- UCAS course code
- 7T31
- UCAS institution code
- M20
Bachelor of Science (BSc)
BSc Global Health (intercalated)
Duration: 1 year
Year of entry: 2025
UCAS course code: 7T31 / Institution code: M20
- Typical A-level offer: See full entry requirements
- Typical contextual A-level offer: See full entry requirements
- Refugee/care-experienced offer: See full entry requirements
- Typical International Baccalaureate offer: See full entry requirements
Fees and funding
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 £26,500 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).
Course unit details:
War, Migration and Health
| Unit code | HCRI30031 |
|---|---|
| Credit rating | 20 |
| Unit level | Level 3 |
| Teaching period(s) | Semester 1 |
| Available as a free choice unit? | No |
Overview
This is course provides a critical overview of over-arching themes and agendas in war, migration and health. This includes building understanding of how war and migration affect population and critical assessment of how health systems in Europe respond to population movements. In doing so the course aims to highlight issues of how health is conceptualised in theory and practice, the power relations and inequalities involved within and between key health populations, actors and institutions, and the key health challenges before and after war. We also explore the role of international organisations in providing humanitarian health
Pre/co-requisites
Aims
- This course aims to understand the challenges that war and displacement bring to health, both physical and mental.
- To understand the role of culture in relation to help-seeking.
- To understand the global architecture of Humanitarian Health.
- To understand War trauma and its medicalisation.
Teaching and learning methods
Knowledge and understanding
- Understand how health is conceptualised
- Recognise the role of power and power inequalities in health systems
- Understand key issues affecting migrant health
- Understand how migrant health is gendered
- Understand and critically evaluate the links between research/ideology and policy, and policy and practice
Intellectual skills
- Critically assess the role of health systems in responding to population movements
- Exercise a reflexive and critical evaluation of health as a human experience mediated by individual, societal, cultural and global contexts
- Use their knowledge of health system responses to migration to engage in critical reflection on health issues and the impact of health systems on migrant communities
Practical skills
- Plan, research, organise and deliver workshop presentations related to specific health contexts
- Develop oral and written presentation skills
- Write policy briefs
- Course unit, in relation to the students' Transferable skills and personal qualities.
Employability skills
- Group/team working
- - Teamwork - recognising and identifying views of others and working constructively with them - Negotiation - understand group dynamics and intercultural backgrounds in the use of negotiating skills to reach objectives - Awareness - working effectively within externally or poorly defined constraints as in a humanitarian health context
- Innovation/creativity
- - Improving own Learning - ability to improve one's own learning through planning, monitoring, critical reflection, evaluate and adapt strategies for one's learning - Awareness - working effectively within externally or poorly defined constraints as in a humanitarian health context - Initiative - able to take action unprompted and assume responsibility - Creativity - able to be innovative and apply lateral thinking in problem solving and decision making - Stress Tolerance ¿ able to use personal resources effectively to meet challenges
- Project management
- - Time Management - ability to schedule tasks in order of importance - Self-management - capacity for self-appraisal, reflection and time management - Adaptability - ability to respond positively to changing circumstances - Self-awareness - awareness of own strengths and weaknesses and to be able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Research
- - Applying Subject Knowledge - use of discipline specific knowledge in everyday situations - Research - ability to plan and implement an effective research project - Ethical appreciation - a willingness to ascertain the ethical implications of proposed courses of actions or situations and to take the necessary steps to ensure that result from this analysis
Assessment methods
Assessment task | Formative or Summative | Length | Weighting |
| Workshop on Refugees and Health in British Cities (paired presentations). Here students work in groups and identify an issue faced by refugees in British cities and show how the health concern is being dealt with state and non-state actors. | Summative | 20 minutes | 50% |
| Essay Plan | Formative | 500-700 words | 0% |
| Essay | Summative | 2000 words | 50% |
Feedback methods
Feedback method | Formative or Summative |
| Written feedback on essay plans and final essay | Summative Essays + Formative essays |
Verbal feedback in assessed presentations and formatively in seminars and workshop discussions Additional one-to-one feedback (during the consultation hour or by making an appointment)
| Summative Workshops |
Study hours
| Scheduled activity hours | |
|---|---|
| Lectures | 22 |
| Seminars | 10 |
| Independent study hours | |
|---|---|
| Independent study | 168 |
Teaching staff
| Staff member | Role |
|---|---|
| Rubina Jasani | Unit coordinator |