B.Sc. Social Science

Course Content For the Social Science degree, this progression is accomplished as follows. In Year One, all students, take two core modules:Key Ideas in Social Science: this traces the origins of social scientific theories and introduces the work of key thinkers in a range of social science disciplines.Introduction to Social Science Research: an introduction to the principles and skills that underpin social science research.They then complete their programme of study by choosing any four modules from those offered by the Sociology, Social Policy, Education or Criminology schemes. Students following the BPS pathway must be sure to include all the relevant psychology modules amongst these, but once these are selected are free to choose any of the modules offered by other schemes within the School of Social Sciences.In Years Two and Three, students consolidate their understanding of core methodological and theoretical issues in the social sciences and choose the specialist pathway that will guide their module choices. Each pathway consists of a pair of modules, one is taught in Year Two and the other in Year Three. Students are then able to build their degree around these modules by choosing their remaining modules from those on offer across the Sociology, Psychology, Social Policy, Criminology and Education degree programmes. The degree programme this creates is highly flexible and allows students to combine insights from experts across the School of Social Sciences.