Introduction to Professional and Academic Skills enables you to acquire key academic and professional skills on your journey to becoming an independent learner. Your academic skills will be enhanced to include note-taking, presentation skills, IT skills, the reading of academic articles and the development of a personal portfolio. You will also explore effective and ineffective communication strategies, self-awareness, resilience and transferable life skills such as time management, assertiveness, negotiation, active listening and problem solving.

Introduction to Research Skills provides an overview of research methods. The module equips you with a broad knowledge and understanding of the function and application of research relevant to those working in applied health and social care, including the effectiveness of different models, client issues and groupwork. You will be introduced to both the theoretical and practical aspects of research skills including research terminology, numeric and non-numeric data handling, statistical analysis and interpretation of qualitative and quantitative data.

Social Policy for Health and Wellbeing enables you to develop an in-depth understanding of how social policies impact upon the health and wellbeing of individuals and populations. This  will include health and social care provision, employment, education, social security and housing. The module addresses the the development of the UK welfare system from its Victorian origins to the present day, making you aware of the challenges facing politicians and policy makers in prioritising the competing needs arising from changing health and social care needs within the UK. You will be introduced to the policy process, gaining an understanding of how political, economic, social, ethical and legal factors influence the development and provision of key aspects of the welfare system. In doing so, you will discover the key political ideologies that influence the policy process.

Sociological and Psychological Perspectives on Health and Wellbeing provides a theoretical underpinnings of the study of health and social wellbeing. The module will introduce you to the major theoretical perspectives in psychology and sociology and help you to develop an understanding of how these theoretical tools can enhance the analysis of health, social care and wellbeing. You will be introduced to social and behavioural theories that will enable you to analyse how health and wellbeing are the produce of a wide range of social, economic, political, cultural and behavioural factors. You will consider what influences the ways that individuals perceive, think about and react to the world around them.

Health and Social Wellbeing Across the Life Course introduces you to contemporary and critical approaches in considering health and wellbeing across various phases of the life course and transitions for individuals, communities and populations. These include environmental and place factors, social factors, personal factors, health disorders, as well as activities and participation in everyday life. By the end of the module you will have considered key morbidity, mortality and disability issues as they relate to life course phases and transitions, equality and diversity. The aim is to enable you to identify the key challenges and issues in health and wellbeing as they emerge across the life course and transitions, for example maternal and new born, child and adolescent health, sexual and reproductive health, adults and older adults, and end of life.

Inequalities in Health enables you to enhance your understanding of issues and aspects related to health inequalities. The causes of health inequalities will be considered, together with an overview of theoretical and social policy issues relevant to health inequalities and anti-discriminatory practice. The emphasis will be on an exploration of self awareness focusing on the skills used in promoting anti-discriminatory practice.

Housing, Health and Social Welfare examines the developing social policy agenda from the Victorian era to the present day in relation to housing, health and social well being in the UK. The major themes which lead to housing becoming and remaining a social policy issue will be explored, including health, social justice, crime and economic imperatives.

Understanding Research familiarises you with the nature and variety of research methods and data collection techniques, together with the need for an evidence-base to guide the decision-making process. You will evaluate qualitative and quantitative methods, examining the positive and negative aspects of both approaches in a comparative analysis. A key aspect of this module is the literature review. You will be shown how to develop a literature search strategy, learn how to find relevant literature using electronic databases and understand how to appraise the literature you find to identify key themes. Ethical considerations in relation to the development and undertaking of research will also be considered.

Health, Place and Community enables you to critically analyse a local community to assess its status as a ‘healthy community’ and to identify how that community can develop to become ‘healthier’. You will be introduced to concepts relating to community development to develop skills in analysing the local community. You will gain expertise in assessing the impact that behaviours, contexts and settings have on the health and wellbeing of a community population, learning more about the micro and macro influences. The module will outline the concept of ‘community profiling’ and develop your understanding of the various methods used when profiling varied community settings. You will develop a deeper understanding of the need for healthier communities and discover how healthy communities can be developed, while also analysing and exploring the more intrinsic and nuanced influences of community contexts on the health and wellbeing of people.

Legal and Ethical Perspectives is a module designed to develop awareness of accountability and accountable practice within the legal, professional and ethical frameworks pertinent to a potential future client base. In addition, the module will encourage you to reflect upon your personal and professional abilities and boundaries and consider the importance of the multi-professional team.

Negotiated Learning Shell allows you to negotiate with academic staff, and the workplace if appropriate, to focus on an area of study of particular interest. This may be for the enhancement of practice or for the development of more in-depth knowledge and skills with particular significance to the workplace and/or yourself.

Leadership and Management in the Workplace and Society provides you with theoretical frameworks that can be used to discuss and analyse processes, roles and behaviours of leaders and managers within a variety of settings and within society. You will be facilitated to develop an argument that will extend and challenge the contemporary beliefs of the terms ‘leadership’ and ‘management’. You need to understand these concepts in order to develop these skills within the very families and communities with which you are working.

Vulnerability in Society is a module that has the concept of vulnerability as its central tenet. All people are vulnerable to varying degrees and at different times across the lifespan, hence a key area for clarification and debate will be an appreciation of what exactly is ‘vulnerability’. In identifying individuals and groups who are most at risk, or at what point in their lives they could be seen as vulnerable, the module seeks to highlight and explore these concepts while examining the guidelines policies and legislation in place to protect individuals’ families and Communities.

The Safeguarding Agenda introduces you to the safeguarding agenda in the wider context, analysis how it is related to child protection development and screening. A questioning approach in appraising the literature and working through scenarios and case discussions will enhance your knowledge and understanding of how to safeguard children and young people.

Psychological Approaches to Health and Social Wellbeing critically examines a number of key issues in the application of health psychology to health and social wellbeing. The module is structured around four broad themes: health behaviour, health promotion and disease prevention; the role of individual differences and social factors in health and illness; stress, illness and the health-care system; and health communication and intervention.

Applied Health Psychology in Context focuses on the application of health psychology (theory, research and practice) in a variety of contexts including forensic, occupational, clinical, sport and counselling. The module will highlight key issues concerning structure, policy and practice in the application of health psychology to a range of contexts. You will evaluate the theoretical and methodological contributions made by psychological approaches to health prevention and intervention strategies in applied settings and identify and evaluate the role that health psychologists have in a range of healthcare settings.

The Vulnerable Child recognises the importance of accurate and relevant assessment in identifying the strengths and needs in all children. The module will also analyse the use of the assessment process in order to identify vulnerability and utilise the knowledge and skills of the multi-professional team to ensure the safeguarding and protection of all children.

Exercise, Diet and Health Promotion provides you with the opportunity to look into the health and physical activity status of different population groups. The module will enable you to assist individuals across the lifespan in adopting physical activity, exercise and other healthy behaviours that lead to increased fitness, wellness and optimal health alongside a well-balanced diet. You will explore strategies for promoting sport and exercise participation and reflect upon the influence of physical and social environments on engagement. The aim is for you to develop the knowledge and skills to create and deliver promotional programmes that enhance awareness about healthy lifestyle behaviour, increase health-enhancing behaviours, decrease health risk behaviours and create environments to support a healthy lifestyle.

Nurturing Health and Wellbeing in the Early Years enables you to explore and expand upon your knowledge of holistic development within the early years (conception to five years). You will be introduced to key concepts surrounding supporting resilience and wellbeing in the early years, neuro-biological development, nurturing behaviours, healthy lifestyles, fostering responsiveness to children’s self esteem and confidence needs. There will also be a particular focus on special educational needs in early childhood.

Personal Career Development considers and critically reviews your workplace experience by evaluating the links between theory and practice, allowing you to identify and reflect on your own achievement and potential.

Health and Wellbeing: Global Perspectives equips you with a critical understanding of contemporary global health and social wellbeing. You will analyse the range of factors that drive global inequalities in health. These include the historical impacts of colonialism, contemporary globalisation, international trade and economic policies, the impacts of of war, conflict and displacement, the continuing burden of poverty, weak health infrastructure and poor governance, and the changing patterns of communicable and non-communicable diseases across the globe.  Alongside this, you will develop a critical evaluation of the role and policy prescriptions of multilateral agencies, such as the World Health Organisation, non-governmental organisations and the wider aid sector.

Working and Collaborating in Multi-Agency Settings enables you to critically examine the way that professions work and collaborate in multi-agency settings in the context of health and welfare provision in the United Kingdom. You will also assess the subsequent impact on the patient, client or service user. You will have the opportunity to consider and critically analyse the meaning and development of concepts such as professionalism, team-working and collaboration, using frameworks for best practice in the context of public health initiatives in health and social care.

Dissertation enables you to focus on an area of vocational interest, or concern, which is identified by yourself and agreed with your supervisor. You will engage in a structured review of the literature related to the specific area of study, apply critical analysis to the literature and make recommendations that could improve service provision.

Primary Research Dissertation focuses on the identification of an area of vocational interest or concern to be identified by yourself and agreed with your supervisor. You will engage in a structured review of existing literature and design and carry out a research project related to your specific area of study. You will apply critical analysis to the established literature as well as the findings from your proposed research and make recommendations that could improve service provision.

Negotiated Learning Shell offers an opportunity for you to study a topic or work related issue at degree level. It involves you identifying the chosen area for study, developing and negotiating a learning contract (which will outline the what, how, when, where and why of the study period), as well as the means of assessment to showcase the acquired learning.

The Wider Determinants of Overweight and Obesity will enable you to gain an insight into the issues relating to obesity and being overweight, closely associated with modern society and the wider determinants of health and well-being.

Gender in Society provides an insight into the historical and contemporary perspectives of gender in society. The module will examine the varying theories relating to feminism and paternalism and discuss how culture and the media influence our opinions. You will explore beliefs around the ‘traditional’ roles of men and women and discuss issues relevant to the raising of children, such as ‘gender toys’, colours, traditions and employment.

Children, Young People, Crime and Deviance explores the journey between deviance and criminality in the children and young people’s sector as opposed to sensationalising child and youth crime. The module presents a contemporary and realistic picture of engagement in deviance and youth offending. It also explores the transitions from deviance to criminality. The aim is to find patterns in behaviours from which interventions can be identified and their applications considered.

Supporting the Health and Wellbeing of Children and Young People with Special Needs and Disabilities elaborates on the fundamentals of human development, providing you with the opportunity to explore and expand your knowledge of specific developmental needs and disabilities of children and young people. You will critically appraise interventions which are used to support children or young people with special needs and disabilities, evaluate the role of a Special Educational Needs Coordinator and assess the importance of multi-disciplinary working to meet the individual needs of children and young people, analyse the current and historical context of special needs and disability legislation, and critically appraise the importance of wellbeing and holistic support to promote equality of opportunity and diversity within universal and specialist services.

Ageing Today: Differentiating Healthcare in Later Life focuses around analysis of complex cases studies. The module will evaluate theories that have been used, or can be used, to understand health and wellbeing in later life, commonly defined in literature and policy documents as aged 50+. This age bracket encapsulates the ‘young old’ who are pre-statutory retirement, as well as the most elderly citizens. The aim is to illuminate inequalities arising from the intersection of age with class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality in relation to the health, care and welfare of older people. The module will acknowledge that while Britain is an ageing society, people experience later life differently and unequally. Simultaneously, the module will acknowledge the changing demographics of welfare where later life has become increasingly diverse. Recent social and intellectual developments will be considered, recognising that the older, fixed ‘life stage’ models of ageing (birth-marriage-children-retirement-death) are less relevant in a society where more fluid and contingent ‘life courses’ and ‘old ages’ are possible because of increasingly differentiated social/ageing experiences.

Vulnerable Children, Young People And The Law enables you to gain an understanding of current legislation as it applies to contemporary practice with vulnerable children, young people and their families. The module will extend your knowledge of law, ethics and concepts of vulnerability and accountability. It encourages you to critically analyse legislation and to apply anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive principles to current practice with children and young people.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health explores the key concepts that shape child and adolescent mental health issues and services. This will include an exploration of child and adolescent mental health from a psychological, sociological and policy perspective. A particular focus will be on child and adolescent mental health issues and services with reference to the current political and economic climate.

Risk, Resilience and Resistance examines the current trends, influences and theoretical underpinnings of risk taking behaviours across the lifespan, complemented by a review of the current strategies for managing risk taking behaviours. The module provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary risky behaviours using psychological, sociological and cognitive perspectives, examining why people are exposed to or choose to undertake risks and how these can be managed with 21st century resources.

Applied Health Psychology in Context focuses on the application of health psychology (theory, research and practice) in a variety of contexts including forensic, occupational, clinical, sport and counselling. The module will highlight key issues concerning structure, policy and practice in the application of health psychology to a range of contexts. You will evaluate the theoretical and methodological contributions made by psychological approaches to health prevention and intervention strategies in applied settings and identify and evaluate the role that health psychologists have in a range of healthcare settings.

Exercise, Diet and Health Promotion provides you with the opportunity to look into the health and physical activity status of different population groups. The module will enable you to assist individuals across the lifespan in adopting physical activity, exercise and other healthy behaviours that lead to increased fitness, wellness and optimal health alongside a well-balanced diet. You will explore strategies for promoting sport and exercise participation and reflect upon the influence of physical and social environments on engagement. The aim is for you to develop the knowledge and skills to create and deliver promotional programmes that enhance awareness about healthy lifestyle behaviour, increase health-enhancing behaviours, decrease health risk behaviours and create environments to support a healthy lifestyle.

HUG2123 Housing, Health and Social Welfare (20 credits) added as a compulsory module in Year 2. FDH2100 Legal and Ethical Perspectives (20 credits), HEA2077 Negotiated Learning Shell (20 credits), HUG2102 Leadership and Management in the Workplace and Society (20 credits), HUG2103 Vulnerability in Society (20 credits), HUG2135 The Safeguarding Agenda (20 credits), HUG2136 Psychological Approaches to Health and Social Wellbeing (20 credits), HUG2137 Applied Health Psychology in Context (20 credits), HUG2228 The Vulnerable Child (20 credits), HUG2314 Exercise, Diet and Health Promotion (20 credits) and HUG2315 Nurturing Health and Wellbeing in the Early Years (20 credits) added as optional modules in Year 2.

HEA3065 Negotiated Learning Shell (20 credits), HUG3125 The Wider Determinants of Overweight and Obesity (20 credits), HUG3130 Gender in Society (20 credits), HUG3131 Children, Young People, Crime and Deviance (20 credits), HUG3135 Supporting the Health and Wellbeing of Children and Young People with Special Needs and Disabilities (20 credits), HUG3137 Ageing Today: Differentiating Healthcare in Later Life (20 credits), HUG3138 Vulnerable Children, Young People and the Law (20 credits), HUG3153 Child and Adolescent Mental Health (20 credits), HUG3154 Risk, Resilience and Resistance (20 credits) and HUG3155 Applied Health Psychology in Context (20 credits) added as optional modules in Year 3.

HUG1144 Social Policy for Health and Wellbeing (20 credits), HUG1145 Sociological and Psychological Perspectives on Health and Wellbeing (30 credits) and HUG1146 Health and Social Wellbeing Across the Life Course (30 credits) replace HUG1116 Social Policy, Health and Welfare (30 credits), HUG1117 Social Constructs, Health and Disease (20 credits) and HUG1124 Introduction to Equality and Diversity (30 credits) as compulsory modules in Year 1.

HUG2344 Health, Place and Community (20 credits) added as a compulsory module in Year 2. HUG2123 Housing, Health and Welfare (20 credits) changes from compulsory to optional in Year 2. HUG2120 Older Women in Society (20 credits), HUG2124 Community Profiling (20 credits), HUG2125 Long Term Care and Support for the Older Adult (20 credits), HUG2230 The Working Environment in Children and Young People’s Services (20 credits), HUG2300 An Introduction to Complementary and Alternative Therapies (20 credits) and HUG2312 Introduction to Play and Playwork (20 credits) removed as optional modules in Year 2.

HUG3170 Health and Wellbeing: Global Perspectives (30 credits) and HUG3265 Working and Collaborating in Multi-Agency Settings (20 credits) added as compulsory modules in Year 3. HUG3106 International Perspectives on Health and Social Wellbeing (30 credits) and HUG3242 Contemporary Approaches to Multi-Agency Working in Health and Social Care (20 credits) removed as compulsory modules in Year 3. HUG3107 Approaches to Care with Older Adults (20 credits), HUG3109 Safeguarding Children and Young People (20 credits), HUG3111 Health Promotion (20 credits), HUG3113 Protecting Children and Young People at Risk (20 credits), HUG3116 Leadership Styles and Management Processes (20 credits), HUG3118 Values in Complementary Therapies (20 credits), HUG3132 Community Development and Praxis (20 credits) and HUG3152 Politics and Social Policy (20 credits) removed as optional modules in Year 3.

HUG2102 Leadership and Management in the Workplace and Society (20 credits) and HUG2103 Vulnerability in Society (20 credits) added as optional modules in Year 2.

HUG3103 Domestic Abuse (20 credits) and HUG3154 Risk, Resilience and Resistance (20 credits) added as optional modules in Year 3.

HUG2102 Leadership and Management in the Workplace and Society (20 credits) and HUG2103 Vulnerability in Society (20 credits) removed as optional modules in Year 2.

HUG3154 Risk, Resilience and Resistance (20 credits) removed as an optional module in Year 3.