BSc (Hons) Public Health and Health Promotion with Foundation Year.
| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-09-01 | - |
| 2024-09-01 | - |
Program Overview
Overview
Develop the skills you need to become a public health professional, with exciting career opportunities in both the UK and abroad.
The World Health Organization and governments around the world are supporting the expansion of health promotion and public health. This is a growing and important area to be in.
You will study the mental, emotional, social, physical, spiritual, political and environmental influences on health and how currently the government aims to address these.
The foundation year offers an alternative route to a career in public health, allowing you to develop the skills you need to become a public health professional.
Why study Public Health and Health Promotion?
90% of our Public Health and Health Promotion students said that staff made the subject interesting (National Student Survey 2022)
Public Health and Health Promotion is about the theory and practice of preventing disease and promoting good health and wellbeing. Our course will equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
Our team at CCCU has over 30 years’ experience of developing courses, teaching, academic leadership and research in the field of public health and health promotion. We are proud to have been one of the first universities to teach these subjects to undergraduate students.
Experienced lecturers will help you to learn through a blend of interactive activities, lectures, small group discussions, one-to-one tutorials, online resources, and peer support. You will have the opportunity to reflect on your personal strengths and values in a supportive environment that will assist you in planning your future study and preparing for a health-related career.
The course will provide you with an in-depth understanding of public health and policies that apply to England. However, there are many opportunities, particularly in class discussions and assessments, where international students can show how a principal applies to a health concern in their own country, and in Year 3 we offer an international Global Health module.
Program Outline
Module information
Please note that the list of optional modules and their availability may be subject to change. We continually review and where appropriate, revise the range of modules on offer to reflect changes in the subject and ensure the best student experience. Modules will vary when studied in combination with another subject.
The modules shown here are those which you will study if you choose Single Honours Forensic Investigation. Other, related, degrees are available to you.
Core/optional modules
How you’ll learn
The Public Health and Health Promotion programme includes a wide range of teaching and learning strategies. These strategies are designed to encourage you to develop as independent learners as you progress through the three years. Individual strategies will be appropriately chosen, bearing in mind factors such as the numbers of students undertaking a module, and the specific content of the module. Most modules emphasise active learning in order to develop the qualities, knowledge and skills outlined in the course aims. Some modules will include organised visits. The course is supported by University’s virtual learning environment.
Most modules on the courses consist of 50 hours contact (teaching) time supported by 150 hours of independent learning. Extensive reading lists are given for each module and students will be navigated through the learning material with a structured lecture and seminar schedule.
All programmes are informed by the University’s Learning and Teaching Strategy 2015-2022.
We are committed to equipping you with the knowledge and skills required to work within the public health workforce both in the UK and internationally.
Tristi BrownettCourse Director
Your future career
The degree provides suitable entry qualifications which will contribute to becoming a registered health promotion or public health practitioner. It also opens up routes into teaching, through PGCE, and prepares you for further postgraduate study at all levels through to PhD. The course is normally accepted for graduate entry into health professional and social work programmes of study.
Typical areas of employment that you can enter after completing this degree are:
- Commissioning public health services
- Public health intelligence and surveillance
- Health trainer
- Project management: bid writing, community engagement and empowerment
- Health policy and electoral reform
- Health research
- Communicating health information through social marketing and health-related media
- Health services improvement and administration
- Criminal justice system work in prisons and probation
- Housing support, welfare and citizen’s advice
- International development and global health: education programmes, tackling poverty, human rights
- Charity work: fundraising, improving life-chances for vulnerable people and those with disabilities Non-Governmental Organizations
- Undertake further study to become a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
- Improving healthy lifestyles (e.g. physical activity, sexual health, smoking cessation, drugs and alcohol, weight management)
- Town planning, urban development and regeneration, healthy places
- Health protection, health improvement, environmental health, health and safety officer, risk management, emergency planning
- Occupational health – workplace health and wellbeing, health and safety and human resources
- Coaching, mentoring, counselling, supporting people with mental health issues, youth support work Leisure industry
- Food sustainability, pollution reduction, climate change
- Teaching and the wider education sector
- Civil service