BSc (Hons) Public Health (Top-up)
Level 5 Entry
For UK and EU Students
For UK and EU Students This Public Health undergraduate degree course takes the strategic themes of the Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF, PHE, 2020) and recognises the NHS long-term plan (NHS, 2022) to ensure that graduating students will have the theoretical and conceptual knowledge, skills, and adaptability to manage the health of the population. Graduates will therefore be well positioned to work in roles allied to public health, and the wider health and wellbeing economy, or progress to further specialist study, such as MSc Public Health to enter the specialist public health route, or MRes or similar, to undertake research in health. The BSc (Hons) Public Health is also a parent course to three other courses, each of which is a route through the parent degree, and typically share 80 credits with the parent course, including Work Related Experiences (WRE) at each academic level. The routes also provide students with the opportunity to focus on a particular and focused aspect of health through the wider, non-clinical lens of Public Health. The BSc (Hons) Public Health single honours degree course aims to: The programme will be delivered at London School of Commerce, an associate college of Canterbury Christ Church University. The London campus is centrally located and all the prime attractions in London are in close proximity to the campus. Campus buildings are located in the London Bridge area, within easy reach of British Rail and Underground stations. To be eligible for entry to the Level 5 top-up, applicants must be in possession of 120 appropriate credits at Level 4, e.g. Cert HE Public Health. External applicants must also satisfy the standard Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU) entry requirements for admission as set out in the University General Regulations for the Conferment of Awards Policy. LSC welcomes applications from all those interested in furthering their education. If applicants do not meet the standard entry requirements but can demonstrate that their life/work skills would make them suitable for undergraduate study, they will be considered. The admissions procedure will include a careful scrutiny of application forms for evidence of: Separate University Processes will then Apply Apply now and pave the way to a successful future.BSc (Hons) Public Health (Top-up)
Level 5 Entry
Overview Aims
Provide students with a critical understanding of the theories and applied knowledge of health and wellbeing, with an emphasis about how health and wellbeing may be influenced and improved collaboratively within a complex system.
Analyse the importance of evidence, sustainability, creativity and systems-thinking to move beyond problem-solving into an exploration of possibilities for the enhancement of public health and well-being.
Examine how health and wellbeing are collaboratively achieved by working with people, community organisations, cultures, from the hyper-local through to global.
Support student’s development of critical understanding of underpinning knowledge for public health practice, population health, lifestyle and health improvement, and illness prevention, done through a focus on communication, education, social, psychological, political and environmental change.
Support student’s development of skills linked to literacy, numeracy with attention to data handling and interpretation in a culturally and socially sensitive learning environment, which is receptive to the complex needs of individual students.
Provide students with knowledge, understanding, and transferable skills that enable them to become change agents capable of achieving the key public health goals: improving health and wellbeing; contributing to reducing health inequalities, increasing healthy life expectancy of populations, health protection and improving the wider determinants of health across the lifecourse.
Provide opportunities for students to gain work-related experiences and support understanding of the competencies that underpin their future practice.
Equip graduates with a set of skills relevant to both their prospective employers across the public, commercial, voluntary, and charitable sectors, and the changing health marketplace, which requires cost-effective, innovative, and interdisciplinary working, whilst acknowledging the complexity of future challenges, such as climate change.
Develop a critical understanding of legal, moral and ethical responsibility and accountability when working with people and populations.
Produce graduates who are intellectually curious, skilled, and ethically engaged with the world and its future, and as such will be adaptable, digitally literate, effective communicators, informed, innovative, professional and self-aware.
Course Delivery
Requirements
Non-standard Entry
Relevant work experience of a substantial nature and duration
Ability to pass examinations, which will be considered on merit
An independent employment reference
An assurance that the applicant has a reasonable command of English at CEFR Level B2 for entry at Level 4 or above (B1 for Level 0) via an independent external examination.
Course Structure
Level 5
Promoting Health (20 credits)
Developing Collaborative Practice (20 credits)
Health Inequalities Across the Life-course (20 credits)
Evidenced Based Research in Health & Wellbeing (20 credits)
Health Protection (20 credits)
Health Behaviour Science (20 credits)
Level 6
Policies & Strategies for Public Health (20 credits)
Health & Lifestyle Epidemiology (20 credits)
Global Public Health (20 credits)
Working in Health (20 credits)
Dissertation (40 credits)
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