Psychosocial Studies (BA): 4-year, part-time
Bachelor's degree
In London
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
London
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Duration
4 Years
Many of us want to know why the world is the way it is: why it is filled with perpetual cycles of violence and trauma on the one hand, and with enormous potential for care and concern for one another on the other. We want answers to the pressing questions of our time, which are often questions about the precarious connectedness of different communities, be they global, national, public, civic, social, cultural, historical or the intimate communities of personal life.
Our BA Psychosocial Studies enables you to unravel the interconnected psychic and social forces that produce us as people and to determine our complex relations to one another. While sociology students study the social world and psychology students study the brain and behaviour, psychosocial studies students investigate the relation between individuals and the social sphere: how people are made up of the relationships they have with one another and with the world around them. This means deepening our understanding of the emotional, imaginary and symbolic aspects of living together.
This course is also available for full-time evening study over three years.
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About this course
Graduates can pursue careers in social research, education, psychotherapy or the media and creative arts. This degree may also be useful in becoming a psychotherapist, higher education lecturer, community arts worker, charity officer or community development worker.
We welcome applicants without traditional entry qualifications as we base decisions on our own assessment of qualifications, knowledge and previous work experience. We may waive formal entry requirements based on judgement of academic potential.
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Subjects
- Press
- Social Theory
- Sage
- Access
- Politics
- Psychology
- Part Time
- Compulsory
- Dissertation
- Multicultures
Course programme
The programme consists of 11 compulsory modules and a 60-credit dissertation, worth a total of 360 credits.
There are three types of module:
- Compulsory modules in key psychosocial topics such as love, hate, power, bodies, sexualities, urban multicultures and psychoanalytic and social theory.
- Fieldwork modules that develop your group-based skills and involve you in exploring the everyday physical and digital worlds we live in.
- Independent study and a dissertation module that enable you to research a topic of your choice and write a dissertation based on your research in Year 4.
- Hate: On the Power of the Negative
- Love: an introduction to psychosocial studies
- Observation and the Everyday
- Bodies
- Creative Archives (fieldwork)
- Power
- Psychoanalysis and Social Theory
- Sexuality
- Urban Multicultures
- Class
- Racism and Antisemitism
- Dissertation BA Psychosocial Studies
Additional information
FEES
Part-time home students: £ 6935 pa
Part-time international students: £10710 pa
Psychosocial Studies (BA): 4-year, part-time