Negotiated Study - course unit details - BNurs Mental Health Nursing - full details (2025 entry)

Duration: 3 years/4 years for MNurs
Year of entry: 2025
UCAS course code: B762 / Institution code: M20

Key features:
Scholarships available

Typical A-level offer: BCC including specific subjects
Typical contextual A-level offer: Course not eligible for contextual offer
Refugee/care-experienced offer: Course not eligible for contextual offer
Typical International Baccalaureate offer: 30 points overall with 5,4,4 at HL, including specific requirements

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Fees

Tuition fees for home students commencing their studies in September 2025 will be £9,535 per annum (subject to Parliamentary approval). Tuition fees for international students will be £32,000 per annum. For general information please see the undergraduate finance pages.

Policy on additional costs

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).

Scholarships/sponsorships

As per the government announcement, all UK nursing students on courses from September 2020 will receive a payment of at least £5,000 a year which they will not need to pay back. The funding will be given to all new and continuing degree-level nursing, midwifery and many allied health students from September 2020. More information can be found on the NHS website.

Please note, eligibility criteria for the new funding will be the same as the wider NHS Learning Support Fund payable to students ordinarily resident in the UK and studying at a university in England. Find out about the financial support available to students starting at Manchester.

Find out about the financial support available to students starting at Manchester.

The Catherine Chisholm scholarship is applicable to students from selected countries for this course. Find out more details on the scholarship page .

Course unit details:
Negotiated Study

Course unit fact file
Unit code	NURS23151
Credit rating	10
Unit level	Level 5
Teaching period(s)	Semester 1
Available as a free choice unit?	No

Overview

This negotiated study unit offers a flexible mode of study at level 5 as part of the optional discovery menu. There are a considerable number of independent study hours allocated to this unit.

In consultation with an allocated supervisor, students will select a topic of interest and of relevance to their programme of study. They will review the literature in this area in order to develop a question that they will then address (in an agreed format) to be submitted for assessment.

The assignment must demonstrate the appropriate academic level, a coherent contribution to the student’s programme of study, must be relevant to the programme learning outcomes and to the amount of credit sought.

The proposed assignment must not demand resources more than an equivalent taught module and the appropriate level of resources must be made available.

Aims

Students undertaking this unit will negotiate a topic of interest and propose an appropriate form of assessment with their supervisor, to be approved by the unit lead. The assessment may be in written, oral (a presentation for example) or multimedia format to reflect engagement and understanding with their chosen field of study.

This unit aims to:

Offer a flexible mode of study to students with the confidence and skills to undertake independent study
Offer student the opportunity to pursue a topic of relevance to the overall programme that is outside of the normal module choice (e.g. a topic with a historical focus) whilst remaining aligned to the programme outcomes
Facilitate the student’s ability to co - develop (with their supervisor) an assignment that is relevant to the overall programme and that demonstrates level 5 knowledge and skills

Teaching and learning methods

This unit is part of a menu of options (Discovery Units) available to all students on this programme. It is important to note that the overall B.Nurs (2019) programme design ensures that students have the opportunity to meet the proficiencies aligned to the learning outcomes for this unit elsewhere in the programme. Therefore students who choose other available options will not miss out on the opportunity to achieve the programme learning outcomes that align to this unit. The intended learning outcomes for this unit have been developed to align directly to a number of NMC (2018) standards of proficiency in order to support student’s choice to further develop these proficiencies.

The aim of this unit is to allow students to study a negotiated topic of interest. The broad unit learning outcomes reflect this, and the assessment is to be negotiated between the student, their supervisor and the unit lead to ensure it aligns.

The aims and learning outcomes for this unit focus on the following central themes:

• Identification and negotiation of a topic of interest that is of relevance to the overall programme (and present in the programme outcomes) but that is outside of the normal module choice (e.g. a topic with a historical focus)

• Academic pursuit of the identified topic, demonstrating development of the confidence and skills to undertake independent study.

• Proposal, negotiation and completion of an assignment that demonstrates level 5 knowledge and skills

The teaching and learning methods used include tutorials and seminars but with a substantial independent learning component

Assessment

To be negotiated between the student, the supervisor and the unit lead

Knowledge and understanding

Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of their chosen topic of study

Intellectual skills

Critically review the academic literature / professional material relating to their chosen topic of study

Practical skills

Produce work for assessment which reflects engagement with relevant literature and broader subject context
Demonstrate the academic and technical skills necessary to successfully produce work agreed for the assessment

Transferable skills and personal qualities

Demonstrate skills and aptitude to successfully undertake independent study

Assessment methods

Negotiable Assignment equivalent to 2,500 words

Feedback methods

Students will normally have the opportunity to receive feedback on formative work submitted prior to the summative assessment. Other feedback opportunities will also be available through supervision. Online feedback is provided in Grademark. Provisional feedback based on internal marking will be made available prior to the Exam Board on the basis that these marks are yet to be ratified at the Exam Board and therefore may be subject to change. A standard feedback mechanism in Grademark is utilised across all undergraduate programmes within the School which provides detailed and constructive feedback on each component and aspect of assessment and identifies areas of strength and those aspects which could be enhanced.

Student feedback is obtained through in class discussions, via formal University unit evaluation forms and also qualitative, in house evaluations at the end of the unit.

Study hours

Scheduled activity hours
Seminars	2
Tutorials	4

Independent study hours
Independent study	104

Teaching staff

Staff member	Role
Susan Ramsdale	Unit coordinator

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BNurs Mental Health Nursing