The College of Human and Health Sciences aims to achieve recognition as a centre of international excellence, informing policy, practice and education
This course helps students gain an understanding of why medicine and health care should not be reduced to scientific principles, by exploring the contribution of humanities and addressing the limitations of a purely scientific approach.
Introducing medical humanities history, heritage and health care; social sciences and health care; literature, the arts and health care; philosophy, religion and health care; law and health care or philosophy of psychiatry, dissertation.
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Sep |
36 months |
Part-time day | No application date provided |
Swansea, SA2 8PP |
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£1240 per year |
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*More info: £1240 per year |
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Taught
Swansea University
Humanities / General Studies / Combined Studies, Social Sciences, Health Studies, Medicine (General)

10 hard weeks after work, in the autumn, I must be crazy....well, so I thought! I was fascinated and challenged by the lecturer's breadth of knowledge and enjoyed the research elements of the course. I still maintain that my partner cheated...more
1 Hotcourses user(s) found the following review helpful.No quibbles, fully recommended. Taught very well....more
2 Hotcourses user(s) found the following review helpful.The course itself is not particularly difficult and there is plenty of support IF you approach the right lecturers. For my 3 years I had approx 5-6 hours of lectures a day. The choice of topics covered though is pretty minimal as when I was...more
Course content was at quite a high level and some parts were quite difficult (particularly for those who hadn't done chemistry or maths A-levels). Help is always on hand so content was sometimes challenging but never impossible! Teaching wa...more
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