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Semester 1

What is Health?: Society, Culture and Health 1 (NUST08020)

Subject

Nursing Studies

College

CAHSS

Credits

20

Normal Year Taken

1

Delivery Session Year

2023/2024

Pre-requisites

Please see Additional Restrictions below

Course Summary

This course develops students to understand the dynamic and contextual meaning of health and wellbeing within a complex and globalizing world. Political, sociological and ethical conceptualisations of health and wellbeing will be explored to understand the current health and policy contexts for individual, families and communities. The range of environmental, social, political and individual factors that influence health and wellbeing are explored within the context of contemporary society to examine how health inequalities are produced, replicated and reinforced.

Course Description

This undergraduate course aims to develop in students an understanding of health and wellbeing that is beyond the mere absence of disease and to apply it to the health and wellbeing of people in local communities, families and individuals. This course is a compulsory course for Bachelor of Nursing with Honours (Adult) students and it is anticipated that this course will be of interest to students from a range of different programmes as an outside course. **This course will be taught over 10 weeks and will consist of 10x2hour classroom sessions and 5x2 hour academic study skills workshops. These workshops will consist of 12-15 students, where students are given a topic to study each fortnight and to discuss in groups with the guidance of a tutor. **This course will be taught as face-to-face delivery by a range of experts from within the School of Health in Social Science and also external health and social care practitioners. Students are expected to engage with learning through group discussions, lectures and by reading relevant scholarly literature.

Assessment Information

Written Exam 0%, Coursework 100%, Practical Exam 0%

Additional Restrictions

Unless you are nominated on a Nursing exchange agreement, visiting students are only permitted to enrol in two Nursing courses each, per semester, before the start of the relevant semester’s welcome period – and spaces on each course are limited so cannot be guaranteed for any student. Enrolment in a third course from this subject area will depend on whether there are still spaces available in the September Welcome Period, and cannot be guaranteed. It is NOT appropriate for students to contact staff within this subject area to ask for an exception to be made; all enquiries to enrol in these courses must be made through the CAHSS Visiting Student Office. This is due to the limited number of spaces available in this very popular subject area.

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