1. BA or BSc (Hons) Combined Social Sciences (B69) – suggested pathways
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This course is an ideal Covers the same Gives you a general Gives you a general
introduction to the curriculum as DD101 introduction to the introduction to the
social sciences but allows you to work social sciences whilst social sciences and is
through study of at a more gradual pace allowing you to focus a good preparation if
contemporary UK on psychology you would like to study
society. economics
Introducing the social Introducing the social Introducing the social Introducing the social
sciences sciences – part one sciences – part one sciences – part one
(DD131) 30 credits (DD131) 30 credits (DD131) 30 credits
(DD101)
60 credits Introducing the social Discovering psychology You and your money:
sciences – part two (DSE141) 30 credits personal finance in
(DD132) 30 credits context, (DB123) 30
credits
60 credits from the following optional level 1 modules:
An introduction to business studies, (B120) 30 credits
Level 1
Introduction to counselling*, (D171) 15 credits
An introduction to health an social care, (K101) 60 credits
Contemporary Wales*, (D172) 15 credits
Discovering psychology, (DSE141) 30 credits
English for academic purposes online, (L185) 30 credits
Environment: journeys through a changing world, (U116) 60 credits
Ethics in real life*, (A181) 15 credits
Exploring sport online, (U164) 10 credits
Make your experience count, (U122) 30 credits
Rule, rights and justice: an introduction to law, (W100) 60 credits
Starting with maths*, (Y162) 10 credits
Starting with psychology*, (Y183) 15 credits
The arts past and present, (AA100) 60 credits
Collect your Certificate of Higher Education in Social Sciences (C95)
A new 60-credit module planned for October 2012
(DD206) 60 credits
60 credits from the following optional level 2 modules:
Counselling: exploring fear and sadness, (D240) 30 credits
Level 2
Economics and economic change, (DD202) 60 credits
Environment, (U216) 60 credits
Exploring psychology, (DSE212) 60 credits
International development: challenges for a world in transition, (U213) 60 credits
Living in a globalised world, (DD205) 60 credits
Personal investment in an uncertain world, (DB234) 30 credits
Power, dissent, equality: understanding contemporary politics, (DD203) 60 credits
Sociology and society, (DD201) 60 credits
Welfare, crime and society, (DD208) 60 credits
Collect your Diploma of Higher Education in Combined Social Sciences (E75)
120 credits from the following optional level 3 modules:
A world of whose making? (DU301) 60 credits
Cognitive psychology, (DD303) 60 credits
Crime and justice, (DD301) 60 credits
Level 3
Doing economics: people, markets and policy, (DD309) 60 credits
Earth in crisis: environment policy in an international context, (DU311) 60 credits
Living political ideas, (DD306) 60 credits
Making social worlds, (DD308) 60 credits
Personal lives and social policy, (DD305) 60 credits
Social psychology: critical perspective on self an others, (DD307) 60 credits
Collect your BA or BSc (Hons) in Combined Social Sciences (B69)
* You may not count more than 30 credits from 10- or 15- credit modules towards your qualification