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BSc Social Science

Cardiff University

Institution
Cardiff University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Social sciences
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
L301
Typical offer
A-level BBB

Entry requirements

A level: BBB

About this course

BSc in Social Sciences, covering criminology, education, psychology, sociology, and social policy. Core topics include Research Methods, Policy Analysis, Social & Cultural Analysis, and Global & Comparative Perspective. Optional modules allow specialisation across disciplines, with placement-based modules available in later years.

Modules

  • Introduction to Social Science Research
  • Key Ideas in Social Science
  • Becoming a Social Scientist
  • An Introduction to Education
  • 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
  • Cynllunio ar gyfer Iechyd a Lles Cenedlaethau’r Dyfodol
  • Damcaniaethu Cyfalafiaeth
  • Children and Childhood
  • Offending and Victimisation
  • Responses to Crime
  • Working Knowledge: Analysing and Experiencing Employment (with Placement)
  • Evaluating Social Practice, Policy and Innovation
  • Focus Groups and Interviews
  • Sociology of Education
  • What Happens in Schools: Assessing Policy in Practice
  • Social Theory
  • 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
  • Crime, Security and Justice in the City
  • Police and Policing
  • Prisons and Prisoners
  • Drugs, Crime and Society
  • Radical Education
  • Work and Skills in the 21st Century: an international perspective
  • Issues in Social and Cultural Psychology
  • Personality and the Self
  • 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