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All courses in Social Sciences

Explore all the undergraduate qualifications we offer, from certificates through to diplomas and degrees, in social sciences.

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Honours Degrees (32)

  1. BA (Honours) Social Sciences
  2. BA (Honours) Social Sciences (Criminology)
  3. BA (Honours) Social Sciences (Development)
  4. BA (Honours) Social Sciences (Economics)
  5. BA (Honours) Social Sciences (Geography)
  6. BA (Honours) Social Sciences (Philosophy)
  7. BA (Honours) Social Sciences (Politics)
  8. BA (Honours) Social Sciences (Psychology)
  9. BA (Honours) Social Sciences (Religious Studies)
  10. BA (Honours) Social Sciences (Sociology)
  11. BA (Honours) Criminology
  12. BA (Honours) Sociology
  13. BA (Honours) Criminology and Sociology
  14. BA (Honours) Business Management (Economics)
  15. BA (Honours) Criminology and Law
  16. BA (Honours) Criminology and Psychology
  17. BA (Honours) Religion, Philosophy and Ethics
  18. BA (Honours) Economics
  19. BSc (Honours) Economics and Mathematical Sciences
  20. BA (Honours) International Relations
  21. BA (Honours) Politics, Philosophy and Economics
  22. BSc (Honours) Computing & IT and Psychology
  23. BA (Honours) Environmental Studies
  24. BSc (Honours) Forensic Psychology
  25. BA (Honours) Geography
  26. BSc (Honours) Geography and Environmental Science
  27. BA (Honours) History and Politics
  28. BA (Honours) Philosophy and Psychological Studies
  29. BSc (Honours) Psychology
  30. BSc (Honours) Psychology with Counselling
  31. BSc (Honours) Social Psychology
  32. BA/BSc (Honours) Open degree

Diplomas of Higher Education (15)

  1. Diploma of Higher Education in Social Sciences
  2. Diploma of Higher Education in Sociology
  3. Diploma of Higher Education in Criminology and Sociology
  4. Diploma of Higher Education in Criminology and Law
  5. Diploma of Higher Education in Economics
  6. Diploma of Higher Education in Geography
  7. Diploma of Higher Education in International Relations
  8. Diploma of Higher Education in Computing & IT and Psychology
  9. Diploma of Higher Education in Criminology and Psychology
  10. Diploma of Higher Education in History and Politics
  11. Diploma of Higher Education in Philosophy and Psychological Studies
  12. Diploma of Higher Education in Psychology
  13. Diploma of Higher Education in Counselling
  14. Diploma of Higher Education in Criminology
  15. Diploma of Higher Education Open

Foundation Degrees (1)

The same level as a Diploma of Higher Education, often with a more practical focus. If you live or work in Scotland, we’ll usually offer an equivalent Diploma of Higher Education.

  1. Foundation Degree in Counselling

Certificates of Higher Education (5)

  1. Certificate of Higher Education in Social Sciences
  2. Certificate of Higher Education in Economics and Personal Finance
  3. Certificate of Higher Education in Computing & IT and Psychology
  4. Certificate of Higher Education in Psychology
  5. Certificate of Higher Education Open

Social Sciences modules

OU level 1

  1. Economics in context
  2. Environment: journeys through a changing world
  3. Global challenges: social science in action
  4. Introducing the social sciences
  5. Introduction to childhood studies and child psychology
  6. Introduction to criminology
  7. Law making in Scotland
  8. Science and health: an evidence-based approach
  9. You and your money
  10. Young children's play and creativity

OU level 2

  1. Child development: birth to adolescence
  2. Economics in practice
  3. Environment and society
  4. Environment: sharing a dynamic planet
  5. Essential economics: macro and micro perspectives
  6. Exploring childhood and youth
  7. Exploring international relations: actors, issues, perspectives
  8. Exploring religion: places, practices, texts and experiences
  9. Introducing global development: poverty, inequality, sustainability
  10. Investigating philosophy
  11. Living psychology: from the everyday to the extraordinary
  12. Supporting children and young people's wellbeing
  13. Understanding criminology
  14. Understanding digital societies
  15. Understanding politics: ideas and institutions in the modern world

OU level 3

  1. Advancing social psychology
  2. Approaches to mental health
  3. Contemporary research with children and young people
  4. Crime, harm and the state
  5. Doing economics: inequalities, innovation and environment
  6. Environmental policy in an international context
  7. Europe 1914-1989: war, peace, modernity
  8. Exploring legal boundaries
  9. International relations: continuity and change in global politics
  10. Key questions in philosophy
  11. Law, society and culture
  12. Modern political ideas
  13. Religion and global challenges in the past and present
  14. Signals and perception: the science of the senses
  15. Young lives, parenting and families

Access modules

  1. Psychology, social science and wellbeing Access module
  2. Psychology, social science and wellbeing Access module: fast track

Short courses

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