SINGLE/COMBINED HONOURS
UCAS codes: BL95 BSc/HCSCS
Typical offer: 220-260 points
International Baccalaureate: 24 points
Degree duration:
3 years full-time 6 years part-time
If English is not your first language:
IELTS 6.0 (including 6.0 in writing) or a TOEFL iBT score of 87 or equivalent
CRB (Criminal Records Bureau) clearance
may be required
Applicants are recommended to seek relevant
paid or voluntary work experience prior to
application
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Email: course.enquiries@winchester.ac.uk
For Combined Honours UCAS codes and entry requirements
Students explore issues for health and social care, from a multi-agency and community perspective, for a whole range of different individuals and groups, around conditions or issues such as physical or intellectual impairment, growing older, mental health or drug and alcohol use. Health and care issues experienced by people within different settings are explored and linked to how practitioners can support people in their communities. Students explore theory and literature about how people and communities behave, and the importance of understanding and reflecting on our own ability to respond. There is a focus on empowering practice and userled approaches to delivering health and social care.
Year 1 is foundational and provides an understanding of the wider social field on many levels. Students are introduced to theories concerning how people come to be placed and labelled as ‘vulnerable’, ‘marginalised’ or ‘problems’ in society. There is an exploration of the political and ethical influences on service provision, along with understanding effective skills in working with groups and individuals.
During Years 2 and 3, students have the opportunity to engage in much greater depth with a range of key issues, studying modules on leadership and management, social research, multi-agency working, advocacy, substance use and misuse, health and care needs of people, entrepreneurship and law and ethics.
Year 1
• Contemporary Health
• Health and Social Care – Values
• Understanding Human Behaviour
• Communicating with Individuals and Groups
Year 2
• Caring Communities
• Understanding Physical Impairment
• Understanding Intellectual Disability
• Understanding Autism
Year 3
• Critical Health and Social Care Practice
• Leadership, Management and Entrepreneurship
• Health, Social Care and the Media
• Empowerment and Advocacy
There is a demand for multi-skilled people across a range of roles in the wider health and social care sectors, including the voluntary sector and local authorities. Graduates may undertake professional qualifications in order to pursue specific roles such as social work. Study also provides a good foundation for undertaking further study at postgraduate level.
BA (Hons) Childhood Youth and Community Studies
BA (Hons) Drama
BA (Hons) Education Studies
BA (Hons) English
BA (Hons) Sociology
Combined Honours programmes enable you to study two subjects, jointly (50% / 50%) and it is possible to transfer to a Single Honours programme at the end of Year 1.