Health and Social Care with Foundation Year BSc (Hons)

Health and social care are fast-growing areas of employment and academic investigation. Our BSc Health and Social Care has been designed to bring together the very best of this interdisciplinary area, as well as giving you the chance to shape this highly flexible course to your interests and career aspirations.

Why choose this course?

• It is ideal if you are interested in the social context of the health and social care sectors, how policy develops and how it is implemented.
• You can decide to study this course as a BSc or a BA. You can also follow a Professional Practice route and/or specialise further in environmental studies.
• You will benefit from being taught by academics who are actively researching key issues in health and social care and bring their insight and experience to your learning.
• It offers you skills and knowledge relevant to a wide range of careers in the public, voluntary and private sectors.

What you will learn

This course will equip you with a strong grounding in:

• the national and international context of health and social care
• the inequalities that shape changing needs
• the policies that respond to them.

In your second year of the main degree (and also after any Foundation Year studies), you can choose how to specialise. You can continue studying for a BSc, learning more about the social context of the health and social care sectors, how policy develops and how it is implemented.

Or you can decide to study for a BA to discover more about how arts and humanities approaches can help us understand and respond to changing needs within health and social care, across time and space.

Whether you study for a BSc or BA, you will be able to choose a Professional Practice route to gain practical work-based experience by undertaking a work placement module as well as completing a work-based digital project. You can also decide to specialise further in environmental studies by choosing specific modules related to this field.

This means that you can graduate with either a BSc or BA Health and Social Care, or one of the following awards:

• BSc or BA Health and Social Care with Professional Practice
• BSc or BA Health and Social Care with Environmental Studies
• BSc or BA Health and Social Care with Professional Practice and Environmental Studies

How you will learn

You can choose classes taking place in the daytime or evening for most compulsory modules on this course. Some option modules may only be offered in the evening. Professional Practice modules may only be offered in the daytime.

The course is mainly taught in small-group workshops, seminars and tutorials, and is supported by rich online materials and resources you can access whenever you need.

Foundation Year

If you opt for the Foundation Year route, this will fully prepare you for undergraduate study. It is ideal if you are returning to study after a gap, or if you have not previously studied the relevant subjects, or if you didn't achieve the grades you need for a place on your chosen undergraduate degree. Find out everything you need to know about Foundation Years.