School of Nursing & Human Sciences
• Postgraduate programmes in research, psychotherapy, and nursing practice
• Undergraduate programmes:• Homelessness• Nursing• Psychology• Health & Society
BSc Health & Society
•A three-year degree
•From the cellular to the global levels
•Health issues as live and controversial
•Argument is valued
•Theme of health action
Health action
• Understanding action on health
• Developing health strengths
• Engagement with community agencies
• Health campaigning
• Health action project
Modules: Year One
• Perspectives on health• Becoming a university
student• Understanding the
human body 1 & 2• Food, nutrition & health• Scarcity and health
• Reading health research• Growing older • Drugs in society• Critical thinking &
health• Marginalisation &
health
Modules: Year Two
• Campaigning for health• Storying lives• Building human
capabilities• Society, health & illness• Technology and the
person
• Doing health research• Epidemiology • Sexuality & society• Human genetics & cell
biology• Culture, health & illness
Modules: Year Three
• Biological basis of disease
• Bioethics and health• Comparative health
systems• Pursuing human
happiness
• Challenging global health problems
• Understanding infection & immunity
• Violence and abuse in society
• Discourse, representation & health
• Inquiring into health action
Possible futures
• Speech & language therapy
• Occupational therapy
• Global health
• Health promotion
• Non-statutory agencies
• Medicine
• Nursing
• Psychotherapy
• Community & overseas development
• Research
Life at DCU• Clubs and Societies• Students’ Union• Learning Support• Uaneen• Disability Service• Student Advice• Library• Sports facilities
Getting HereGetting here, either by public transport or under your own steam, is easy; we’re close to the M50 and M1 motorways and serviced by bus routes from all parts of the city.
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