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BSc Education

Cardiff University

Institution
Cardiff University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Social sciences
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
8G46
Typical offer
A-level BBB

Entry requirements

A level: BBB

About this course

BSc in Education, grounded in a broad social science approach. Core topics include research methods, policy analysis, and a global and comparative perspective. The programme covers education in relation to social, historical, political, economic, and developmental contexts across Wales, the UK, and internationally. Placement modules form part of the later stages of the programme.

Modules

  • Understanding and Solving Educational Problems
  • An Introduction to Education
  • Introduction to Social Science Research
  • Key Ideas in Social Science
  • Becoming a Social Scientist
  • Introduction to Social and Public Policy
  • Foundations of Contemporary Criminology
  • Introduction to Sociology
  • Introduction to Psychology for the Human and Social Sciences
  • Social Research Methods
  • Sociology of Education
  • What Happens in Schools: Assessing Policy in Practice
  • Cynllunio ar gyfer Iechyd a Lles Cenedlaethau’r Dyfodol
  • Damcaniaethu Cyfalafiaeth
  • Children and Childhood
  • Working Knowledge: Analysing and Experiencing Employment (with Placement)
  • Evaluating Social Practice, Policy and Innovation
  • Focus Groups and Interviews
  • Human Development
  • Real World Research (with Placement)
  • Knowing the Social World - Online and Offline Surveys
  • Poverty and Social Security in the UK
  • Social Policy Analysis
  • Gender Relations and Society
  • Ethnography and Everyday Life
  • Social Psychologies
  • Digital Social Research: Theory and Methods
  • Race and Racism
  • Cyfiawnder Byd-eang
  • Dissertation
  • Analysing Social Change
  • Radical Education
  • Work and Skills in the 21st Century: an international perspective
  • Issues in Social and Cultural Psychology
  • International and Comparative Social and Public Policy
  • Equality and Social Justice in a Globalised World
  • Power, Politics and Policy
  • Sociology on the Move
  • Reflections on Education: Theory into Practice
  • Neuropsychology & Society
  • Live Theory
  • Decolonising the Social Sciences
  • Monsters and Mysteries
  • Sociology of Techno-Capitalism
  • Environmental Rights, Societal Insights