BA (Hons) Psychology & Sociology with Foundation Year
Foundation degree
Distance
Description
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Type
Foundation degree
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Methodology
Distance Learning
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Duration
4 Years
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Credits
360
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Online campus
Yes
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Support service
Yes
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Virtual classes
Yes
The Foundation year will cover the essential academic skills you need to succeed at undergraduate study, from key subjects like research skills to basic numeracy, you’ll also study crime, law and psychology. You’ll then be prepared to go on and study this dual-subject Social Science degree.
Confidently study both of these core Social Science disciplines through Distance Learning with Arden University's BA (Hons) Psychology & Sociology with integrated Foundation Year Degree course. Both subjects explore and study human behaviours – but at different levels.
Sociology looks at broader social issues that affect those individuals, such as poverty, inequality and social injustice, while Psychology focuses on individuals within those societies.
These subjects are examined within the course alongside societal factors, such as government policy and globalisation. You’ll consider the individual and the social aspects together, to give you a balanced understanding of how society functions.
This Arden University School of Law & Social Sciences course, delivered through our Distance Learning programme is fully flexible to meet your needs. You can study at a time and place to suit you and all your course materials are accessed through our online portal, iLearn.
About this course
As well as the chance to explore these fascinating subjects together, you will also develop a range of practical and transferrable skills that will prepare you for a career in a wide variety of industries. Enrolling on this Social Sciences Degree with Arden University gives you the opportunity to develop into a scientifically minded social scientist with the skills to research effectively, analyse data and present findings in a variety of formats.
Over the course of your studies, you’ll become an independent learner with our online study programme - and these computer and organisational skills are needed for employment in many industries and a variety of roles.
Did you know that around 70% of graduate jobs are open to graduates of any discipline? So don’t restrict your thinking to the options suggested here.
You might want to consider:
Teaching
Counselling
International Aid/Development work
Research
Journalism
Politics
Community, Youth or Social work
Typical employers include:
The government
The NHS
Local Education Authorities (LEAs)
Charitable, counselling and voluntary organisations
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Subjects
- IT Law
- Social Science
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Numeracy
- Law
- University
- Using Numeracy
- Data & IT
- Using Information
- Law in Context
Course programme
Modules
Foundation Year
- Develop Academic Skills
- Using Numeracy, Data & IT
- Research Skills & Using Information
- Values, Ethics & Working Collaboratively
- Crime & Law in Context
- Psychology of Everyday Life
Year 2
- Effective Interdisciplinary Study
- Introduction to Social & Developmental Psychology
- Introduction to Biological & Cognitive Psychology
- Introduction to Sociology
- Medicalisation of the Self
- Key Studies in Psychology
Year 3
- Research & Ethics in Action
- Personality & Intelligence
- Social Psychology
- Abnormality & the Deviant Other
- Cyber Communities & Social Networks
- Protests, Mass Movements & Rebellion
Year 4
- Contemporary Developmental Psychology
- Cross-Cultural Psychology
- Consumer Society & the Commodification of Beings
- Insecurity & Precariousness in the Globalised World
- Research Planning & Project
BA (Hons) Psychology & Sociology with Foundation Year