Bachelor of Science (BSc)

BSc Healthcare Science (Audiology)

Audiologists work in the exciting field of hearing and related disorders and therapies.
  • Duration: 3 years
  • Year of entry: 2025
  • UCAS course code: B611 / Institution code: M20

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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 £31,000 per annum. For general information please see the undergraduate finance pages.

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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).

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Course unit details:
Introduction to Health Science

Course unit fact file
Unit code PCHN10040
Credit rating 10
Unit level Level 4
Teaching period(s) Full year
Available as a free choice unit? No

Overview

This course encourages students to reflect on psychological and social aspect of hearing loss, how to provide patient-centred care, and the importance of self-awareness and reflective practice as key skills in becoming an audiologist  

Aims

  • Explore self-awareness as a pre-requisite to reflective practice
  • Consider the sense of hearing and how it shapes and informs the world we live in
  • Explore the world of Deaf/deaf individual
  • Provide an introduction to aural rehabilitation from a service users perspective  

Syllabus

  • Self–awareness and reflective practice
  • Improving self-awareness on personal and professional level for quality patient care and professional growth  
  • Introduction to reflective practice and how to do  this
  • Models of disability
  • Deaf/deaf Culture
  • Personal experience of hearing and sensory perception
  • Differing audiology service needs of a hearing impaired individual

Teaching and learning methods

Blended approach: Tutorials, class discussion, directed and self-directed study. The students are encouraged to keep a reflective journal of the sessions

Knowledge and understanding

  • Discuss the importance, of self-awareness, unconscious bias, emotional intelligence and resilience
  • Discuss the importance of reflective learning, self-reflection and how these will be important in clinical practice
  • Explain the WHO classification system to describe the needs of deaf/Deaf individual
  • Discuss the importance of the concepts of effective communication and patient-centred care
  • Describe the complexities and challenges of living with hearing loss/Deafness
  • Explore hearing and sensory perception from a personal perspective
  • Describe the differing audiology service needs of a hearing impaired individual, and the services such a service provides

Intellectual skills

  • Develop the ability to think critically and question received information
  • Enhancement of reflective, evaluative and interpretive skills
  • Develop team-working skills  

Practical skills

  • Enhancement of reflective learning, self -awareness, self- reflection and the ability to write reflectively  

Transferable skills and personal qualities

  • Academic reading
  • Use of library
  • Development of the ability to express issues clearly and succinctly 

Assessment methods

Summative Assessment: Creative Portfolio of learning/Reflection (2000 words) - 100%

Feedback methods

Formative assessment - practical work and debates on an individual and group basis; feedback on presentation and portfolio of learning.

Recommended reading

  • British Society of Audiology: 2016 Common principles for rehabilitation for adults in audiology services. Available at
  • https://www.thebsa.org.uk/resources/common-principles-rehabilitation-adults-audiology-services/
  • Edwards, E. 2019 Reflective practice: Available (via blackboard)at https://softchalkcloud.com/lesson/serve/AG542KrlQ3tO7W/html
  • Grenness C, Hickson L, Laplante-Lévesque A, Davidson B. 2014 Patient-centred care: a review for rehabilitative audiologists. Int J Audiol 53 Suppl 1:S60-7
  • Health and care profession council. HCPC standards. Available at https://www.hcpc-uk.org/standards/
  • International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) (2001) World Health Organisation (WHO) Geneva

PLEASE NOTE: A greater range of references will be provided in lectures. 

Study hours

Scheduled activity hours
Work based learning 22
Independent study hours
Independent study 78

Teaching staff

Staff member Role
Deborah Cane Unit coordinator

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