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Our social sciences modules provide introductions and detailed investigations of psychology, social policy and criminology, geography and environment, politics and international studies, economics and sociology.
  • Economics in context (DD126)
    OU level 1
  • Environment: journeys through a changing world (U116)
    OU level 1
  • Global challenges: social science in action (D113)
    OU level 1
  • Introduction to childhood studies and child psychology (E104)
    OU level 1
  • Introduction to criminology (DD105)
    OU level 1
  • Science and health: an evidence-based approach (SDK100)
    OU level 1
  • You and your money (DB125)
    OU level 1
  • You and your world: introducing the social sciences (D112)
    OU level 1
  • Child development: birth to adolescence (E225)
    OU level 2
  • Economics in practice (DD226)
    OU level 2
  • Environment and society (DD213)
    OU level 2
  • Environment: inhabiting a changing planet (DST216)
    OU level 2
  • Essential economics: macro and micro perspectives (D217)
    OU level 2
  • Exploring childhood and youth (E232)
    OU level 2
  • Exploring international relations: actors, issues, perspectives (D228)
    OU level 2
  • Exploring religion: places, practices, texts and experiences (A227)
    OU level 2
  • Introducing global development: poverty, inequality, sustainability (D229)
    OU level 2
  • Investigating philosophy (DA223)
    OU level 2
  • Social research: crime, justice and society (DD215)
    OU level 2
  • Supporting children and young people's wellbeing (KE207)
    OU level 2
  • Understanding criminology (DD212)
    OU level 2
  • Understanding digital societies (DD218)
    OU level 2
  • Understanding politics: ideas and institutions in the modern world (DD211)
    OU level 2
  • Contemporary research with children and young people (E320)
    OU level 3
  • Crime, harm and the state (DD311)
    OU level 3
  • Doing economics: inequalities, innovation and environment (DD320)
    OU level 3
  • Economics for a changing world (DD321)
    OU level 3
  • Environmental policy in an international context (DD319)
    OU level 3
  • Exploring legal boundaries (W350)
    OU level 3
  • Exploring mental health (K347)
    OU level 3
  • International relations: people, power and change (D322)
    OU level 3
  • Investigating global development: crisis, complexity, change (D329)
    OU level 3
  • Law, society and culture (W340)
    OU level 3
  • Modern political ideas (DD316)
    OU level 3
  • Religion and global challenges in the past and present (DA332)
    OU level 3
  • Signals and perception: the science of the senses (SD329)
    OU level 3
  • Social psychology for the 21st century (D360)
    OU level 3
  • Social theory: changing social worlds (DD318)
    OU level 3
  • Psychology, social science and wellbeing Access module (Y034)
    Access
  • Psychology, social science and wellbeing Access module: fast track (YXFT034)
    Access
  • AI language technology in the workplace (LG007)
    Short course
  • The languages of crises (LG005)
    Short course
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