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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 (31)

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

Diplomas of Higher Education (13)

  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 Computing & IT and Psychology
  7. Diploma of Higher Education in Criminology and Psychology
  8. Diploma of Higher Education in History and Politics
  9. Diploma of Higher Education in Philosophy and Psychological Studies
  10. Diploma of Higher Education in Psychology
  11. Diploma of Higher Education in Counselling
  12. Diploma of Higher Education in Criminology
  13. 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. Economics in practice
  2. Environment and society
  3. Environment: sharing a dynamic planet
  4. Exploring childhood and youth
  5. International development: making sense of a changing world
  6. Living psychology: from the everyday to the extraordinary
  7. Psychology of childhood and youth
  8. Public law and criminal law
  9. Understanding criminology
  10. Understanding digital societies
  11. Understanding politics: ideas and institutions in the modern world
  12. Essential economics: macro and micro perspectives

OU level 3

  1. Advancing social psychology
  2. Approaches to mental health
  3. Crime, harm and the state
  4. Doing economics: people, markets and policy
  5. Europe 1914-1989: war, peace, modernity
  6. Exploring legal boundaries
  7. International relations: continuity and change in global politics
  8. Issues in research with children and young people
  9. Law, society and culture
  10. Modern political ideas
  11. Signals and perception: the science of the senses
  12. Why is religion controversial?
  13. Young lives, parenting and families
  14. Environmental policy in an international context

Access modules

  1. People, work and society Access module
  2. Psychology, social science and wellbeing Access module