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Semester 2

Positive Health for Communities and Individuals (SHSS10006)

Subject

Health in Social Science

College

CAHSS

Credits

20

Normal Year Taken

4

Delivery Session Year

2023/2024

Pre-requisites

Visiting students must have completed at least 2 courses in Health, Psychology and/or Social Science subject areas (i.e. Sociology, Politics, Social Policy, Social Anthropology, African Studies, American Studies, Gender/Queer Studies) at grade B or above. We will only consider University/College level courses. **Please see Additional Restrictions below**

Course Summary

This course consolidates the learning in the previous years of the MA Health, Science & Society by exploring the interrelationship of individual and community. This debate plays out over the duration of the course, and draws in the 'individual' context of being an individual and the 'community' context of wider society and policy. A second axis of debate addresses the triple dimensions of time, place and person (including the role of green spaces, environment, cultural relationships, the place of religion etc). We will do this though exploration of individual neighbourhoods - exploring neighbourhoods as global yet local places in which we play out our lives and identifying ways in which they impact positively and negatively on our health and mental wellbeing. Located in the final semester of the programme, the course will extend prior learning into a place that is both familiar (our neighbourhoods) and unfamiliar (analysing this place of familiarity through the lenses of individual / community and time / place / person). Students will analyse a neighbourhood of their own choosing and this can be from anywhere in the world, enabling the students to take into subsequent employment an ability to analyse global issues at a local level.

Course Description

This course will enable students to analyse a variety of factors that influence health at the level of a neighbourhood through consideration of the relationship between communities and individuals and with specific reference to assets and resilience.

Assessment Information

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

Additional Restrictions

Visiting students are only permitted to enrol in one 3rd/4th year Health course 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 second course from this group will depend on whether there are still spaces available in the January 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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