Overview
Status: Active
National Framework Of Qualifications (NFQ) Level: 9
NFQ Award Class: Major Award
Duration Full Time: 12 Month(s)
Duration Part Time: 24 Month(s)
Total Credits: 90
Delivery Method: In-Person
Connected Curriculum: - Employability
- Inter-and Transdisciplinary
- Research Based Teaching
- Sustainability
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): - No Poverty
- Good Health and Well-being
- Clean Water and Sanitation
- Decent Work and Economic Growth
- Reduced Inequality
- Responsible Consumption and Production
- Peace Justice Strong Institutions
Graduate Attributes: - Creator, evaluator and communicator of knowledge
- Effective global citizen
- Independent and creative thinker
- Socially Responsible
Work-Integrated Learning (Including Placement): Yes
The MA (Health and Society) is a full-time programme running for 12 months or part-time over 24 months from the date of first registration for the programme.
Postgraduate Certificate in Health and Society (NFQ Level 9, Minor Award)
Students who pass taught modules to the value of at least 30 credits (but less than 60 credits) may exit the programme and be conferred with a Postgraduate Certificate in Health and Society.
Postgraduate Diploma in Health and Society (NFQ Level 9, Major Award)
Students who pass taught modules to the value of 60 credits may exit the programme and be conferred with a Postgraduate Diploma in Health and Society.
Programme Requirements
For information about modules, module choice, options and credit weightings, please go to Programme Requirements.
Programme Requirements
Module List
| Code |
Title |
Credits |
| |
| EC6081 | Healthcare Economics I | 5 |
| EC6082 | Healthcare Economics II | 5 |
| EH6025 | Principles and Practice of Public Health | 10 |
| PH6047 | Philosophy and Health | 10 |
| 30 |
| Dissertation in Philosophy and Health (30) | |
| Work-Based Dissertation in Philosophy and Health (30) |
| Dissertation in Public Health (30) | |
| Dissertation in Economics and Health (30) | |
| 10 |
| |
| Professional Ethics: Advanced (10) | |
| Measuring Society: Growth, Poverty, Inequality, and Human Capital (10) | |
| Philosophy and the Biological Health Sciences (10) | |
| |
| Reasoning and Argument (5) | |
| Philosophy of Science (5) | |
| Applied Ethics (5) |
| Applied Research for Public Health (10) | |
| |
| Microeconomics: Behaviour and Organisations
and Quantitative Finance I | |
| |
| Microeconomics: Behaviour and Organisations
and Quantitative Methods: Empirical Econometrics | |
| 1 | 20 |
| Health Psychology (5) | |
| Economic Decision Making in Health Care (5) | |
| Advanced Quantitative Techniques for Business Research (5) | |
| Applied Research for Public Health (10) | |
| Foundations of International Children's Rights (5) | |
| Mental Capacity Law (5) | |
| Mental Health Law (5) | |
| Children's Rights and Climate Justice (5) | |
| Human Rights (10) | |
| The Philosophy of Death and Dying (10) | |
| Advanced Moral Psychology (10) | |
| Professional Ethics: Advanced (10) | |
| Measuring Society: Growth, Poverty, Inequality, and Human Capital (10) | |
| Philosophy and the Biological Health Sciences (10) | |
| Health Psychology: Models and Applications (5) | |
| Microeconomics: Behavioural Economics (5) | |
| Public Finance Projects (5) | |
| Health Services (5) | |
| Reasoning and Argument (5) | |
| Philosophy of Science (5) | |
| Applied Ethics (5) | |
| Philosophy of Biology (5) | |
| Evidence (5) | |
| Sociology of Health, Public Health and Health Promotion (5) | |
| Health and Scientific Deviance (5) | |
| Social Perspectives in Mental Health (5) | |
| Social Movements and Health (5) | |
| Science, Technology and Public Controversy (5) | |
| Total Credits | 90 |
Examinations
Full details and regulations governing Examinations for each programme will be contained in the Marks and Standards Book and for each module in the Book of Modules.
Programme Learning Outcomes
Programme Learning Outcomes for MA in Health and Society (NFQ Level 9, Major Award)
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:
- Identify major philosophical theories and paradigms and define key concepts and ideas in the field of health and illness;
- Describe and critically evaluate the major determinants of the health of population, including biological, behavioural, social, economic, political and environmental factors;
- Demonstrate ability to design and conduct original research at the interface of health and society;
- Understand how public health policy decisions and assessment are embedded in a disciplinary foundation (either Philosophy of Health Science and Ethics, or Public Health, or Health Economics);
- Demonstrate ability to work independently, according to internationally approved standards of research, on an extended piece of written work;
- Engage in systematic study of primary and secondary source material, provide an analysis of data using a statistical software package, articulate a thesis based on a synthesis of the research material, and deliver a dissertation that reflects the student's mature consideration of the research topic;
- Demonstrate critical awareness of the nature and limitations of scientific research, modelling, and theorising;
- Critically examine public health (including health services) particularly in respect of health equity, access to health care and Public Health Ethics;
- Demonstrate the following cognitive competencies: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, Evaluation;
- Apply the concepts of logical validity and soundness;
- Apply key elements of economic theory to health and society.
