Overview

    The BSc in Mental Health & Wellbeing gives you the experience and competencies necessary to recognise, comprehend, and innovatively address the diverse elements that effect mental health and overall wellbeing. 

    The course will examine and explore the biological, psychological, social, cultural, and environmental factors that influence mental health and wellbeing across the life course. It gives you the opportunity to study mental health and wellbeing in a non-clinical capacity. You will also explore the range of services available across the public, private, and third sectors that are focused on enhancing, preserving, and advocating for mental health and wellbeing. 

    An employability focus is embedded within each year of the course with our work-related experience modules. The course is structured to support you with a developed knowledge and understanding of mental health, underpinned by ethical principles, to ultimately enable you to make positive impacts on the lives of individuals and their communities. 

    Going on this course was the best decision I have ever made. Coming to CCCU has really opened up my world and made me see that I am capable of so much more than I ever imagined.

    Megan

    Why study Mental Health & Wellbeing at CCCU?

    of our Public Health and Health Promotion students were in jobs or further study 15 months after finishing their course.

    Graduate Outcomes Survey 2023

    Entry requirements

    Qualification type

    Grades

    A Levels

    BBC

    BTEC

    DMM

    Access

    15 Distinctions and 30 Merits 

    International Baccalaureate

    29 Points

    Combinations

    A combination of qualifications totalling 112 UCAS points

    Find out more information about entry requirements.

    If you have any questions about entry requirements for this course, please contact our Course Enquiry Team.

    International students

    Find more information on the IELTS (International English Language Testing System) requirements on our website.

    Depending which country you're from, there may be specific entry requirements. Check your country to see if this is applicable to you.

    112
    UCAS Points

    Module information

    As well as the core modules, you may also have the opportunity to study a number of option modules in your second and third year. Option modules will not be pre-selected for you. We provide examples of option modules. The availability of specific option modules may vary from year to year. The offer of an option will be subject to a minimum number of students choosing the module to ensure the appropriate student experience. The offer of option modules may also be affected by staff availability. It means we cannot guarantee the availability of a particular optional module. However, we will ensure you have a choice of option modules.

    Core/optional modules

    How you’ll learn

    The BSc (Hons) Mental Health and Wellbeing degree is a full-time degree where you will be taught at our Canterbury Campus. You will study six modules each year, across two semesters. Four of the modules (two each semester) will be shared as common modules, meaning that you will study with students studying the BSc (Hons) Public Health and Arts, BSc (Hons) Public Health and Digital Technology, BSc (Hons) Public Health and Business Management. 

    For each module that you study you will receive 50 hours of academic direction usually equivalent to 30 hours of contact and 20 hours of guided independent learning structured by an academic. Your actual contact hours will depend on the optional modules you select. This means that during semesters, you will usually to be on campus for between 9 and 15 hours each week. The guided independent learning will form a series of activities that complement the contact hours directly and may include observation activities, simulated activities, pre-class reading, engagement with digital resources, research tasks, or completion of a set exercise.

    Your degree includes a wide range of teaching and learning strategies. These strategies are designed to encourage you to develop both knowledge and skills, to develop as independent learners, and to continually apply your academic learning to real world experience and vice versa. The strategies include work based-learning, the use of real-world or industrial briefs, group discussions, lectures, student presentations, ‘flipped learning’ (whereby students may read or watch a presentation in advance, and this is discussed in class), problem-based learning, class based discussions, problem solving group work, brainstorming, use of case studies, reflection, use of broadcast media to show health in the real world, library based exercises, role play, creative practical exercises, peer learning, peer teaching, student led seminars, engagement with the virtual learning environment (Blackboard/Library), IT skills, on-line discussions, and individual and group tutorials. Technologies such as Blackboard Learn, Blackboard Collaborate, Mentimeter, Padlet, PebblePad, ReCap, and Turnitin will be used to support the learning and teaching strategy within the course.

    The learning, teaching, and assessment strategy for the BSc (Hons) Mental Health and Wellbeing supports success for all students by ensuring that the transition to higher education is manageable through the progressive structuring of the modules over the three levels of the course. The emphasis of the course and the learning and teaching throughout is the development of the whole person, supporting students to be partners in their learning who can confidently engage both in their studies and directed and independent activities, to become part of a wider learning community. The course aims ultimately to produce graduates who understand and can act on public health goals, support individuals, communities, and populations to engage in health promoting and protective behaviours, with confidence and ability to work within a range of contexts and setting demonstrating appropriate values and behaviours.

    All courses are informed by the University’s Learning, Teaching, and Assessment Strategy, and Vision 2030. 

    Independent study is essential to your learning experience as it provides an opportunity for you to consolidate your learning and the development of wider graduate skills. Academic staff will provide you with resources such as reading lists, documentaries, podcasts etc and make suggestions for how to use your independent study time effectively. Independent study is self-directed, and you can decide how best to use that time to benefit your learning experience. We would expect you to complete 150 hours of independent study for each 20-credit module. This will be equivalent to 12 hours week, each semester in total.

    Your overall workload on this full-time degree will be equivalent to 1200 hours each year broken down as 50 hours of academic direction and contact per module, with 150 hours of independent study per module. This means that during each of the two semesters, you should expect to be studying for around 600 hours.

    Our academic team have over 30 years’ experience and keen research interests in public health and mental health. The teaching team is comprised of lecturers, senior lecturers, and principal lecturers. Our staff all hold, or are studying for, the Post Graduate Certificate in Academic Practic, ensuring that they are qualified to teach you.

    We are passionate about Mental Health and Wellbeing and want you to feel the same. We use a wide range of learning and teaching approaches on our degree to help students get the best from their education. These approaches mean that you will be active partners in your learning experience. We want you to develop as independent learners and our learning and teaching strategies are designed to equip you with those skills, in a vibrant learning environment.

    Athene Lane-MartinCourse Co-ordinator

    How you’ll be assessed

    The assessment methods aim to provide a wide range of possible methods for students to demonstrate and enhance their abilities and graduate attributes. Each module generally has one or two assessments from the following range: essays (includes reflective essays, case study essays, or essays that review or critique research), individual presentations, poster presentations, research reports, literature reviews, projects, seen and unseen examinations (usually 2 hours), and portfolios.

    Each modules assessments are usually weighted at 4000 words or equivalent, in total. This means for example that you could have two assessments, one being equivalent to 1200 words, such as a presentation and the other being 2800 words.

    Your future career

    Upon successful completion, you will have the skills to pursue careers in areas such as graduate entry healthcare, mental health support, social prescribing, public health, health and mainstream education, campaigning and policy development, health-related charity work and increasingly, private sector organisations who are commissioned to improve specific aspects of health and wellbeing. Further progression onto the MSc Global Public Health or MSc Mental Health and Wellbeing, and PhD is available at Canterbury Christ Church University.

    Typical areas of employment that you can enter after completing this degree are:

    • Community development worker in mental health
    • Public health intelligence and surveillance
    • Mental health support practitioner
    • Project management: bid writing, community engagement, and empowerment
    • Mental health policy and electoral reform
    • Mental health research
    • Communicating mental health information through social marketing and health-related media
    • Mental health services improvement and administration
    • International development and global mental health: education programmes, tackling poverty, human rights
    • Charity work: fundraising, improving life-chances for vulnerable people and those with disabilities Non-governmental organisations
    • Undertake further study to become a psychological wellbeing practitioner
    • Improving healthy lifestyles to impact on mental health (e.g. physical activity, sexual health, smoking cessation, drugs and alcohol, weight management)
    • Town planning, urban development and regeneration, healthy places
    • Occupational health – workplace mental health and wellbeing, human resources
    • Coaching, mentoring, supporting people with mental health issues
    • Youth support work
    • Leisure industry.

    This course will allow you to make a difference to the mental health and wellbeing of individuals and groups in our society. We look forward to welcoming you into our diverse and vibrant student group and will support you along your journey to becoming part of a workforce that helps and supports people to live and enjoy healthier lives.

    Athene Lane-MartinCourse Co-ordinator

    Fees

    The 2025/26 annual tuition fees for this course are:

      UK Overseas
    Full-time £9,535 £15,500

    Tuition fees for all courses are payable on an annual basis, except where stated. The fees represented here are for study with Canterbury Christ Church University. If you are looking to study at a partner institution, please visit their website for fees information.

    Please read the 2025/26 Tuition Fee Statement for further information regarding tuition fees and year on year fee increases.

    Home (UK) Fees

    The Government has announced that it will increase the tuition fee cap by 3.1%, in line with inflation, for the 2025/26 academic cycle. Subject to parliamentary approval, the University intends to increase our tuition fees in line with this and as per our terms and conditions. This means that from September 2025 our undergraduate home tuition fees are expected to be £9,535.

    Overseas/International Fees

    Undergraduate / PGCE tuition fees for international students are not set by the UK Government.

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    Duration:

    3 years

    UCAS code:

    B904

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