BSc Social Sciences
Entry requirements
A level: BBC in three A Levels. IB: 554 in three Higher Levels or 29 points.
About this course
BSc (Hons) in Social Sciences, examining criminology, politics, and sociology. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Policy Analysis, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Social & Cultural Analysis, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The programme includes a final year dissertation and offers placement year or study abroad options. A Parliamentary Studies module is taught in conjunction with Westminster Parliament staff.
Modules
- Understanding Crime, Understanding Criminal Justice
- Society, People, Place: Global Issues and Local Realities
- Becoming a Social Scientist
- Exploring Inequalities
- Imagining Social Order and Deviance
- Social Science Methods
- Data Analysis in Social Sciences
- The American South: US Summer School (Level 5)
- Global Democracy under Threat: Resilience or Retreat?
- Contemporary Social Theory
- Social Sciences Placement
- Challenges and Issues in Criminal Justice
- Crime and Justice in Practice: Voices from the Margins
- Public Policy and How To Make It
- Globalisation and its Discontents
- Social Sciences at Work
- ISP/Dissertation in Social Sciences
- Parliamentary Studies
- The Dark Side of Politics
- Crime: from the everyday to the extremes
- Social Futures
- Work Placement for Social Sciences Final Year Students
- Beyond Human
- Engaged Social Science