Social Sciences (with a foundation year) BA (Hons)

Modules

Core modules

Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.

Autumn teaching

• Academic Development for Social Sciences 1
• Local Lives: Identifying Global Studies
• Order and Disorder A: Understanding Law, Politics and Sociology

Spring teaching

• Academic Development for Social Sciences 2
• Global Issues: Researching the Global
• Order and Disorder B: Understanding Law, Politics and Sociology

Options

Alongside your core modules, you can choose options to broaden your horizons and tailor your course to your interests. This list gives you a flavour of our options, which are kept under review and may change, for example in response to student feedback or the latest research.

While it’s our aim for students to take their preferred combinations of options, this can’t be guaranteed and will be subject to timetabling. Options may be grouped and if so, students will be able to choose a set number of options from the selection available in any particular group.

Autumn teaching

• Analysing Media, Film and Music
• Arabic Beginners A
• British Sign Language and Deaf Culture 1A
• Business in Society
• Chinese Beginners A
• Cradle to the Grave A: welfare and wellbeing across the lifecourse
• Foundations in Psychology: Applied Psychology
• French Beginners A
• German Beginners A
• Introduction to Product Design 1: Process
• Italian Beginners A
• Japanese Beginners A
• Making History A
• Quantitative Methods for Business and Economics: Maths
• Reading Literature 1
• Spanish Beginners A

Spring teaching

• Arabic Beginners B
• British Sign Language and Deaf Culture 1B
• Business in Action
• Chinese Beginners B
• Cradle to the Grave B: Welfare and Wellbeing Across the Lifecourse
• Foundations in Psychology: Social Psychology
• French Beginners B
• German Beginners B
• Introduction to Product Design 2: Practice
• Italian Beginners B
• Japanese Beginners B
• Leading Social Change: Communication and Activism
• Making History B
• Practicing Media, Film and Music
• Quantitative Methods for Business and Economics: Statistics
• Reading Literature 2
• Spanish Beginners B

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2026/27. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum. We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.

We’ll do our best to provide as much optional choice as we can, but timetabling constraints mean it may not be possible to take some module combinations. The structure of a small number of courses means that the order of modules or the streams you choose may determine whether modules are core or optional. This means that your core modules or options may differ from what’s shown here.