  • Social Theory
  • Social Science
  • Laboratory
  • Social statistics
  • Epidemiology
  • Contemporary
  • GHSM

Course programme

1st Year

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.

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 ModulesYou are required to take the following modules:
  • Introduction To Global Health 1 (15 credits)
  • Introduction To Global Health 2 (15 credits)
  • Introduction to Social Medicine 1 (15 credits)
  • 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.

2nd Year

Required Modules

You are required to take the following modules:

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

You are also required to take an approved optional module from the list below, and make up the rest of your credits with optional modules from the department.

  • Applied Epidemiology and Social Statistics (15 credits)
  • Case Studies in Global Health & Social Medicine (15 credits)

3rd Year

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

4th Year

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)

Additional information

International tuition fee - £18,900 per year.

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Global Health & Social Medicine (L511)

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