Modules

Modules may include

Year 1 (Level 4): 120 credits

Academic and Digital Skills (20 credits) will provide you with the underpinning skills required for undergraduate study. These skills will be transferable to their professional development journey and provide a framework to support their academic progress.

Fundamental of Health and Wellbeing (20 credits) will give you the opportunity to understand what it means to have positive health and wellbeing. It will introduce the basic principles, concepts and models which inform contemporary practice.

Communication and Interpersonal Skills (20 credits) will enable you to develop knowledge and understanding of communication and interpersonal skills required for the health and wellbeing sector.

People and Places (20 credits) will allow you to examine and explore factors affecting society and the natural environment, within a range of settings, to understand influences and barriers for individual, community and population health and wellbeing. Community development and sustainability approaches will be a central theme within this module.

Interventions for Wellbeing (20 credits) enables you to examine and review a range of interventions in health and their implications for wellbeing from a preventative and treatment focused perspective. A range of settings for individual and population health and wellbeing will be explored, considering the sustainability of these approaches.

Factors Affecting Health and Wellbeing Behaviour (20 credits) will help you to understand how humans interact within their environment and how this affects their health and wellbeing through a biological/psychological/sociological model. This module will also provide a foundation understanding of the regulatory and legislative drivers, both historically and currently.

Year 2 (Level 5): 120 credits

Research Methods (20 credits) provides you with an understanding of research methodology, methods, and an ability to appraise current research linked to Health and Wellbeing. This will provide a foundation for those who wish to progress onto higher level learning in the future.

Creative Approaches for Mental Health and Wellbeing (20 credits) focuses on creativity and what this means to different people. This module aims to examine and explore a wide array of services including the arts, physical activity and other therapeutic activities that aim to promote health and wellbeing.

Project Management in Health and Wellbeing Practice (40 credits) This module will build on existing student habitus and develop you into an innovative practitioner who can lead bespoke interventions or campaigns which promote wellbeing in specific populations.

Contemporary Issues in Health (20 credits) provides you with the opportunity for you to investigate contemporary issues which affect health and wellbeing. The module will explore what the local determinants of health and wellbeing are and examine local policies and strategies.

Leadership of Wellbeing in the Workforce (20 credits) will investigate the complex factors that contribute to wellbeing in the workforce and allow you to explore leadership and management strategies which will promote a healthy working environment.

Assessment methods

You will be assessed through a range of assessment features across this programme reflecting the diverse mechanisms for cascading information within the Health and Wellbeing sector. The range of assessment tasks include:

presentations
personal development plans
Essays
reports
web design
intervention design
case studies
project design
delivery experience
These will allow you to develop reflective thinking but also build essential employability skills.

You will emerge as an autonomous and independent graduate that can identify specific areas of interest and offer a deep knowledge base that is ready for delivery within employment.

Tuition fees

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