{"id":3879,"date":"2025-08-21T00:16:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T04:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/abroad\/?post_type=bu-program-page&#038;p=3879"},"modified":"2025-10-20T10:07:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:07:39","slug":"curriculum","status":"publish","type":"bu-program-page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/abroad\/degree-program\/dublin-internship-health-sciences-special-curriculum\/curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin Internship: Health Sciences Special Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<nav class=\"toc-wrapper\" id=\"toc\" aria-label=\"Page Section Navigation\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"toc-heading toc-nav-toggle\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Toggle Page Contents Navigation\" aria-expanded=\"true\">Page Contents<\/span><\/nav>\n\n\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/abroad\/wp-content\/plugins\/bu-front-end-library\/js\/collapsible.js?ver=5.4.2\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Curriculum<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Students enroll in the following three courses. Contemporary Irish Society and Ethics in Health Care take place during weeks 2-7. Health Care Policy and Practice is taught over the course of the program (runs from weeks 2-15).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Required Courses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Students must enroll in the following courses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">CAS SO 341<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">Contemporary Irish Society<\/span><\/h6>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<p>This course aims to introduce students to the salient cultural, political and economic narrative threads that underpin contemporary Irish Society. Within those threads, it will be suggested that there are tensions between contesting modernist and conservative strands. During this course, students will be provided with an introduction to foundational evidence and also to theoretical sociological structures that have a bearing on the construction of this specific national identity. Further, the aim as a consequence, is for students to reflect on their own national identities.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\n<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy<\/li>\n<li>Individual in Community<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">SAR HS 422<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">Ethics in Health Care<\/span><\/h6>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<p><em>Offered in the fall only.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Introductory course developing a critical awareness of issues arising in biomedical ethics. Contemporary issues will be used to examine ethical reasoning, ethical theories, ethical principles, and cases and narratives in ethics. Special attention will be paid to developing skills of critical thinking through an examination of philosophical arguments and practical exercises. Learners are also provided with a theoretical grounding in classical and contemporary schools of ethical reasoning.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\n<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Ethical Reasoning<\/li>\n<li>Critical Thinking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">SAR HS 425<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">Health Care Policy and Practice in Ireland<\/span><\/h6>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<p><em>Offered in the fall only.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How can healthcare policy and practice in Ireland be described? What are its origins and how has it evolved, specifically related to cultural, political, social and economic developments? How can the current fragmented and two-tiered system be improved? These are key questions, especially following the launch in 2017 of the ten-year Sl\u00e1intecare healthcare programme. During this course students will discuss these questions, using the six building blocks of the World Health Organisation (WHO) health system framework, comparing the Irish health systems with other health systems.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\n<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Social Inquiry I<\/li>\n<li>Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2>Internship Course<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>During the final seven weeks, students work full time, four days per week, in internships with organizations in the greater Dublin area. Study Abroad will enroll students in a non-unit Hub co-curricular and a four-unit internship course, and continue taking Health Care Policy and Practice in Ireland. Placements are contingent upon the student\u2019s past experiences, professional interest, and available opportunities in any given term; flexibility is essential. Upon successful completion of the internship experience, students will receive a Hub requirement in the area&nbsp;<em>Individual in Community<\/em>&nbsp;from the co-curricular HUB SA 330.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students who are placed in healthcare-related placements may have to show proof of vaccination prior to their placement start due to local policies and regulations. Vaccinations may include, but are not limited to, COVID-19, measles, meningitis, and tuberculosis.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\r\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">HUB SA 330<\/span><br>\r\n<span class=\"course-title\">Study Abroad Internship<\/span><\/h6>\r\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\r\n\r\nThis course is a Non-unit Hub Co-curricular.\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 0<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Individual in Community<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">SAR HS 405<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">Health Sciences Practicum<\/span><\/h6>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<p>Practical experience in health care setting (health policy, administrative, constituent advocacy) in hospital, clinic, public health setting, government or non-governmental health agency setting. Direct care and contact with patients should not be expected; flexibility is essential. <em>*Behavior and Health Program students who register for SAR HS 405 should be aware it will not substitute for SAR HP 405 in their Senior year.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curriculum Students enroll in the following three courses. Contemporary Irish Society and Ethics in Health Care take place during weeks 2-7. Health Care Policy and Practice is taught over the course of the program (runs from weeks 2-15). 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