Social Studies (Part Time with our Centre for Lifelong Learning)

On this degree, you will study a core module at all levels.

• Level 4 Foundations in Social Studies
• Honours Level 5Research methods in the social sciences
• Honours Level 6Dissertation/Research Project

You can select your 'major' from the following subjects

• Business Studies
• Economics
• Health and Social Policy
• Lifelong Learning
• Philosophy
• Politics
• Sociology

In each of these majors, there are core level 4 modules that serve as prerequisites or foundations for study at Honours Level. As you only study four level 4 modules, some care must be exercised about choosing which ones you take, but we will give you guidance with this.

Optional Modules

In addition to the core modules you will also take some optional modules and there is an extensive range on offer on this degree. You can choose modules from the 'major' subjects listed above and you can also take modules from the Centre for Lifelong Learning, Language Centre and the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL).

Each department has an undergraduate module webpage which details the modules on offer.

Day-time and Evening Study

Modules are offered at various times of the day and evening, but please note that the evening choice is limited and a number of modules will only be offered in the day-time. The Warwick Business School and Departments of Economics, Philosophy and Politics offer day-time classes only.

The Centre offers a free entry course to social studies called the Warwick Gateway to HE: Social Studies. If you have little recent formal educational experience, you may wish to consider this introductory course first.

If you start a full-time degree or one of our part-time degrees in autumn 2017, you can choose from the following optional modules for your first year (2017/18).

If you start a 2+2 degree with us this autumn, the modules listed below are indicative of the kinds of choices you will have in your third and fourth years, when your studies transfer across to the University:

• Health Welfare and Social Policy
• Learning, Development and Special Educational Needs
• Adult Learning and Teaching
• Mindfulness in Lifelong Learning
• Introduction to Coaching and Mentoring
• Community Engagement: Theory into Practice
• Research Methods in the Social Sciences
• Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Lifelong Learning
• Race, Power and Community
• Counselling: Concepts and Skills
• Critical Issues in Social Work
• Food: Critical Perspectives
• Widening Participation in Higher Education
• Lifelong Learning Dissertation
• Creativity: Myth, Madness and Play
• Policy, Welfare and Social Security
• Career Management and Development
• Language and Society - An Introduction