Health Studies

MSc Health Studies
Mode: part-time

You have the opportunity to build your own programme of learning that meets your specific learning needs with the aim of improving your employability prospects and developing both personally and professionally.

Why choose this course?

Key to the MSc Health Studies is the recognition of relevant professional experience and personal and professional development planning. The aim of this course therefore is to promote relevant and meaningful learning that reflects the development needs of people working in health and social care environments.

Career Opportunities

All students are expected to complete a learning contract that actively engages them in the process of PDP. The units you select will be specifically related to your career development. On completing this course you could consider progressing into the following areas:

• Senior roles in health and social care environments
• Specialist practitioner roles
• Teaching roles
• Research
• Consultancy
• Health/social service management

Teaching/learning methods and strategies

The units available to you offer a range of different teaching strategies in order to meet the learning needs of a diverse range of students.

These strategies include lectures, seminars, group work, e-learning, practicals, case studies, learning contract and portfolio development.

This ensures that all students have the opportunity to learn in an environment that suits their learning style.

Assessment

Due to the nature of this course you will be exposed to a variety of assessment methods that have been designed specifically to assess skills development and demonstrate the learning outcomes of the individual units.

These include portfolios, learning contracts, exams, practicals, essays, reports, poster presentations.

These will help to prepare you for a range of activities once you have completed the course.

Dissertation/project and research

Students will be expected to undertake a dissertation in order to successfully complete this course.
An eighteen thousand word dissertation based upon a piece of research, audit or change management project undertaken by the student completes the programme.

You will also submit a two thousand word plan in preparation for the above.

Recommended reading

You are encourages to access the resources relevant to the units of study that you select in order to build you MSc in Health Studies.

Attendance

You are required to attend all the taught components of your selected units. However, under certain circumstances students may be able to negotiate around this.