510 Professional Bachelors Degree Programs

Your first year is about two things, exploring your interests and building the skills you need. You’ll kickstart your skills-building with the only mandatory course: Personal & Professional Development (PPD). PPD helps you transition from high school to university life, while developing essential skills for both in and outside the classroom.

This flexible degree combines science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Build your degree from a variety of STEM modules and study routes to create a unique qualification. Our BSc (Hons) Combined STEM allows you to study more than just one STEM subject – to fit your personal and professional needs, interests and aspirations.

The Degree in Industrial Technology Engineering provides multidisciplinary training with a solid base of skills and scientific-technological knowledge. This training facilitates access to and completion of master's studies which, together with this degree, make up an integrated study program that qualifies for the profession of Industrial Engineer.

The Bachelor of Social Science degree (BSocSc) studies how human societies are organised, the social forces, institutions and ideologies that shape society, and the factors that influence the wellbeing of individuals, families, communities, and countries. The scope of the course includes key topics like class, gender, religion and race.

The Degree in Industrial Technology Engineering provides multidisciplinary training with a solid base of skills and scientific-technological knowledge. This training facilitates access to and completion of master's studies which, together with this degree, make up an integrated study program that qualifies for the profession of Industrial Engineer.

Answer the call for healthcare professionals with a Bachelor's in Health Science. Gain expertise in biology, psychology, anatomy, and physiology while developing skills to improve patient care. Analyze global health issues, lead projects, and explore health policies to build a strong foundation for your career or further studies.

In a world of rapid changes and shifting boundaries, there is a growing need for minds that are capable of switching perspectives and thinking outside of boxes. You will gather knowledge from three key disciplines – sociology, political science and communication studies. This will help you to analyse and better understand the societies we live in.

The Health Communication concentration examines the role of communication in understanding, promoting, and maintaining health. Emphasis is placed on the social construction of health, structural and social determinants of health, patient-provider communication, communication in healthcare organizations, interpersonal and family communication about health, mental health, gender, spirituality, disability, and aging.

Health & Medical Humanities is an interdisciplinary field that uses humanistic perspectives to understand health and healthcare. The humanities have the potential to teach us about the embodied human experience, including suffering, healing, well-being, and flourishing. The B.A. degree in Health & Medical Humanities complements the movement toward primary and patient-centered care in healthcare and provides an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the effects of health, wellness, and illness on patients, health professionals, and on the social worlds in which they live and work.

Health Psychology is a study program with the aim to educate competent bachelors in health psychology with scientific insight, a solid base of scientific knowledge in health psychology, and professional application skills in the field of personal and public health and well-being. This program aims to ensure the necessary universal first stage health psychology training and provide thorough knowledge on healthcare systems, aims, and objectives of health maintenance and promotion, system requirements and demands and the role of mental health professionals in meeting these needs.

The Bachelor of Applied Science Program in Integrative Professional Studies prepares students to complete 58 credits of courses taken from the Davenport University Colleges of Arts and Science, Business and Health Professions.

The BSc (Hons) Professional Studies (Health and Community) Top Up is designed to be the springboard to a professional career in the health, social care or educational sector. It draws together theory and practice and is aimed at those who enjoy working with people, want to work in the ‘caring professions’ and wish to gain a relevant academic qualification.

This is one of several specialist routes available in our BA (Honours) in Social Sciences (Politics) degree. You'll study core modules in interdisciplinary social science and sociology, giving you a firm grounding in ideas central to the social sciences. This will be combined with exploring the fundamentals of political theory and examining the debates and conflicts inherent in a modern democracy.

Environmental science explores the complexities of the natural environment and our relationship with it. This specialist route, available in our BSc (Honours) Natural Sciences (Q64), takes a holistic approach to the science of our environment investigating topics such as global warming, water resources, pollution and conservation. Our environment is fascinating – but it’s under threat from climate change, biodiversity loss and resource depletion. Explore the consequences and implications of environmental change for sustainability from a scientific perspective, by learning about the processes, links and interactions operating in different environments.

In this specialist route available in our BSc (Honours) Natural Sciences (Q64), you’ll develop the knowledge and skills you need to explore the smallest and largest scales of the Universe. You’ll be able to objectively and quantitatively describe, analyse, test and explain phenomena in the physical world, using appropriate mathematical tools and experimental methods.