Health Studies with Foundation Year

Bachelor's degree

In Telford

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Telford

  • Duration

    4 Years

The BSc (Hons) Health Studies (with Foundation Year) is designed to help you to develop the skills, knowledge and confidence to succeed in your studies with the University of Wolverhampton at degree level and beyond. During your Foundation Year you will develop skills appropriate to University study such as finding and using information, working collaboratively with others, challenging and debating ideas and expressing yourself with greater confidence.”

Our Health Studies course is designed to provide you with a unique and coherent experience, offering you a thorough exploration of this exciting and growing subject area.

You will look at health from both a biological and sociological perspective, as well as health promotion and how it can prevent ill health. The course enables you to examine states of positive wellbeing as well as those that go beyond definitions and focus on disease and deprivation; to examine all factors which have the potential to influence health and wellbeing.

For example, you will consider psychological and social aspects, such as causes of ill health as wide-ranging as unemployment, living conditions and politics. You will explore how smoking affects health and why people struggle to quit, and questions of whether obesity is caused through learned behaviour or a lack of education.

This course is one of many courses run by the Institute of Public Health, Social Work and Care, and has an established reputation for excellence in terms of the quality of the course, particularly through the provision of innovative approaches to teaching and learning, and for the student centred friendliness of its academic and administrative staff.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Telford (Shropshire)
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Level 3 Southwater One, Southwater Sqare, Southwater Way, TF3 4JG

Start date

On request

About this course

At the end of the course a graduate of Health Studies, with a focus on contemporary local, national and international Public Health agendas will be able to:

Demonstrate understanding of the biological, psychological, cultural, social and political principles that underpin/contribute to health, wellbeing, illness and disease.
Compare and critically discuss health as a contested concept within contemporary society, to include an understanding and appreciation of the range of health contexts (local, national and international), health care needs, health care priorities and the roles of inter-disciplinary agencies specific to addressing these.
Critically reflect on the links between the individual experience of health and health issues and the influence of wider structural elements relevant to health and wellbeing.
Independently access, review and critically appraise contemporary sources of health and health related evidence based information from a range of disciplines and demonstrate enterprise in applying this information to the promotion of individual and public health.
Draw upon the lived experience of health, wellbeing, illness and disease and use this understanding to develop an awareness of the Self as a resource for contributing to the individual and public health agenda within a moral, legal and ethical framework as a global citizen.
Show a well-informed understanding of the contemporary context within which health advice, health promotion and health care practice takes place and show signs of being enterprising, collaborative and leading within a professional competitive health market.
Demonstrate wider skill sets that enhance employability in all fields, including time management, good communication, interpersonal skills, report writing and more.

2019 Entry
Full Time Route:

Level 2 English, this could be GCSE Grade 4 or above OR equivalent.

You must provide a satisfactory personal statement detailing your motivation for studying this course. See our Personal Statement Guidance for further information.
If you've got other qualifications or relevant experience, please contact The Gateway for further advice before applying.

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Subjects

  • Confidence Training
  • Obesity
  • Public
  • University
  • Teaching
  • Public Health

Course programme

This course will enable you to gain an understanding of the nature of health studies which entails inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary approaches. As a student, you will develop the skills necessary for the assimilation and understanding of the complex and diverse nature of the subject, as well as more general skills which will be widely transferable, enabling you to effectively prepare for and to establish a career in a wide range of health and public health related areas.

You can get involved in the annual Health Promotion Fair, run every year by students, where you are able to design a stand on a topic of your choice – for example, childhood obesity, binge drinking, mental health awareness, sexual health, etc.

Teaching and learning methods include lectures followed by group work, with on average 140 in the year and classes between 30 and 40 people.

A range of modules will be studied, some alongside other health and social care students, which will broaden your understanding of health, public health and social care arenas and provide you with opportunities for inter-disciplinary learning, gaining a deep understanding of work within the wider health economy.

You will study three modules in Semester 1 and three in Semester 2 per year. You will be encouraged to undertake research, and in your fourth year can also study a module that looks at how environmental aspects such as carbon foot printing can affect health.

If you are interested in a career in nursing or paramedic science, successful completion of the Foundation Year (Year 1) will meet the entry requirements for you to apply to these courses. You will be guaranteed a test/interview opportunity. If you are successful and are made an offer to nursing or paramedic science part of this offer will require that you gain a GCSE grade C/4+ in Maths and English (or equivalent qualifications).​

Health Studies with Foundation Year

Price on request