Health and Social Care, BA (Hons)

This degree equips students with the knowledge, skills, and experience needed for careers in health and social care, enabling positive impacts on marginalized communities. Developed by experts, it addresses the sector's evolving complexities, covering topics from mental health and criminal justice to public health and homelessness. Students explore human development, inequality, and global challenges, leading to diverse career and postgraduate opportunities.At NTU, the program features a diverse student body, including mature learners and those with professional experience, along with 240 hours of work-like experience through placements and simulations. Flexible optional modules allow customization in later years, with high UCAS demand noted in 2022. Core modules span foundations, research, and leadership, while assessments include essays, presentations, portfolios, and dissertations, with feedback provided within three weeks.

Year One modules include Foundations in Health and Social Care, Current Issues in Health and Social Care, Social Policy for Health and Social Care, Working with People, Preparing for Practice and Human Growth and Development. Year Two modules include Research in Health and Social Care, Managing Health and Social Care, Professional Practice, Person Centred Interventions. Optional modules include Making Sense of Health Improvement, Engaging with Vulnerable Groups, Mental Health and Well Being and Health, Social Care and Crime. Final Year modules include Individual Research Project and Leadership in Health and Social Care. Optional modules include Children's and Young People's Mental Health, Healthy Places, Healthy People, Young People and Social Care, Health Promotion in Practice, Global Health and Development and Ageing in the 21st Century.