Daytime Teaching: BSc Health and Social Care/with Professional Practice
Health and social care are fast-growing areas of employment and academic investigation. Our BSc Health and Social Care/with Professional Practice has been designed to bring together the very best of this interdisciplinary area to provide 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.
Taught by academic experts from across the social sciences and humanities, this course will enable you to gain work-relevant skills and to develop academic expertise through our wide choice of option modules and opportunities for individual study.
BSc Health and Social Care: this BSc degree is ideal if you are more interested in the social context of the health and social care sectors, how policy develops and how it is implemented.
With Professional Practice: if you opt for the BSc Health and Social Care with Professional Practice route, you will have the chance to gain practical work-based experience during this degree by undertaking a work placement module as well as completing a work-based digital project.
Highlights
- This interdisciplinary degree is taught by academic experts actively involved in health and social care research in the UK and around the globe from across our schools of Social Sciences; Historical Studies; and Creative Arts, Culture and Communication; and the Birkbeck Centre for Counselling.
- Teaching integrates key skills for employability in caring environments, for instance in the NHS, social care sector, voluntary organisations and many private sector organisations.
Daytime teaching
- Strong online learning resources.
- Study and complete the course through attending during the day.
When you will study 2024-25 entry
Timetable information is for the current academic year only. Timetables for 2025/26 are to be confirmed.
Full-time
- Year 1 BSc Health and Social Care
- Autumn term, Monday and Tuesday afternoons
- Spring term, Wednesday mornings
- Summer term, Wednesday mornings
- Year 1 BSc Health and Social Care with Professional Practice
- Autumn term, Monday and Tuesday afternoons
- Spring term, Wednesday mornings
- Summer term, Wednesday mornings
- Year 1 BSc Health and Social Care with Foundation year
- Autumn term, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons
- Spring term, Monday or Tuesday, and Wednesday afternoons
- Summer term, Monday or Tuesday, and Wednesday afternoons
- Year 1 BSc Health and Social Care with Professional Practice with Foundation year
- Autumn term, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons
- Spring term, Monday or Tuesday, and Wednesday afternoons
- Summer term, Monday or Tuesday, and Wednesday afternoons
Part-time
- Year 1 BSc Health and Social Care
- Autumn term, Tuesday afternoons
- Spring term, Wednesday mornings
- Summer term, Wednesday mornings
- Year 1 BSc Health and Social Care with Professional Practice
- Autumn term, Tuesday afternoons
- Spring term, Wednesday mornings
- Summer term, Wednesday mornings
- Year 1 BSc Health and Social Care with Foundation Year
- Autumn term, Monday and Tuesday afternoons
- Spring term, Monday or Tuesday afternoons
- Summer term, Monday or Tuesday afternoons
- Year 1 BSc Health and Social Care with Professional Practice with Foundation year
- Autumn term, Monday and Tuesday afternoons
- Spring term, Monday or Tuesday afternoons
- Summer term, Monday or Tuesday afternoons
Modules and fees
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